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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

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; 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

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/

23-24 Feb 2007 Ethnography and education in trying times. 28th annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Graduate School of Education, Philadelphia, PA. Contact: cue@gse.upenn.edu; http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

27 Feb 2007 Archaeology and forensic science. Council for British Archaeology. The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 (see http://www.britac.ac.uk/contact/map.html)

MARCH 2007

14 March 2007, 5.30 pm. Anthropology is not Ethnography. Radcliffe-Brown Lecture by Professor Timothy Ingold (University of Aberdeen). Venue: 10 Carlton Terrace, London SW1. http://www.britac.ac.uk/events. Contact: lectures@britac.ac.uk; tel. 020 7969 5246.

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

27-31 Mar 2007 Society for Applied Anthropology, 16th annual meeting, Hyatt Regency, Tampa, FL. Theme: Global insecurities, global solutions, and applied anthropology in the 21st century. Contact: info@sfaa.net, http://www.sfaa.net.

30 Mar-1 Apr 2007 Seven dimensions of emotion: Integrating biological and cultural perspectives on fear, disgust, love, grief, anger, empathy and hope. University of California-Los Angeles, CA. http://www.thefpr.org.

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/

18 May 2007 Objects, images and imaginings: New perspectives on the material and visual culture of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Symposium at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, co-hosted by the University of Sussex. Contact: harriet.hughes@brighton-hove.gov.uk

21-22 May 2007 Objects of trade: Museum Ethnographers' Group Conference, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. For further information, or to propose papers or sessions, please contact Claire Warrior (cwarrior@nmm.ac.uk); http://www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk

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? Tourists 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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