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ICME News 31 - January 2002

ICME Ethnography - Ethnographie - Etnografia

International Committee for Museums of Ethnography - ICOM/ICME

Contents:

Words from the President

Barcelona 2001 and Lusaka/Livingstone 2002

Dear all of you,

A large General Conference is a nightmare to prepare for everybody involved. The local representative of the international committee will often find oneself in the worst position, being under pressure both from the board of the international committee wanting this and that, and from the local congress company, whose interest and capacities as a rule go in completely other directions.

ICME’s representative in Barcelona, Dolores Soriano, solved all problems smoothly in advance, and once we got underway, the Barcelona conference was not only problem free, but really inspiring, full of exciting papers and discussions and no less exciting visits.

I suspect the ICME post conference tour to the Pyrenees was Dolores’ most difficult challenge, with Viajes Iberia on the one hand demanding to be in charge of the tour, and on the other hand mostly denying all knowledge about it. Dolores managed to sort this out too, and the tour was memorable (not be forgotten: the programme was also Dolores’ work). Not least was the complex ethnic situation that the museums mirrored fascinating. And such a fine group we were! Its amazing how the ICME tours again and again bring together peoples that become the best of friends after 30 minutes or so, and often continue to be so for years.

Thank you Dolores!!!

In 2002 we go to Zambia. As one of those trendy guidebooks put it: “Zambia is Africa raw”. Meaning: if you want to experience everyday Africa, with its everyday charm and everyday problems  in a peaceful and friendly setting  Zambia is good place to go. Outside the game parks few places are adapted to tourism. But it is not difficult to get along if you use the facilities for the locals.

The Zambian museums are poor. They hardly get enough from the authorities  whether they are national or municipal  to pay wages and taking care of the basic daily work. And they are heavily dependent on foreign donor agencies for all kinds of investments and change.

The situation is not in any way unique to Zambia. On the contrary: It is a well known situation in many poor countries throughout the world.

Why do we go there? Our colleagues in Zambia and those in similar museums need to sit down and exchange viewpoints with museum professionals from other parts of the world. They need inspiration and ideas, they need meaning and useful practical advice. And they may definitely give the same back.

I hope to see as many of you as possible in Zambia in July/August. If you think that you may perhaps possibly go, but you are not at all sure: do contact us, and we’ll keep you informed. And then you can decide later.

And by the way: A peaceful and friendly 2002 to all of you!

Per B. Rekdal
President

The last paper issue of ICME news (for unregistered members)

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ICME conference 2002

The National Museums Board of Zambia (NMB)
The International Committee for Museums of Ethnography (ICME)

invite you to
Lusaka and Livingstone, Zambia July 28 - August 2, 2002

"High Expectations, but Low Funding: How do poor museums meet their targets?"

Many museums in different parts of the world have for years been poorly - or even barely - funded, in spite of being in many cases important national institutions. Donor agencies have been important in dealing with short-term projects and special investments, but generally do not support the daily running of the museums.

In spite of this everyday poverty; what are the possibilities for such museums to function meaningfully, or even become more active?

The NMB/ICME invite participants to a conference focusing on this theme. The purpose is to exchange very concretely how to do it-ideas, but also to discuss principles: what is, what should be the function and meaning of poor museums in poor countries?

Meaningful roles for museums in rapidly growing cities
The first part of the conference will be in Lusaka, with the Lusaka Museum as our starting point. Lusaka is a city characterised by rapid growth, with a large influx of people moving to the city with the hope of a better future. The Lusaka Museum is relatively new in its present shape, situated in a large building very close to the city centre. We will learn about the Lusaka Museum's work so far, about experiences from other museums in related circumstances, and discuss the future potential for museums in this kind of rapidly growing cities.

Tourism, museums and “living” traditional life as a tourist attraction
The second part of the conference will be in Livingstone, centring on the possibilities for museums in tourism. Livingstone is an old town, close to the famous Victoria Falls. Tourism has over the last almost 100 years been most developed on the Zimbabwean side of the Falls, but lately also the Zambian side has seen a tremendous growth in the tourist industry, with strong investments from international tourist corporations. The Livingstone Museum is Zambia's oldest - and richest in terms of collections.

