Archive for the ‘Other conferences’ Category

CFP: Experimental Archaeology conference

Friday, May 9th, 2008

A Conference hosted by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh on Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November 2008. Papers and posters proposals for the conference are warmly invited as well as applications to attend The conference will be held over the weekend of 15th-16th November ...

Conference: Archaeologies of the Everyday

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

University of Sheffield, 3–5 June 2008 Archaeologists have tended to associate ‘the everyday’ with the mundane and the routine, to assume that we can readily understand it, and to oppose it to ritual. However, recent developments both in theory and in historical practice make it clear that it is now time ...

WAC6 Update

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

An update on WAC-6 from Gabriel Cooney: SIXTH WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS (WAC-6), DUBLIN, JUNE 29-JULY 4 2008 Dear Colleagues, The WAC-6 Organising Committee warmly invites you to join us in Dublin this summer for what promises to be an exciting Congress! The main venue for the academic programme is the campus of University ...

CFP: Wetland Archaeology and Movement

Friday, January 18th, 2008

We have received from the following calls for papers from Andrea Vianello: I am co-organising two sessions - one was not enough - that will be held at the forthcoming sixth World Archaeological Congress, WAC-6 Congress. Both sessions are registered under the theme "Wetland Archaeology Across the World". They are ...

Call for papers: Interpreted Iron Ages

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Case studies, method, theory 3. Linzer Gespräche zur interpretativen Eisenzeitarchäologie Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum Linz, Austria 14 – 16 November 2008 The aims of European Iron Age archaeologies are not only to classify material remains of the Iron Age past according to typological and chronological frameworks, but also to explain the societies that produced these remains. ...

Call for Posters: 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology

Friday, January 4th, 2008

A message from Martina Della Riva: Call for Posters: 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology Rome, Italian and foreign Archaeological Research Institutes 22-26 September 2008 The Organising Committee of the 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology invites all archaeologists, scholars, postgraduate students and academics to submit proposals for posters around the theme: ...

IFA 2008 in Swansea

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Kathryn Whittington informs us about the forthcoming meeting of the Institute of Field Archaeologists, 18-20 March, in Swansea: The 2008 Annual Conference will be held at the University of Swansea from 18-20 March 2008. The Provisional Programme is now available and conference bookings can be made by sending a copy ...

CFP: Saami Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Tiina Aikas informs about a forthcoming conference, "Máttut - máddagat - The Roots of Saami ethnicities, societies and spaces / places", to held in Oulu, Finland, on the 4th-6th September 2008: Máttut - máddagat is an international and multidisciplinary conference. The aim of the conference is to approach the subject of ...

CFP: Cultural Heritage and Impact Assessment Workshop

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

We have received the following communication from Arlene Fleming and Julio de Jesus: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) are intended to provide an integrated analysis of the biophysical, social and cultural heritage impacts of development projects or strategies. Methods for identifying and considering biophysical ...

Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Linda Fibiger informs us about a forthcoming conference in Oxford, "Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective", 14-15 March 2008: Until quite recently interpersonal violence was considered a marginal area of research for the European Neolithic. The large number of recent publications on the subject shows that this has changed, but at ...