ICME News 35 - July 2003

ICME Ethnography - Ethnographie - Etnografia

International Committee for Museums of Ethnography - ICOM/ICME
http://icme.icom.museum

Contents:

• ICME 2003 REMINDER
• UP-COMING CONFERENCES

ICME 2003 REMINDER

It is still not too late to join this year's ICME conference, which will be held September 26-30 at the National Complex "ASTRA" Museum in Sibiu, Romania. July 31st is the deadline for registration, abstracts & payment. Information is available on the conference page, but there has also been considerable discussion about the conference on the ICME newsgroup

Here are a few links which may help in planning your journey:

• Sibiu Online http://www.sibiu.ro/index-en.htm
• Romanian National Tourist Office http://www.romaniatourism.com/
• National Complex "ASTRA" Museum http://astra.museum.com/Sibiu/engl/INDEXe.htm
• TAROM air company http://www.tarom.ro
• Carpatair http://www.carpatair.ro

UP-COMING CONFERENCES

September 1-5: "World Cultural Heritage: Uniting by Understanding" CIDOC-ADIT conference, St.-Petersburg, Russia. http://cidoc2003.adit.ru/english/program.asp

September 1-7 : National Council of Folklorists of Uganda (NACOFU) Conference / Festival 2003. Jinja Town, Uganda. Information from Kyakuwa Julius Nacofungo@yahoo.com

September 11-17: CIMUSET & ICTOP & MPR conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, & Zagreb, Croatia.. Main Conference Themes: The Impact of Globalisation on Museum Communications; The Future of Science and Technology Museums; Co-operation in Museum Professional Training and Career Development. http://www.etno-muzej.si/3-ICOM2003

September 15­20: 10th MEDITERRANEAN ETHNOLOGICAL SUMMER SYMPOSIUM (MESS), PIRAN, SLOVENIA. Information from Irena Weber Irena.Weber@guest.arnes.si

September 17-21: XIXth European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), Vienna, Austria. http://www.kug.ac.at/ime/main_news_20030917.shtml

September 18-20: "The Best in Heritage", Dubrovnik, Croatia. www.TheBestInHeritage.com

September 26-30: "Cultural Traditions in Danger of Disappearing in Contemporary Society A Challenge for Museums", ICME 2003 National Complex "ASTRA" Museum, Sibiu, Romania. http://icme.icom.museum

September 29- October 1: "Museums in Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century" AFRICOM Conference 2003, Nairobi - Kenya. Three workshops are planned:

1. Museums and the Public: Current State and Potential Development
2. Museums and the Prevention of Conflicts in Africa
3. Administration, Management and Financing of Museums

September 30: Deadline for museological workshop proposals on the theme "presence and the visual" for the 2004 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 8th bi-annual conference to be held in Vienna, Austria September 8-12, 2004 (NOT September 15-19). . The main conference theme is "Face to face: Connecting distance and proximity". http://easa.uni-miskolc.hu/8thbiennpage.htm

October 2 -5: Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, USA. http://ethnomusicology.org

October 15 - 17: 3rd International Conference of Ethnographic Museums in Central- and South East Europe, Ethnographical Museum Martin, Slovakia. Themes: 1. Modern ethnographic exposition 2. International cooperation between ethnographic museums Contact: PhDr. Mária HALMOVÁ snm-em@stonline.sk
http://www.snm-em.sk/index_eng.htm

November 5-8: "Balancing Museum Technology and Transformation", Museum Computer Network annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/

November 19-23: American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago Hilton and Towers, USA. http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

April 26-May 1, 2004: "Among Others: Conflict and Encounter in European and Mediterranean Societies", 8th Congress of SIEF in collaboration with ADAM (Association d'Anthropologie Méditerranéenne), Marseille, France.
Propsed seminars include: