April 2010
EXHIBITIONS
Albania and the Balkans (01.02.10 to 04.07.2010); Wilfrid Thesiger in Africa (04.06.10 to 05.06.11). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP; tel. +44 (0)1865 270927; www.prm.ox.ac.uk.
Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa (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); www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/index.html
Myths and monsters; 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; 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.
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’. 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: www.amiando.com/lineeconference.html
12-13 Apr 2010 Museum Ethnographers’ Group Annual UK Conference. Theme: Making things. 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. 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. www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/drama/research/conferencesandfestivals.
26-30 Apr 2010 Heritage 2010: 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Contact: 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. 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. Theme: 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. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Facebook site: ‘Death at Winchester’.
19 May 2010, 5 pm Barbara E. Ward Commemorative Lecture by Dr Sondra Hausner Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford.
25-30 May 2010 5th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure. Cappadocia, Turkey. 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. www.tourism-culture.com
11-12 Jun 2010 Revisiting the Swat Pathan: Barth, the Frontier and Political Anthropology. SOAS, London. Contact Magnus Marsden ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or B. D. Hopkins ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
28 Jun-1 Jul 2010 Innovation and sustainable development in agriculture and food (ISDA-2010). Corum Convention Centre, Montpellier, France. www.isda2010.net
JULY 2010
1 Jul 2010 Liminal landscapes: Re-mapping the field. Liverpool John Moores University. www.tourismconsumption.org.
1-2 Jul 2010 Medical anthropology in Europe: Shaping the field. RAI/Institute of Anthropology, Oxford joint conference; www.therai.org.uk.
11-17 Jul 2010 International Sociological Association (ISA), 17th World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden. Theme: Cross-cultural bioethics. www.isa-sociology.org
26-29 Jul 2010 21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS), University of Bonn (Germany), http://www.ecmsas.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. 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’
30 Sep-2 Oct 2010 Conceptualising ‘friendship’, its meaning and practice in time and place. Leiden, the Netherlands. Contact: http://www.iias.nl/events/ or contact Ms. Martina van den Haak at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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
7-12 Nov 2010 International Committee for Museums of Ethnography (ICME) 22nd General Conference. Theme: Museums for social harmony. Shanghai, China, http://icom.museum/general-conference2010.html
10-11 Nov 2010 Islamic civilization – potentials and challenges. Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, http://ssh.umt.edu.pk/events/Islamic-Civilization.html
12-14 Nov 2010 11th International Joint World Cultural Tourism Conference, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, http://www.kasct.co.kr
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).
DECEMBER 2010
3-5 Dec 2010 International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication 10th Annual Conference. Theme: Travelling languages: Culture, communication and translation in a mobile world. Leeds. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/german/ialic_conference_2010.htm
MAY 2011
10-15 May 2011 Taking Malta out of the box: Island cultures, economies and identities. Malta. Island Dynamics http://www.islanddynamics.net/conference.html
SEPTEMBER 2011
t.b.a. ASA 2011, University of Wales at Lampeter.
