Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the Digital Domains workshop at Dartmouth College, scheduled for March 20 – 22, 2014. With support from the Neukom Institute of Computational Science, the workshop will bring together archaeologists, engineers, and computer scientists from the US, Mexico, and Europe to share research that reconstructs and engages archaeological landscapes through remote sensing and GIS. Attendance is free and open to the academic community, so please feel free to share information about the workshop with your students and colleagues. You can find more information about the conference and the speakers on the Digital Domains website:
http://sites.dartmouth.edu/digital-domains/
I am encouraging applications for poster presentations from students and scholars who use computing to reconstruct, visualize, and analyze past and present environments. Posters will be displayed during afternoon and evening receptions. Contact me directly before February 3rd to submit a poster abstract or to request more information.
Yours,
Jason
Jason T. Herrmann
Neukom Institute for Computational Science and Department of Anthropology
6047 Silsby Hall
Dartmouth College
(603) 646-8192
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DIGITAL DOMAINS: Remote Sensing of Past Human Landscapes http://sites.dartmouth.edu/digital-domains/
March 20-22, 2014
Dartmouth College
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Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Call for Papers — Annual Graduate Symposium
April 24th – 25th, 2014
The Methods to Our Madness? An Inquiry into Methodology in the Study of Religion
The identity of the academic study of religion might be characterized paradoxically: first, the study of religions is a field of academic inquiry that is theoretically diverse and methodologically rich; second, lacking methodological orthodoxy, scholarly approaches to the study of religion are unpredictable and chaotic, or, as some may see it, mad. Underlying both descriptions is the problem of methodological variability in the study of religion. The spirit of diverse intellectual curiosity, arguably the chief strength of our field, is at times akin to “madness”—that is, characterized by chaos and disorder. And yet, many scholars have pointed out the generative and creative potential of that which is deemed chaotic. In this light, justifying our disciplinary existence is critical to discussions that reflect on the study of religion’s goals and limits, and is crucial for thinking about the future of the study of religions.
Several questions arise from these issues: is there something inherently diverse about “religion” which compels its study to be diverse in methodology? Does the image of order applied to chaos, or of method given to madness accurately reflect the task of scholars of religion? In what ways has the paradigm of “application” been replicated in our contemporary methodologies? How can we complicate this style of approach? What changes, either in method or in theory, when the study of religion appropriates the methods of other disciplines?
We invite papers that consider the following topics and related questions:
- madness, chaos, or disorder in philosophical, historical, or anthropological contexts.
- the use of philosophical concepts in the study of religion.
- complications of the natural scientific paradigm of “method” in the study of religions.
- area studies that address specific practices, rituals, or beliefs.
- critical reflections on “the material turn,” and its larger implications for method.
- the (im)possibility of knowledge given the difficulties of source transmission or collection.
- the historical development of the study of religion in general.
- questions about taxonomy and categorization.
- reflections on the discipline or “(un)discipline” of religious studies in light of the problems associated with method.
In order to be considered, interested applicants are to submit 250–300 word proposals including paper title, five keywords, author name, institutional affiliation, and contact information to Zoe Anthony at methodsofmadness2014@gmail.com by January 6th, 2014. Successful applicants will be notified by February 10th, 2014. The keynote speaker will be announced closer to the conference date.
CITYSCAPES & MONUMENTS
of remembrance in western Asia Minor
29-31 October 2014 – Aarhus University
Cityscapes are expressions of identity. They consist of houses, streets, temples, tombs and monuments left there by generations of inhabitants. Cityscapes are interpreted and reinter-preted as expressions of changing relations of power, of past lives and of present identity – they constitute places of remembrance.
This conference aims at exploring the cityscapes and their monuments as expressions of memories in the cities of western Asia Minor. They will be studied in four different, but not necessarily separable, spaces – private, public, sacred, and funerary. Chronologically the conference will cover the period c. 600 BCE to 500 CE, reflecting more than 1000 years of cultural diversity from the Lydian and Persian hegemony in the Archaic period over Athenian supremacy and Persian satrapal rule in the Classical period through auto-cratic kingship in Hellenistic times until finally more than half a millennium of Roman rule.
