We try to avoid errors, but please check dates before making a special journey. Entries are best submitted with a current web address to which readers can refer for further details. AnthCal is online at
www.therai.org.uk/at/anthcal/.

EXHIBITIONS
Visiting with the Ancestors: The Blackfoot Shirts Project (to 01.09.2013); Andrea Stultiens: The Kaddu Wasswa Archive (to 08.09.2013). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP;
tel. +44 (0)1865 270927;
www.prm.ox.ac.uk.
Ice age art: Arrival of the modern mind (from 07.02.2013); Bubbles and bankruptcy: Financial crises in Britain since 1700 (to 05.05.2013); Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum (to 29.09.2013); Living and dying (permanent); Africa Gallery (permanent). British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG; tel. +44 (0)20 7323 8299 (information desk); www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/index.html.
Rainforest of the sea (to 15.09.2013); Amazon adventure (to 24.11.2014); 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.
Gifts and discoveries; Sapmi. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ;
tel +44 (0)1223 333516.

APRIL 2013
3 Apr 2013, 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: John Burton (World Land Trust). From the Atlantic Rainforest to the Chaco: can conservationists work with anthropologists, and with indigenous communities? http://johnburton.eventbrite.co.uk/
8 Apr 2013 Jan Hasselberg presents his book Beautiful Tufi, a colourful narrative about village life in Papua New Guinea. Free admission. RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT.
12-13 Apr 2013 RAI Undergraduate Conference. University of St Andrews. www.therai.org.uk
15-16 Apr 2013 Brave new worlds: Transforming museum ethnography through technology. Brighton, UK. www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk
17 Apr 2013 17.30-19.30 RAI Research Seminar: Sarah Elton on Ecological context for early human evolution in East Africa. http://sarahelton.eventbrite.co.uk/
24 Apr 2013 17.30-19.30 RAI Research Seminar: Jeremy MacClancy. Rider Haggard, RLS, Hardy, Kipling, and other movers of the late nineteenth-century anthropological avant-garde. http://jeremymacclancy.eventbrite.co.uk/
25 Apr 2013 Fusions: Masquerades and thought-style east of the Niger-Benue confluence, West Africa. Reviewer (Ferdinand de Jong) meets reviewed (Richard Fardon). Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum. 9:30 am.
25-26 Apr 2013 Cannibals: Cannibalism, consumption and culture. Two-day interdisciplinary conference, Manchester, UK,
www.hic-dragones.co.uk/#/call-for-papers/4566043865

MAY 2013
8 May 2013, 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: Simon Underdown. Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history” The role of Biological Anthropology in the 21st Century Academy. http://simonunderdown.eventbrite.co.uk/
9-11 May 2013 11th Global conference: Violence. Prague, Czech Republic. www.inter-disciplinary.net/
15 May 2013, 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: Roland Littlewood. The Seligman error: Mental illness and social anthropology. http://rolandlittlewood.eventbrite.co.uk/
16 May 2013 Archaeology and anthropology: Past, present and future. Reviewer (Fiona Coward)meets reviewed (David Shankland). Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum. 9:30 am.
22 May 2013, 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: Chris Fuller. Anthropology, sociology and the ethnography of British India, c.1870-1947. http://chrisfuller.eventbrite.co.uk/
23-24 May 2013 Politics, violence and the sacred: Exploring René Girard’s thought in Security and International Studies. University of Central Lancashire, UK. renegirard2013.wordpress.com/
24-25 May 2013 Mobile telephony in the developing world. University of Jyväskylä, Finland. mobiletelephony-developingworld.blogspot.fi/
27 May - 3 Jun 2013 Integration of archaeological and ethnographic research: 20th international scientific symposium, Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia. Theme: biosociality, sacred landscapes, and environmental archaeology. ethnography.omskreg.ru/page.php?id=1356
29 May 2013, 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: Jenny Bangham. Biology, genetics and blood groups at the Royal Anthropological Institute 1930-1956. http://jennybangham.eventbrite.co.uk/

JUNE 2013
6-9 June 2013 Fourth Asian conference on the social sciences. Osaka, Japan. acss.iafor.org
12 Jun 2013 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: James Carrier. Anthropology after the crisis. http://jamescarrier.eventbrite.co.uk/
13-16 June 2013 RAI international festival of ethnographic film, Edinburgh. National Museum of Scotland, in conjunction with anthropology departments of Scotland. www.raifilmfest.org.uk
19 Jun 2013 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: Rebecca Marsland. Fraternising With the Africans: Godfrey Wilson and ‘good company’ in 1930s Bunyakyusa. http://rebeccamarsland.eventbrite.co.uk/
30 Jun-4 Jul 2013 11th Sief International Congress, Tartu, Estonia. Theme ‘Circulation’ www.siefhome.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195

