Dear Friends in Heritage –
We have just opened applications for the 2018 season!
All of our popular projects are returning. And, as in the past, field schools are taking place at archaeological sites in Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia and across Bulgaria. The projects span across all the major cultures and civilizations that once existed across the Balkans: from Neolithic farmers and Europe’s first civilization in the Copper age through Ancient Greek, Thracian, Roman and Byzantine civilizations.
In addition to excavation projects, there are conservation workshops in Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia and Greece covering Ancient Greek pottery, Roman and Late Antique pottery and glass, Roman mosaics and wall-paintings and Textiles, Paper & Metal.
And, our ‘Fresco-Hunting’ photo expedition will continue to explore medieval churches in the Balkans.
Also coming this season are our newest courses in underwater archaeology and vernacular architecture. Look for more information on these soon.
Register now to take advantage of Early Bird pricing!
We look forward to welcoming you to the Balkans in 2018!
Apply today!
The Balkan Heritage Foundation along with the National Archaeological Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are excited to host two Fulbright student researchers for the 2017-18 academic year. These are USA PhD students Ashlee Hart and Matthew Schueller, both Balkan Heritage Field School alumni. Read more…
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ACOR Fellowship Opportunities for the 2018–2019 academic year are now online and the application portal is open. ACOR promotes study, teaching, and increased knowledge of ancient and Middle Eastern studies with Jordan as a focus.
We encourage you to share these opportunities widely with your networks. Complete information about all the ACOR Fellowships is online at https://www.acorjordan.org/about-acor-fellowships/.
ACOR is offering in this cycle:
- 2 – 3 residential fellowships for post-doctoral researchers for research or work leading to an academic publication
- 2 – 4 residential fellowships for pre-doctoral graduate students to fund dissertation research in Jordan
- 8 awards variously for travel, research, or accommodation for American and international students participating in ASOR affiliated archaeological projects in Jordan
- 7 awards for Jordanian undergraduate and graduate students pursuing studies in the sphere of cultural heritage and archaeology
- 2 awards for a Jordanian scholar or working professional to travel to the USA and present a paper at the the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research which will be held in Denver, Colorado in November, 2018 .
- 1 award for ACOR alumni of any nationality to present a paper in the USA at the annual Middle East Studies Association conference which will be held in San Antonio, Texas in November 15–18, 2018.
The deadline for applications is February 1, 2018 and awards will be announced by mid-April 2018.
You may also like to :
Download a flyer about the ACOR 2018–2019 Fellowships.
Read about recent ACOR Fellows and their research.
Image above: Balloons over Wadi Rum, Jordan. Photo by Jane Taylor.
CHRONIKA
Volume 8, Spring 2018
Chronika is an interdisciplinary, open access journal for graduate students studying the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Chronika, like its parent organization the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (www.iema.buffalo.edu), encourages interdisciplinary dialogues and innovative approaches to the study of the past.
Call for Submissions
Chronika welcomes submissions from graduate students that address topics relevant to European and Mediterranean archaeology. Articles must be 3,000 to 4,000 words in length, should detail research at or above the Masters level, and may include up to ten images. To have your article considered for this year’s publication, please submit a 100 to 200 word abstract to chronika@buffalo.edu by Friday, October 27, 2017. You will be notified if your article is selected by October 27. The publication schedule will proceed as follows:
December 15 – First draft of full article is due.
January 5 – Article is returned to author with comments.
February 16 – Revised article is due.
April 6 – Chronika launches in print and online.
A hard copy is mailed to each author shortly after this time.
Thank you for your interest in Chronika, and we look forward to receiving your submission. Please direct any inquiries to chronika@buffalo.edu.
Heather Rosch
Editor in Chief
Please visit Chronika on the web at www.chronikajournal.com
Hello Everyone,
We are proud to inform that our offer for 2018 is ready! We would like to get everyone involved in our archaeology adventures, for that reason we offer you more than 20 international programs focusing on archaeology, anthropology, GIS, underwater archaeology, archaeological techniques of drawing, photography and digital illustration, conservation, art, museums and archaeological film.
We love challenges at Sanisera so this year we have new underwater courses and we will be diving even deeper to make new and amazing discoveries!
046: Underwater Archaeology in Sanitja harbor & Dig in the Roman city of Sanisera (Menorca, Spain)
047: Advanced Underwater Archaeology in the Mediterranean Island of Menorca (Spain)
048: Extended Underwater Archaeology Program (Menorca, Balearic Island, Spain)
And don´t worry about your credits we will work with your university in order to get them for you!
Dont hesitate to apply as soon as posible by clicking on the link below as the spaces are limited: http://archaeology.institute/sanisera-archaeology-institute-application-form.asp
Please contact us for any inquiries of questions that you may have.
Kind regards,
FERNANDO CONTRERAS
Director of the institution
Sanisera Archaeology Institute
for International Field Schools
Webpage: http://archaeology.institute
Email: sanisera@arrakis.es
Phone: +1 347 8710963
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisera
“La Biagiola” International School of Archaeology, in Sovana di Sorano (GR) Tuscany, Italy
An exciting three-week program uncovering ancient Etruscan, Roman, and Lombard civilization!
In winter archaeological work doesn’t stop! There’s plenty of catalog, analysis, survey, and study activity to do. Not to mention a little bit of digging, weather permitting! The “la Biagiola” program is open to any archaeology or anthropology students, or simply to students interested in learning more about the subject. We provide an exciting opportunity for a first-hand experience in archaeological fieldwork. You’ll take part in the study of an ancient site in Tuscany,
working alongside expert archaeologists and others foreign students.
The school will provide a complete formation in findings classifying, drawing and studying, standing building archaeology, survey, and medieval castles studies. This program is offered in collaboration with the cultural heritage office of Tuscany, the regional authority that manages archaeological sites and monuments. In addition to the archaeological experience, you will be able to enjoy a wide range of cultural sites, historical monuments, natural sites, and to experience the enchanting atmosphere of the winter holidays in Tuscany.
For further information, see the attached dossier, visit www.culturaterritorio.org , or contact presidente@culturaterritorio.org
ACT_Dossier_Winter_School_12_10_17
Call for Papers
ARCE Annual Meeting
ARCE members who wish to present papers, panels, or a graduate student poster at the 69th ARCE Annual Meeting, April 20-22, 2018 in Tucson, Arizona, may now begin submitting abstracts.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 19 at midnight Pacific Time.
Submissions must be received via ARCE’s All Academic site. Review submission guidelines and complete your entry here.
The Review Committee is comprised of scholars in both ancient and modern Egyptian studies. The committee will employ a double-blind vetting process; neither reviewers nor submitters will be informed of each others’ identities. In order to preserve the blind review component, text of abstracts should not include personally identifiable information.
All presenters must be ARCE members in good standing. Please renew memberships online at arce.org/membership or contact info@arce.org.
Information on the 2018 Annual Meeting will be posted at arce.org/annualmeeting in early 2018.
We look forward to receiving your abstract!
Call for Abstracts
2018 CREOR Colloquium on Religion and Violence
Conference Topic: Religion and Violence: Sources, History, and the Contemporary World
Co-chairs: Gerbern S. Oegema and André Gagné
Dates: April 17-20, 2018
Location: McGill University and Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Submission Deadline: January 1st, 2018.
Contact: creor2018rv@gmail.com
This colloquium seeks to reexamine the relationship between religion and violence in the contemporary world by reflecting on the traditional scriptural sources that are often ascribed to religious violence.
Participants are encouraged to submit papers that reflect on the following questions and themes: How has the understanding of the relationship between violence and religion changed over time? How does methodology shape the scholarship on religion and violence? Is religious violence different than secular/non-religious violence? By drawing attention to religious violence how has political discourse overlooked the religious victims of religious or secular violence? Is there a place for discussions of religious conceptions of non-violence in the scholarship on religion and violence? How can policy makers use scriptural sources to promote peace and social cohesion?
