RAI: Anthropology Today Calendar of Events

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How Art Made the World – trail to coincide with BBC series; 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

Pacific pattern: An exhibition of photographs by Glenn Jowitt (Clore Education Centre, Nov-Dec 2005, http://www.pacificpattern.com); 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, Environment Room, West African Textiles. Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872; http://www.horniman.ac.uk

DECEMBER 2005

2 Dec 2005, 5.30-6.30pm. Useful Knowledge. Isaiah Berlin Lecture by Dame Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA, University of Cambridge. Followed by a reception. The British Academy http://www.britac.ac.uk/events

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

5-10 Dec 2005 10th European Maya Conference, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Theme: The Maya and their neighbours: Internal and external contacts through time. http://www.wayeb.org. 2006

* 7 Dec 2005, 6.15pm Forms such as never were in nature: Forging authenticity. RAI Huxley Memorial Lecture by Peter Ucko, in the Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, University College, London.

JANUARY 2006

5-8 Jan 2006 Archaeological Institute of America, 107th annual meeting, Montréal, Quebec, Palais des Congrès Convention Center. http://www.archaeological.org/

11-14 Jan 2006 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawai’i. Contact: humanities@hichumanities.org; http://www.hichumanities.org

25 Jan 2006 Social science fiction: Writing as theory and method, C-SAP, University of Birmingham. http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events; mike.neary@c-sap.bham.ac.uk

FEBRUARY 2006

2 Feb 2006 Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Dr Keith Hart (Goldsmiths College, University of London), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html

5-7 Feb 2006 Imagi-nation: The cultural praxis of Zionism, Arizona State University. shaig@asu.edu; http://www.asu.edu/clas/jewishstudies/conference.html

18-20 Feb 2006 Symposium on Maritime Archaeology and History of Hawai’i and The Pacific, Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawai’i. Theme: Our voyaging ancestors. Contact: froning@mahhi.org; http://www.mahhi.org

24-25 Feb 2006 27th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, Philadelphia, PA. Theme: Educators and ethnographers filling ideological and implementational spaces. Contact: David Cassels Johnson, cue@gse.upenn.edu; http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/

MARCH 2006

2 Mar 2006 Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Prof. Joanna Overing (University of St. Andrews), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html

5-12 Mar 2006 American Association of Physical Anthropologists 75th annual meeting, Anchorage, AK, http://www.physanth.org/annmeet/

16-17 Mar 2006 Anthropologists and economists in the face of globalization. Lille University of Science and Technology (Lille 1), Villeneuve d'Ascq. Organized by the Institut de Recherche. Contact: Sophie Goyat at the CLERSE secretariat; sophie.goyat@univ-lille1.fr; http://www.ur003.ird.fr/actus/anthr_eco_call.pdf

27-28 Mar 2006 Islam and bioethics: Concerns, challenges and responses, Nittany Lion Inn, Penn State University. Contact: rockethics.psu.edu/islam_bioethics/

28 Mar-2 Apr 2006 Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Hyatt Regency Hotel. Theme: World on the edge. http://www.sfaa.net; sfaa2006@sfaa.net.

APRIL 2006

6 Apr 2006 Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Prof. Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html

10-14 Apr 2006 ASA 2006 Diamond Jubilee, University of Keele. Theme: Cosmopolitanism & Anthropology. Keynote/plenary speakers and discussants: Alan MacFarlane, David Graeber, Andre Beteille, Stuart Hall, Elizabeth Colson, Richard Fardon, Chris Hann, Richard Werbner, Marilyn Strathern, Richard Wilson, Birgit Meyer, Bruce Kapferer, Jonathan Parry, Joel Kahn, Jonathan Friedman, Eric Hirsch and many others. Email: P.Werbner@keele.ac.uk, http://www.theasa.org/asa06

* 21-22 Apr 2006 Periphery and policy. New County Hall, Truro, Cornwall, UK. Conference organized by RAI, Cornwall Council, College of St Mark. Contact: Tom Selwyn, t.selwyn@londonmet.ac.uk; http://www.therai.org.uk/rainews/urgent_rai_announcements.html. See advert in this issue.

24-26 Apr 2006 Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. http://www.paleoanthro.org

MAY 2006

4 May 2006 Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Dr. Heonik Kwon (University of Edinburgh), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html

5-7 May 2006 20th Pakistan Workshop: Reflections and directions. The Rook Howe, Lake District, UK. Contact: Marta Bolognani, splmb@leeds.ac.uk; psg.anthropology.ac.uk/workshop2006/

9-14 May 2006 Canadian Anthropological Society, Montreal, Canada, Concordia University. Theme: Human nature/human identity: Anthropological revisionings. http://www.casca.anthropologica.ca/an_casca2006cfp.htm

JUNE 2006

2-3 Jun 2006 Annual Meeting and Conference on Gypsy Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/

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; http://civreg.ru/english/conf/hierarchy2006.html

SEPTEMBER 2006

7 Sep 2006 Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Prof. Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen), British Museum; http://www..ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html

18-21 Sep 2006 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 9th bi-annual conference. Archaeology and Anthropology Department, University of thebritishmuseum Bristol, Bristol, UK. Theme: Europe and the World. http://www.nomadit.co.uk/~easa/

19-24 Sep 2006 European Association of Archaeologists, Cracow, Poland. http://www.e-a-a.org/europe2.htm

NOVEMBER 2006

15-19 Nov 2006 105th AAA Annual Meeting, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

DECEMBER 2006

3-7 Dec 2006, Cape Town. IUAES Inter-Congress. Transcending postcolonial conditions: Towards alternative modernities. A joint conference comprising an intercongress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and the 2006 annual conferences of the Pan-African Association of Anthropologists and Anthropology Southern Africa. http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/10-congresses.htm

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