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Calendar of Events

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ISSUE: vol. 23, no.2 April 2007(for past issues see here)

ELECTRONIC CALENDARS AnthCal (this calendar). AnthCalLink (calendar links).


EXHIBITIONS

Treasured textiles: Cloth and clothing around the world (to 22.04.07); The Kitty Lake Collection 1904-2001 - An exhibition by Sally Hampson (19.05-07.10.07). 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); Centenary Gallery: 100 Years of Collecting (permanent). Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872; http://www.horniman.ac.uk

Pasifika styles (to Feb 2008). University of Cambridge Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ; tel. +44 (0)1223 764 769;http://www.pasifikastyles.org.uk

 MARCH 2007

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

9-12 May Indigeneities and Cosmopolitanisms. American Ethnological Society and Canadian Anthropology Society, Toronto, Canada; http://www.aesonline.org.

11-12 May 2007 Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI) Conference: Ethnographic collections in Ireland. Venue: National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin. Contact: Séamas Ó Síocháin +353 (0)1 708 3724; seamas.osiochain@nuim.ie

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

12 May 2007 8th Cambridge Heritage Seminar. Re-visioning the nation: Cultural heritage and the politics of disaster, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Contact: Dacia Viejo-Rose at dv230@cam.ac.uk; http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/heritageseminar

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

17-18 May 2007 Embodiment, ritual and the sacred landscape in the context of Tibetan healing, University of Oxford. Anthropology Research Group Oxford on Eastern Medicine and Religion. Contact: Patrizia Bassini and Elisabeth Hsu, University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE, UK; patrizia.bassini@anthro.ox.ac.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 Jun 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).

28-29 Jun 2007 21st-century anthropology: Global process and power. Conference. Keynote speaker: Thomas Hylland Eriksen. University of Oxford. Oxford University Anthropological Society (OUAS) with support from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA). Contact: anthro21@herald.ox.ac.uk. More details: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~anthsoc

 JULY 2007

9 Jul 2007 London Anthropology Day, introducing pre-university students to undergraduate anthropology and courses available, co-organized by the RAI and University of East London. British Museum. Contact: the RAI Education Officer by .

19-23 July 2007 Things that move: The material worlds of tourism and travel, Leeds. Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. Faculty of Arts & Society, Leeds Metropolitan University, The Old School Board, Calverley Street Leeds LS1 3ED, UK; ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk; http://www.tourism-culture.com

30 July-3 August PhD Summer School on Contemporary art and anthropology, University of Oslo. See: http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/schneider.html

 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

19-24 August 2007 The world under one roof: Past, present and future ethnographic approaches to universality, ICME sessions at the International Council of Museums General Conference, Vienna, Austria; http://icme.icom.museum

 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

8.-10 Nov 2007 Joint Meeting: 20th Fachkonferenz Ethnomedizin (AGEM) & 6th European Colloquium on Ethnopharmacology (ESE): New trends in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. Leipzig, Museum fuer Voelkerkunde (Grassi-Museum). Contact: AGEM - curare, c/o Ekkehard Schroeder, Spindelstrasse 3, 14482 Potsdam; ee.schroeder@t-online.de; http://www.agem-ethnomedizin.de

29 Nov-2 Dec 2007 106th AAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

 DECEMBER 2007

12-14 Dec 2007 Assises de l'ethnologie et de l'anthropologie en France, Paris. Organized by the two professional associations, APRAS (Association Pour la Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale) and AFA (Association Française des Anthropologues). http://assisesethno.org

 JULY 2008

15-23 July 2008 Humanity, development and cultural diversity. IUAES 16th World Congress, 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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