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); Tree of life (to 14.08.05); Throne of weapons (to 30.10.05), 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
AUGUST 2005
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; http://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.therai.org.uk/film/festival/index.html
27-30 Sep 2005 Fundamentalism and their alternatives. Australian Anthropological Society annual conference, University of Adelaide. Contact: http://www.aas.asn.au/annualconf.htm
29 Sep-2 Oct 2005 Intimacy. 5th Annual Festival of Visual Culture, The Regional Film Center of North Karelia. Contact: Pekka Silvennoinen, Film Secretary, Länsikatu 15, FIN-80110 Joensuu, Finland; http://www.viscult.net; pekka.silvennoinen@netmail.fi and howard.brodsky@effc.fi
* 29 Sep-23 Oct 2005 Ethnographic films on China. County Hall, London. The RAI in collaboration with West Park Pictures presents a selection of Chinese ethnographic documentaries, as part of the exhibition China: Yesterday, today and tomorrow (daily, changing programme). Contact: ; http://www.londoncountyhall.com
30 Sep 2005, 4.00 pm RAI AGM (NB 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, on Remedies and resistances: Anthropology, technoscience and the politics of medicine. Also, a special screening of a film to be selected from those shown at the RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, 18-21 Sep. All welcome.
30 Sep-4 Oct 2005 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival 2005. Contact: Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography, Room 2609, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan; http://tieff.sinica.edu.tw, tieff@gate.sinica.edu.tw
OCTOBER 2005
7-13 Oct 2005 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Contact: Asano Fujiko, YIDFF Organising Committee Office , 2-3-25 Hatago-machi, Yamagata City 990-8540 Japan; entry 2005@yidff.jp; http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff
18-21 Oct 2005 Can oral history make objects speak? Annual conference of the ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography (ICME). Nafplion, Greece. Contact: http://icme.icom.museum.
21-23 Oct 2005 Bedrohte Lebenswelten: Eine Herausforderung aus medizinanthropologischer Sicht. Kassel. http://www.agem-ethnomedizin.de.
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; pococonf@pitt.edu
NOVEMBER 2005
3-6 & 12-13 Nov 2005 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival 2005, New York, USA. Contact: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA; meadfest@amnh.org; http://www.amnh.org/mead
4-6 Nov 2005 3rd Himalaya Film Festival. The Netherlands. Contact: Himalaya Archief Nederland, P/a: Dr G.K. Mitrasing, Hortensialaan 162, 1702 KJ Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands; info@himalaya-archief.nl
9 Nov 2005 Universities in the neo-liberal world: possible futures. Dept of Anthropology, Manchester University. Contact: Heike Schaumberg, heike.schaumberg@stud.man.ac.uk, http://www.manchester.ac.uk.
14-15 Nov 2005 First Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference, Microsoft, Redmond, WA. Sponsored by Microsoft and Intel. http://www.epic2005.com.
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, http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events.
24-25 Nov 2005 Interior Insights: Design, Ethnography and the Home. AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, Royal College of Art, London. Contact: csdi@rca.ac.uk, http://www.rca.ac.uk/csdi/Interiorinsightscall.html.
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.
7 Dec 2005 Huxley Memorial Lecture by Peter Ucko in the Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, UCL; title and timing tba.
MARCH 2006
16-17 Mar 2006. Anthropologists and economists. in the face of golbalization. Lille University of Science and Technology (Lille 1), Villeneuve d'Ascq. Organized by the Institut de Recherche. Deadline for proposals: 1 Sep 05. Contact:Sophie Goyat at the CLERSE secretariat; sophie.goyat@univ-lille1.fr, http://www.ur003.ird.fr/actus/anthr_eco_call.pdf.
APRIL 2006
10-14 Apr 2006 ASA 2006 Diamond Jubilee, University of Keele. Theme: Cosmopolitanism and anthropology. http://www.theasa.org/asa06
* 21-22 Apr 2006 Periphery and Policy. New County Hall, Truro, Cornwall, UK. Contact: Tom Selwyn (t.selwyn@londonmet.ac.uk) with proposals by 1 November 2005 (for details see ad in this issue).
MAY 2006
5-7 May 2006 20th Pakistan Workshop: Reflections and directions. The Rook Howe, Lake District, UK.Contact: Marta Bolognani, splmb@leeds.ac.uk, http://psg.anthropology.ac.uk/workshop2006/
JUNE 2006
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
NOVEMBER 2006
27 Nov-1 Dec American Anthropological Association 105th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
2006
IUAES Inter-Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/.