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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
Myths of Bengal; Power and Taboo: Sacred objects from the Pacific (to 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); 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
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 IUAES Inter-Congress. Transcending postcolonial conditions: Towards alternative modernities, Cape Town. 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. RAI 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.
JANUARY 2007
10-14 Jan 2007 Memory from transdisciplinary perspectives: Agency, practices and mediations. Tartu, Estonia; http://www.jrnl.ut.ee/memory2007
23 Jan 2007, 6.30 pm Paul Stirling Memorial Lecture at the University of Kent by Professor Roy Ellen, FBA. Title: 'Fraud, faction and the anthropological imagination'. Marlowe Building Lecture Theatre 1 at the University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NR. All welcome; refreshments afterwards. http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/department/stirling_lectures.html
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
18-23 Sep 2007 European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 13th Annual Meeting, Zadar, Croatia, http://www.e-a-a.org/europe2.htm
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
JULY 2008
July 2008 (date t.b.a.) AUES 16th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Kunming. Contact: Professor Jing Jun, jingjun@tsinghua.edu.cn; http://www.icaes2008.org/
NOVEMBER 2008
19-23 Nov 2008 107th AAA Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA; http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
DECEMBER 2009
2-6 Dec 2009 AAA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA; http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
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