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Going to London in the next five months? Prices are cheap at the moment. If you do, don't miss a huge aztec exhibition (multilingual website) from the Royal Acadamy of Art at the Picadilly Circus, which opens this saturday. The Independent reports.

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"75 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide. A service of the University Library Karlsruhe." From a study-project at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) grew an immense powerful meta-search interface for online library catalogues: The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog. A more than comprehensive search site allows you to simultaneously search in nearly every available online-catalogue -- you can choose in which catalogues the engine shall search for you. Included are among numerous others: French National Library, Library of Congress, British National Library, Antiquariat-nets, and even the professional booksellers' catalogues. Due to its architecture and to the priority-connections the search engine maintains, it's oftentimes faster to search via KVK than to directly search in a library's online-catalogue! There are english, spanish, and german versions of the KVK, and those with or without Java. Because of that the KVK works with less powerful connections, too. But you can reach all that intuitively from its start page where you can find FAQs in several languages, too. One of the interesting 'bonus-features' is a clear list of special catalogues.

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Since 1997 the Institute for Ethnology at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) maintains a website which informs about the lectures, bibliographies (the bibliography-subpage goes back until 1989) and publications of the institute. The categories "Nouvelles brèves" and "On nous pries d'annoncer" contain current news on conferences, exhibitions, job-opportunities, etc. In the french-speaking world the subpage Liens ethno/anthro is known as one of the best online-resources for social/cultural anthropology. [I just visited the site and have to say that it offers even much more -- also for the non-french-speaking. zephyrin]

Institut d'ethnologie (Neuchâtel) L'Institut d'ethnologie de l'Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse) a ouvert un site Internet en 1997, qui vous présente ses programmes des cours, bibliographies, publications. Les rubriques "Nouvelles brèves" et "On nous prie d'annoncer" vous informent sur l'actualité, les conférences, expositions, appels à contributions, offres d'emploi etc. La page des liens www.unine.ch est reconnue comme l'une des meilleures de l'espace francophone. La page des bibliographies vous offrent des données depuis 1989.

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Starting in two days in Bayreuth: A conference about the Audience of Images - Visual Publics in Africa and Beyond: "While the recent increase of studies in the realm of visual culture has led to new and exiting insights in the role of images as active agents in the political economy of desire and the shaping of social movements in colonial and postcolonial Africa, the issue of the audience of these images remains a vexing question. All too often respective statements with regard to the actual effect of images on a given public are based more on assumptions than on empirically grounded arguments." Read more / Conference Program...

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... and without doubt they are planning to do this also in in foreign sovereign territory. The plan has been established under the Information Awareness Office and officially fights the terror. In german Telepolis and Spiegel reports, in english there is some information at Infoworld.

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The government of Chile and Endesa, the energy company owned by the Spanish-controlled Enersis Group, are planning to build a barrage at the river Bio-Bio. The Pehuenches most probably have to flee the flooding of their ancestors land, even if formally protected by indigenous laws. But, as so often in such cases, it's also a story about corruption and relations between government and companies. More at the Miami Herald.

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Since May 2001 the "Institut für Ethnologie" of the University of Heidelberg, Germany maintains an online-project which strives to become the central resource for social/cultural anthropologists and ethnographers in german-speaking Europe. The central goals of the project are: 1) Positioning topics of social/cultural anthropology in the media, 2) Ignite a closer working relationship of anthropological museums and institutes, and -- most important -- 3) Create a network of social/cultural anthropology in the german-speaking sphere. Hence the central website of the project is called ethnOnet (On the same page a collection of links to every institute and museum (in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) concerned with social/cultural anthropology is to be found. The main thrust to create the network envisioned stems from ethnOnet's database of german-speaking experts in social/cultural anthropology, which is still growing.

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Munich: The studentic 'workgroup film' of Munich's "Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikanistik" shows the film "Vergeef me – Forgive me" by filmmaker Cyrus Frisch from the Netherlands. Mr Frisch's film deals with the topic of 'watching people suffering in the media'. To make the audience aware of the acceptance of mediated cruelty, Frisch goes beyond the accepted means of filmmaking. He visits those who live at the fringe of society, looks upon them in empty factory-buildings or drags them on stage. The result is a disturbing hybrid consisting of documentary and reality-soap elements. In the end he tries to answer the questions concerning the ethics of his film, of making documentaries, and of the media in general. "Forgive Me" already was shown at numerous high-class filmfestivals and now can be seen at our institute (Room Nr. 1.05) on Tuesday the 19. November 2002 at 19:45h. Admission is free. The workgroup has contacted Mr Frisch and still hopes that it will be possible for him to be present!

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Peruvian divers have found pre-Inca stairways, ramps and walls beneath the waters of Lake Titicaca, but experts said on Wednesday the discoveries were not the remains of a legendary lost city., reports Reuters.

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The skeletons of colonialism may get a decent burial at last: Body parts trundled back from all corners of the globe and displayed like mere ornaments are among the exhibits most popular with visitors to British collections. James Morrison [The Independent] reports on moves to give other cultures' ancestors a more dignified end. Update:Link repaired.

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