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ISSUE: vol. 24, no.2 April 2008
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EXHIBITIONS

Treasured textiles - cloth and clothing in the world (to 08.06.08); Studio Cameroon: The everyday photography of Jacques Touselle (to 29.06.08). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP; tel. +44 (0)1865 270927; http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk

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’: Chatwin Martin (on our dependence on bees, 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

Cloth and culture now (to 01.06.08). Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK, 24hr Gallery Information 01603 593199; http://www.scva.org.uk

Pacific Encounters: Art and divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 (16.06.2008-14.09.08), first shown at Sainsbury Centre fo Visual Ars, will show at Musée du Quai Branly, Paris.

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.

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

25-26 Apr 2008 Subversion, conversion, development: Public interests in information communication technologies. Cambridge University, http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/technologies.html, lw243@cam.ac.uk

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

19 May 2008 New directions in the anthropology of education. University of Sussex, Department of Anthropology. gl26@sussex.ac.uk and kan21@sussex.ac.uk.

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 and Center for World Cultures Zuiderpershuis, Antwerp. info@beeldvoorbeeld.nl; http://www.beeldvoorbeeld.nl

11-13 Jun 2008 Conversion in global pentecostalism: A lifelong ‘live’ experience. VU University in Amsterdam will debate its research findings with international scientists including Lewis Rambo, Simon Coleman and Matthew Engelke.

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/

17-18 Jun 2008 Symposium convened by the Sainsbury Research Unit and the Département de la recherche et de l’enseignement at the Musée du Quai Branly to coincide the exhibition, Polynésie: Arts et divinités 1760-1860 at the Musée. See: http://www.sru.uea.ac.uk

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

19-20 Jun 2008 After ethnography? Anthropology, education and the ‘knowledge economy’. Department of Education, University of Oxford david.mills@education.ox.ac.uk, http://www.education.ox.ac.uk

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

JULY 2008

10 Jul 2008 London Anthropology Day at the British Museum. Annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. Info and booking at http://www.londonanthropologyday.co.uk Enquiries: Nafisa Fera, RAI Education Officer, education@therai.org.uk, 0207 387 0455.

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

15-18 Sep The boundaries of classification: Definitions, processes and adaptability. Conference organized by COST Action 31, ‘Stability and adaptation of classification systems in cross-cultural perspective’. University of Kent, Canterbury. See: http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/class2008, or contact Christine Eagle, cme@kent.ac.uk.

25 Sep 2008 RAI AGM, at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London WC1. Followed by the 2008 Henry Myers Lecture by Professor Bruno Latour (title and timetable tba).

21-27 Sep 2008 6th Open Russian Anthropological Film Festival, Salekhard, Russia. E-mail: info@rfaf.ru, salekhard2008@mail.ru, 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/

3-4 Oct 2008 Legal knowledge and anthropological engagement: A conference in honour of Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge, http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/legalknowledge.html

15-18 Oct 2008 NAPA/AAA’s Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) 2008. The EPIC theme for 2008 is Being seen: Paradoxes and practices of (in)visibility. Copenhagen, Denmark, http://www.epic2008.com/

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

JULY 2009

9th July 2009: London Anthropology Day at the British Museum. Annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. Info and booking at http://www.londonanthropologyday.co.uk Enquiries: Nafisa Fera, RAI Education Officer, education@therai.org.uk, 0207 387 0455

DECEMBER 2009

2-6 Dec 2009 108th AAA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA; http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

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