Body arts (permanent); Wilfred Thesiger's Iraq, 1949-1958 (unil 15 May). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927, http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Made in Africa (until end April),Enlightenment; 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
African Worlds permanent exhibition; Centenary Gallery. Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872, http://www.horniman.ac.uk
Burton: The case for and against. (until 24 Apr 2005). Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham TW1 3DJ, UK; http://www.richmond.gov.uk/depts/opps/eal/leisure/arts/orleanshouse/ (for details see news in this issue).
APRIL 2005
12 Apr 2005, 6-7.30 pm Identity Politics. A panel discussion between Anthony Appiah, Adam Kuper and Anne Phillips. The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1. Followed by a complimentary drinks reception. http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2005/
15 Apr
2005 Beyond Nature and Culture, Radcliffe-Brown
Lecture by Professor Philippe Descola (Collège de France).
St Andrews University, Fife, Scotland. Contact: Roy Dilley,
rmd@st-andrews.ac.uk, http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2005/
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
22-24
Apr 2005 Out of the study and into the field: Ethnographic
theory and practice in French anthropology, Maison Française,
2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE. Contact: robert.parkin@anthropology.ox.ac.uk
27 Apr 2005 Workshop on the academic application of anthropology in multi-disciplinary departments. Venue: Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB. Contact: j.scott@londonmet.ac.uk; p.lugosi@londonmet.ac.uk; http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/iictd/events/eve_index.html
28-30 Apr 2005 Seeing, understanding, learning in the mobile age. Budapest. Contact: http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2005
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
4 May 2005, 7 pm. The space beyond my hand. Lecture by Simon McBurney. Said Business School, Park End Street, Oxford. Contact: rosemary.lee@talk21.com, http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/friends.html
6-8 May 2005 The Pakistan Workshop annual meeting, The Rook Howe, Lake District, UK. Building alliances, blurring boundaries. Contact: psg.anthropology. ac.uk/Workshop2005/ or Fazila Bhimji, fbhimji@uclan.ac.uk.
9-10 May 2005 Museums and anthropology: The Museum Ethnographers Group 30th anniversary conference, Manchester Museum. Contact: Lisa Harris, The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL; tel. +44 (0)161 275 2637; lisa.harris@manchester.ac.uk, http://www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk
18-20 May 2005 Early cities: New perspectives on pre-industrial urbanism. National Academy of Science Colloquium, Washington, DC. http://www.nas.edu/sackler/earlycities, sackler@nas.edu.
18-23 May 2005 Freiburg Film Festival 2005, Germany. http://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
7 Jun 2005, 5pm The C-SAP Annual Lecture 2005 by Professor Cary Nelson. Activism and change in the academy. The Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. Reception afterwards. All welcome. http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk
22-24 Jun 2005 1st International Conference on e-Social Science. Manchester, UK. http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-05.
24-26 Jun 2005 Animals and Science Conference, University of Manchester. Exploring human/animal relations in an age of science, technology and globalization. Contacts: Maggie Bolton (Maggie.Bolton@manchester.ac.uk) or Penny Harvey (Penny.Harvey@manchester.ac.uk). Abstracts (300 words) by 30 April 2005.
JULY 2005
3-5 July
2005 Description and creativity: Approaches
to collaboration and value from art, science and technology.
Speakers drawn from art and science, anthropology, architecture,
digital technology, choreography, history of science etc.
King's College Cambridge. http://www.nomadit.co.uk/~dnc, dnc@nomadit.co.uk.
12-15 Jul 2005 Indonesia in the changing global context: Building co-operation and partnership? 4th International symposium hosted by the journal Antropologi Indonesia, Dept of Anthropology, University of Indonesia. Contact: http://www.jai.or.id/events/sympo/4th_dpk/si4thinfo.htm
AUGUST2005
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
29 Aug-3 Sep 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; webak.upce.cz/iuaes/
SEPTEMBER 2005
5-9 Sep 2005 The British Association Festival of Science 2005, Dublin. http://www.the-ba.net; bafos2004@the-ba.net.
5-9 Sep 2005 International Forum on the Social Science-Policy Nexus, Montevideo, Uruguay. http://www.unesco.org/shs/ifsp
* 7 Sep 2005 RAI Curl Lecture by Dr Miguel Alexiades at 5.00 pm in Dublin, during the BAAS annual meeting. Title: Headwaters of the past: Ethnoecology, memory, and the struggle for nature in a western Amazonian landscape.
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; http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk
16-18 Sep 2005 Indigenous Religious Studies conference, Milton Keynes. http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/relstud/bbb/, christina.welch@winchester.ac.uk
18Sep 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
* 28 Sep 2005 RAIAGM (venue and time tba).
OCTOBER 2005
27-29 Oct 2005 Comparative Postcolonialities: Aesthetics, History, Locality. Interdisciplinary conference, University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA. Contact: Prof Shalini Puri, http://www.pitt.edu/events/pococonf/index.html, pococonf@pitt.edu
NOVEMBER 2005
23-25 Nov 2005 New contexts in Learning and Teaching: International Perspectives. A major conference hosted by the Centre for Learning and Teaching Sociology, Anthropology, Politics (C-SAP), Jury's Inn Hotel, Birmingham, UK. Contact: frances.thompson@c-sap.bham.ac.uk.
30 Nov-4 Dec 2005 104th AAA Annual Meeting, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC; http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
DECEMBER 2005
4-9 Dec 2005 Locating the field: The ethnography of medical research in Africa. An exploratory conference, Kilifi, Kenya. http://www.dgv-net.de/pdf/CfP_Medical_Research_Africa.pdf; trials-ethnography@lshtm.ac.uk.
2006
10-14
Apr ASA 2006, University of Keele: http://www.theasa.org/asa06
13-16 Jun 2006 Hierarchy and power in the history of civilizations, Moscow, Russia. Fourth International Conference of Russian Academy of Sciences Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies. Contact: civ-reg@inafr.ru, civreg.ru/english/conf/hierarchy2006.html
2006 IUAES Inter-Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.