Body arts (permanent); Wilfred Thesiger's Iraq, 1949-1958: Photographs of Travel (to 15.1.2006). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927, http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Africa Garden (to 4.09.05), Wealth of Africa (to 26.06.05), Views from Africa 05 (to 24.07.05), 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
JUNE 2005
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).
26-28 Jun 2005 Activism and civil society in South Asia with special reference to Nepal and Sri Lanka, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford. Contact david.gellner@anthro.ox.ac.uk.
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
14-18 Jul 2005 Tourism and performance. Sheffield, UK. http://www.tourism-culture.com
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/homepage.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 5.00pm 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. Contact: or see http://www.nomadit.co.uk/~raifilmfest/
* 30 Sep 2005, 4 pm RAI AGM (change of date); Stephenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London WC1, by kind invitation of the Museum. Followed by lecture delivered by Dr Christopher Davis, winner of the 2002 Wellcome Medal for Medical Anthropology (title t.b.a.) and special screening of an ethnographic film from the RAI's collection (selection t.b.a.). All welcome.
OCTOBER 2005
18-21 Oct 2005 Can oral history make objects speak? Annual conference of ICME - the ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography. Nafplion, Greece. Contact: http://icme.icom.museum.
21-23 Oct 2005 Kassel. Bedrohte Lebenswelten: Eine Herausforderung aus medizinanthropologischer Sicht. http://www.agem-ethnomedizin.d.
27-29 Oct 2005 Comparative postcolonialities: Aesthetics, history, locality. Interdisciplinary conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Contact: Prof Shalini Puri, http://www.english.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 2006 ASA 2006 Diamond Jubilee, University of Keele. Theme: Cosmopolitanism and anthropology. 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.