Conferences of Interest

Pasifika Festival presents Fakakaukau Debate Series
Topic: Only Pacific Artists have the right to use Pacific motifs
March 9, 2010, 4:30-7:00pm
Council Chambers, Auckland Town Hall

Debating team includes:
Dr Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (TBC) – Professor & Art Historian, Waikato University
Ron Brownson – Curator of New Zealand & Pacific Art, Auckland Art Gallery
Sean Mallon – Curator of Pacific Art, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum New Zealand
Ema Tavola – Pacific arts coordinator, Fresh Gallery Otara, Manuaku City Council
Siliga Setoga – Multimedia artist
Shigeyuki Kihara - Multimedia & Performance artist  read more »

Ancient and Modern: Exhibiting the Past in the Present, A symposium with Professor Nelson Graburn
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Thursday, March 18, 2010

This symposium will examine issues involved in displaying and caring for historical and contemporary ethnographic material.  The keynote speaker is Nelson Graburn, Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley and Curator of North American Ethnology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.  read more »

First call for papers: Making Things: Museum Ethnographers' Group Annual UK Conference 2010
Monday and Tuesday, April 12-13, 2010
Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
The closing date for submissions and abstracts is Friday January 15, 2010.
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TRANSFORMING CULTURE IN DIGITAL AGE: Call for papers
Tartu, Estonia, 14-16 April, 2010
Deadline for abstracts: November 23, 2009.
Deadline for acceptance information: December 14, 2009.
Deadline for submitting the completed full-papers (approx 4000 words): March 1, 2010.
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Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference
May 20-22, 2010
Tucson, AZ
Abstracts Due: November 28, 2009  read more »

Announcement and Call for Papers
PAA Europe Annual Meeting
May 27-29, 2010
Stuttgart, Germany

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Managing for the Global and the Local
June 3-4, 2010
Quebec City, Canada
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1st Annual International Conference on Fine and Performing Arts
June 7-10, 2010
Athens Institute for Education and Research, 8 Valaoritou Street, Kolonaki, 10671 Athens, Greece
Deadline to submit abstracts: 7th of December 2009  read more »

8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Oceanists (ESFO)
July 5-8, 2010
University of St Andrews Centre for Pacific Studies, Scotland

The University of St Andrews Centre for Pacific Studies hosts the 8th Conference of the European Society for Oceanists to explore the theme of Exchanging Knowledge in Oceania. In the setting of the medieval college town of St Andrews, 50 miles from Edinburgh, - also known as “the home of the game of golf” - delegates will examine what kinds of knowledge transfers between bodies of knowledge are currently going on in Oceania, and what kinds of emergent relations are being formed.  read more »

Call for papers: Museums and Restitution International Conference
July 8-9, 2010, University of Manchester
Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, December 11, 2009

Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject. For more i
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