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October 2009

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Issue vol. 25, no.5

EXHIBITIONS

Across the Caucasus (to 06.09.09), Photographs of Central Asia – Carolyn Drake (to 15.11.09); Objects in performance – Gérard Mermoz (to 11.01.2010). 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); Garden and cosmos (to 11.10.09), Room 35 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); 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.

OCTOBER 2009

1-4 Oct 2009 Italian Anthropological Association (IAA), Florence, Italy. Human evolution and biodiversity: Natural history of humans 200 years after Darwin. http://www.unifi.it/aai2009.

3 Oct 2009, 2-5 pm. Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory: The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no place for love. Manchester. http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/socialanthropology/research/gdat/

4-7 Oct 2009 Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA), Johannesburg, South Africa. Theme: Urban worlds. http://asnahome.org.

18 Oct 2009 The Kristallnacht as symbolic turning point for Nazi rule. Bill Epstein Memorial Lecture by Prof. Emanuel Marx at Ajex Hall, Palmeira Avenue, Hove. Contact: Dr. T. Scarlett Epstein, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ..

19-20 Oct 2009 Researching coastal and resort destination management: Cultures and histories of tourism. Girona, Catalonia, Spain, http://www.udg.edu

19-21 Oct 2009 Museums for reconciliation and peace: Roles of ethnographic museums in the world. Seoul, Korea. International Committee for Museums Ethnography (ICME); museumsnett.no/icme/icme2009/index.html

21-25 Oct 2009 Examining the ethics of place. American Folklore Society (AFS). Boise, ID. http://www.afsnet.org/annualmeet.

23 Oct 2009 Bektashism between religious movement and established religion. International symposium at European University of Tirana. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

28-31 Oct 2009 Canadian Association For Physical Anthropology (CAPA), 37th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. http://www.sfu.ca.

29-30 Oct 2009 Experimenting the visual in art and anthropology: The ethics of research and collaborations. Seminar at Skiboli, Gløshaugen, NTNU Trondheim (Norway); http://www.ntnu.no/ab/visualanthropology. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

NOVEMBER 2009

2 Nov 2009, 5.45 pm The Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor Ian Hodder of Stanford University: ‘Human-thing entanglement: Towards an integrated archaeological perspective’. Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London WC1.

2 Nov 2009, 3-5 pm Shopping for organs: The impact of the global trade in human organs. House of Commons, Westminster, with Nancy Scheper-Hughes. RSVP: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , http://www.bioethics.ac.uk, tel 020 72274706.

14-20 Nov 2009 International Jean Rouch Symposium. A knowledge beyond text: Looking at each other, sharing interrogations. Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France; http://www.comite-film-ethno.net.

15-18 Nov 2009 Behavior, energy and climate change conference, Washington, DC. http://www.BECCconference.org.

19-21 November 2009 Borderless ethnomusicologies. Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Mexico City, Mexico. http://www.indiana.edu/~semhome/2009.

26-27 Nov 2009 Cultures et sociétés en Europe, University of Strasbourg. Theme: The construction of forgetting; http://umr7043.u-strasbg.fr/accueil.htm.

27-28 Nov 2009 Women and circus: An interdisciplinary conference, Zagreb, Croatia. http://www.cirkus.hr/

DECEMBER 2009

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

7-11 Dec 2009 The publics of public health: On politics, ethos, and economy of 21st century. African Bioscience, Kilifi, Kenya. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

JANUARY 2010

12-15 Jan 2010 Urban health in sub-Saharan Africa, Point Sud, Bamako (Mali) . Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

14-16 Jan 2010 Distinguishing ‘religious’ from ‘economic’. Inter-disciplinary conference at the British Academy, London. Contact: Trevor Stack, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; religioussecular.ning.com

15-16 Jan 2010 The political life of documents: Archives, memory and contested knowledge. CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge. http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1039/

22-23 Jan 2010 Legal subjectivity: Popular community, justice and human rights in Latin America. Contact: Sandra Brunnegger, University of Cambridge; http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/950/.

FEBRUARY 2010

17-20 Feb 2010 Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci), Sixth Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. anthrosciences.org.

MARCH 2010

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

APRIL 2010

11-15 Apr 2010 New challenges for multilingualism in Europe. Host: Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb. Venue: Dubrovnik, Croatia. Contact: http://www.amiando.com/lineeconference.html<b>

13-15 Apr 2010</b> 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 ASA2010, Queen’s University, Belfast. Theme: The Interview – theory, practice, society, http://www.theasa.org.

26-30 Apr 2010 Heritage 2010: 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

25-30 May 2010 5th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure. Cappadocia, Turkey. http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/

JUNE 2010

3-4 Jun 2010 World heritage and tourism: Managing for the global and the local, Quebec 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 2011

t.b.a. ASA2011, University of Lampeter.

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