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ASA NEWS ASA2016 - dates for your diaries The 2016 conference, Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology, will take place in Durham from 4 to 7 July next year. ASA18 conference call After Durham, December 2017 will bring a joint ASA-AAS-ASAANZ conference in Australia, hosted by the anthropology department in Adelaide. It is now time to start thinking about the 2018 conference, and the ASA committee welcomes proposals. The deadline for these is 1 September 2015, and the address for submissions is [log in to unmask] WCAA NEWS Call for papers extended to 28 August for inaugural conference of the International Indonesian Forum for Asian Studies (IIFAS) Creating ASEAN Futures 2015: Towards connected cross-border communities, 29 & 30 September 2015, Andalas University Padang, West Sumatra For more info: http://www.iifas.info/ The AAI (Asosiasi Antropologi Indonesia) is holding a meeting on the second day of the conference. SIEF journal SIEF's journal, Ethnologia Europaea, the Journal of European Ethnology, has just published a new issue: http://www.mtp.hum.ku.dk/details.asp?eln=300351 Early-bird registration is now open for AAS2015 (and closes 28 September), 1-4 December, Melbourne, "Moral Horizons": the annual conference of the Australian Anthropological Society. The keynotes are Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Joel Robbins and Akhil Gupta. www.nomadit.co.uk/aas/aas2015/ RAI2016, 27-29 May 2016, London, "Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change": the call for papers opens on 28 August 2015 and closes on 8 january 2016. https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-weather-and-climate-change-2016 EASA2016, 20-23 July, Milan: venue and dates announced. http://www.easaonline.org/newsletter/64-0415/easa2016.shtml OTHER NEWS New Series on BBC2 Claire Thompson, a researcher from the BBC Natural History Unit, has sent the following message: The BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol are currently making a new landmark series for BBC Two focusing on the anthropological side of the human rituals of the world. The series "Rituals" will be made in the style of Human Planet, though perhaps follow more of a thesis behind rituals, giving this series a stronger narrative. The potential outreach in highlighting advancements in anthropological research is enormous, our previous BBC Natural History Unit productions, Planet Earth, Human Planet and Frozen Planet have been seen by over 100 million people worldwide. The series will be broadcast worldwide in 2017/2018, with filming taking place worldwide over a two-year period. We are in the pre-production stage at the moment where we are collating ideas to build into a presentation to pitch to the commissioners. The episodes are broken down into, Rites of Passage, Survival, Family and Society, Belief and Celebration. We are aware that gaining filming permissions and access to these incredibly intimate times in people’s lives is very difficult and we would endeavour to work closely with anthropologists and researchers in the field, who perhaps have already established relationships with communities and would be willing to host our film crew. In addition - whereas some film projects have a short filming period, this one, because of the nature of the subject, will have longer in order to really film unique stories in a beautiful and respectful way. It would be great to hear from you if you have any potential stories or pieces of research that you think would make a good ‘filmable’ sequence for television. Each chosen story will ultimately become a 5-6 minute film within an hour-long episode; crucially, we are looking for ideas of rituals that incorporate an event and have a natural story arc, a beginning, middle and an end. For more information, contact Claire Thompson Tel: +44 (0) 1179 746684 | Mob: +44 (0) 7979 693975 Email: [log in to unmask] A number of junior positions available in Anthropology at Sussex See posts numbers 298, 299 and 300 at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs#academic. Closing date 7 September. Prospective applicants can make informal enquiries to the Head of Department, Professor Filippo Osella, at [log in to unmask] Identifying the Dead The University of Dundee has launched the trailer to its MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in Identifying the Dead. MOOCs are a free experience for any interested participants and the 6-week course follows the process from the discovery of some human skeletal remains through to the identification of the deceased. At the end of the course, the full story will be revealed through the ability to download a specially written free novel from the acclaimed crime writer, Val McDermid. 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