ISSUE: vol. 25, no.4
EXHIBITIONS
Across the Caucasus (to 06.09.09), Photographs of Central Asia – Carolyn Drake (to 15.11.09). Pitt Rivers Museum (open again!), University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP; tel. +44 (0)1865 270927; http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk.
India Landscape: Kew at the British Museum (to 27.09.09); The splendour of Isfahan: Coins from Iran (to 05.07.09); Enlightenment; Living and dying; The Sainsbury African Gallery (permanent); 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
China: Symbols in silk (to 06.09.09); Darwin at Down; 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); Gandhi’s children by David MacDougall (to 26.09.09). Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3DZ. Tel. +44 (0)1223 333516; http://maa.cam.ac.uk.
RACE: An online and travelling exhibition on race for different audiences (children, researchers); http://www.understandingrace.org. A project by the American Anthropological Association funded by the Ford Foundation and National Science Foundation.
The brain unravelled. http://www.thebrainunravelled.com
AUGUST 2009
8-13 Aug 2009 World Archaeological Congress/Intercongress, Ramallah, Occupied Territories. Theme: Overcoming structural violence. http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/site/ramallah.php.
30 Aug-2 Sep 2009 Ethnography in praxis (EPIC), Chicago. Theme: Taking care of business: Having an impact and staying relevant as ethnographers in today’s economic climate. http://www.epic2009.com/
SEPTEMBER 2009
1-4 Sep 2009 CRESC 5th Annual conference. Theme: Objects – what matters? Technology, value and social change. University of Manchester.
11-13 Sep 2009 Association of South-East Asian Studies UK (ASEASUK) 25th conference. http://www.aseasuk.swan.ac.uk; the call for papers is also available at http://aseasuk.org.uk/?page_id=27.
15-17 Sep 2009 International conference: Indigenous studies and engaged anthropology: Opening a dialogue. Grey College, Durham University. See: http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/events/. Contact: Serena Heckler ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Paul Sillitoe ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
17 Sep 2009, 4:30 pm RAI Annual General Meeting 2009, Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London WC1. Followed at approximately 5.30 by the 2009 Curl Lecture, by Dr Joost Fontein of Edinburgh University on ‘Graves, ruins and belonging in southern Zimbabwe: towards an anthropology of proximity’.
18 Sep 2009, 10am-4pm FiLo – Fieldwork in London Network workshop. The first Fieldwork in London Network workshop, held at Regents College, Institute of Contemporary European Studies (iCES), London. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; http://www.ebslondon.ac.uk/ICES/about_ices.aspx.
21-24 Sep 2009 Traditions and transformations in ethnobotany, 5th International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB). San Carlos de Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina. Contact: Dr. Ana H. Ladio, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
24-27 Sep 2009 Medical anthropology at the intersections: Celebrating 50 years of interdisciplinarity. Society for Medical Anthropology conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT; http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/smaconference
29 Sep-2 Oct 2009 VIII Reunión de Antropología del Mercosur (RAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Theme: Diversity and power in Latin America. http://www.ram2009.unsam.edu.ar
30 Sep-4 Oct American Society For Ethnohistory, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Theme: Bridging the gulf: Connecting the ethnohistories of the Americas. http://www.ethnohistory.org.
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.
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 ..
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 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.
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 and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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/.
24-27 Mar 2010 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Mérida, Yucatan, México. Theme: Vulnerabilities and exclusion in globalization; http://www.sfaa.net.
FEBRUARY 2010
17-20 Feb 2010 Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci), Sixth Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. http://anthrosciences.org.
MARCH 2010
24-27 Mar 2010 Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), 70th Annual Meeting, Mérida, México. Theme: Vulnerabilities and exclusion in globalization. http://www.sfaa.net.
JULY 2010
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.
