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6–9 August 2008, Tromsø (Norway)

Nordic Assocation for Canadian Studies (NACS/ANEC), in collaboration with the Centre for Sami Studies at the University of Tromsø, and in parallel with the Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA), will be holding its ninth triennial conference in Tromsø, Norway, from 6–9 August 2008.

Papers may be given in English or French; the working language of the Conference will be English.

The conference themes include: Northern security, Canadian and Nordic Aboriginal issues, Arctic issues, narratives of Norths, Canadian film and Northern arts, and constitutional issues.

The 9th triennial Conference of the Nordic Assocation for Canadian Studies (NACS/ANEC) will take place in Tromsø, at the northernmost university in the world, located north of the arctic circle. The Conference is organized in cooperation with the Centre for Sami Studies.

More information: http://www.sami.uit.no/nacs/

26th to 30th August in Ljubljana, Slovenia

The 10th conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, 26 to 30 August in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Anthropologists have been facing diversity since the beginning of social/cultural anthropology as an academic discipline. The main aim of the conference is to deal with public discourse on diversity, cross-cultural communication and, at the same time, the absence of speaking about underestimated aspects of mutuality, including post-colonial, post-imperial, post-socialist, and post-racial.

Experiencing processes of late (or post-) industrialism and modernity, anthropologist study the present-day situation “in the field” and equally accentuate consideration of constructed and “natural” environments. When speaking of diversity, the conference will not overlook the flip side of the “intercultural dialogue”: new racism, ethnic nationalism, cultural fundamentalism and “soft” modes of exploitation.

Registration fees
Non-members: €180
Members (EASA & WCAA organisations): €130
Students and/or economically disadvanteged: : €90
Registration prices will rise after the beginning of July

More information http://www.easa2008.eu/

21-27 Sep 2008 Salekhard, capital of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous region

The First Russian Anthropological Film Festival (RAFF) is the only Russian full format competitive film festival representing rapidly developing genre of anthropological film.

The most northern in the world festival with peaceful formula art+science has already become very popular and the internationally authoritative among Russian and foreign cinematographers, managers of culture, Arctic researchers. It is reputed as content art-intellectual film festival and effective social and cultural phenomenon, and it has received set of positive responses in Russia and abroad, its film-winners were shown on all-Russian and regional TV channels.

Today RAFF serves, besides other purposes, as an experimental platform to search for new film-forms, to co-act in current search for identity and culture-building rather than just to reflect nostalgia for leaving cultural values.

http://rfaf.ru/eng/raff/153/247

Tromsø museum, 2-4 October 2008

This two day seminar will explore the way that indigenous people create homes and homelands for themselves in the circumpolar North.

The seminar will consist of a set of public lectures by specialists on the cosmology and archaeology of circumpolar dwellings as well as the historical dynamics of households. There will be equal time in the programme for craftspeople to display modern and traditional dwellings and to speak about their meaning.

More information: http://www.sami.uit.no/boreas/conference.html