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ISSUE: vol. 20, no.5 October 2004

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EXHIBITIONS

Seeing Lhasa: British depictions of the Tibetan capital 1936-1947 (until 30 Nov 2004); Religious images from Romania; 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

Black History Month (until end Oct); Woven blossoms: Textiles from Eastern Indonesia (until 20 Feb 2005); African Worlds permanent exhibition; Centenary Gallery; Sufi music. Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872, http://www.horniman.ac.uk

Curiosities from the Endeavour: A forgotten collection (Pacific artefacts) (until 31 Oct 2004), Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby, Grape Lane, http://www.captaincook.org.uk/events/

OCTOBER 2004

27-31 Oct 2004 Impakt 2004 Festival for Audiovisual Arts, Utrecht, the Netherlands, http://www.impakt.nl

25-30 Oct 2004 Astra Film Fest 2004, Sibiu, Romania. Contact: AFF2004@astrafilm.ro; http://www.astrafilm.ro/

25-30 Oct 2004 Tourism: International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy; Instituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico, Via Mereu 56 - 08100 Nuoro. Contact: isrenuoro@interbusiness.it; http://www.regione.sardegna.it/isre

NOVEMBER 2004

9 Nov 2004, 6 pm Isaac Schapera (1905-2003) - LSE lecture by Professor Adam Kuper in honour of Isaac Schapera, former Chair of Anthropology at LSE and RAIPresident who died last year. The lecture will be held at Old Theatre, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Contact Deborah James: d.a.james@lse.ac.uk; http://www.thuto.org/schapera/news/schapera-obit1.htm

11-14 & 20-21 Nov 2004 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, New York, USA. American Museum of Natural History, New York, meadfest@amnh.org; http://www.amnh.org/mead

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 Nov-2 Dec 2004 45th Festival dei Popoli - International Social Documentary Film Festival, Florence, Italy. festivaldeipopoli@festivaldeipopoli.191.it, http://www.festivaldeipopoli.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

1-5 Dec 2004 International Festival of Ethnological Film, Belgrade. Contact: etnomuzej@yubc.net

5-10 Dec 2004 History of the Pacific: Assessments and prospects. 16th Pacific History association conference. PHA & Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie Nouméa. http://www.pacificscience.org/meetings.html

* 8 Dec 2004 6 pm Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern at University College London Chemistry Auditorium, Christopher Ingold Building, 20 Gordon St, London WC1H. Title: 'A community of critics?' Reception afterwards in the North Cloisters of UCL; all welcome.

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

14-18 Dec 2004 International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, 9th Conference, Sharjah/Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Theme: Post-traditional environments in a post-global world. Contact: http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/research/iaste; iaste@uclink4.berkeley.edu.

JANUARY 2005

9-13 Jan 2005 International Association for the Study of Forced Migration 9th biennial meeting, Pontifical Catholic U of São Paulo, Brazil. Theme: The search for solutions: Achievements and challenges. Contact: http://www.iasfm.org.

FEBRUARY 2005

4-5 Feb 2005 Southeast Asia Studies, 22nd Annual Conference, UC Berkeley. Theme: Commodities, old, new, and natural: Producing people and 'resources' in Southeast Asia. Contact: http://ias.berkeley.edu/cseas.

4-6 Feb 2005 Marketing Native North America, an international conference hosted by the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum, London, UK. Contact: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/conferences.html; B Pauksztat, bpauksztat@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk.

MARCH 2005

4-13 March 2005 Cinéma du Reel, 27th International Film Festival of Visual Anthropology and Social Documentation. Paris, France. Submissions deadline: 30 November 2004; cinereel@bpi.fr; http://www.bpi.fr 14-20 March 2005 24th Ethnographic Film Panorama (Bilan du Film Ethnographique). Paris, France. Deadline: 15 Nov 2004. cfe@mnhn.fr, http://www.comite-film-ethno.net 17-18 Mar 2005 Jaina Studies Workshop on Jaina law, in association with the Department of Indic Religions, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University. Contact: Peter Flugel pf@cix.co.uk.

APRIL 2005

* 4-7 Apr 2005 ASA 2005 Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland. Creativity and cultural improvisation. http://www.theasa.org/conferences.htm

MAY 2005

3-8 May 2005 Canadian Anthropological Society, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Merida, Mexico. Theme: Translocality: discussing culture and change in the 21st Century. Contact: merida05@fant.uady.mx.

6-8 May 2005 The Pakistan Workshop annual meeting, The Rook Howe, Lake District, UK. Theme: Building alliances, blurring boundaries. Contact: http//psg.anthropology. ac.uk/Workshop2005/ or Fazila Bhimji, fbhimji@uclan.ac.uk.

18-23 May 2005 Freiburg Film Festival 2005, Germany. http://www.freiburger-filmforum.de

JUNE 2005

2-3 Jun 2005 Headington Hill Hall, Oxford. Non-food as 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

 AUGUST 2005

3-9 Aug International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Conference on ethnomusicology and ethnochorelogy, Sheffield, UK. Contact: Professor Jonathan Stock, j.p.j.stock@sheffield.ac.uk; http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/ICTM/2005uk/ICTM%20Homepage.html

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. Submissions deadline: 31 March 2005. Contact: or see 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