February 2010
EXHIBITIONS
Carolyn Drake: Photographs in Central Asia (to 28.02.10). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP; tel. +44 (0)1865 270927; http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk.
Moctezuma: Aztec ruler; Enlightenment (to 24.01.10); Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa (from 04.03.10 to 06.06.10); Journey through the afterlife: The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (04.11.10 to 06.03.11); Living and dying; The Sainsbury African Gallery (permanent); The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, tel. +44 (0)20 7323 8299 (information desk); http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/index.html
Fabric of a nation (from 28.11.09); China Now (from 24.05.10); 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.
Assembling bodies: Art, science and imagination (to Nov 2010). Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ. Tel. +44 (0)1223 333516; http://maa.cam.ac.uk.
MARCH 2010
12-14 Mar 2010 5th Global Conference: Cybercultures: Exploring critical issues. Salzburg, Austria..http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/cybercultures/call-for-papers/
15-17 Mar 2010 1st Global Conference: Magic and the supernatural, Salzburg, Austria. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/magic-and-the-supernatural/call-for-papers/
15-18 Mar 2010 11th Global Conference: Perspectives on evil and human wickedness, Salzburg, Austria. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/perspectives-on-evil/call-for-papers/
18 Mar 2010 Ancient and modern: Exhibiting the past in the present. One-day symposium with Professor Nelson Graburn at the Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; http://www.sru.uea.ac.uk/
24-27 Mar 2010 Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), 70th Annual Meeting, Mérida, Yucatan, México. Theme: Vulnerabilities and exclusion in globalization. http://www.sfaa.net.
27 Mar-5 Apr 2010 Jean Rouch International film festival. Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; http://www.comite-film-ethno.net
29-30 Mar 2010 Innovative methods in the study of religion. Dexter House Conference Centre, Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London EC3N 4QN. http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/news-and-events/public-events
APRIL 2010
3-5 Apr 2010 Initiative for climate adaptation research and understanding through the social sciences (ICARUS), Ann Arbor, MI. Theme: ‘Climate vulnerability and adaptation: Methods and cases’. http://www.icarus.info.
7-9 Apr 2010 Theory that matters: What practice after theory? Lodz, Poland. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=167951
11-15 Apr 2010 New challenges for multilingualism in Europe. Host: Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb. Venue: Dubrovník, Croatia. Contact: http://www.amiando.com/lineeconference.html
12-13 Apr 2010 ‘Making things’. Museum Ethnographers’ Group Annual UK Conference 2010, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; http://www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/
13-15 Apr 2010 In the image of Asia: Moving across and between locations. ANU, Canberra, Australia. rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2010/imageofasia/index.php
13-16 Apr 2010 ASA 2010, Queen’s University, Belfast. Theme: The interview: Theory, practice, society. http://www.theasa.org.
14-16 Apr 2010 Transforming culture in the digital age, Tartu, Estonia. http://transformingculture.eu
14-17 Apr 2010 EVOLANG: 8th International Conference on The evolution of language, Utrecht, Netherlands. http://evolang2010.nl.
16 April 2010 Anthropology and performance: A critical conversation. One-day conference at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester. Keynote speakers: Richard Schechner, Edith Turner. http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/drama/research/conferencesandfestivals<b>.
26-30 Apr 2010 Heritage 2010</b>: 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Contact: http://www.heritage2010.greenlines-institute.org, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
MAY 2010
4-10 May 2010 32nd International American Studies Congress, Perugia, Italy. http://www.amerindiano.org. Centro Studi Americanistici, Circolo Amerindiano.
5-8 May 2010 Society of Ethnobiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. Theme: ‘The meeting place: Integrating ethnobiological knowledge’. http://ethnobiology.org/conference.
7-8 May 2010 Anthropological Association of Ireland Annual Conference: Ethnography beyond ethnos? School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin; http://www.anthropologyireland.org
15 May 2010 Death Day. University of Winchester, Winchester, UK. A conference bringing together people wanting to explore and discuss approaches to death, dying and bereavement from a wide range of perspectives. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Facebook site: ‘Death at Winchester’.
25-30 May 2010 5th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure. Cappadocia, Turkey. http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/
27-28 May 2010 Censorship and discourse in English-speaking countries (16th-21st centuries), Rennes, France; http://www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/ace/Bienvenue.html
JUNE 2010
3-4 Jun 2010 World heritage and tourism: Managing for the global and the local, Québec City, Canada. http://www.tourism-culture.com
28 Jun-1 Jul 2010 Innovation and sustainable development in agriculture and food (ISDA-2010). Corum Convention Centre, Montpellier, France. Facing the crisis and growing uncertainties, can science and societies reinvent agricultural and food systems to achieve sustainability? http://www.isda2010.net
JULY 2010
1 Jul 2010 Liminal landscapes: Re-mapping the field. Liverpool John Moores University. http://www.tourismconsumption.org.
1-2 Jul 2010 Medical anthropology in Europe: Shaping the field. RAI/Institute of Anthropology, Oxford joint conference; http://www.therai.org.uk.
11-17 Jul 2010 International Sociological Association (ISA), 17th World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden. Theme: Cross-cultural bioethics. http://www.isa-sociology.org
AUGUST 2010
22-25 Aug 2010 International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) 11th Biennial Conference: Advancing sustainability in a time of crisis. Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany. http://www.isee2010.org
SEPTEMBER 2010
11-16 Sep 2010 Local knowledge, global translations: The imagination and the images of indigenous communities in the twenty-first century. Delhi and Shimla. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
23 Sep 2010 RAI Annual General Meeting, Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum. Followed by the 2010 Myers Lecture by Professor Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge University): ‘Humanity between gods and beasts? Ontologies in question’.
OCTOBER 2010
3-6 Oct 2010 IUAES Inter-Congress, Antalya, Turkey. Theme: From the crossroads of civilizations: Understanding cultural diversity to connect societies. Contact: Anna Heumann ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Ferhat Kaya ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). http://www.iuaes2010.org/
NOVEMBER 2010
17-19 Nov 2010 Contemporary ethnography across the disciplines. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, http://nzethnographyconference.com/site/ethnography_conference.
17-21 Nov 2010 AAA 109th Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
25 Nov 2010 Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor Johannes Fabian (University of Amsterdam), Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum (details tba).
SEPTEMBER 2011
t.b.a. ASA 2011, University of Lampeter.
