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items for consideration.
Seeing Lhasa: British depictions of the Tibetan
capital 1936-1947 (until 30 Nov 2004); Congo Journey
(21 Jun-26 Sep 2004) Body arts (permanent).
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks
Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927 http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/
Enlightenment, Wellcome Gallery exhibition
Living and dying; The Sainsbury African Gallery
(permanent). The British Museum, Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DG, tel.: +44 (0)207 323 8299 (information desk);
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/index.html
People in the Environment (until 5 Sep 2004)
- Photographic Exhibition by Edward Parker; Indonesian textiles
(until 20 Feb 2004); Permanent exhibition on African art and
culture. Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill,
London SE23 3PQ; tel +44 (0)20 8699 1872, http://www.horniman.ac.uk
Silk Road (until 12 Sep). British Library,
http://www.bl.uk/silkroad
JUNE 2004
* 17 Jun 2004 Institute of Romance Studies,
London, 6 pm. Lecture by Professor Derek Robbins on Foucault's
unpublished thesis of 1961 on Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic
Point of View (1797). Venue: Senate House, room 349. All
welcome, but please inform the Institute of Romance Studies (irs@sas.ac.uk;
+44 (0)20 7862 8677) if you wish to attend http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs/.
RAI co-sponsored
18-21 Jun 2004 Third International Conference
on hierarchy and power in the history of civilizations, Moscow.
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Institute
for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Contact: conf2004@hotmail.com
18-22 Jun 2004 21st International Association
for the Study of Dreams (ASD) Conference, at the Royal Academy
of Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Contact: http://www.ASDreams.org/2004, asdconfinfo@aol.com, tel +45-35361203
19-20 Jun 2004. The Eighth Asian Studies
Conference, Japan, a regional conference of the Association
for Asian Studies, meeting in Tokyo. Contact: ascj@max.icu.ac.jp or write to Asian Studies
Conference (ASCJ), c/o Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, International
Christian University, 3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-8585;
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~kokusai/ascj/
* 21 June 2004, 10 am - 6 pm. London Anthropology
Day at the British Museum. An Information Day for school
students (Year 12), ACCESS/CFE students, and UCAS
advisors. Includes: introduction to anthropology, workshops
on human origins and the ethnographic experience, University admissions
talks. Film showing from the RAI anthropological collection. Contact:
British Museum Box Office, 020 7323 8181, or book online at http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events
22-24 Jun 2004 The Sahara: Past, present
& future, University of East Anglia; http://www.uea.ac.uk/sahara
JULY 2004
8-9 Jul 2004 British Academy Centenary Project
'Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain'.
Conversazione at Chester University College. See:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/arp/lucyconv.html
22-26 Jul 2004 Harrogate, Yorkshire, United
Kingdom. Tourism & literature: Travel, imagination and
myth. Contact: Frederic Revaz, f.revaz@shu.ac.uk, http://www.tourism-culture.com
23-24 July 2004 Fifth Annual Northeast
Historic Film Summer Film Symposium, Bucksport, Maine. Topic:
The moving image as biography. Northeast Historic Film,
PO Box 900, Bucksport, Maine 04416, USA;
email: oldfilm@acadia.net; http://www.oldfilm.org
AUGUST 2004
16-20 Aug 2004 RC33 Sixth International
Conference on Social Science Methodology: Recent developments
and applications in social research methodology, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. http://www.siswo.uva.nl/rc33/
SEPTEMBER 2004
6-10 Sep 2004 The BA Festival of Science
2004, University of Exeter. British Association of Science,
http://www.the-ba.net/
8-12 Sep 2004. EASA Biennial Conference,
Vienna. Local Organizing Committee: Dept of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, University of Vienna, Universitätsstrasse 7, A-1010-Vienna,
Austria; tel.: 43-1-4277
48509; email: easa.ethnologie@univie.ac.at; http://www.easaonline.org/confpage.htm
* 15 Sep 2004, 4pm. RAIAGM Annual General
Meeting and Presidential Address. Venue: Debating Chamber
at County Hall, Riverside Building, London SE1 7PB. Presidential
Address by Professor Wendy James immediately after the
AGM. At approximately 6pm the celebrated film-maker John Marshall
presents his film The Kalahari Family, and leads a
discussion. All welcome; refreshments will be served afterwards
* 20 Sep 2004, 6pm Henry Myers Lecture
by Professor Wendy Doniger (Univ of Chicago) on The
mythology of self-imitation in passing: Race, gender and politics.
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African
Studies, Thornhaugh St, London WC1
24-25 Sep 2004 A conference on Truth in
anthropology, and the anthropology of truth. Hosted by Pembroke
College, Cambridge. Contact: truth@anthropologyconference.co.uk;
http://www.anthropologyconference.co.uk
OCTOBER 2004
4-6 October 2004 Intangible cultural heritage,
International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography
(ICME) workshop at the ICOM General Conference in Seoul, Korea.
Abstracts: 1 June 2004. http://icme.icom.museum
http://www.icom2004.org/
NOVEMBER 2004
15-17 Nov 2004 Ethnicity in Siberia: The
past, present and future, Krasnoiarsk Museum, Russia.
International conference to mark the 100th anniversary of
the birth of ethnographer Boris Osipovich Dolgikh. Contact: Nikolai
P. Markarov at mnp@kkkm.ru tel:
+7-3912-22-65-36, http://www.sub-arctic.ac.at/current.htm
17-21 Nov 2004. AAA 103rd Annual Meeting,
San Francisco Hilton and Towers, San Francisco, CA, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
20 Nov 2004 Multiple versions of the world:
100 Years of Gregory Bateson's influence, Santa Clara University's
campus, Silicon Valley, California. Contact Gordon Feller, GordonF20@comcast.net, http://www.acteva.com/go/Bateson
28 Nov - 2 Dec 2004. Rock art research: Changing
paradigms. The Tenth Congress of the International Federation
of Rock Art Organisations (IFRAO), hosted by the Rock Art
Society of India (RASI). Jaypee Palace, Agra, India.
Contact: Dr Giriraj Kumar, girirajrasi@yahoo.com. http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/ifrao/web/agra.html
DECEMBER 2004
* 8 Dec 2004 Huxley Memorial Lecture
by Professor Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University. Title
and venue t.b.a.
12-15 Dec 2004 IUAES Inter-Congress,
Kolkata-Ranchi, India.
Contact: Professor Buddhadeb Chadhuri, chau@cal2.vsnl.net,
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/10-congresses.htm
APRIL 2005
4-7 Apr 2005 ASA 2005 Conference,
Aberdeen, Scotland. Creativity
and cultural improvisation. http://www.theasa.org/conferences.htm
JULY 2005
Jul 2005 IUAES Inter-congress, Pardubice,
Czech Republic. Theme:
Racism's many faces: Challenge for all anthropologists and
ethnologists. Contact: Petr Skalnik, petr.skalnik@upce.cz,
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/10-congresses.htm
SEPTEMBER 2005
5-9 Sep 2005 The BA Association of Science
Festival 2005, Dublin. http://www.the-ba.net,
bafos2004@the-ba.net.
15-18 Sep 2005 Centenary of Anthropology
at Oxford, The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
St Hugh's College, Oxford. Contact: gina.burrows@anthro.ox.ac.uk
NOVEMBER 2005
30 Nov-4 Dec 2005 104th AAA Annual Meeting,
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC , http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
2006
2006 IUAES Inter-Congress, Cape Town,
South Africa.