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ISSUE: vol. 20, no.3 June 2004

ELECTRONIC CALENDARS AnthCal (this calendar). AnthCalLink (calendar links).


EXHIBITIONS

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 Lecture by Professor Derek Robbins on Foucault's unpublished thesis of 1961 on Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797).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.