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ISSUE: vol. 20, no.6 December 2004

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EXHIBITIONS

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); Sudan: Ancient treasures (until 9 Jan). 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

Woven blossoms: Textiles from Eastern Indonesia (until 20 Feb 2005); African Worlds permanent exhibition; Centenary Gallery; Sufi music (until 27 Feb 2005). Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872, http://www.horniman.ac.uk

 DECEMBER 2004

* 8 Dec 2004 6 pm Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern. 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; 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. Post-traditional environments in a post-global world. Contact: www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/research/iaste; iaste@uclink4.berkeley.edu.

15-19 Dec 2004. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Atlanta, Georgia (to replace the postponed event in San Francisco, 17-21Nov).

 JANUARY 2005

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

 FEBRUARY 2005

4-5 Feb 2005 Southeast Asia Studies, 22nd Annual Conference, UC Berkeley. 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 Dept of Ethnography at the British Museum, London, UK. Contact: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/conferences.html; B Pauksztat, bpauksztat@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk.

 MARCH 2005

* 1-3 March 2005 The RAI Collection in focus: African Art and W.B. Fagg. Special Open Days 1, 2 and 3 March 2005: 11.00am-5.00pm at the RAI Collection, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T BT. Contact: the .

3 March 2005 BNAC Nepal studies day. Current Research on Nepal. stefanielotter@gmx.de.

4-13 March 2005 Cinéma du Reel, 27th International Film Festival of Visual Anthropology and Social Documentation. Paris, France. cinereel@bpi.fr; www.bpi.fr

14-20 March 2005 24th Ethnographic Film Panorama (Bilan du Film Ethnographique). Paris, France. cfe@mnhn.fr, http://www.comite-film-ethno.net

17-18 Mar 2005 Jaina Studies Workshop on Jaina law, in association with the Dept of Indic Religions, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University. Contact: Peter Flugel pf@cix.co.uk.

17-20 Mar 2005 Journeys of Expression IV: Tourism, carnival and folklore. Dubrovnik, Croatia. Contact: Dr. David Picard, d.picard@shu.ac.uk, http://www.tourism-culture.com/#.

18-19 Mar 2005 Social thought and the Irish Question in the nineteenth century. Headfort House, Kells, Co. Meath. Contact: www.may.ie/academic/anthropology/AAI, anthropology.office@may.ie.

21 Mar 2005 From play to knowledge: Workshop on ethnographic methodology. University of Manchester, Dept of Social Anthropology. Contact: http://www.socialsciences.man.ac.uk/socialanthropology/events/fromplaytoknowledge/default.htm

 APRIL 2005

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

5-10 Apr 2005 Heritage, environment and tourism. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Contact: http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2005.html.

20-21 Apr 2005 Enriching indigenous Southeast Asian collections in libraries (e-iseacol), Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Contact: chrdf@uplinkdesigns.com; virge@uplink.com.ph.

 MAY 2005

3-8 May 2005 Canadian Anthropological Society and Society for the Anthropology of North America. Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mérida, Mexico. 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. 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. www.freiburger-filmforum.de

 JUNE 2005

2-3 Jun 2005 Non-food as food. Headington Hill Hall, Oxford. Contact: Jeremy MacClancy, Dept of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BP; jmacclancy@brookes.ac.uk

22-24 Jun 2005 1st International Conference on e-Social Science. Manchester, UK, www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-05.

 JULY 2005

12-15 Jul 2005 Indonesia in the changing global context: Building co-operation and partnership? 4th International symposium by the Journal Antropologi Indonesia, Dept of Anthropology, University of Indonesia. Contact: http://www.jai.or.id/events/sympo/4th_dpk/si4thinfo.htm

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; www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/10-congresses.htm

 AUGUST 2005

3-9 Aug 2005 International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Conference on ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology. Sheffield, UK. Contact: Prof. 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.

9-10 Sep 2005 The Gypsy Lore Society annual conference on Romani/Gypsy Studies. Universidad de Granada, Spain. Contact: Dr. Juan F. Gamella, gamella@ugr.es, http://www.gypsyloresociety.org.

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 Sep 2005 The frontiers of visual anthropology. Oxford, UK. One-day seminar organized by the EASA Visual Anthropology Network. Contact: Sarah Pink, s.pink@lboro.ac.uk..

* 18-21 Sep 2005 9th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Oxford, UK. 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