Dear colleagues,
it is our pleasure to inform you that thanks to the generous support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the EAA is able to offer you a grant to attend its 18th Annual Meeting in Helsinki, 29 August – 1 September 2012. Please find the relevant info and form attached and at http://www.eaa2012.fi/wenner_gren. Submissions are welcome before 4 June 2012 at eaa@arup.cas.cz.
Fifth IEMA Visiting Scholar Conference on “Approaching Monumentality in the Archaeological Record”, May 12-13, Buffalo, USA, http://e-a-a.org/docs/IEMA_Conference_Program.pdf
Recent conflicts in Europe, as well as abroad, have brought the deliberate destruction of the heritage of others, as a means of inflicting pain, to the foreground. With this has come the realisation that the processes involved and thus the long-term consequences are poorly understood. Heritage reconstruction is not merely a matter of design and resources – at stake is the re-visioning and reconstruction of people’s identities! This project has investigated the ways the destruction and subsequent selective reconstruction of cultural heritage impact on the way societies recover from war. With case studies in 5 European countries, the films presented by CRIC researchers give an introduction to research considering the following questions: What conditions and ideologies inspire the destruction of cultural heritage and what is selected for destruction? What are the consequences at local, national and regional levels of such destruction and the subsequent reconstruction of parts of people’s heritage?
http://www.cric.arch.cam.ac.uk/index.php
The latest issue of the European Journal of Archaeology (15.1 – April 2012) is now out!
There are more new articles, book reviews and opinions, including:
David Orton – Herding, Settlement, and Chronology in the Balkan Neolithic
Andre? Costopoulos, Samuel Vaneeckhout, Jari Okkonen, Eva Hulse, Ieva Paberzyte and Colin D. Wren – Social Complexity in the Mid-Holocene Northeastern Bothnian Gulf
Susanna Harris – From the Parochial to the Universal: Comparing Cloth Cultures in the Bronze Age
Fiona Shapland and Ian Armit – The Useful Dead: Bodies as Objects in Iron Age and Norse Atlantic Scotland
Rhea Brettell, Jane Evans, Sonja Marzinzik, Angela Lamb and Janet Montgomery – ‘Impious Easterners’: Can Oxygen and Strontium Istotopes Serve as Indicators of Provenance in Early Medieval European Cemetery Populations?
Nina Witoszek – The World after Thor Heyerdahl: Challenges to Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century
Take a closer look at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/eja or via the EAA website, which provides members with full access to the EJA.
And if you’d like to contribute a paper, follow the Instructions for Authors on http://www.maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/eja/
About 30 universities in the UK have thriving departments or sections where archaeology is taught. They meet together regularly in the Subject Committee for Archaeology (SCFA – www.universityarchaeology.org.uk) to discuss matters of common concern and share experience. SCFA liaises with other subject committees (such as Classics or Geography), and represents the University teaching departments collectively to government bodies and in national committees such as the UK’s Archaeology Training Forum. The EAA is keen to know about similar commitees in other European Countries, and any relevant information should be sent to the EAA Secretariat.
The International Society for the Study of Time
Fifteenth Triennial Conference
Time and Trace
June 30 – July 6, 2013
Orthodox Academy of Crete
http://www.oac.gr/htm/main_en.html
Call for Papers
Proposals (300 words) due by June 30th, 2012
The International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) seeks proposals for presentations at its 2013 conference on the island of Crete, on the theme of Time and Trace. The ISST, renowned for its interdisciplinary scope, welcomes contributions from all scholarly, creative, or professional perspectives. Our format features plenary presentations delivered over several days, creating a sustained, interdisciplinary engagement among participants.
If time is a river, it etches its courses through many substrates: physical, biological, social, cognitive. Although we are sensible of the more obvious tracks in our histories, contexts and lives, many of the traces of these are subtle or brief, but no less profound in their making and influence. Etymologically, Trace is tractus (L) (and perhaps tragen (G)), ‘drawn’, ‘pulled’ or ‘carried’, whence ‘traction’ and ‘attraction’. It is also trait (F), ‘line’, ‘outline’, ‘feature’ and ri-tratto (I), ‘por-trait’; Trace is what happens when a point becomes, in time, a line; and therefore is graphein (Gr.), to trace or draw. It is also traccia (I), ‘spoor’, ‘trail’ or ‘track’. Tractare (L) is ‘to treat’ any subject narratively, as in a ‘tract’ or ‘tractate’. Works of literature were also called “brush traces” (hisseki) in Japanese.
We invite scholars, artists and educators to contribute to and co-create an interdisciplinary exploration of ‘Time and Trace,’ a theme that may stimulate reflection from many fields of inquiry, including (but certainly not limited to): physics & cosmology, geology, chemistry, music, drawing & painting, literature & litemedrary theory, the biological and cognitive sciences, archeology & paleontology, anthropology, engineering, philosophy.
Possible topics:
Guidelines and Timeline for Proposals: Proposals will be for 20 – 30 minute presentations in diverse formats: scholarly paper, debate, performance, overview of creative work, installation, workshop. Proposals for interdisciplinary panels are especially welcome (each paper for a panel must be approved by the selection committee). In this latter case, three speakers might present divergent points of view around a central topic, and be responded to by a moderator. All work will be presented in English, and should strike a balance between expertise in an area of specialization and accessibility to a general intellectual audience.
Proposals, approximately 300 words in length, are submitted electronically. The author’s name(s) should not appear in the proposal, as the ISST does blind reviewing in selecting papers for its conferences. The deadline for submission is June 30th, 2012, with acceptances communicated by November 1, 2012. The Society also seeks session chairs, whose names will be included on the printed conference program.
To submit proposals, go to the ISST website:
http://www.studyoftime.org/forms/confsubmit.aspx
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European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, 14th International Conference, 18-21 Sept 2012, Dublin, Ireland http://e-a-a.org/EurASEAA14.pdf
The music-cultural centre Hellenikon Idyllion in Selianitika, Greece – Project for students of archaeology http://e-a-a.org/docs/project_greece.pdf
Dear colleagues,
We would like to inform you, that a new issue of the IANSA (Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica – Nature Science in Archaeology) Journal is available on-line first at www.iansa.eu.
We would like to remind you that the deadline for the next issue, which is dedicated to Marek Zvelebil in memoriam, is on 31st March 2012.
We are glad to announce, that the IANSA Journal cooperates with the Conference of the Teoretical Archaeology, which takes place in Mikulov (South Moravia, Czech Republic) in autumn this year (October 24-26).
Call for sessions available at: http://theoryandmethod.gofs.cz/
Best regards,
Ondrej Mlejnek, IANSA executive editor