How did the inhabitants choose – deliberately or subconsciously – to commemorate their past and their ancestors, and how did they manage to maintain their identity under such changing political systems?
Please send a preliminary TITLE and an ABSTRACT (of max. 250 words) no later than 1 January 2014 to klaem@hum.au.dk
FOCUS
The significance of memory in ancient societies and how it was promoted, con-tested and even attempted destroyed will be the main focus of the conference. We invite papers focusing on aspects of re-membrance in the ancient cityscapes of western Asia Minor.
LOCATION
The conference will take place over three days at Aarhus University, and travel and accommodation expenses will have to be met by the participants.
LANGUAGE
English and German are the preferred languages of the conference.
CONTACT
For further information, please contact Eva Mortensen (klaem@hum.au.dk).
The 4th Biennial Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference
Innovation in Borderland Regions
April 4-6, 2014
The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites graduate scholars of any discipline to submit abstracts of papers addressing the theme of Innovation in Borderland Regions. Borderlands, broadly defined, are spaces where people of disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact. These contacts, which often occur in the context of imperial center/periphery relations, can be either violent or peaceful. They may center on either physical borders or mental categories of difference. In all cases, however, they require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other ways of life.
The Ancient Borderlands Graduate Conference seeks papers that address the ways that interactions in borderlands inspire innovation and adaptation. We welcome proposals for individual papers, or full panels involving scholars from several departments or universities, that focus on borderlands and regions of interaction in any geographic or cultural context. Although we are a research group focused on premodern borderlands, we encourage papers that address this theme in any geographic region or period.
As the nature of borderlands involves the meeting and mixing of a variety of viewpoints, the study of borderlands calls for – even demands – an interdisciplinary approach. With this in mind, the conference aims to include a wide variety of perspectives and specialties from across disciplinary boundaries. We encourage, but do not require, papers that engage with the ideas and themes raised by theorists whose work has relevance for borderlands processes, such as: Gloria Anzaldúa, Fredrick Barth, Daniel Boyarin, Bradley Parker, Pierre Bourdieu, Gayatri Charkravorty Spivak, Thomas Tweed, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
Please send a 500 word abstract to ggoalwin@umail.ucsb.edu by January 31, 2014 and include “UCSB Borderlands Conference” in the subject of the e-mail. If accepted, paper presentations will be 15 minutes long. Limited travel funds may be available for those who cannot procure funding from their home institution.
The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, will appoint two post-doctoral scholars for 2014-2015 in the fields of Archaeology, Ancient Israel Studies, or Ancient Near Eastern Cultures.
The highly competitive fellowships are offered to researchers across many disciplines, and will be awarded on the basis of academic excellence.
Applicants should have received their Ph.D. in a relevant field within the last five years from an institution other than Tel Aviv University. While appropriate training in archaeology, biblical
studies, ancient Near Eastern cultures and/or biblical history is required, the nature of an applicant’s specific research interests and areas of expertise is open.
Successful candidates are expected to make substantive contributions to the ongoing development of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology by organizing a colloquium on a subject to be decided at the beginning of the academic year that will stimulate an intellectual environment in which research and new interdisciplinary connections are pursued and developed.
In addition to engaging in their own research, the successful candidates will be expected to teach one two-hour graduate level seminar during one of the two semesters (interdisciplinary offerings are desirable).
The fellowship period will begin October 1, 2014, and is for a period of one academic year. The appointment carries an NIS 85,000 (= approximately $24,000) stipend and teaching salary for each candidate.
Applicants are requested to submit a cover letter, a CV, a detailed statement of current research interests (up to 2000 words), and two letters of reference (to be submitted directly by the recommenders). In addition, post-doctoral fellows must state if they are applying for other sources of funding for the fellowship period.
The scientific committee includes Prof. Oded Lipschits, Prof. Israel Finkelstein, Prof. Ran Barkai, Prof. Rafi Greenberg and Dr. Erez Ben Yosef..
Application materials should be sent to: Professor Oded Lipschits (lipschit@post.tau.ac.il) with a copy to Mrs. Sara Lev (saralev@post.tau.ac.il). Subject heading should read: Post-Doctoral Application.
Last date for acceptance of material: March 2, 2014.
Results will be published on April 4, 2014.
Website
http://www.onassis.gr/en/scholarships-foreigners.php
Sponsor
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, Alexander S
Up to ten scholarships will be awarded for a duration of five to ten months during the academic year October 2014 – September 2015. The scholarships will include:
1. A round trip air-ticket (economy class)
2. A monthly allowance of Eight Hundred Fifty Euros (€ 850.-).
The scholarship does not cover the month of August.
Requirements
Graduate Student
Activity location
Greece
Abstract
The grants and scholarships offered within the framework of this Programme cover scholarly research or artistic creation in Greece only and only in the fields below:
– Humanities: Philology, Literature, Linguistics, History, Archaeology, Philosophy, Educational Studies, Psychology
– Social Science (excluding Law): Political Sciences, Sociology, Political analysis, International and European Studies, Administration Sciences, Social Theory and Social Policy
– Economic Science: Maritime Studies, Finance, Public Finance
– Arts: Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Photography, Film Studies, New Media.
Eligibility
The scholarships are addressed to postgraduate students and Ph.D. candidates. All candidates should be under 40-years-old. At the time of application the applicants should be enrolled for a postgraduate course (Master’s, M.Phil., Ph.D) at a University either outside Greece or in Greece.
Basic knowledge of the Greek language is a necessary prerequisite for applying, unless the applicant can prove that the research can be conducted in another language. The certificate can be submitted at a later date, but no later than March 31, 2014.
The programme is addressed to non-Greeks. Eligible to participate are the following candidates:
a) Persons of non Greek descent.
b) Cypriot citizens are also eligible to apply for category A grants only, provided they are permanently residing and working outside Greece.
c) Persons of Greek descent (second generation and on) are also eligible to apply for a grant or scholarship, provided they are permanently residing and working abroad or currently studying in foreign Universities.
d) Category A also apply to Scholars of Greek descent or citizenship provided they have a professional academic career of at least ten (10) years in a University or Research Institute abroad.
e) The above mentioned clarification (d) also applies to post-graduate students of Greek descent or citizenship, who pursue post-graduate studies outside of Greece (category C), have obtained a degree outside of Greece and are permanently residing outside of Greece for more than fifteen (15) years.
Former Fellows of the Foundation can re-apply for a grant or scholarship only if five years have elapsed since their previous grant or scholarship. Former Fellows who have received a grant or scholarship twice cannot apply again for a grant or scholarship.
60th Annual Eric P. Newman
Graduate Summer Seminar in Numismatics
June 2 through July 25, 2014
Study at the foremost seminar in numismatic methods and theory For over half a century, The American Numismatic Society, a scholarly organization and museum of coins, money, and the economic history of all periods, has offered select graduate students and junior faculty the opportunity to work hands-on with its preeminent numismatic collections. With over three-quarters of a million objects, the collection is particularly strong in Greek, Roman, Islamic, and Far Eastern coinages, as well as Medallic Art. Located in New York City’s SoHo district, the Society also houses the most complete numismatic library anywhere.
The rigorous eight-week course, taught by ANS staff, guest lecturers, and a Visiting Scholar, introduces students to the methods, theories, and history of the discipline. In addition to the lecture program, students will select a numismatic research topic and, utilizing ANS resources, write a paper during the Seminar. The Seminar is intended to provide students of History, Art History, Textual Studies, and Archeology who have little or no numismatic background with a working knowledge of a body of evidence that is often overlooked and poorly understood. Successful applicants are typically doctoral candidates or junior faculty in a related discipline, but masters candidates are admitted as well. This year’s Visiting Scholar will be Professor Suzanne Frey-Kupper of the Department of Classics
and Ancient History at Warwick University. Prof. Frey-Kupper is well known for her research and publications on the Greek, Punic and Roman coinages of the Western Mediterranean.
