Click on the link below to read an article in the Brown Daily Herald about the Joukowsky Institute’s time capsule burial at Rhode Island Hall on November 19, 2008.
Brown Daily Herald
Month: November 2008
SECOND CALL FOR SESSIONS AND PAPERS
Stanford Archaeology Center is pleased to announce the second US meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG)
May 1-3, 2009
Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
http://archaeology.stanford.edu/TAG2009
Stanford University will host the second US meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) on the weekend of May 1-3 2009. The intention of this TAG conference is to provide a forum for the diverse and interesting theoretical perspectives that exist in the United States, and to bring together both Classical and anthropological archaeology. TAG was founded in Great Britain in 1979 with the aim of exploring inter-disciplinary theoretical issues, promoting debate, discussion of their application and use for archaeological interpretation. It has always been an exploratory venue for progressive and innovative archaeological research. The annual conference meeting is an important part of the TAG mission and these meetings have recently started at universities in the United States, with the 2008 meeting being held at Columbia University in New York City.
TAG is centered around a plenary session in which a handful of scholars will comment on this year’s theme, “The Future of Things”. Our speakers include Rosemary Joyce (University of Berkeley), Stephen Shennan (University College London), Webb Keane (University of Michigan), and Michael Schiffer (University of Arizona).
Sessions on any theoretical theme are welcome and are not dictated by the plenary session. Session organizers will be responsible for selecting speakers and organizing abstracts. There are several format options, such as sessions, workshops, or roundtable discussions and these can either be half-day (6-10 papers) or full day sessions (12-18 papers). Individuals should contact session organizers for participation in a specific themed session.
If you are interested in organizing a session or submitting a paper, the final deadline for session abstract submissions is November 15th, 2008 and the deadline for paper abstracts is February 15th, 2009. The list of sessions is regularly updated on the TAG website http://archaeology.stanford.edu/TAG2009. If you are intending to submit a paper abstract rather than a session proposal, please review the list of sessions, choose one whose theme fits your paper, and contact the session organizers directly.
Stanford TAG 2009 organizational committee
TAG2009(at)stanford.edu
From Pella to Gandhara: Hybridisation and Identity in the Art and Architecture of the Hellenistic East
A graduate student conference held at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford on April 18, 2009. The Hellenistic age was a time of monumental shifts in terms of population, mobility, and political boundaries. Greek culture came into direct contact with the civilizations of the East, transforming both and creating a unique civilization with elements from both the Hellenic and eastern worlds. To what extent this is reflected in the material and visual record is an ongoing research question that we are keen to address in this conference.
Some of the questions we would like to address are as follows: How deeply were the peoples of the East influenced by Greek culture? How were Greek settlers in the realms of the former Persian empire influenced by local cultures and traditions? Did hybrid cultures emerge in some parts of the East as a result of the direct contact between the Greek world and the East? Was Hellenization a politically imposed program designed to increase the support base of the ruling dynasts or local satraps? Did it only benefit small elites or was it a broader cultural phenomenon with a wider impact? Alternatively, is Hellenization simply a modern term that emerged as a result of colonial and post-colonial discourses?
The organizers of the conference welcome papers from doctoral students on all aspects of the art, architecture, and archaeology of the Hellenistic age that deal with the above questions. The papers should be 20 minutes in length. There will be 10 minutes allocated for discussion. The organizers hope that the papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the near future.
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words with your name, department, institution and e-mail address to Anna Kouremenos, anna.kouremenos(at)lincoln.ox.ac.uk no later than January 20, 2009. Questions about the conference should be addressed to the organizers: Anna Kouremenos, Roberto Rossi, roberto.rossi(at)lincoln.ox.ac.uk, or Suji Chandrasekaran, sujatha.chandrasekaran(at)lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Accepted speakers will be notified by February 10, 2009. Limited funding may be available for overseas students.
The Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania welcomes submissions for its first annual graduate student conference, “Ancient Cultures in Contact: Catalysts for Change”, scheduled for 20-21 March 2009. When interactions between ancient cultures are characterized as confrontations with inevitable ‘winners’ and ‘losers’, one group emerges to dominate political, cultural, and historical discourse. However, such a view tends to overlook or oversimplify the extent to which cultures and ethnic groups influence one another. This interaction often mutually influenced each culture in areas as broad as economy, material culture, literature and the arts, and government.
This conference aims to discuss the appearance and results of cultural contact broadly, as found throughout the ancient world. While the term ‘ancient’ has different connotations in every discipline and can imply different chronological parameters, nevertheless, its fundamental connotations are relatively stable: e.g., a period of considerable remoteness of time and radical changes in cultural paradigms in such basic areas of human activity and experience as technology, economics, and epistemology. These common principles that underlie conceptions of ‘ancient’ are the focus of the Center for Ancient Studies. To this end, submissions are encouraged from graduate students working in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Assyriology, Ancient History, Classical Studies, East Asian Studies, Egyptology, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and pre-Columbian studies. Submissions are welcome from, though not limited to, the following focuses:
• Trade (influence on material culture and religion, exchange of information and ideas, etc)
• Warfare
• Language influence and language change
• Religious syncretism
• Law
• Colonization (both internal and external)
• Travel and exploration
• Diaspora
• Development of identity (from disparate groups, vis-a-vis The Other, etc)
• Memory
• Authority and Kingship
• Empire-building
• Technological acquisition
• Literary borrowing and influences
• Theoretical and methodological perspectives
Keynote speaker TBA.
March 20-21, 2009
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Philadelphia, PA
Interested speakers should submit a 300-word, double-spaced title and abstract by January 16, 2009 to ancient@sas.upenn.edu . Any inquiries regarding the conference may be sent to the same address.
A cement factory is planned to be built on the ancient city of Hierapolis Castabala in Plain Cilicia, at present Çukurova Plain, Turkey. Local interested parties and NGOs have already taken action filing complaints againts the company of the cement factory Universal Çimento A.Ş. -(In July 2008 merged into Spanish Essentium Group).
Please visit the new web page for more info set up by the Protest Campaign in Turkish. http://www.osmaniyearkeolojikmiras.com For those who wish to support the campaign please sign the petition http://www.osmaniyearkeolojikmiras.com/kastabala.html
Registration and abstract submission is now open for the Geoarchaeology conference to be held in Sheffield UK next year (April 15-17th). Full details about this conference, how to submit abstracts, how to register, information about getting to Sheffield and where to stay are on the conference website which can be found at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scidr/geoarchaeology2009
Keynote speakers include Prof. Iain Stewart on “Seismic Faults and Sacred Sanctuaries – cultural responses to earthquakes in Antiquity”, Prof. Tony Wilkinson on “Theoretical perspectives on the role of human agency in Landscape Geoarchaeology” and Professor Michael R. Waters.
The conference organizing committee looks forward to you registering for what we hope will be an exciting and stimulating conference and to welcoming you to Sheffield. Please contact us with any questions at: Geoarch@sheffield.ac.uk
We wanted to inform you about the Women Divers Hall of Fame Cecelia Connelly Memorial Scholarship for Underwater Archaeology. Mary Connelly contacted us about this scholarship which was named after my mother. Cecelia Connelly had a deep and abiding fascination with history, archaeology and the ocean. She had been a diving instructor of some repute and had been inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2000. When she died of cancer in 2003, her family set up this scholarship within the Women Divers Hall of Fame, as she had been a very proud member of the organization.
The scholarship is for $2500, to be used to support a woman graduate or undergraduate student, currently enrolled and in good standing, in an accredited academic program in Underwater Archaeology.The information on the website, details not only the process for applying for the Cecelia Connelly scholarship, but also the complete list of scholarships available through the Women Divers Hall of Fame. The website is www.wdhof.org/index2.shtml and all applications are due November 15, 2008. If you or anyone you know has any questions please contact Mary Connelly at Mary_Connelly@uml.edu.
If you know of a female student who might be interested in this scholarship, please let them know about this opportunity.
The Embassy of the United States is now accepting project proposals
for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2009
competition.
The deadline for submitting proposals is December 01, 2008. The
program is being administered by the Cultural Heritage Center of the
Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State.
Since FY 2001, Congress has directed the Department of State to support
and implement the AFCP. Congress has noted that “Cultural preservation
offers an opportunity to show a different American face to other
countries. By taking a leading role in efforts to preserve cultural
heritage, we show our respect for other cultures.” U.S. Ambassadors in
eligible developing countries may submit proposals for projects that
help countries preserve their cultural heritage.
1. PROJECT CATEGORIES: AFCP supports preservation projects in
the following three categories:
(A) CULTURAL OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS from a museum, site, or
similar institution;
(B) CULTURAL SITES;
(C) FORMS OF TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSION.
The CULTURAL OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS category (A) includes
archaeological and ethnographic objects, paintings, sculpture,
manuscripts, photographic and film collections, and general museum
conservation activities. Proposals in this
category may involve, for example, conservation treatment for an object
or collection of objects; needs assessment of a collection with respect
to its condition and strategies for
improving its state of conservation; inventory of a collection for
conservation purposes; the creation of safe environments for storage or
display of collections; or
specialized training in the care and preservation of collections.
The CULTURAL SITES category (B) includes (but is not limited
to) historic buildings and sites, sacred places, monuments,
and archaeological sites. Proposals in this category may
involve, for example, restoration of an historic building, an
archaeological survey as a component of a preservation plan,
preservation management planning for a site, or documentation
of sites in a region for preservation purposes.
The FORMS OF TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSION category (C)
includes traditional music, rituals, knowledge, languages,
dance, drama, and crafts. Proposals in this category may
involve documenting and audiovisual recording of traditional
music and dance forms as part of a traditional expression and
making the information and recordings available, or support
for training in the preservation of traditional arts or
crafts that are threatened by extinction.