Themes and Categories:
Anti-terrorism and de-radicalization
Construction/ deconstruction of religion
Culture vs scripture
Culture of violence
Eastern vs Western religious violence
Effects of post-colonialism
Extremism and radicalization
Gender and sexuality
Gender and development
Methodological approaches to religion and violence
Pluralism
Political violence vs religious violence
Religion and community building
Radical environmentalism
Religious freedom vs control
Religion and globalization
Religion and nationalism
Religion and violence in the media
Ritual and violence
State security
Terrorism
The role of hermeneutics
Toleration
Violence and textual traditions
Violence in the name of secularity
Guidelines for proposals:
Please submit a 250-word abstract explaining the topic and main arguments of the paper by January 1st, 2018. All disciplines and fields welcome. Papers must engage in and contribute to the scholarly discourse; works of advocacy or mere summary will not be considered. Presentations may be in either English or French and should not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals should include all contact information including institutional affiliation. These proposals as well as any questions or requests for further information should be sent to the following address: creor2018rv@gmail.com
See full Call for Papers here:
CFP_Religion and Violence (eng)
XVIII° CONGRES UISPP PARIS JUIN 2018
Prehistoric Personal Adornment in Social and Economic Context
Claire Heckel, American Museum of Natural History – AMNH (US) (AMNH) – Central Park West at 79th Street New York,
NY 10024 – États-Unis
Solange Rigaud,CNRS PACEA (UMR5199) – Université de Bordeaux Université Bordeaux, Bâtiment B18, Avenue des
Facultés, 33405 Talence – France
Quartier latin, Paris, France
3-9 Juin 2018
Personal ornaments are polythetic artifacts that are intimately connected to identity, social organization, and ritualized material practices. Their analysis, when performed with appropriate tools, offers unique insights into the social organization of prehistoric societies and, when considered longitudinally, cultural evolution. Evidence that has been uncovered in the last twenty years has substantially altered the timeline for the emergence of symbolic behavior and also shown that instead of a sudden emergence, personal adornment has a complex and mosaic prehistory marked at certain times and places by intensified investment. The conditions that motivate investment in symbolic material culture are complex and varied, and untangling them is crucial to understanding the contribution of symbolic practices to the form and function of human societies. This session will focus on methods and approaches that further a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the factors that have influenced personal adornment production and use over time and space, going beyond typology and technology to examine broader economic, social, and cultural contexts. Examples are welcome from a wide range of contexts across pre- and proto-history, from hunter-gatherer bands of the Pleistocene to early pastoral and farming societies and including ethnographic and ethnohistorical examples, without geographic restriction. Contributions should focus on analytical methods and techniques (including microscopy and imaging, use-wear analysis, sourcing, morphometrics, GIS analysis, and statistical approaches) that contribute to discussions of production organization, social organization, demography, mobility, landscape use, technology, exchange, and cultural transmission. The primary focus of the session is beads and pendants in biogenic materials (tooth, shell, ivory, bone, antler, amber, ostrich eggshell), but we invite contributions based on other materials related to adornment such as minerals, metals, pigments, residues, and perishable materials
such as hide, sinew, and hair.
The general theme held for the congress is :
ADAPTATION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF PREHISTORIC AND PROTOHISTORIC SOCIETIES CONFRONTED TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Sub-Themes :
- Historiography
- Archaeological methods
- Archaeological theory
- Archaeological training
- Archaeological prospection
- Field archaeology
- Computing archaeology
- First Humans
- Lower Palaeolithic
- Middle palaeolithic
- Middle Stone Age
- Upper palaeolithic
- Final palaeolithic
- Mesolithic
- Neolithic
- Chalcolithic
- Metal ages
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Prehistoric art
- Rock Art
- Mobile Art
- Functional studies
- Manufacturing processes
- Lithic industries
- Bone industries
- Ceramics
- Palaeometallurgy
- Flint mining
- Raw material procurement
- DNA studies
- Geoarchaeology
- Archaeozoology
- Funerary archaeology
- Paleoanthropology
- Archeobotanics
- Archeometry
- Landscape archaeology
- Archaeology in the mountains
- Desert archaeology
- Tropical archaeology
- Absolute dating
- Paleoeconomy
- Heritage site management
- Rescue archaeology
- Cross-cutting themes
- The Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of Non-Litterate Societies
As for each UISPP World Congress, the Congress is open to all other sessions, regardless of the general theme above, which may be proposed in the context of the call for sessions.
For more information, visit: https://uispp2018.sciencesconf.org/
TAG Gainesville 2018 Theme: Matter Matters
Even as it has long aspired to legitimacy as a discipline of inquiry through an engagement with theory, archaeology as a practice is literally grounded in the physical matter that makes up the enduring traces of human existences. Theory is, by definition, conceptual or immaterial, but its productive application requires attention to matter. That is, matter matters. Matter has its own properties, agencies, vibrancies, durations, and biographies, all of which may lend support to, or alternatively constrain or resist, the various theoretical concepts archaeologists employ to orient their analyses and explications of human experiences. This theme is intended to encompass all the different aspects of matter—matter matters—in archaeology at all spatial and temporal scales, from molecules to landscapes, with a focus on human-matter interactions. A certain dynamism—as flow, perdurance, or transformation—is implied in attending to matter, which is never static. The virtual or potential properties of matter are actualized in both anthropogenic and environmental processes. They therefore have consequences for human intentions, practices, and projects. Economies, religions, and politics are shaped by the properties and spatial distributions of matter. Furthermore, archaeological analyses are driven by our discipline’s particular categorizations and measurements of matter, which will likely conflict with those of the peoples we investigate.
