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ISSUE: vol. 23, no.3 June 2007(for past issues see here)

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EXHIBITIONS

The Kitty Lake Collection 1904-2001 - An exhibition by Sally Hampson (19.05-07.10.07), Treasured textiles - Cloth and clothing around the world (to 13.01.08). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP; tel. +44 (0)1865 270927; http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk

A New World: England's first view of America (to 17.06.07); Inhuman traffic: The business of the slave trade; The Caribbean before Columbus: The Taíno universe; Atlantic trade and identity (to 6.04.08); 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

 JUNE 2007

7 June 2007, 10.00 am Ian Coates (Senior Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, National Museum of Australia) A collector's life: Emile Clement. British Museum Centre for Anthropology Seminar; anthropology@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 11-12 Jun 2007 New directions in development assistance. Joint Oxford University/Cornell University conference, Rhodes House, Oxford. http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org.

13-15 Jun 2007 Gazing, glancing, glimpsing? Tourists and tourism in a visual world. 6th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, United Kingdom; tourismvisuality@bton.ac.uk; http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ssm/sympo2007/

14 June 2007, 10.00 am Peter Mason (Rome). Images of the ancestors: Aesthetics and moai being-in-the-world. British Museum Centre for Anthropology Seminar, anthropology@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

18-20 Jun 2007 Course on Research Ethics as Practice in non-UK research settings, Lancaster University. Issues covered include: Ethnographic reflections of non-UK research, Ethical research within the global context, Foreign researchers as spies, Science and ethics, Informed consent and sensitive issues, Development discourse and ethics, Ethical research with 'friends' and 'enemies'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/ihr/events/esrcResearchTrainingProgramme.html

22 Jun 2007 Wales Anthropology Day, University of Wales, Lampeter. Anthropology taster day for 6th-form students and teachers. http://www.walesanthropologyday.co.uk

22 Jun 2007 Conference on science and indigenous knowledge in the Colombian Amazon. http://www.livingrainforest.org or email enquiries@livingrainforest.org

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). Includes: the 2007 Forman Lecture, a public debate on 'Anthropology on television: Education or entertainment?' chaired by Anna Ford.

28-29 Jun 2007 Public knowledge: Redistributions and re-institutionalizations. An international symposium organized in collaboration between CRESC and Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester; http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/publicknowledge.html

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, http://users.ox.ac.uk/~anthsoc.

30 Jun - 2 Jul 2007 Beyond text: Synaesthetic and sensory practices in anthropology. Conference, University of Manchester. http://www.raifilmfest.org.uk/conference.htm

 JULY 2007

7-8 Jul 2007 Visual anthropology of Iran, first interdisciplinary conference of the Society for Iranian Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK. http://www.anthropology-iran.org/forumsource/shiiatwebsite/index.html.

9 Jul 2007 London Anthropology Day, British Museum. Anthropology taster day for 6th-form students and teachers, http://www.londonanthropologyday.co.uk.

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 2007 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

7-9 Sep 2007 Communication and conflict: Propaganda, spin and lobbying in the global age. http://gs.strath.ac.uk/content/view/240/130/

11 Sep 2007 RAI conference on Medical Anthropology Today, London, School of Oriental and African Studies (see separate announcement in this issue of AT).

14 Sep 2007 Law, religion, culture: An interdisciplinary symposium, Lancaster University. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/lawandsociety/forthcomingevents.htm

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

26 Sep 2007, 5.00 pm RAI Annual General Meeting 2007. In the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. Followed by 2007 Curl Lecture Dr Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University): 'Nature versus culture, or how is human behaviour to be explained?'

 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). 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  JUNE 2008 18-21 Jun 2008 The oral, the written and other verbal media: Interfaces and audiences, Conference and festival, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. http://www.usask.ca/english/news/Orality%20CFP.pdf.

 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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