August 2010
EXHIBITIONS
The burial of Emperor Haile Selassie (to 21.11.10); 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.
Impressions of Africa (to 06.02.11); 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
Allotment life; Yemen and British Yemenis; Medicinal gardens; 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.
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
24-27 Aug 2010 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 11th Biennial Conference, Maynooth, Ireland. Theme: Crisis and imagination; www.easaonline.org.
29 Aug-1 Sep 2010 Ethnographic praxis in industry conference (EPIC). Tokyo, Japan. Theme: Do/the way of ethnography. www.epiconference.com
SEPTEMBER 2010
3-5 Sep 2010 Dying and death in 18th-21st-century Europe: Refiguring death rites in Europe, Alba Iulia, Romania, http://www.romaniandeathcremation.blogspot.com/
9-11 Sep 2010 7th Iberian Congress of African Studies. 50 years of African independences: Challenges to modernity Lisbon, Portugal, http://cea.iscte.pt/ciea7/en/index.html
10-11 Sept 2010 Museums and the market. Museums and Galleries History Group annual conference, Leeds City Museum, http://www.mghg.org/
10-12 Sep 2010 Tourism Contact Culture Research Network, Lisbon, Portugal. Theme: Tourism and seductions of difference. www.tourism-culture.com and www.cria.org.pt.
11-12 Sep 2010 Journeys of Expression VIII. Celebrating through times of crisis: Prospects and potentials for tourism, festivals and cultural events. Copenhagen
11-13 Sep 2010 4th Global Conference: Fear, horror and terror, Oxford, United Kingdom, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/
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 ; http://www.adivasiacademy.org.in/announcements.html
14-16 Sep 2010 2nd Global Conference: Villains and villainy. Oriel College, Oxford; http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/villains-and-villainy/ca
15 Sep 2010 ‘The child’ and ‘childhood’ in theory and policy: a transdisciplinary conference. Leeds, UK. www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/research/events/the-child-and-childhood-in-theory-and-policy.php.
16-19 Sep 2010 African Studies Association of the UK Biennial Conference 2010. St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, www.asauk.net
19-22 Sep 2010 8th Global Conference: Monsters and the monstrous. Oriel College, Oxford. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-monstrous/
20-21 Sep 2010 The metamorphosis of the concept of humanitas in migrating Europe. Rome. http://www.uibk.ac.at/italienzentrum/italiana/convegnoroma.html
20-22 Sep 2010 2nd Global Conference: Strangers, aliens and foreigners, Oriel College, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/
23 Sep 2010, 4.00 pm RAI Annual General Meeting, Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum. Followed at approx. 5:45 pm by the 2010 Myers Lecture by Professor Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge University): ‘Humanity between gods and beasts? Ontologies in question’ (details tba)..
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 Ms Martina van den Haak at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
30 Sep-1 Oct 2010 Anthropology of Children Working Group, International Conference, VU University Amsterdam. Theme: The doors of perception: Viewing anthropology through the eyes of children. www.anthropologyofchildren.net.
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 ), Ferhat Kaya ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). http://www.iuaes2010.org/
13-16 Oct 2010 American Folklore Society (AFS), Nashville, TN. Theme: Lay and expert knowledge. www.afsnet.org.
28-29 Oct 2010 Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS), Groningen University, Netherlands. Theme: Africa for sale: Analysing and theorizing foreign land claims and acquisitions. www.afrikastudies.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
11-13 Nov 2010 Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC), Luxembourg. Theme: Development, poverty and global crises: Reinforcing governance. www.risc.lu.
11-14 Nov 2010 Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, CA. Theme: Sound Ecologies. www.ethnomusicology.org.
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
APRIL 2011
28 Apr-1 May 2011 International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA), Regensburg, Germany. Theme: Southeast European (post) modernities. http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/inasea/conference6.html.
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
JUNE 2011
24-26 Jun 2011 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film. University College London.
SEPTEMBER 2011
t.b.a. ASA 2011, University of Wales Lampeter.
NOVEMBER 2011
16-20 Nov 2011 AAA 110th annual meeting. Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, PQ, Canada
NOVEMBER 2012
14-18 Nov 2012 AAA 111th annual meeting. San Francisco Hilton and Towers, San Francisco, CA
NOVEMBER 2013
20-24 Nov 2013 AAA 112th Annual Meeting. Chicago Hilton, Chicago, IL.
DECEMBER 2014
3-7 Dec 2014 AAA 113th Annual Meeting. Marriott Wardman Park & Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC.