So far tourism has concentrated on the Falls and their immediate surroundings. But the tourist industry is looking for ways to make the tourists stay longer, that is: develop new attractions. The traditional culture of the peoples of the region is one key word, the colonial charm of old Livingstone another. The challenges for the museums are many:

  • How can tourism generate more income for the museum?
  • How can one develop the touristic interest of the museum as well as increase the use and relevance of the museum in relation to the local population?
  • What are the pros and cons in using "living traditional" local culture as a tourist attraction?

These are challenges not only for the Livingstone museum, but also for other museums in related situations.

Livingstone also has a charming railway museum, and on the way to Livingstone we will visit the Tonga Museum in Choma; a successful small museum. In which ways is it a success? And what can be learned from it?

Pre-conference workshop
Immediately preceding the conference, the NMB and the Norwegian Museum Authority will arrange a workshop on the future of the Copperbelt Museum in Ndola. According to plans the Copperbelt Museum will be developed into a museum for the copper industry and a science centre.

Pre- or post-conference visits may be arranged to the Moto Moto Museum in Mbala and the Nayuma Museum in Limulunga respectively, depending on interest.

Practical information
Zambia has an outstanding record for being peaceful and politically stable. Zambians are friendly, not very formal and have a splendid sense of humour.

For visitors, Zambia is divided in two: The facilities used by Zambians are very economical for foreigners and absolutely satisfactory. The facilities for tourists that live on dollars only, and practically only used by foreigners, are expensive. Some of the latter category of facilities, like game parks, is well worth visiting though. A combination can be recommended.

Information on hotels in different price categories will be given for Lusaka and Livingstone. We will probably recommend one of the good, very reasonably priced hotels in Lusaka and Livingstone respectively as “the conference hotel”.

If external funding is achieved, the conference will rent a bus for the duration of the conference. If not, local taxies and other transport are plentiful and very cheap for foreign visitors.

Lusaka can be reached by air directly from London, or via Nairobi or Johannesburg. Economy seats should be booked well in advance.

For non-African visitors the conference can be combined with a holiday visit to game parks or other touristic African experiences.

Visa is required from several countries. Certain vaccinations and Malaria-protective medication are necessary.

Travel grants
A few travel grants may possibly be available for participants from developing countries, especially from other parts of Africa and particularly for participants giving papers of relevance for the themes discussed.

CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite speakers on the themes mentioned above, as well as on other themes of relevance for ICME.
Please send your name, address, e-mail, title and a short abstract to
p.b.rekdal@ukm.uio.no or fax 47 - 22 85 99 60.

IF YOU CONSIDER PARTICIPATING IN THE CONFERENCE, CONTACT:   p.b.rekdal@ukm.uio.no AND WE WILL PUT YOU ON OUR MAILING LIST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

ICME DURING ICOM 2001 BARCELONA

ICME sessions
The ICME sessions during the General Conference in Barcelona listed interesting contributions from many corners of the world. We are happy that we are able to publish a number of the papers on the ICME website where you also will find the full list of speakers and themes covered in the Barcelona sessions. A number of the papers inspired a host of questions and good discussions - so all in all it was a very good programme. Again Dolores Soriano saw to all practical problems and had spent considerable time in making it possible for all of us to come together for our paper sessions.

ICME habitually gives priority to visiting museums and exhibitions and to discuss concepts, solutions, professional challenges and new tendencies in exhibition practices as well as curatorial work. Again Dolores had made life easy for all of us and composed a fine programme which inspired a lot of international exchanges and discussions, both on site as well as during dinners and other social gatherings in the most pleasant city of Barcelona. In Dolores’ own workplace Museu Etnològic, we were given both an introduction to the institution, a tour through the storerooms as well as a guided tour through the exhibitions on Japan and Ecuador. Another interesting part of the programme was our visit to Fondacio Folch, a private collection (open to the public) with emphasis on “ethnography as art” - these two museum visits also then matched well with some of our paper sessions and discussion. In the Museu d’Història de Catalunya it was intriguing to see how a new proud museum on Catalan history was made with very few original objects and a lot of resources to make Catalan history known to the young generation.

