The J. Paul Getty Museum is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 19th International Congress on Ancient Bronzes, which will be held at The J. Paul Getty Museum on October 13-17, 2015. The Congress is organized to coincide with, and be energized by, the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World on view at the Getty Center July 28 through November 1, 2015.
For more information on the International Congress, see:
http://www.getty.edu/museum/symposia/bronze_congress.html
The deadline for abstract submission is January 5, 2015.
Inquiries can be sent to: BronzeCongress2015@getty.edu
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The Department of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment in the art history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin in the fall of 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. Candidates should be able to teach courses in the field of eastern Mediterranean art history, architecture, and archaeology and should demonstrate high scholarly potential. (Candidates’ specialization may fall in any geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean and in any time period from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity.) Interest in cross-disciplinary teaching and research with faculty in other fields at the University of Maryland, as well as collaboration with curators at area museums, will be welcome. Candidates should have an interdisciplinary specialization in the art, archaeology, and sociocultural history of the eastern Mediterranean. A Ph.D. in Art History or a related field is required for appointment.
Faculty are expected to make significant contributions to knowledge through innovative research and publication, to teach and advise with excellence at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and to fulfill reasonable service obligations to the academic and local communities. We are looking for outstanding scholars with an interest in the broad context of the history of art and architecture in the eastern Mediterranean and who are committed to contributing diverse perspectives to the department, the university, and the community.
Applications should include a letter of application (with a brief statement of teaching philosophy), curriculum vitae, a graduate transcript, two writing samples, and the email address of 3 reference providers. (Writing samples might be scholarly articles or dissertation chapters. If including one or two dissertation chapters, please also include the dissertation’s introduction with one of these files.) Candidates must have Ph.D. in hand by July 31, 2015. Questions may be addressed to the Chair of the Search Committee, Professor Renée Ater, at rater@umd.edu. To assure full consideration, please submit all materials by November 21, 2014 through https://ejobs.umd.edu/. Where possible, we will conduct preliminary interviews at the annual meeting of the AIA/SCS in New Orleans, LA, January 8-11, 2015. This search is contingent upon available funding.
The University of Maryland, College Park actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation, or gender identity or expression. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
Call For Applications
Fellowships 2015-16; Deadline is Monday, December 8, 2014
The Italian Academy invites applications for a limited number of positions in its 2015-16 Fellowship program, which will be devoted to the project “Emotion, Embodiment and the History of Art and Music: Aesthetics, History and Anthropology.”
Given the exceptional number of recent applications addressing the relationship between these topics, the Academy has decided to dedicate an entire year to them. The aim is to bring together philosophers, anthropologists, and historians of culture, especially of the visual arts and music. Some members of the working group have already been selected from last year’s group of candidates.
In evaluating this year’s projects, special consideration will be given to proposals in the neurosciences relevant to the Academy’s ongoing project in Humanities and Neuroscience.
Fellowships are open to both U.S. and non-U.S. citizens at the post-doctoral and faculty level. Applications are encouraged from countries beyond Europe.
Fellows receive a stipend, health benefits, travel allowance and an office in the Academy.
Deadline: Monday, December 8, 2014.
Hardly a source could be found that is more important for the study of the Ancient society than the epigraphical monuments. This course provides a full treatment of the epigraphy as a historical discipline, which includes not only the introduction to it, but also a profound look into the ancient Roman society and a thorough study of all kinds of inscriptions and their peculiarities. The students will learn to use the newest methods of interpretation in their work with epigraphical documents, which will allow them to incorporate them into their future projects and researches in the fields of Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Philology as well as others.
Situated in lands that used to be a border between the East and the West of the Roman Empire and between the Greek and Latin speaking lands of the Ancient Europe, modern Bulgaria provides an excellent studying ground in the field. This course is a great opportunity for all who want to add to their knowledge a competence of reading, deciphering, understanding, publishing the Latin and Greek inscriptions of the ancient Roman world; or who are simply curious to get acquainted with the matters of the life and death, religion, politics, economy and social relations, matters, people expressed on stone.
MAIN TOPICS OF THE COURSE:
- Historical introduction to the History of the Ancient Roman society
- Theoretical lectures on the Greek and Latin inscriptions
- Field work with original inscriptions
- Making copies and imprints of the inscriptions
After the course the students would have acquired the following abilities:
- Proficiency in the social history of the Roman world
- Ability to incorporate inscriptions in their future projects
- Ability to publish and interpret ancient inscriptions
Details
- Course name The inscriptions of the Roman World
- Professional field: Classics, History, Archaeology
- Course type: Bachelor/Master
- Hours: Lectures 30 / Exercises 15
- Credits (ECTS): 4
Price: 1100 euro. Accommodation /see here/, transport, food and drinks included. For discount, check here.
Price with credits: 1360 euro.
Nota Bene: In order to offer our students a most convenient time and flexible schedules the course is divided in three sessions, including a combined one for those, who would also want to gain knowledge and experience in the particular field of numismatics.
- Duration: two weeks
- July session: 11– 25 July, 2015 August session –1 – 15 August, 2015
- Place: Bulgaria, Sofia & Montana
- Previous knowledge: Basic knowledge of Latin and / or Ancient Greek is recommendable
- Terms and conditions – here
Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Kalin Stoev, PhD
Course features: Lectures, exercises, travelling seminars
http://historyon.eu/epigraphy/
The CAORC 2014/2015 Multi-Country Research Fellowship and Andrew W. Mellon Mediterranean Research Fellowship are NOW OPEN and ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS!!!
Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Multi-Country Fellowship Program supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional research. Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or in teams.
Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the United States, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. Approximately nine awards of up to $10,500 each will be given.
To apply for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program, please visit https://caorc.fluidreview.com
Andrew. W. Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship Program
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers is pleased to announce a new focused regional fellowship program enabling pre- and early post-doctoral scholars to carry out research in the humanities and related social sciences in countries bordering the Mediterranean and served by American overseas research centers. Funding for this program is generously provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Scholars must be a US citizen or Permanent Resident; be a doctoral candidate or a scholar who obtained his/her Ph.D. within the last ten years (September 2004 or later); propose a three to nine month humanities or related social science research project; and propose travel to one or more Mediterranean region country, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. Fellowship awards will not exceed $33,500.
To apply for the Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship Program, please visit https://caorc.fluidreview.com
Deadline for Applications: January 31, 2015
For more information, visit: CAORC.ORG | FACEBOOK.COM/CAORC | TWITTER.COM/CAORC
Study Medieval Human Bones and Roman Pottery on the Slopes of Mt Vesuvius
Call for participants – Winter one- and two-week courses offered in the areas of human osteology and pottery studies.
The Apolline Project is an open research network, which sheds light on the hitherto neglected past of the area to the north of Mt. Vesuvius, in the Bay of Naples. The project has run actively since 2004 and has several components, with current major work focusing on a Medieval church and a Roman villa with baths buried by the volcanoclastic debris of Vesuvius.
The Apolline Project is now accepting applications for its winter lab courses. Selected participants may have the opportunity to spend additional time before and after their chosen program(s) at the project’s accommodations at no additional charge in order to better explore the region.
For further information, including individual course descriptions, please visit:
HUMAN OSTEOLOGY: http://www.apollineproject.org/bones.html
POTTERY LAB: http://www.apollineproject.org/labs.html
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Amanda James
Osteoarchaeologist, Apolline Project
amanda.rose.james@gmail.com
Vincenzo Castaldo
Pottery Specialist, Apolline Project
vincenzo.castald@gmail.com
We are pleased to announce the International Conference: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions, 13-16 July 2015, Liverpool, UK
Call for Papers
Trans-Atlantic dialogues on cultural heritage began as early as the voyages of Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus and continue through the present day. Each side of the Atlantic offers its own geographical and historical specificities expressed and projected through material and immaterial heritage. However, in geopolitical terms and through everyday mobilities, people, objects and ideas flow backward and forward across the ocean, each shaping the heritage of the other, for better or worse, and each shaping the meanings and values that heritage conveys. Where, and in what ways are these trans-Atlantic heritages connected? Where, and in what ways are they not? What can we learn by reflecting on how the different societies and cultures on each side of the Atlantic Ocean produce, consume, mediate, filter, absorb, resist, and experience the heritage of the other?
This conference is brought to you by the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (IIICH), University of Birmingham and the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP), University of Illinois and offers a venue for exploring three critical interactions in this trans-Atlantic dialogue: heritage, tourism and traditions. North America and Europe fashioned two dominant cultural tropes from their powerful and influential intellectual traditions, which have been enacted in Central/South America and Africa, everywhere implicating indigenous cultures. These tropes are contested and linked through historical engagement and contemporary everyday connections. We ask: How do heritages travel? How is trans-Atlantic tourism shaped by heritage? To what extent have traditions crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic? How have heritage and tourism economies emerged based upon flows of peoples and popular imaginaries?
The goal of the conference is to be simultaneously open-ended and provocative. We welcome papers from academics across a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, art history, architecture, business, communication, ethnology, heritage studies, history, geography, landscape architecture, literary studies, media studies, museum studies, popular culture, postcolonial studies, sociology, tourism, urban studies, etc. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The heritage of trans-Atlantic encounters
- Travelling intangible heritages
- Heritage flows of popular culture
- Re-defining heritage beyond the postcolonial
- The heritage of Atlantic crossings
- World Heritage of the Atlantic periphery
- Rooting and routing heritage
- Community and Nation on display
- Visualising the Trans-Atlantic world
Abstracts of 300 words with full contact details should be sent as soon as possible but no later than 15th December 2014 to ironbridge@contacts.bham.ac.uk
https://transatlanticdialogues.wordpress.com/
ADAPTATION, TRANSFORMATION, AND CONTINUITY:
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF TRANSITIONS
5th Annual UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Graduate Research Conference
January 30-31, 2015: University of California, Los Angeles
With Keynote Address by Michael Blake (University of British Columbia)
Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Michael Blake, we are offering a $300 Travel Prize for Best Abstract (priority given to international students)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Change has been a constant throughout human history: empires have emerged, dynasties dissolved, civiliza-tions collapsed. As individuals progress from womb to tomb, they both influence and are influenced by the cultural systems and structures around them. Although archaeology has assessed such transitions over long periods of time, the intersecting effects of change and its feedback across a range of spatial and temporal scales have only recently begun to be appreciated in the discipline. Past and recent geopolitical events demonstrate that change should be viewed as a complex process that has effects at and is enacted among multiple scales of the human experience, from the individual and local to the global.
For this conference, we invite students from all disciplines to explore the multi-scalar effects of cultural, po-litical, and individual transitions in the past and to consider how archaeology and the material record can be used to analyze the processes, mechanisms, and effects of those transitions. How did large scale change (political, economic, environmental, or social) affect the individual at the micro-scale and, in turn, how did individuals and their choices affect higher scales of organization? Topics for presentations include, but are not limited to:
- the relationship between rites of passage and the creation, reification, or consolidation of social mores
- the process of introducing or adapting new technologies
- the dynamic between the emergence or decline of a political regime and household practices
We seek to highlight methodological and theoretical approaches to the archaeology of transition and to con-sider why change occurred at a specific time, how that change was effected, and how it affected a society across different scales of life. Students from all disciplines are invited to submit, but preference will be giv-en to papers that engage with the material record or present a relevant theoretical framework.
Abstract for individual papers (250 words max.) for 20–minute presentations and a current C.V. should be sent to CIOAconference2015@gmail.com no later than November 15, 2014.
Sanisera Archaeology Institute for International Field Schools has grown and now offers courses in seven different countries in Europe: Spain, Italy, Greece, France, UK, Turkey and Portugal. For 2015 we are offering more than 20 different archaeological courses in seven areas:
- Digging remains of cities
- Digging graves, osteology and Anthropology
- Underwater school in Archaeology
- Archaeological Tour, Art and Museums
- GIS (Geographic Inform ation System)
- Conservation in archaeology
- Archaeological Film
You can download our Quick Guide which gives a brief summary of each course.
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The Himalayan Exploration and Archaeological Research Team (HEART), a University of York project, is delighted to be able to offer archaeological fieldwork opportunities to interested students and members of the public from 13th March- 4th April 2015. The team is undertaking an expedition to the Annapurnas to discover, survey and in some cases excavate new multi-period archaeological sites that are only just emerging from these mountain ranges, and your students are invited to attend.
The Himalayan Exploration and Archaeological Research Team is a joint scientific-humanitarian venture that has run out of the Department of Archaeology, at the University of York, UK in collaboration with the charity/NGO Community Action Nepal. The project seeks to push the frontiers of archaeological knowledge in the Himalayas, whilst integrating the research with initiatives that stimulate local economies. By operating in association with the Kathmandu government Department of Archaeology, local tourism agencies and trekking companies HEART has been able to build an infrastructure to identify known but at risk heritage for responsive research, whilst HEART’s objectives to explore, survey and excavate new archaeology using the latest scientific and technological methods will further extend Nepal’s potential to offer exciting heritage tourism opportunities. Virtually no archaeological fieldwork has been done in the Himalayas and as such HEART has been documenting archaeology from multiple periods. Proceeds from this field school will be reinvested in heritage initiatives in partnership with local communities.
For more information, prices and booking please contact the Project Director, Dr. Hayley Saul: hayley.saul@york.ac.uk
