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Treasured textiles: Cloth and clothing around the world (to 22.04.07). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP; tel. +44 (0)1865 270927; http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Power and Taboo: Sacred objects from the Pacific (28.09.06-07.01.07); 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 07.01.07); The Crow: 21st-century Native Americans (to 15.10.06); Khmer silks (to 25.02.07); Centenary Gallery: 100 Years of Collecting. Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872; http://www.horniman.ac.uk
OCTOBER 2006
2 Oct 2006, 1.30pm Encounters in Polynesia: Chiefs, priests and powerful objects by Dr Steven Hooper. The British Museum.Bookings: +44 (0)207 323 8181; boxoffice@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
13 Oct 2006 (note change of date ), 6 pm. Centre for Anthropology New Seminar Series: Prof. Roy Wagner (University of Virginia), 'Aesthetic technology and the Golden Moment: The pragmatic counteragency of the Massim canoe prow board'. British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html. BP Lecture Theatre. Lecture followed by reception. Admission free, by ticket only.
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: Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, University of Kent. Title: Species, pattern and adaptation in human evolution. All welcome; refreshments afterwards.
7 Nov 2006, 6.15pm Panizzi Lecture in Bibliography at the British Library: Photography as cure. Chris Pinney. Admission free by ticket. Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, +44 20 7412 7222; http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/india/events.html
14 Nov 2006, 6.15pm Panizzi Lecture in Bibliography at the British Library: Photography as poison. Chris Pinney. Admission free by ticket; http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/india/events.html
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. 21 Nov. 2006, 6.15 pm Panizzi Lecture in Bibliography at the British Library: A photographic revolution in late colonial India? Chris Pinney. Admission free by ticket; http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/india/events.html 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 4 Dec 2006, 1.30pm Contemporary Polynesian performances and cultural identity. Lecture by Professor Adrienne L. Kaeppler at the British Museum. Bookings: +44 (0)207 323 8181; boxoffice@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 7 Dec 2006, 6 pm. Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor Leslie Aiello, President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Title: '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
APRIL 2007
10-13 April 2007 Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Annual Conference. Theme: Thinking Through Tourism. London Metropolitan University. Contact: Tom Selwyn (t.selwyn@londonmet.ac.uk) or Julie Scott (j.scott@londonmet.ac.uk). http://www.theasa.org/asa07 13-16 April 2007 The re-enchantment of the world? Society for the Anthropology of Religion (AAA) meeting, Wyndham Phoenix Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona. Go to http://www.aaanet.org/sar/ or contact S.M.Coleman@Sussex.ac.uk.
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
JUNE 2007
13-15 June 2007 Gazing, glancing, glimpsing?: Touists and tourism in a visual world. 6th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism at the University of Brighton, Eastbourne, United Kingdom. tourismvisuality@bton.ac.uk, http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ssm/sympo2007/ 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).
AUGUST 2007
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
SEPTEMBER 2007
21 Sep 2007 Telling stories: Objects and narrative. Symposium series, Loughborough University School of Art & Design, 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 106th AAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
NOVEMBER 2008
19-23 Nov 2008 107th 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
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