Barcelona for the culturally minded
Some of us were lucky and was able to spend some time in Barcelona outside conference hours. It comes as no surprise that Barcelona is one of the favourite places to visit, for tourists of all ages. If you were not able to go to ICME 2001, I can assure you that Barcelona has a number of other attractions, both for the museum lover, the gastronome, the sunbather, the shopper, the bar fly and a lot of others! There has been some heated debate over how public money has been spent to house a private collection, the Museu Barbier-Mueller d’Art Precolombi - there was at least lovely objects, but in my opinion some other Barcelona museums could possibly spend the same money in a better fashion! While we were in Barcelona, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona displayed an exhibition on modern art from Africa :Africas - the artist and the city. For me visits to museums of Barcelona artists like Picasso, Miro og Tàpies was a must, and I was not disappointed. The city museum (Museu d’Historia de la Ciutat) housed one of the most exiting archaeological exhibitions I have ever seen on sacred food (grain, olives, vine) and in the cellar you could explore the Roman foundations of the city. The city also has a sizeable collection from Egypt in the Museu Egipci. The new chocolate museum (Museu de la Xocolata) is recommended to all of you as well as the well established maritime museum (Drassanes de Barcelona). All around the city you could enjoy the architecture of Gaudi and Catalan Modernismo, the new visitor center and exhibitions in his large house La Pedrea gave good insight into his works. If you are into textiles, there is a lot to see in Museu Textil i d’Instrumentaria. So, there are host of reasons to go to Barcelona, but do not forget to visit the monastery garden attached to the Cathedral and the sailor’s church Sta. Maria Del Mar!

ICME Elections
Outgoing members of the board was warmly thanked for their yearlong efforts and all the enthusiasm put into ICME work. The standard T-shirt ceremony was carried out and we were ready to consider elections for the coming three years, also re-electing Per B. Rekdal as President for three more years. The composition of current ICME board is shown below. After thanking Dolores Soriano officially for her fantastic work in making ICME 2001 such a success for all participants, the board sat down for a short meeting.

ICME Board meeting, Barcelona
The main points covered in the board meeting were:

  1. Without too much discussion and without wasting too much time we were able to divide the tasks between the elected members, see the list of board members.
  2. The ICME publication strategy was discussed, including publishing on our new website and the use of e-mail as a tool for informing our members.
  3. Venues for coming ICME conferences were discussed, both South Africa, Vietnam and Zambia were discussed for 2002. Romania is a possible candidate for 2003 (discussing ethnographic museums with a European outlook), Gothenburg has previously also suggested to host the conference (ed. comment: this was to be in connection with the opening of the new Museum for World Cultures, which now probably will not be opened before 2004) - other alternatives were also discussed and will be followed up by the ICME board. In 2004, we will meet for a new General Conference in Korea, with “Intangible Heritage” as the overall theme - more on this on ICME’s and ICOM’s websites in the coming years.

Espen Wæhle, ICME Co-Editor

ICME Board 2001 -2003

Per B. Rekdal, president, chairperson for working group on Multicultural Issues
The University Museums of Cultural Heritage
P.O.Box 6762, St. Olavs pl., N-0130 Oslo, Norway
tel: +47 22859961 fax: +47 22859960
e-mail:p.b.rekdal@ukm.uio.no, http://www.ukm.uio.no/

Joris Capenberghs, secretary, co-correspondent for Western Europe
"De Schans", Weidestraat 10, 3670 Meeuwen-Gruitrode, Belgium
tel/fax: +32(0)11794175
e-mail: joris.capenberghs@pi.be

