formally took up the RAIdirectorship on 1 September. Herself an anthropologist and a longstanding RAI Fellow, her previous post was Executive Director of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) in Amsterdam. The RAI Council and staff heartily welcome her to her post. She welcomes opinions and ideas from the Fellowship and, in particular, suggestions about how the RAI might improve its services to the fellowship and to anthropology as a whole. You are welcome to email her at , marked for her attention.

PRIZES

The deadline for submissions for the Curl Essay Prize has been extended to 31 January 2001 (see announcement).

FELLOWSHIPS

The RAI Fellowships in Urgent Anthropology will be hosted by the University of Durham for three years from 2001. Please see separate announcement for details of the next Fellowship award. The RAI records appreciation to Goldsmiths College for its highly successful hosting of the programme over the past three years.

CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN

The RAI will work in association with Brunel University in preparing an International Social Anthropology Conference on Children in their Places, to be held at Brunel on 21-23 June 2001. Further information will be posted in AT and on the RAI website. Brunel University is host to the Centre for Child-focused Anthropological Research, currently supported under a grant from the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.

MUSEUM OF MANKIND LIBRARY

The Library at Burlington Gardens will be closed on 27 December, open on 28 and 29 December, and will re-open after the New Year break on 2 January. Also, the Reading Room will be closed for one day on 9 January 2001.

RAI OFFICES

The RAI office at 50 Fitzroy Street will close on 21 December 2000 and reopen on 8 January 2001. We wish all readers a peaceful holiday season and a happy and prosperous New Year.

STAFF

Chris Wright, Photo Librarian, and Max Carocci, Senior Indexer at the Anthropological Index Online, are on fieldwork leave. Chris is replaced on a temporary basis by Arkadiusz Bentkowski (), while Pedro Oliveira joins the AIO team to strengthen its capacity in Latin languages during Max's absence.

NEW RAI WEBSITE ADDRESS

Our new website address is www.therai.org.uk.

RAI Special Events

Wednesday 29 November 2000, 6 p.m.
Professor Jan Assman on Funerary Rites in Ancient Egypt
Gustave Tuck Theatre, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1

Wednesday, 6 December 2000, 6 p.m.
Professor Pierre Bourdieu on Participant Objectivation: Breaching the Boundary between Anthropology and Sociology - how?
Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, University College London
Gower Street, London WC1

Enquiries to the : RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7387 0455