June 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; http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk.
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); http://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; 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.
JUNE 2010
3-4 Jun 2010 World heritage and tourism: Managing for the global and the local. Québec City, Canada. http://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 ).
25 Jun 2010 Understanding change in institutions, culture and thought style: Emerging research agendas. One-day seminar for researchers exploring and applying the theoretical legacy developed by the late Professor Dame Mary Douglas. Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY. Contact: Perri 6, Graduate School, College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham NG1 4BU, Tel 0115 848 8117, 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. 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.
8 Jul 2010 International Sociological Association (ISA), 17th World Congress. Gothenburg, Sweden. Theme: Cross-cultural bioethics. http://www.isa-sociology.org
11-17 Jul 2010 London Anthropology Day. British Museum Education Clore Centre; http://www.londonanthropologyday.co.uk/.
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; http://www.isee2010.org
24-27 Aug 2010 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 11th Biennial Conference, Maynooth, Ireland. Theme: Crisis and imagination; http://www.easaonline.org.
29 Aug - 1 Sep 2010 Ethnographic praxis in industry conference (EPIC). Japan, Tokyo. Theme: Do/the way of ethnography; http://www.epiconference.com
SEPTEMBER 2010
10-12 Sep 2010 Tourism Contact Culture Research Network, Lisbon, Portugal. Theme: Tourism and seductions of difference. http://www.tourism-culture.com and http://www.cria.org.pt.
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 .
15 Sep 2010 ‘The child’ and ‘childhood’ in theory and policy: a transdisciplinary conference. Leeds, UK. http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/research/events/the-child-and-childhood-in-theory-and-policy.php.
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’ (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. http://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. http://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. http://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<b>
11-13 Nov 2010</b> Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC), Luxembourg. Theme: Development, poverty and global crises: Reinforcing governance. http://www.risc.lu.
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.<b>
17-21 Nov 2010 AAA 109th Annual Meeting</b>, 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
t.b.a. 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film. University College London (details tba).
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.
