The European Rim Policy and Investment Council (ERPIC), with headquarters in Larnaca, Cyprus is looking for a single intern to begin work this spring. The intern, who will commence work on 1st March 2003, for a six month period, will work as an assistant on the academic/professional projects undertaken, during the course of their internship, by ERPIC. ERPIC's main focus of interest is in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. The successful candidate will be expected to work at ERPIC's headquarters for 40 hours per week. ERPIC will provide accommodation for the intern free of charge. The successful candidate will be expected to have a very good knowledge of the English language and should be able to demonstrate completion of their Bachelor degree studies. Applicants must send a copy of their CV by e-mail to Dr Tim Potier, no later than Friday 17th January 2003. ERPIC website Via DAVO

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To be eligible for this professorship applicants are required to possess scholarly qualifications in Iranian languages. The prospective holder of the chair should be able to document scholarly achievements of a linguistic or an interpretative philological nature in New Persian and at least one additional Iranian language. Deadline for applications: 24 January 2003 Information regarding the professorship will be given by the Head of Department of Asian and African Language, Professor Bo Isaksson. Via DAVO

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The European Association of Middle East Librarians: Melcom International's 25th Annual Conference, Beirut, 26-28 May 2003. Melcom's hosts and local organizers are this year: Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Bibliothèque Orientale and Université Saint Joseph, Wolf-Dieter Lemke, head of library Dina Banna, Librarian May Semaan-Seigneurie, directrice. There will be no special theme for the conference, though one section should deal with the library situation in Lebanon. There is a call for papers in the following usual categories:

• Acquisition policies and practices
• Manuscript studies and rare material collections
• Cataloguing policies and practices
• Libraries and new technologies. A first programme and more details will be circulated as soon as possible, but only to those who will have stated their interest, please keep this in mind. In order to register, send an e-mail both to the MELCOM secretary, and to Dina Banna, OIDMG ) before end of January 2003. Melcom website Via DAVO

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About 50.000 pictures should be included in the online acessible archive of the Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft (German Colonial Association). You can already browse a lot of pictures in their database, mainly from africa and asia. Sadly that the digital pictures, made from already low quality photographs, have very low quality itself. Via Monolog

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Abrupt endete die Hochkultur der Maya im Tiefland Yukatans. Krieg oder Klimawandel? Noch heute rätseln Archäologen, warum blühende Städte plötzlich verfielen. In the current volume (12/02) of "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" is an article about the downfall of the Xkipché in Mexico (sadly not online). They also name some links: Insitut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie der Uni Bonn Archäologie online Early Monumental Architecture Lonely Planet Mexico MAYA ARCHAEOLOGY AT MINANHÁ

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The server, on which this is currently running, is free of charge and without advertisement. But the volunteers doing this just for the use and fun of the world's internet population need to install a new server and asked for donations. We will benefit by having a faster page again. Any ideas how the Ethno::log can contribute? Are there any readers out there willing to pay a very little amount (about 1 Euro)?

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Maskentanz der Káua. Rio Aiarý. From Koch-Grüneberg's "Zwei Jahre unter den Indianern, Bd.1", 1909, S.132.

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Urban African Sounds presents Samuel Kwabena Nyama & Band on Saturday the 14th of December 2002 at the "Museum für Völkerkunde" in Munich, Germany. 20:00h: meet & greet mit den Musikern; 21:00h: Concert. 78 year old Samuel Kwabena Nyama (<-You can download .mpegs of his music at this website) is one of the last so called "palm wine musicians". He started to play the guitar in the 1940s and currently lives near Kumase in Ghana. "In my songs I am teaching moral and they are so touching, that if somebody has a knife in his hand and is about to kill somebody, he will put down his knife." Admission: 10 Eur, students: 7 Eur.

If you want to be up-to-date concerning Africa-related events in Southern Germany you should regularly check Afrika in Bayern

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N108 LIBAN (Beyrouth) Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO)

Les candidats à ce poste doivent être titulaires d'un doctorat et être engagés dans une recherche sur le Proche-Orient, de préférence sur le Liban, dans une discipline de sciences sociales du contemporain (économie, droit, science politique, sociologie...). Le poste est ouvert aux membres de l'enseignement supérieur ou d'un organisme de recherche français, ainsi qu'à des candidats européens francophones d'un niveau équivalent.

N109 LIBAN (Beyrouth) Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO)

Les candidats à ce poste doivent être titulaires d'un doctorat et être engagés dans une recherche de sciences sociales qui concerne le Proche-Orient contemporain et qui puisse s'intégrer aux programmations de l'observatoire urbain de l'IFPO. Le poste est ouvert aux membres de l'enseignement supérieur ou d'un organisme de recherche français, ainsi qu'à des candidats européens francophones d'un niveau équivalent.

Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 31 janvier 2003. Site web du ministère des affaires étrangères

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Humboldt University Berlin will accept (depending on funding from the Volkswagen Stiftung) up to 30 students for enrolment in its Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Masters Program "Central Asia/Caucasia". Read more ...

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The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin's Working Group Modernity and Islam invites scholars to apply for three postdoctoral fellowships for the project Cultural mobility in Near Eastern literatures Read more ...

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Because of the big success of the first meeting (which was held in November 2001 in Bonn, Germany), there will be a second Südamerikanistentreffen in Berlin, Germany from 25. to 27. April 2003. The location will be the Ethnological Museum in Berlin-Dahlem.

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