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ISSUE: vol. 23, no.6 December 2007(for past issues see here)

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EXHIBITIONS

Treasured textiles – Cloth and clothing around the world (to 13.01.08); Studio Cameroon: The everyday photography of Jacques Touselle (to 28.06.08); Behind the façade (from December 2007). 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); 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); Every third mouthful (to 11.05.08); Wrapping Japan (to 27.04.08); 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.

NOVEMBER 2007

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, 10.00 am-5.00 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 Oriental and African 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 1.00-6.00 pm Extreme collecting: Intellectual foundations to ‘difficult’ objects. Research workshop 1 organized by University College London and the British Museum Centre for Anthropology. British Museum: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/extreme-collecting. AHRC.

JANUARY 2008

23 Jan 2008, 4.00-6.00 pm. Mary Douglas and Henri Frankfort: Re-orientations, the present in the past. Lecture by Bruce Kapferer. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible. Room 218 Foster Court, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

31 Jan 2008, 1.00-6.00 pm Ethnography of the ordinary. Research workshop 1 organized by University College London and the British Museum Centre for Anthropology. British Museum: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/extreme-collecting. AHRC.

FEBRUARY 2008

6 Feb 2008, 4.00-6.00 pm. Circumcision and Circumstance: Male genital mutilation in ancient Ugarit and Israel. Lecture by Nicolas Wyatt. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible. Room 218 Foster Court, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

17-18 Feb 2008 Adoption, captivity and slavery: Changing meanings in early colonial America. Interdisciplinary conference at the British Museum, London, UK. Contact: mcarocci@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk & spratt@plymouth.ac.uk.

20 Feb 2008, 4.00-6.00 pm. Anthropologists and the Bible since the Victorians. Lecture by Adam Kuper. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible. Room 218 Foster Court, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

28 Feb 2008, 1.00-6.00 pm Scale, size and the ephemeral. Research workshop 3 organized 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

5 Mar 2008, 4.00-6.00 pm. A structuralist analysis of competitive models of sacred space in the biblical texts. Lecture by Seth Kunin. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible. Room 218 Foster Court, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

19 Mar 2008, 4.00-6.00 pm. Biblical elements in Russian magic. Lecture by William Ryan. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible. Room 218 Foster Court, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

31 Mar 2008 1.00-6.00 pm Collecting and source communities. Research workshop 4 organized 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

7 May 2008, 4.00-6.00 pm. Post-structuralism and the Bible in the Philippines – high theory or critical amnesia? Lecture by Paul-Francois Tremlett. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible. Room 218 Foster Court, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

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

21 May 2008, 4.00-6.00 pm. Folk Bible: The hypertext. Lecture by Florentina Badalanova Geller. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible. Room 218 Foster Court, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

JUNE 2008

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

17-21 Jun 2008 Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) Fifth Sesquiannual Conference, Oxford and Paris. http://salsa-tipiti.org/Conferences/SALSA_2008_CallForPapers.html

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. See 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

OCTOBER 2008

20 Oct 2008, 4.00-6.00 pm 4th Eric Wolf-Lecture. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo. ‘Rebuilding the ship at sea: An anthropologist’s attempt to make sense of contemporary world history’. Dept of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Social Anthropology Research Unit, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), University of Vienna, Kleiner Festsaal, Reichsratsstrasse 17.

21 Oct 2008, 6.00 pm Seminar by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. IFK, Reichsratsstrasse 17, 6th floor, International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), University of Vienna, Kleiner Festsaal, Reichsratsstrasse 17.

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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