How Art Made the World - trail to coincide with BBC series Body arts (permanent); Wilfred Thesiger's Iraq, 1949-1958 (to 17.04.06). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927, http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
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; Amazon to Caribbean (to 31.10.06); The Crow (6 May to Oct 06); Khmer silks (14.05.06 to Feb 2007). Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872; http://www.horniman.ac.uk
Pacific encounters: Art and divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 (21.05-13.08.2006). Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich. Tel: +44 (0)1603 593199; http://www.scva.org.uk; http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/sru/polynesia
APRIL 2006
6 Apr 2006, 10-12 am. 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. Contact: P.Werbner@keele.ac.uk, http://www.theasa.org/asa06 18-19 April 2006 Traditional medicine and HIV/AIDS. Workshop by: Centre for African Studies, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies. Contact: rm15@soas.ac.uk 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
27-30 Apr 6th International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine, University of Texas, Austin. http://www.iastam.org
28 Apr 2006 The neo-Darwinian approach to the study of religion. One-day discussion meeting. British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1. http://www.britac.ac.uk/events
MAY 2006
4 May 2006, 10-12 am. Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Dr. Heonik Kwon (University of Edinburgh), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html
5-6 May 2006 Fieldwork: Examining its practice among biological anthropologists and primatologists, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University. International conference. Contact: Jeremy MacClancy jmacclancy@brookes.ac.uk
5-7 May 2006 20th Pakistan Workshop: Reflections and directions. The Rook Howe, Lake District, UK. 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
10 May 2006. Rausing Inaugural Lecture. Professor Caroline Humphrey, Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University, will give her inaugural lecture to mark her appointment as the first Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology at 5pm, Lecture Room 9, Mill Lane, Cambridge, followed by a reception at King's College. Further details available from Sue Ford (sf346@cam.ac.uk). http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk
11-13 May 2006 Pacific Arts Association - Europe. Annual conference organized by: Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, University of East Anglia. Non-members welcome. Julia Martin, j.martin@uea.ac.uk; http://www.pacificarts.org/PAAE.html
17 May 2006 Collecting the modern world. Lecture by Neil MacGregor. Nelson Mandela Theatre, Said Business School, Park End Street, Oxford. Contact: rosemary.lee@talk21.com,
18-19 May 2006 Feeling the vibes: Dealing with intangible heritage. Museum Ethnographers Group Annual Conference. Chris Wingfield, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Christopher_wingfield@birmingham.gov.uk, http://www.bmag.org.uk/
31 May, 5 pm. Phyllis Kaberry Commemorative Lecture 2006, International Gender Studies Centre (formerly CCCRW), Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Prof. Helena Wulff (Stockholm U.): Fiction and ethnographic sensibility: Irish relations in the writing of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, St Antony's College, Nissan Lecture Theatre.
JUNE 2006
2-3 Jun 2006 Annual Meeting and Conference on Gypsy Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/
11-14 Jun 2006 25th Biannual Brazilian Meeting of Anthropology, Goiania, Brazil. Theme: Anthropological knowledges and practices: Challenges for the 21st century. http://www.abant.org.br
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
19-21 June 2006 Sound and anthropology. St Andrews University. Collaborative conference with London College of Communications. Submission deadline: 15 February 2006. Contact: sjb20@st-andrews.ac.uk; or c.lane@lcc.arts.ac.uk
JULY 2006
10-12 Jul 2006 Connections, communities and collections. ICOM-ICME Annual Conference 2006, Miami, Florida, USA, icme.icom.museum
SEPTEMBER 2006
7 Sep 2006, 10-12 am. Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Prof. Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.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 Bristol, Bristol, UK. Theme: Europe and the World. http://www.nomadit.co.uk/~easa/
20 Sep 2006 RAI Annual General Meeting, University of Bristol during the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Followed by the 2006 Henry Myers Lecture, given by Dr Piers Vitebsky of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Times and title of Dr Vitebsky's lecture tba.
19-24 Sep 2006 European Association of Archaeologists, Cracow, Poland. http://www.e-a-a.org/europe2.htm
OCTOBER 2006
12 Oct (time t.b.a.). Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Prof. Roy Wagner (University of Virginia), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html
NOVEMBER 2006
2 Nov, 10-12 am. Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Dr Angela Hobart (Goldsmiths College, University of London), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html 3 Nov (time t.b.a.) RAI Presidential Address by Professor Alan Bilsborough at the University of Kent.
15-19 Nov 2006 105th AAA Annual Meeting, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA. http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
16-18 Nov 2006 Narrative in all its forms: New technologies, new questions. International conference organized by ethnographiques.org, Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchâtel. Contact: ethnographiques@unine.ch, http://www.ethnographiques.org.
DECEMBER 2006
1-2 December 2006 Polynesia: Current perspectives on the arts of the past, British Museum. Public conference organized by: Sainsbury Research Unit, Univ. of East Anglia, British Museum, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas. Contact: Julia Martin, j.martin@uea.ac.uk; http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/sru/polynesia
3-7 Dec 2006, Cape Town. IUAES Inter-Congress. Transcending postcolonial conditions: Towards alternative modernities. Jointly with the 2006 annual conference of the Pan-African Association of Anthropologists and Anthropology Southern Africa. http://www.uct-cmc.co.za/conferences/2006/tpc/info.php 23-25 Jan 2007 L'anthropologie face à ses objets : Nouveaux contextes ethnographiques, Campus de Saint-Charles, Université de Provence, Marseille (France). Contact: Olivier Leservoisier (o.leservoisier@wanadoo.fr). Submission deadline: 15 April 2006. http://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/lms/Colloque.htmg.
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