JULY 2013
4 Jul 2013 London anthropology day 2013. Annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. British Museum’s Clore Centre http://www.londonanthropologyday.co.uk/
14-16 Jul 2013 5th Global conference: Videogame cultures and the future of interactive entertainment. Mansfield College, Oxford. www.inter-disciplinary.net
15-16 Jul 2013 Infertility and sacred space: From antiquity to the early modern. http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2078/
18-20 Jul 2013 8th Global conference: Visions of humanity in cyberculture and science fiction. Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom. http://www.inter-disciplinary .net
19-21 Jul 2013 The future of ethnographic museums.
Pitt-Rivers, Oxford.
http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
20-21 Jul 2013 2nd Symposium: Food, memory & identity in Greece & in diaspora. Amari (Rethymnon / Crete). greekgastronomy.wordpress.com/
22-24 Jul 2013 3rd Global conference: Images of whiteness. Mansfield College, Oxford. www.inter-disciplinary.net
22-24 Jul 2013 2nd Global conference: Making sense of play.Mansfield College, Oxford. www.inter-disciplinary.net
30 Jul-1 Aug 2013 Eighth international conference on interdisciplinary social sciences. Prague, Czech Republic. thesocialsciences.com/the-conference

AUGUST 2013
5-10 Aug 2013 17th IUAES World Congress: Evolving humanity, emerging worlds. Held conjointly with the ASA 2013 conference. Huxley Memorial Lecture on 8 Aug by Prof. Howard Morphy: Extended lives in global spaces: The anthropology of Yolngu pre burial ceremonies. University of Manchester. www.iuaes2013.org/

SEPTEMBER 2013
5-8 Sep 2013 Death dying & disposal 11, Where theory meets practice Milton Keynes, UK.
http://www.open.ac.uk
11-12 Sep 2013 Telling Stories of Transition: Interpreting experiences of change in everyday lives. South Asian Anthropology Group (SAAG). University of Sussex. www.facebook.com/Saag2013Conference
20 Sep 2013 3rd International Conference on Human and Social Sciences ICHSS 2013 Rome-Italy Rome, Italy.
20 Sep 2013 RAI AGM. Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, followed by the presidential address by Professor Clive Gamble.
25 Sept 2013 17.30-19.30 RAI Research Seminar: Philip Noble. Anthropological string games studies - The early years: Dr A.C. and Kathleen Haddon, Diamond Jenness, Caroline Furnace-Jayne, Honor Maude and their legacies. http://philipnoble.eventbrite.co.uk/

OCTOBER 2013
2 Oct 2013 17:30-19.30 RAI Research Seminar: Garry Marvin. Bull-fights and their changing social context in Spain: thoughts based on recent fieldwork.
http://garrymarvin.eventbrite.co.uk/
9 Oct 2013 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: David Shankland: Roots of international co-operation in anthropology; Myres, the RAI and the founding of the IUAES. http://davidshankland.eventbrite.co.uk/
16 Oct 2013 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar. Steve Rayner. Anthropology and climate change http://steverayner.eventbrite.co.uk/

23 Oct 2013 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: Paul Bhasu. Northcote W. Thomas, a government anthropologist in Sierra Leone, 1913-14. http://paulbasu.eventbrite.co.uk/
28-29 Oct 2013 RAI Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen. therai.org.uk
30 Oct 2013 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: Julia Snell. Anthropology and socioloinguistics. http://juliasnell.eventbrite.co.uk/

NOVEMBER 2013
6 Nov 2013 17:30-19:30 RAI Research Seminar: Magnus Course. Kinship and native South American socialities. Anthropology and socioloinguistics. http://magnuscourse.eventbrite.co.uk/
8 Nov 2013, 5.30pm The displaced local: Multiple agency in the building of ethnographic collections. Visiting lecture by the 2013 Huxley Memorial lecturer Prof. Howard Morphy at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum.

13 Nov 2013
20-24 Nov 2013 AAA 112th annual meeting. Chicago Hilton, Chicago, Illinois.

DECEMBER 2014
27-29 May 2014 13th International African studies conference: Society and politics in Africa. Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. http://www.inafran.ru/en/node/7
3-7 Dec 2014 AAA 113th annual meeting, Marriott Wardman Park & Omi Shoreham, Washington, DC.

NOVEMBER 2015
18-22 Nov 2015 AAA Annual meeting. Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO.