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World Congress of the IUAES, Huxley Lecture – Howard Morphy

August 8 @ 12:00 am

THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE

will be given by

Professor Howard Morphy, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University

Extended Lives in Global Spaces: the anthropology of Yolngu pre burial ceremonies

Thursday 8 August 2013

The 2013 RAI Huxley Lecture will be presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, which has the overall theme “Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds”. The congress will be hosted by the University of Manchester with the support of Manchester City Council. This is the first world congress to be held in Britain since the initial meeting of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in London in 1934. The congress will be held from the 5th to the 10th August 2012. 

For more information on the congress please see their website http://www.iuaes2013.org/.

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