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ISSUE: vol. 24, no.1 February 2008
(for past issues see here)

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EXHIBITIONS

Treasured textiles (to 8.06.08); Studio Cameroon: The everyday photography of Jacques Touselle (to 28.06.08); Behind the façade (to 24.02.08). 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); 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

 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.

 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.

22-23 Feb 2008 Narrative Conference 2008 – Australia: ‘Narrative inquiry: Breathing life into talk, text and the visual’, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. http://edserver1.uow.edu.au/NI_conference/

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.

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

4-9 Mar 2008 Dialektus 2008 – European Documentary and Anthropological Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary. info@dialektusfesztival.hu; http://www.dialektusfestival.hu/2008/nevezes?lang=en

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.

7-8 March 2008 2nd Annual Anthropology Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Theme: New trends in anthropological film, with a focus on collaborative production. http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca.

7-14 March 2008 ESRC Festival of Social Science, UK

RAI Discover Anthropology outreach programme: 7 Mar 2008, 6.30-9.00 pm: Street fictions and realities: Childhood experiences on film: The Foundling Museum, London; http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk; 10-12 Mar 2008, 6.30 pm: Anthropology of boarding schools: Childhood experiences on film: at the RAI; http://www.therai.org.uk / http://www.esrcsocietytaday.ac.uk

7-16 Mar 2008 Cinéma du réel. International Documentary Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. http://www.cinereel.org/index.php?lang=en

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.

 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.

11-12 Apr 2008 Travel and trauma: Suffering and the journey. St John’s College, Oxford. Contact: Carl.Thompson@ntu.ac.uk

15-24 Mar 2008 27th Jean Rouch International Film Festival. Film Panorama Bilan du film, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France; cfe@mnhn.fr / http://www.comite-film-ethno.net

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

30 Apr- 4 May 2008 9th Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, Göttingen, Germany. event@iwf.de; http://www.iwf.de/gieff/

 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 Howe, 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.

29 May-1 Jun 2008 Breaking the Barriers. NAFA International Documentary Film Festival and Conference. Isafjördur, Iceland; valdimar@fvi.is / Nordic Anthropological Film Association: nafanet@hum.au.dk/

 JUNE 2008

4-8 Jun 2008 Beeld voor Beeld, Festival of Visual Anthropology, the Netherlands; Tropentheater Amsterdam & Center for World Cultures Zuiderpershuis Antwerp. info@beeldvoorbeeld.nl; http://www.beeldvoorbeeld.nl

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

13-16 Jun 2008 Visual Representations of Iran – conference, film season, photographic exhibition, at the University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. http://www.anthropology-iran.org/forumsource/conference/default.aspx, http://www.iranheritage.org/visual-anthropology/

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, Canada. http://www.usask.ca/english/news/Orality%20CFP.pdf

21-27 Jun 2008 2008 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University, Hamilton NY: http://www.flahertyseminar.org/rffs_upcoming%2008.htm

 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 22nd 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

28-30 Aug 2008 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Gypsy Studies, Georgetown University Conference Hotel, Washington DC. Contact: Matt T. Salo, mtsalo@verizon.net.

 SEPTEMBER 2008

Sept 2008 6th Open Russian Anthropological Film Festival, Salekhard, Russia. E-mail: info@rfaf.ru, salekhard2008@mail.ru

Web: http://rfaf.ru/eng

 OCTOBER 2008

2-8 Oct 2008 Moscow International Visual Anthropology Film Festival, Moscow, Russia: mifva4@gmail.com / http://visant.etnos.ru/ , http://community.livejournal.com/visanthro_rus/

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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