This two-day research symposium on the theme of exhibitions as a vital form of cultural exchange and competition during the Cold War will be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on 4-5 January 2007. For more information, or to reserve a place, please contact the conference organizer,Continue Reading
Daniel Miller, Anthropology UCL A Congress of different cultures: the General Assembly of the United Nations (in lieu of a conference photograph from the AAA) Last week I attended the annual meetings of the AAA held at San Jose. I went along with a group of students, staff and ex-studentsContinue Reading
The Death of Taste, ICA, London November 23-24 2006, examines the work of making, styling and fashioning taste within the context of increasingly speeded-up fashion trends and the constant plundering of the recent past. It combines academics from the fields of material culture, sociology and fashion history with leading figuresContinue Reading