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ISSUE: vol. 23, no.4 August 2007(for past issues see here)

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EXHIBITIONS

RACE: An online and travelling exhibition on race for different audiences (children, researchers), http://www.understandingrace.org/. A project by the American Anthropological Association funded by the Ford Foundation and National Science Foundation.

The Kitty Lake Collection 1904-2001 (to 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

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

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/

10 Sep 2007 Belonging: Citizenship, difference and inequality. Symposium at the Department of Sociology, Newcastle University. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/Sociology/Index.html; Belonging@ncl.ac.uk

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

13-14 Sep 2007 The legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology. University of Manchester, England. http://web.mac.com/theorists/iWeb/Social%20Theorists/welcome.html

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

16-18 Sep 2007 Travelling spirits: Migrants, markets and moralities. Humboldt University, Berlin, Department of European Ethnology. http://www2.hu-berlin.de/ethno/pdf/Conference_Travelling_Spirits.pdf

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 at 6.00 pm by 2007 Curl Lecture by Dr Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University): ‘Nature versus culture, or how is human behaviour to be explained?’

OCTOBER 2007

4-7 Oct 2007 Sustainability and the impact of aid on indigenous people. XV International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://www.societyforhumanecology.org/SHEXV.html.

5-7 Oct 2007 Divination and dialogue. University of Kent, http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/Div_conf/

NOVEMBER 2007

8-10 Nov 2007 Joint Meeting: 20th Fachkonferenz Ethnomedizin (AGEM) and 6th European Colloquium on Ethnopharmacology (ESE): New trends in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. Leipzig, Museum für Völkerkunde (Grassi-Museum). http://www.agem-ethnomedizin.de

22-23 Nov 2007 Benefits and risks of social capital for the Third Sector. Bocconi University, Milan http://www.unibocconi.it/sportandsocialcapital

28 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

14 Dec 2007, 6.00 pm Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor Adam Kuper of Brunel University on ‘Changing the subject’. Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London WC1.

FEBRUARY 2008

29 Feb-2 Mar 2008 Singing Europe: Spectacle and politics in the Eurovision Song Contest. Pireos Str. Annex of the Benaki Museum. Athens, Greece. http://extras.ha.uth.gr/eurovision/en/index.asp

APRIL 2008

16-19 Apr 2008 Twenty years or more: Research into minority religions, new religious movements and ‘the new spirituality. International conference organised by INFORM and CESNUR at the London School of Economics; http://www.gladet.org.mx/GladetIngles.html

17-20 Apr 2008 Guadalajara First International Congress: Psychiatry, nature and culture – from singular to universal. http://www.gladet.org.mx/GladetIngles.html

MAY 2008

8-11 May 2008 MAAH 2008 – 5th conference on medical anthropology at home. Aarhuus University Centre, http://www.sandbjerg.dk/en/index.php

JUNE 2008

12-15 Jun 2008 Magic: Frontier and boundaries. University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. http://brindedcow.umd.edu/socmag/

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/

AUGUST 2008

26-20 Aug 2008 Experiencing diversity and mutuality. 10th EASA conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, http://www.easaonline.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 108th AAA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia , PA; http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

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