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ISSUE: vol. 23, no.5 October 2007(for past issues see here)

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EXHIBITIONS

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

The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army (to 06.04.08); Fair, narrative and dsire (until 11.11.07); Inhuman traffic: The business of the slave trade; Atlantic trade and identity (to 06.04.08); 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

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.

OCTOBER 2007

4-7 Oct 2007 Film South Asia 07, Kathmandu, Nepal, http://www.himalassociation.org/fsa/index.htm

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.

4-11 Oct 2007 Yagamata International Documentary film Festival (YIDFF), Yagamata City, Japan, http://www.yidff.jp

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

11 Oct 2007, 5.30-6.30pm What makes humans so different? Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Annual Lecture by Professor Robin Dunbar. Followed by drinks reception. Free admission. The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH. http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2007/lectures/bps.html

17 Oct 2007, 5.30pm - 6.30pm From shells and gold to plastic and silicon: a theory of the evolution of money, in the spirit of Keynes. By John Moore. Drinks reception. The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

17-21 Oct 2007 Regards Comparés devoted to the ‘Musics in Places of Islam’ in collaboration with Musée de l’Homme, CNRS, Jean Rouch Screening room, Paris, France, http://www.comite-film-ethno.net

30 Oct 2007, 3.00pm The German Jewish Consul and the Samurai. The 2007 Bill Epstein Memorial Lecture by Peter Fraenkel, BBC World Service Controller for Eastern European Services (retired). The German Jewish Study Centre, University of Sussex. Venue: Room 21, IDS, University of Sussex. Admission free. Refreshments provided.

NOVEMBER 2007

3 Nov 2007, 10.00-17.00. Imagining Bali through Film. Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute and the University of London Screen Studies Group.

8-11 Nov 2007 Revisiting the political: Anthropological and historical research on Greek society. International Invited Symposium Commemorating 20th anniversary of founding of Greece’s first department of Anthropology in 1987. University of the Aegean, Department of Social Anthropology and History, Mytilene, Lesbos. Contact: Katerina Rozakou, k.rozakou@sa.aegean.gr, http://www.aegean.gr/social-anthropology/default_en.htm.

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

9-10 Nov 2007 Image as embodiment: Cross-disciplinary perspectives, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia. http://www.sru.uea.ac.uk/embodiment-workshop-nov07.php

21 Nov 2007, 1pm The Polish Institute of Anthropology: Inaugural Warsaw Lecture 'Transforming the mind, transforming the nation: Meditation and politics in Burma' to be delivered by Dr Gustaaf Houtman of the Royal
Anthropological Institute. Venue: Warsaw, Pałac Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich, Sala Balowa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 32

21-23 Nov 2007 Teaching in public – The future of higher education? C-SAP conference at The Marriott Hotel, Cardiff, http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events/conference_07/

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. Theme: Difference, (in)equality & justice. http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

30 Nov-1 Dec 2007 Basel. Annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Anthropology, http://www.seg-sse.ch/de/activites/colloques.shtml

DECEMBER 2007

1 Dec 2007, 10 am - 5 pm China Day: New documentary films about family and community life. Two sessions with two films screened in each (£5 per session £3 concessions) Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, The British Museum. In collaboration with RAI.

8 Dec 2007 9.30 am - 6.00 pm Frank Speed and the filming of Nigerian cultures. Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of African and Oriental Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1

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.

14 Dec 2007 1-6 pm Extreme collecting: Intellectual foundations to ‘difficult’ objects, Research workshop 2 organised by University College London and the British Museum - Centre for Anthropology. British Museum, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/extreme-collecting. AHRC.

JANUARY 2008

31 Jan 2008, 1-6pm Ethnography of the ordinary. Research workshop 2 organised by University College London and the British Museum - Centre for Anthropology. British Museum, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/extreme-collecting. AHRC.

FEBRUARY 2008

28 Feb 2008, 1-6pm Scale, size and the ephemeral, Research workshop 3 organised by University College London and the British Museum - Centre for Anthropology. British Museum, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/extreme-collecting. AHRC.

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

MARCH 2008

31 Mar 2007 1-6 pm Collecting and Source Communities, Research workshop 4 organised by University College London and the British Museum - Centre for Anthropology. British Museum, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/extreme-collecting. AHRC

APRIL 2008

10-11 Apr 2008 Museum Ethnography at home. Museum Ethnographers’ Group Annual UK Conference 2008, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. http://www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk.

16-19 Apr 2008 Twenty years or more: Research into minority religions, new religious movements and ‘the new spirituality’. International conference organized 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

9-11 May 2008 22nd Pakistan workshop, Rook How in the Lake District. Theme: Spaces of dialogue.https://anthropology.dur.ac.uk/anthrowiki/workshop2008/Home.html

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 Jul 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

3-8 Aug 2008 International Primatological Society XXII Congress, EICC, Edinburgh, UK. http://www.ips2008.co.uk for details.

26-30 Aug 2008 Experiencing diversity and mutuality. 10th EASA conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://www.easa2008.eu/en/informacija.asp?id_meta_type=13

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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