Damodar Frlan, co-correspondent for East-Central Europe,
Director Ethnographic Museum, Mazuranicev trg 14, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia,
tel: +38514550711, 4558544,
fax: +38514558544,
e-mail: damodar.frlan@public.srce.hr

Wedad Hamed, correspondent for Middle East
Director, Material Culture Dept
Academy of Arts
18 El Borsa El Kadima St, Tawfikia, Cairo, EGYPT
Tel: 202 7962273
FAX: 202 3904250 / 3934809

Aldona Jonaitis, correspondent for North America
Director, University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukan Drive, Box 756960, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
Tel: (1 907)474 6939
FAX: (1 907)474 5469
e-mail: ffaj@uaf.edu, http://www.uaf.edu/museum/

Harrie Leyten, chairperson of the working group on Repatriation, co-correspondent for Western Europe
The Amsterdam school of the arts, Reinwardt Academy/Museology Department, Dapperstraat 315, NL-1093 BS Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
tel: +31206922111,
fax: +31206926836,
e-mail: h.leyten@mus.ahk.nl

Lidija Nikocevic, co-correspondent for East-Central Europe
Director, Etnografski Muzej Istre
Trg Istarskog Razvoda 1, 52000 Pazin, CROATIA
Tel 385 52622220
Fax 385 52624351
e-mail: lidija.nikocevic@emi-pazin.tel.hr

Maria Camilla de Palma
Castello D'Albertis
Largo Pertini 4, 1621 Genoa, Italy
Tel 00 39 0105574720
Fax 0039 0105574701
e-mail: mcdp64@hotmail.com

Daniel Winfree Papuga, webmaster, co-editor of the Newsletter
Kjelsaasveien 51-f, N-0488 Oslo, Norway
Tel +47 22090683
e-mail: papuga@c2i.net

Lejo Schenk, co-correspondent for Western Europe
Director, Royal Tropical Institute
P.O. Box 95001, 1090 HA Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel +31 205688268
Fax +31 205688331
e-mail: l.schenk@kit.nl
http:/www.kit.nl

Gaye Sculthorpe, correspondent for Oceania
Director Indigenous Cultures Program Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666E, MELBOURNE VIC 3000, Australia
tel: +61392912165,
fax: +61392912150
e-mail: gsculth@mov.vic.gov.au
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/

Sujit Som, correspondent for South Asia
National museum of Mankind
P.B. N° 2, Shamla HIlls, Bhopal 462 013, INDIA
Tel +91 0755 661319
Tel+Fax +91 0755 661458
Fax +91 0755 661276
Tel priv +91 0755 465505
e-mail: igmsbpl@mp.nic.in

Dolores Soriano, correspondent for Ibero-America,
Museu Etnològic, Passeig Santa Madrona s/n, Parc de Montjuïc 08038 Barcelona
tel: +34934246402, 4246807,
fax: +34934237364
e-mail: dsoriano@meridian.es

Shaje Tshiluila, correspondent for Africa
Universite de Kinshasa, B.P. 13933, Kinshasa I, Dem. Rep. Du Congo,
tel: +2438802344, 9903021,
e-mail: inforoute.patri@ic.cd, joshaje@hotmail.com

Espen Wæhle, co-editor of the Newsletter, treasurer of ICME
Head of Department, Ethnographic Collection, The National Museum of Denmark, 12, Frederiksholms Kanal, DK-1220 Copenhagen K, Denmark,
tel.: +4533473206, 03, 04
fax.: +4533473320,
e-mail: espen.waehle@natmus.dk
http://http://www.natmus.dk

Corneliu Bucur
Directeur, Muzeul Civilizatiei Populare Traditionale "Astra"
Str. Mica 11 (Dumbrava Sibiului), Sibiu 2400 Jud. Sibiu, ROMANIA
Tel: 40694 15803
Fax: 40694 11806
e-mail: astra@sbx.logicnet.ro (museum office)
http://www.itc.ro/sibiu/engl/astra_e.htm

International Expedition to the Pyrenees.