Call for Sessions and Papers
TAG Gainesville welcomes sessions and papers on any and all of these matters pertaining to human-matter interactions past and present. Suggested titles include the following as examples of theoretical approaches to matter: matter theory, matter metaphysics, matter politics, making/unmaking matter, matter alchemy, entangling matter, assembling matter, transforming matter/transforming selves, moving matter, bodily matters, living matter/decaying matter, matter methods, scaling matter, mind and matter, sensing matter, matter in time. Because matter as a construct evokes its opposite, sessions on anti-matter and virtual matter are equally welcome. Sessions may also address theories of matter for specific materials: lithic, ceramic, faunal, metal, soil, water, feather, horn, textile, and so forth. These sessions may incorporate demonstrations of working with matter; contact the organizers for information on special needs for such demonstrations.
Anyone can submit a proposal for a session that may include up to ten 20-minute papers. Proposals for sessions (title, organizer, and 250-word abstract) may be submitted with some or all of the session participants pre-identified, or they may leave it open to anyone contributing a paper who considers their topic relevant to the proposed session topic. Authors of contributed papers are asked to contact the session organizer(s) if they wish to present in that session. However, contributed papers on the theme “Matter Matters” can be submitted in the absence of any pre-organized session. Presenters of contributed papers should submit a title, list of authors, and 250 word abstract. Conference organizers reserve the right to assign contributed papers to appropriate sessions or create new sessions out of papers on a similar topic. A growing list of proposed sessions can be found under the “Session Abstracts” link of the TAG 2018 homepage. Go to the “Registration” link to upload proposals for sessions and papers, or to simply register as an attendee.
Contributors are allowed only one conference role as first author of a paper and one additional role as organizer, second author, or discussant.
Special Call for Artist’s Proposals
TAG Gainesville invites artists to present their original works as they relate to the theme “Matter Matters.” More information will be forthcoming regarding exhibition space and installation requirements.
If you have any questions about an organized session or contributed papers, please contact the conference organizers at taggainesville2018@gmail.com. The deadline to propose an organized session is January 15, 2018, and for all papers (contributed or identified as part of an organized session) is March 16, 2018.
The deadline to register and pay the pre-registration fee is March 16, 2018.
https://tag2018uf.clas.ufl.edu/
The Institute for Field Research (IFR) Ireland Ferrycarrig Program
We are Ireland’s leading provider of accredited, field-based archaeological research and training. The ethos of the school is to provide an opportunity for students of archaeology and anthropology to experience at first hand the excitement of archaeological excavation in a teaching environment.
Our archaeological and heritage include research projects in a number of locations in Ireland, including Co. Offally, Co. Wexford. Our new projects include, historical research, remote sensing and non-invasive survey, ground investigation and excavation. Our courses include programmes for novice and experienced students, internships, faulty led purpose-built programmes, and accredited programmes with partner organisations including the Institute for Field Research.
Whilst our programs are excavation-centered and aimed primarily at students of archaeology, anthropology and forensics, courses are open to all, and are guaranteed to give you an enriching and thoroughly worthwhile study abroad adventure.
This year the IAFS are launching an exciting new excavation at Carrick Castle (and settlement), the first Norman Castle in Ireland, constructed in 1169. The site is locating within the stunning confines of the Irish National Heritage Park, a 40 acre parkland featuring the largest open air museum in Ireland, in Wexford, southeast Ireland. The course is suitable for students from a wide range of backgrounds including archaeology, history, anthropology, experimental archaeology, medieval studies – or just students looking for a unique study abroad experience in general. The programme will include students of all ages and nationalities.
Most courses are open to undergraduate, graduate and post graduate students undertaking any major, and from any university in the world. Students must be 18 years or over, to participate. The courses are designed to support student development and are relevant to those who are not yet enrolled in university as well as current or graduate students.
For more information and to apply, visit our website: http://iafs.ie/
