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American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans, November 17th- 21st, 2010 Panel organizer: Chris Wingfield, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford / University of Birmingham - chris.wingfield@prm.ox.ac.uk Deadline for title and abstract: Friday 19th March. When things become museum objects, they......

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Max Liboiron, PhD Candidate Department of Media, Culture and Communication New York University max.liboiron@nyu.edu www.maxliboiron.com We are facing a garbage crisis. From nuclear waste with a ten-thousand year half-life, to the persistent organic pollutants found in the breast milk of......

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for Papers for the upcoming American Anthropological Association's meetings (New Orleans, LA; November 17-21, 2010) We are looking for individuals who have empirical or theoretical work relating to brand counterfeiting. The panel has six papers confirmed (and one discussant) and......

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Conn, Steven. 2010. Do Museums Still Need Objects? Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press reviewed by Haidy Geismar, NYU Conn is a historian of museums, whose other books include the influential Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 (2000, U Chicago Press).......

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THE RESTORATION OF ARTWORKS IN EUROPE FROM 1789 TO 1815: PRACTICES, TRANSFERS, STAKES International study day October 2nd 2010 Calendar: Proposal submission deadline: May 1st 2010 Reply to authors: June 1st 2010 Workshop: October 2nd 2010 Place: University of Geneva......

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The UK's online heritage could be lost forever if the government does not grant a "right to archive", a group of leading libraries has said. That's a really interesting iteration of intellectual property rights on the world wide web..........

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A recent article in The Nation magazine (Feb. 11/18) by Barry Schwabsky called "How Soon Was Now?" called my attention to current interest in the fate of the Polaroid (the last batch of the famous instant film expired on......

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The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum seeks a doctoral candidate who is a Papua New Guinean citizen to work on the Museum’s PNG Collection. The successful applicant will build a project around an aspect of local and national identity in......

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"Recycling Textile Technologies" A workshop to be held at the Department of Anthropology, University College London, on June 14th 2010 This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together researchers who work on textile recycling, including anthropologists, geographers, historians, political economists, designers, and......

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Timothy Webmoor, Saïd Business School, Univ. of Oxford Review of: Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology by Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton and Christopher Tilley, 2008. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California. This is an innovative and creative book.......

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In recent years, the evidence of technical and material analysis has become increasingly important to art-historical interpretation. Beyond their traditional role in informing the restoration of artefacts, technical investigations have greatly contributed to our understanding of how works of art......

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Maynooth, 24 – 27 Aug. 2010 Material culture, migration and the transnational imaginary (W018) Convenors Julie Botticello (UCL) email: j.botticello@ucl.ac.uk Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic (European Univ. Institute, Florence) Ivana.Bajic-Hajdukovic@eui.eu Discussant: Professor David Parkin Brief Abstract Material objects are used to objectify memory;......

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Graeme Were, UCL For those with wistful memories of the Mk 1 and 2 Ford Escort - motoring classics - then the following article on the BBC website will revive fond memories. It did for me: the third and final......

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