MEETINGS

Meeting Calendar

July 2008

 

July 4–5 ORAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Annual Meeting, University of Birmingham. Theme: “Who Cared? Oral History, Caring, Health and Illness: Marking 60 Years of the National Health Service.” Contact: Belinda Waterman, Dept of History, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ; belinda@essex.ac.uk.

 

July 15–23 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES (IUAES), Kunming, China. Theme: “Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity.” For information, see www.icaes2008.org/defaultDo.jsp.

 

August 2008

 

Aug 3–8 INTERNATIONAL PRIMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Edinburgh, UK. For information, see www.ips2008.co.uk.

 

Aug 22–26 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (ICPA), Delft, Netherlands. Theme: “Human Diversity: Design for Life.” For registration and more information, go to www.ide.tudelft.nl/icpa2008.

 

Aug 26–30 EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS, 10th Biennial conference, Ljublijana, Slovenia. Theme: “Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality.” For information, see www.easa2008.eu/en/informacija.asp?id_meta_type=13.

 

Aug 26–30 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS, San Francisco, CA. For information, see www.archivists.org/conference.

 

Aug 28–30 GYPSY LORE SOCIETY CONFERENCE ON GYPSY STUDIES, Annual Meeting, Georgetown University Conference Hotel, Washington DC. Contact: Matt T Salo at mtsalo1@gmail.com. For information, see www.gypsyloresociety.org/conf08.html.

 

September 2008

 

Sept 19–21 THE SACRED AND THE SECULAR, School of Humanities (English), University of Southampton, UK. Deadline: June 23. For information, see www.soton.ac.uk/english/news/sacredandsecular.html.

 

Sept 19–22 THE SOCIAL CAPITAL FOUNDATION, Buggiba, Malta. Theme: “Perspectives on Social Capital and Social Inclusion.” For information, see www.socialcapital-foundation.org/TSCF/TSCF%20conferences.htm.

 

Sept 22 INDIGENOUS VOICE IN FILM, Kalamazoo, MI. Contact: Susan Sleeper-Smith at cicaisc@msu.edu.

 

Sept 21–27 OPEN RUSSIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM FESTIVAL, Salekhard, Russia. For information, see http://rfaf.ru/eng.

 

Sept 24–25 CENTRE FOR TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE, University of Nottingham, UK. For information, see www.tourism-culture.com.

 

October 2008

 

Oct 2–4 CALIFORNIA INDIAN CONFERENCE (CIC), University of California, Riverside, Main Campus (Oct 2) and Palm Desert Campus (Oct 3–4), CA. Contact: Cliff Trafzer at cetrafzer@aol.com. For information, see http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/cic/.

 

Oct 2–4 EXPLORING DOMESTIC SPACES IN THE CIRCUMPOLAR NORTH, Tromsø Museum, Norway. For information, see www.sami.uit.no.

 

Oct 2–4 MOGOLLON ARCHAEOLOGY, 15th Biennial Conference, Western New Mexico University Museum, Silver City, NM. Contact: Cynthia Ann Bettison at bettisonc@wnmu.edu.

               

Oct 15–18 ETHNOGRAPHIC PRAXIS IN INDUSTRY CONFERENCE (EPIC), Copenhagen, Denmark. For information, see www.epic2008.com.

 

Oct 16–19 EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE MUSIC RESEARCH (CHIME), Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Theme: “Music and Ritual in China and East Asia.” For information, see http://home.wxs.nl/~chime.

 

Oct 17–19 NORTHEAST WORKSHOP ON SOUTHERN AFRICA, Burlington, VT. For information, see https://segue.southwestern.edu/sites/greenmue.

 

Oct 22–26 AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY, Louisville, KY.  Theme: “The Commons and the Commonwealth.” For information, see www.afsnet.org/annualmeet/index.cfm.

 

Oct 24–26 ALGONQUIAN CONFERENCE, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN. Deadline: Sept 3. Contact: John D Nichols at jdn@umn.edu. For information, see http://amin.umn.edu/algonquian/index.html.

 

Oct 25–28 SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY, Middletown, CT. Theme: ”Ethnomusicology Beyond Disciplines.” For information, see www.ethnomusicology.org.

 

November 2008

 

Nov 12–16 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ETHNOHISTORY (ASE), Eugene, Oregon. Theme: “Coalitions, Collaborations, Conflicts.” For information and submission forms see www.ethnohistory.org.

 

Nov 13–15 GEORGIA POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, Savannah, GA. Theme: “The Politics of Change.” For information, see www.gpsanet.org.

 

Nov 16–19 INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF MUSEUMS OF ETHNOGRAPHY (ICME), Jerusalem, Israel. For information, see http://museumsnett.no/icme/icme2008/index.html.

 

Nov 22–25 MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION, Washington DC. Theme: “Transitional Justice in the Middle East.” For information, see www.mesa.arizona.edu/annual/call.htm.

 

December 2008

 

Dec 8–12 ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS OF THE UK AND COMMONWEALTH, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Theme: “Ownership and Appropriation.” For information, see www.theasa.org/asa08/index2.html.

 

Dec 12–15 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS, 11th Annual Conference, Oxford, UK. Theme: “Interrogating Tradition.” For information, see http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/research/iaste/2008conference.htm.

 

February 2009

 

Feb 26–Mar 1 NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (NeMLA), 40th Anniversary Convention, Boston, MA. For information, see www.nemla.org.

 

March 2009

 

Mar 17–21 SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY, 69th Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM. Theme: “Global Challenge, Local Action: Ethical Engagement, Partnerships, and Practice.” For information, see www.sfaa.net/sfaa2009.html.

 

April 2009

 

Apr 22–26 SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY, 74th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. For information, see www.saa.org/meetings/.

 

May 2009

 

May 7–9 THE MEASURE OF A REVOLUTION: Cuba, 1959-2009. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Deadline: Sept 1. For information, see www.queensu.ca/sociology/?q=node/138.

 

June 2009

 

June 29 SOCIETY FOR ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN RELIGION, Rome, Italy. Theme: “What’s Religious about Ancient Mediterranean Religions?” Contact: Barbette Spaeth at bsspae@wm.edu