At about 7 in the morning on Saturday 7th July , after a very interesting ICME programme within the framework of the ICOM Conference 2001, we left Barcelona for the Catalan Pyrenees. Our first destination was in the foothills of the Pyrenees in Isona. The “Museu de la Conca Dellà” presents the background to the geology and history of the surrounding countryside. 65 million years ago, the “Conca” was a tropical landscape on the coast and the Pyrenees did not even exist. The dinosaurs that lived here left behind them many traces. In the “Parc Cretaci”, an open-air museum, we were able to measure the size of our footsteps with those of the dinosaurs which are still visible here in the earth.

Our next stop was Tremp on the Noguera Pallaresa river. On the outskirts of this medieval town, alongside the old town fortifications, there was an interesting new building which houses the “Museu dels Ciències Naturals”, the geological museum for the local Pallar region. In Tremp, as well as during the following days, the restaurants were always well chosen, so we were physically prepared for the comprehensive sightseeing programme. We travelled upstream to La Pobla de Segur, a historical rafting centre. The raftsmen transported the wood from the mountain forests of the Pyrenees down to Ebro. The museum in Pont de Claverol documents this difficult and dangerous trade. Moreover it is in contact with raft centres around the world.

The last point on the agenda this day was in Gerri de la Sal. Here, during the summer months, salt used to be mined from the warm salt deposits. Salt production was first mentioned in the Middle Ages. The visit to the eighteenth-century “salt house” was particularly impressive. Here, the salt was stored, weighed, ground and packaged. Since then, salt production has almost stopped, as the work was too hard and the earnings too low. Tired, but satisfied after all our visits, we had to leave for our lodgings and the prospect of an evening meal and a warm bed. Our bus spiralled slowly upwards. We drove into fog, going higher and higher to the 2,072-metre “Port de la Bonaigua” pass. Then Vielha, in the Vall d´Aran, appeared out of the fog and our lodgings, a hotel “with the semi-military charm of a youth hostel in the early 1950s”.

The next morning, we went back over our pass towards Vall d´Aneu. The first stop was in Escaló, a well-preserved medieval village. Escaló and the neighbouring Benedictine abbey of San Pere del Burgal (unfortunately closed) are two of the several heritage centers of the “Ecomuseu Valls d´Aneu”. This museum concept is not just limited to a single building; it includes various historic locations throughout the whole valley region. The centre of this museum is to be found in Esterri d´Aneu, a rural, eighteenth-century estate. The museum explores daily culture until very recent times. Thus contemporary witnesses are interviewed and filmed and their dialects are recorded as linguistic documents. At the same time, the Ecomuseu also aims to encourage the economic and social development of the valley.

We crossed the “Port de la Bonaigua” one final time and headed for Vielha. Here, there were a few small museums on our itinerary as well as the Church of Sant Miquèu de Vielha. But after the first visit, most of the participants decided to have a drink together in a café. Vielha is the main settlement in the Vall d´Aran, which opens out to France in the north. Until the opening of the Vielha Tunnel in 1948, Spain and Catalonia could only be reached via difficult passes like the “Bonaigua”. The French influence is still visible today in both the language and the architecture.

On the final day, we visited the Vall de Boi, famous for its Romanesque churches. These were built by Lombard master builders during the 11th and 12th centuries. The impressive murals have been moved to the “Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya” in Barcelona. Some of the murals have been reproduced on site with the aid of the UN.

A very committed local historian guided us through the churches of Sant Climent and Santa Maria in Taüll, Sant Joan in Boi and Santa Eulàlia d´Erill-la-Vall.

And so our three-day excursion in the remote and wonderful valleys of the Pyrenees came to an end. We would like to say a big thank you to Dolores Soriano from Barcelona, who organised this exciting programme.

