The Anthropology Today
Calendar of Events

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Treasured textiles: Cloth and clothing around the world (to 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.

 AUGUST 2006

29 Aug-1 Sep 2006 Culture and Communication. Avignon, France. Contact: Jean-Christophe Vilatte, jean-christophe.vilatte@univ-nancy2.fr.

31 Aug 2006-3 Sep 2006 15th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, Budapest, Hungary, http://eaa2006.elte.hu.

 SEPTEMBER 2006

4-6 Sep 2006 Tourism as a meeting ground of cultures, Siofok, Hungary. http://www.kodolanyi.hu.

4-6 Sep 2006 Engaging Baudrillard: An international multi-disciplinary conference. Swansea, United Kingdom. Contact: William Merrin, http://www.swan.ac.uk/mediastudies/baudrillard/,

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 Collaborative relations, personal aims,and the work of institutions in contemporary Melanesia. One-day workshop in Port Moresby. 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?'.

23 Sep 2006 The new fabric of life: Textile technologies in contemporary society, Horniman Museum, London. One-day workshop. Contact: Graeme Were, g.were@ucl.ac.uk. For information, see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/textile-technology.

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

27-29 Sep 2006 AAS Annual Conference 2006. Cairns, QLD, Australia. Theme: Beyond science and art: Anthropology and the unification of knowledge. http://www.aas.asn.au/aas_conference.php

 OCTOBER 2006

12 Oct 2006 (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

14 Oct 2006 Fatness, food and childbearing: Cultural perspectives on the body, nutrition and reproductive practices. Workshop at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), Oxford (followed by six seminars on Mondays following 14 October). Contact: Soraya Tremayne, soraya.tremayne@anthro.ox.ac.uk.

23 Oct 2006 The Third Eric Wolf Lecture by Professor Judith Okely (IGS, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes) at the University of Vienna. Title: 'Ethnographic knowledge has the power to transform: It may also be ignored, blocked or misappropriated'. http://www.univie.ac.at/ksa

 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 2006, 6 pm RAI Presidential Address by Professor Alan Bilsborough at the University of Kent. Title: Species, pattern and adaptation in human evolution.

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

7 Dec 2006, 6 pm. Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor Leslie Aiello, President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research on 'The evolution of humans and the human diet'. Stephenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum, Great Russell St, London WC1. All welcome; refreshments afterwards.

10-14 Jan 2007 Memory from transdisciplinary perspectives: Agency, practices and mediations. Tartu, Estonia, http://www.jrnl.ut.ee/memory2007

 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); http://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/lms/Colloque.htmg.

 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 20-21 Feb 2007 Queer space: Centres and peripheries. Sydney, Australia; http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/conferences/queer_space/.

 MARCH 2007

18-19 March 2007 Left/out: Texts and their ur-texts. Nancy, France. Contact: John S Bak, john.bak@univ-nancy2.fr

 MAY 2007

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

23-25 May 2007 Crossing cultural boundaries. Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/content.php?d=139

9-11 Aug 2007 1st International Conference on Afro-Hispanic Studies Across the Disciplines. Accra, Ghana. http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/y/x/yxa3/ghanaindex.htm

 JUNE 2007

27-30 Jun 2007 RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film at the University of Manchester (followed by a conference from 30 June to 2 July).

 SEPTEMBER 2007

21 Sep 2007 Telling stories: Objects and narrative, United Kingdom, Contact: Jane Tormey, http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/mainpages/Research/staff%20groups/arts.htm

 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