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ISSUE: vol. 22, no.3 June 2006 (for past issues see here)

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EXHIBITIONS

Treasured textiles: cloth and clothing around the world </b>(til 22 April 2007); Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927, http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk

Enlightenment; Living and dying; 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: 21st-century Native Americans (to Oct 06); Khmer silks (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

Sankofa: Ceramic tales from Africa, The Manchester Museum (to 2 July 2006). Contextualizing ceramic traditions of Africa. manchestermuseum@hotmail.co.uk.

 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. Contact: sjb20@st-andrews.ac.uk; or c.lane@lcc.arts.ac.uk

27 Jun 2006, 6.00pm-7.30pm . Who's creating knowledge? The challenge of non-university researchers. The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2006/knowledge

 JULY 2006

6 Jul 2006 London Anthropology Day for Schools, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. Contact: RAI Education Officer by .

7-8 Jul 2006 The art and material culture of Iranian Shiism. University of Oxford, UK. Contact: Pedram Khosronejad at pedram.khosronejad@orinst.ox.ac.uk. For information, see http://www.iranheritage.org.

10-12 Jul 2006 Connections, communities and collections. ICOM-ICME Annual Conference 2006, Miami, Florida, USA, icme.icom.museum

18-21 Jul International conference on interdisciplinary social sciences. University of the Aegean, Island of Rhodes, Greece. See http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com.

 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

7 Sep 2006 RAI workshop in Norwich for 16-19-year-old-students: 'Better humans or not human? What it really means to be human in the 21st century'. This interactive event will introduce students to anthropological approaches to human nature and bioscience. Contact: RAI Education Officer by .

12 Sep 2006 Port Moresby. Collaborative relations, personal aims,and the work of institutions in contemporary Melanesia. One day workshop. Contact: james.leach@kings.cam.ac.uk.

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/

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

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 (time t.b.a.), given by Dr Piers Vitebsky of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Title: 'Loving and forgetting: A farewell to ancestors?'.

25-27 Sep 2006 Ethnographic praxis in industry conference, Portland, Oregon, see http://www.epic2006.com.

 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, and the 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

 JANUARY 2007

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.htm.

 FEBRUARY 2007

10-16 Feb 2007 4th 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

 MAY 2007

11-13 May 2007. 21st Pakistan workshop: Competing narratives, The Rook Howe, Lake District.http://psg.anthropology.ac.uk/workshop2007/

 NOVEMBER 2007

29 Nov - 2 Dec 2007 AAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

 NOVEMBER 2008

19-23 Nov 2008 AAA Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

 NOVEMBER 2009

2-6 Dec 2009 AAA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm