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ISSUE: vol. 20, no.4 August 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 (until 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; Living and dying -Wellcome Gallery exhibition; 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: photographic exhibition by Edward Parker (until 5 Sep 2004); 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

Curiosities from the Endeavour: A forgotten collection (Pacific artefacts) (until 31 October 2004), Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby, Grape Lane, http://www.captaincook.org.uk/events/index.php?link=54

A Warrior I Have Been - Plains Indians (until 3 Oct), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, UK

 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 RAI 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 6.15pm the celebrated film-maker John Marshall will present his film The Kalahari family, and lead 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 Truth in anthropology, and the anthropology of truth. Conference hosted by Pembroke College, Cambridge. Contact: truth@anthropologyconference.co.uk; http://www.anthropologyconference.co.uk

24-26 Sep Revisioning modernity: Challenges and possibilities for Islam. Association of Muslim Social Scientists, 33rd Annual Conference, George Mason University: Center for Global Studies & Islamic Studies Program, Fairfax, Virginia. Contact: http://www.amss.net.

 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/

8-10 October 2004 Jean Rouch (1917-2004) and his contribution to cinema, Le Ciné Lumière, French Institute, London. Organized by the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster. Contact: Zemirah Moffat, z.moffat@wmin.ac.uk, http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-721.

 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.BatesonConference.org

26-28 Nov 2004 2nd Native North America Film Festival, The British Museum, London. Contact: Birgit Pauksztat, bpauksztat@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk, +44 (0) 20 7323 8028

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 Dame Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University. Title: A community of critics? Time 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

6-8 May 2005 The Pakistan Workshop, Annual Meeting, The Rook Howe, Lake District, United Kingdom. Theme: Building alliances, blurring boundaries. For more information, see http://psg.anthropology.ac.uk/Workshop2005/ or contact Fazila Bhimji at fbhimji@uclan.ac.uk

 JUNE 2005

2-3 Jun 2005 Headington Hill Hall, Oxford. Non-food as food. Organized by the departments of Anthropology and of Nutrition, Oxford Brookes University, with the European branch of the International Commission for the Anthropology of Food. Contact: Jeremy MacClancy, Dept of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BP, email: jmacclancy@brookes.ac.uk

 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 British Association Festival of Science 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

* 18-21 Sep 2005 9th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Oxford. For rules and conditions of entry see RAI website from 15 September 2004 or contact: ; http://www.therai.org.uk/film/festival2005.html

 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.