PHASED AND PILOT PROJECTS: The Cultural Heritage Center
invites submissions of proposals for phased and pilot cultural
preservation projects whose methods and outcomes will advance long-term
cultural preservation
objectives, lay the groundwork for subsequent AFCP-supported
activities, or encourage the continued or expanded application of proven
methods at the project site or elsewhere.
2. EXCLUSIONS: AFCP does not support the following:
(A) Preservation or purchase of privately or commercially
owned cultural objects, collections, or real property
(B) Conservation of natural heritage (physical, biological,
and geological formations, paleontological collections,
habitats of threatened species of animals and plants,
fossils, etc.)
(C) Preservation of news media (newspaper, newsreels, etc.)
(D) Archaeological excavations or surveys for research
purposes
(E) Historical research, except in cases where historical
research is justifiable and integral to the success of the
proposed project
(F) Construction of new buildings
(G) Commissions of new works of art or performances for
commemorative or economic development purposes
(H) Acquisition or creation of new collections for new or
existing museums
(I) Creation of replicas or re-creation of cultural objects
or sites that no longer exist
(J) Relocation of cultural sites from one physical location
to another
(K) Digitization of cultural objects or collections, unless
part of a larger, clearly defined conservation effort
(L) Removal of cultural objects or elements of cultural sites
from the country for any reason
(M) Cash reserves, endowments or revolving funds; funds must
be expended within the award period and may not be used to
create an endowment or revolving fund or otherwise spent over
many years
(N) Costs of fund-raising campaigns for preservation
(O) Costs for administrative time or materials not directly
related to performing project work
(P) Costs of work performed prior to announcement of the award
(Q) Contingency or miscellaneous fees
(R) Administrative staff or administrative fees greater than
5% of the overall project costs
(S) International travel, except in cases where travel for
outside specialists is justifiable and integral to the
success of the proposed project (international travel will be
considered on a case-by-case basis)
(T) Projects totaling less than US $10,000
(U) Awards to individuals.
As a general rule, AFCP does not support independent U.S.
projects abroad.
3. PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS: As in previous years, project
proposals must include or address the following:
(A) Purpose and summary;
(B) Description;
(C) Timeframe;
(D) Statement of significance;
(E) Statement of urgency;
(F) Rationale for U.S. support;
(G) Detailed project budget;
(H) Recipient information;
(I) Resumes of the project director and professional staff;
(J) Official permission to undertake the project;
(K) Other funding sources, if any;
(L) At least three digital images (JPEGs) or audiovisual
files of the site, object, or form of expression to be
addressed in the proposed project.
Recipients (grantees) must be non-governmental organizations,
museums, ministries of culture, or similar institutions.
The Center strongly encourages proposals that include local
non-U.S. government cost-sharing (including in-kind) from
sources such as governments, international organizations, and
the private sector.
4. SUBMISSIONS: The deadline for submitting Turkey project proposals is
December 01, 2008. Note that this date is earlier than in previous
years. Full implementation of the program is pending the availability
of FY 2009 funds. Proposal must be submitted to the Embassy of the
United States in Ankara in electronic format to the following addresses:
mckayme@state.gov and taskins@state.gov.
CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS
Anthropological and Archaeological Imaginations: past, present and
future
University of Bristol, 6th-9th April 2009.
The Association of Social Anthropologists 09 conference will take place
at the University of Bristol, 6th-9th April. The aim of this conference
is to stimulate a major reconsideration of the complex links which
obtain between social anthropology and archaeology. Though social
anthropology has had an uneasy relationship with archaeology we believe
that the transformations that both disciplines have experienced in
recent decades mean that it is time to overcome this reticence, indeed
that there are many reasons; intellectual, epistemological,
methodological and practical, to do so. All submissions are welcome,
whether from the theoretical or ethnographic point of view.
Considerations which take into account the experience of four-field
anthropology from an international perspective are also very welcome.
We would expect panel proposals to be submitted by 1st December,
please. Amongst the special events already decided is the key-note
address (Monday 6th April), which will be delivered by Prof. Michael
Herzfeld. Invited speakers with regard to the first plenary that follows
include Prof. Chris Hann, Prof. Tim Ingold, and Prof. Rosemary Joyce. On
Day 2, Prof. Ian Hodder will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the
University, preceded by a special lecture: ‘Archaeology and
Anthropology: the state of the field’. Further events include the ASA
Raymond Firth Lecture (Prof. Guha-Thakurta), and the RAI Presidential
Address (Prof. Roy Ellen).
The call for panels may be accessed here
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa09/. We do not wish to be
prescriptive, but the sort of thing that may be of interest would be the
exploration of the contrasts and complementarities between the two
disciplines historically and today; the study of ruins or the
ethnographic exploration of multiple interactions with the past;
diffusion and the transformation of culture; contrasting uses and ways
of interpreting material culture within the two disciplines, and so on.
More details on these themes may be found here
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa09/theme.htm. Queries may be
addressed to conference(a)easa.org.