Franziska Lobenhofer-Hirschbold
October 2001

ICME publications on the web

A number of the papers presented in Barcelona have been published on the ICME web site as "ICME papers 2001", and are available for downloading at: http://www.icom.org/icme

  • Barbara Woroncow (York,UK): Heritage for all - expectations of blacks  and Asians towards museums. 
  • Lidija Nikocevic (Croatia): Trying to grasp Multiculturality - New museological praxis in Istria.
  • Lydia Icke-Schwalbe (Germany): The art of craft for social and cultural identity in ethnic groups of India. 
  • Espen Wæhle (Denmark) Contrasting traditions in perceiving Congo artifacts: ethnography vs. folk, ethnic or fine art?
  • Paul Voogt (Holland): Object ID as a tool to fight illicit traffic of cultural heritage
  • Joris Capenberghs (Belgium): The new museum concept for the Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren
  • Prof. Dr.Corneliu Bucur (Romania): Le musée "Astra" Sibiu-Roumanie, Musee de la civilisation Transylvaine: Perspectives interdisciplinaires et interethniques

More papers will follow, as we are still awaiting presentations from several authors.

This form of web-publishing is becoming more and more common, since it is a fast and inexpensive way of bringing information to members anywhere in the world.

A common question from authors is whether publishing a paper on the web would ruin their possibility of having the paper published later in a scientific journal. The answer to this is "perhaps". Web publishing (at least in the form that we have chosen here) is equivalent to "working papers" in printed form. The papers have not been juried, and if published later, one merely writes in a footnote that "an earlier version of the paper was presented at...". Alternatively, an abstract of the paper may be published on the web site, with information on which journal the full version will be available on, or with information on how to contact the author in order to order a private copy.

In effect, ICME has a number of publishing forums, of varying levels of formality:

  • General information on the web pages, some of which may be duplicated in ICME news.
  • Special publications on the web pages, such as conference papers.
  • Discussions on the ICME newsgroup, both by the board and the general membership.


Daniel -Winfree Papuga
ICME webmaster

Central and fascinating discussions in museum anthropology

Vol. 43  2001 of  FOLK, Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society, presents some central discussions for people working in ethnographic museums. This issue of the journal partly brings a collection of papers presented at the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Ethnographic Collection of the National Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark: “The World Mirrored. The Ethnographic Museum: Past, Present and Future” as well as bringing other contributions.

CONTENTS

  • Exhibiting Objects. Museum Collections in Policy and Practice.
  • Bente Wolff:  Money is not for Buying Food, Money is for Buying Things. Modernity and Consumption the Mekeo Way.
  • Torben Lundbæk: On the Origin of the Ethnographic Collection
  • Tony Bennett: Pasts beyond Memories: The Evolutionary Museum, Liberal Government and the Politics of Prehistory.
  • Mary Bouquet: Streetwise in Museumland
  • Peter Mason: Eighty Brazilian Birds for Johann Georg
  • Helle Bundgaard: The Puri Painting of the National Museum in Copenhagen
  • Espen Wæhle: A Congo story from Oslo. Reflections on the absence of an exotic art market in Norway
    Brian Durrans: Talking in Museums
  • Annesofie Becker: The Companion of Objects: Texts that straddle Narrative and Description
  • Torkil Funder: In this Part of the Country
  • John Mack: “Exhibiting Cultures”  Revisited: Translation and Representation.
  • Michael O'Hanlon: The Field of Collecting: Back to the Future
  • Anthony Shelton: Museums in an Age of Cultural Hybridity
  • Jonathan Friedman: Museums, the State and Global Transformation: From Temple of the Muses to Temple of Amusements
  • Book Reviews

Folk vol. 43, 2001 costs 250 DKK (33.6 EUR or 30 USD), postage outside Europe 93 DKK (12.5 EUR or 11 USD), Europe DKK 53 (7 EUR or 6.4 USD), Scandinavia 39 DKK (5.2 EUR) and Denmark 24 DKK. A copy may be ordered from: Folk, c/o Etnografisk Samling, 12. Frederiksholmskanal, DK-1220 Copenhagen K, Denmark or via mail to arne.kirstejn.olsen@natmus.dk

Conferences

January 12-19: . "Towards living heritage" - The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway ( DHR) (A non-western context). A  UNESCO sponsored collaborative stakeholder workshop to be held at Darjeeling. Contact:  Mr. Rajesh  Agrawal, Director, National Rail Museum, Chankya Puri, New Delhi- 110021,  email : rajesh_agrawal@vsnl.com, Fax : 91-11-6880804, Tel : 91-11-3304137,  under intimation to me at email: igmsbpl@mp.nic.in, Fax : 91-755-661458 or  661276, Tel : 91-755-661458 (O) 465505 (R).

March 8-17: Cinéma du Réel,  international film festival of visual anthropology and social documentation. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Tel. : +33 (0)1 44 78 44 21 Fax : +33 (0)1 44 78 12 24  Mail : cinereel@bpi.fr http://betelgeuse.bpi.fr/6/reel/

March 18-24: Bilan du Film Ethnographique. Contact: Françoise Foucault or Laurent Pellé, Musée de l'Homme, Place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris, France, Tél : 01 47043820, Fax : 01 45535282, cfe@mnhn.fr

April 8-12: ASA Annual Conference 2002: East Africa - 'Perspectives on time and society: Experience, memory, history' - Arusha, Tanzania. Contacts: Professor Wendy James (University of Oxford), Dr David Mills (University of Birmingham), 51 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE, UK; fax: +44 1865 274630; email: asa2002@anthro.ox.ac.uk, http://les1.man.ac.uk/asa/Arusha.htm

April 17-20: "Museums and the Web" 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/

May 8-13: Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival. Contact: GWEFW, c/o IWF, Nonnenstieg 72, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany. email: iwf.secr-gsw@iwf.de, http://www.iwf.de/gieff.html

May 6 -10: "Museological approaches to the integrated use of cultural heritage" Course led by Ivo Maroevic, (University of Zagreb) and Martin Segger, (University of Victoria, BC) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Contact: IUC, Don Frana Buliæa 4, HR-20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia. Tel: +385 20 413 626, 413 627 Fax: +385 20 413 628. e-mail: iuc@du.tel.hr
http://www.tel.fer.hr/iuc
http://www.hr/iuc/docs/kurs/courses.html

May 12.-16: "The Community of Museums: Seeking the Common Good" American Association of Museums Annual Meeting 2002, Dallas, Texas, USA http://www.edcom.org/training/annual2002.html

July 29 - August 2: NMB/ICME conference 2002. "High Expectations, but Low Funding: How do poor museums meet their targets?" Held in Lusaka and Livingstone, Zambia. Contact: Per B. Rekdal, The University Museums of Cultural Heritage, P.O.Box 6762 St. Olavs pl. , N-0130 Oslo, Norway, Tel. (-47) 22859964 Fax (-47) 22859960. email: p.b.rekdal@ukm.uio.no http://www.icom.org/icme

August 14-17: "Engaging the World: Theoretical, Methodological and Political Challenges for a 21st Century Anthropology". 7th biennial EASA Conference, Copenhagen.  Contact: László Kurti, Secretary, EASA, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, H-3515, Hungary, email: lkurti@helka.iif.hu

August 30 -September 2: 13th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, Zagreb. "A quarter of a century of the European Anthropological Association: Reflections and perspectives". Contact: Institute for Anthropological Research, Amruseva 8, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia; tel.: +385 1 4816903; fax: +385 1 4813777; email: eaacongreess@luka.inantro.hr, http://luka.inantro.hr

September 29- October 4: ICOM/CECA Conference "Museum Education as a Product: Who is buying?" in Nairobi, Kenya. Contact: Elizabeth Ouma or Frederick Karanja Mirara, ICOM-CECA 2002 Organising Committee, National Museums of Kenya, P.O. Box 40658, NAIROBI, Kenya. Tel:+254 [02] 742878, 742131/4, 448930/33 Fax:+245 [02] 741424 email: nmkeduc@museums.or.ke
http://www.imj.org.il/ceca/conference2002.html

November 20-24: American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency hotel, New Orleans, LA, USA. http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

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