Applications are due no later than February 14, 2014. A limited number of stipends of up to $4000 are available to US citizens, and non-US citizens studying at US institutions under J-1 visas.
For application forms and further information, please see the Summer Seminar page of our website: numismatics.org/Seminar, or contact the Seminar Co-Director, Dr. Peter van Alfen (vanalfen@numismatics.org; 212-571-4470, x153).
USC INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS:
“The Edges of the Body: Extremities and Knowledge in Antiquity and Beyond.”
Jan. 31- Feb. 1, 2014: University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Department of Art History and Department of Classics
Conference organizers: Rachel Amato, Matthew Chaldekas, Robert Matera, Ambra Spinelli
Deadline for abstract submission: November 10, 2013
Keynote speakers: Prof. Amy Richlin (Department of Classics, UCLA); Prof. Patricia Simons (History of Art, University of Michigan)
The combined graduate students of the Departments of Art History and Classics at USC invite submissions for a graduate student conference: The Edges of the Body: Extremities and Knowledge in Antiquity and Beyond. Cultures make different assumptions about what we can know from or through the extremities of the body. We propose to explore how societies from antiquity to the present
have understood the relationship between knowledge and body. In Greco-‐Roman antiquity, we see the castration of Uranus as the end of an antediluvian era and Scaevola’s right hand as a symbol of nascent Roman nationalism. In the Renaissance, master painters make claims about their virtuosity and identity through the presentation of isolated heads and hands. In the nineteenth century, Rodin’s bronze casts of torsos and backs recall the value long attributed to bits of antique sculpture while also indicating a new aestheticization of the fragmented body for the art market, a trend whose continued relevance might be found in Damien Hirst’s 2007 sale of diamond-‐encrusted skeletal remains. Examples of topics to discuss include:
- Heads, hands, genitals, et al. that contain the agency of an individual as well as specific knowledges or special abilities (e.g. a “green thumb”)
- The isolation of extremities whose form or size reveals specific character traits (physiognomy)
- How aesthetic values are ascribed to body parts (the valuation of color, size, shape, etc.)
- Different means of negotiating the boundaries between inside and outside the body
- The surface of the body as a space for cultural inscription/self-presentation
- Ideological struggles (e.g. gender, race, citizenship, etc.) waged symbolically through body parts
Submissions from all disciplines are welcome; priority, however, will be given to papers that use both literary and material evidence.
Please send proposals (300 words max.) for 15-minute papers on these or similar topics along with a current CV to edgesofthebody.usc2014@gmail.com no later than November 10, 2013.
The Graduate Visual Culture Association of Queen’s University presents
CONTEXT AND MEANING XIII:
We are pleased to announce that the thirteenth annual Context and Meaning graduate student conference will take place at Queen’s University on Friday, January 31st and Saturday, February 1st, 2014. This year’s theme is “Contact” and we invite students to submit proposals for papers on issues surrounding contact as expressed through visual and material culture. We are interested in exploring this theme in a variety of contexts, including, but not limited to:
• Cross-cultural contact (imperialism, colonialism, diaspora, diplomacy)
• Physical contact (human-object contact, conservation, ceremony, performance)
• Temporal contact (the appropriation of a visual style from one period to another, alternative visions of the future, time and space)
• Collaboration (workshops, artist to artist, artist and curator, conservator and academic and artist, institutions, community-based initiatives)
• Correspondence or exchange
This conference is open to both historical and contemporary topics, and may relate to things considered “fine art” as well as those encountered everyday. Submissions are welcome from graduate students, as well as those who have completed their studies within the last year, from across Canada and the United States who conduct research in all disciplines that engage with visual and material culture. In light of our theme, we seek to assemble a diverse group of scholars in order to foster interdisciplinary discussions.
Each presenter will be allotted twenty minutes to deliver her or his papers, followed by a ten-minute discussion period. If you are interested in speaking at Context and Meaning XIII, please email an abstract of no more than 300 words, along with a brief letter of introduction, to gvca@queensu.ca. As a blind panel will review all submissions, please ensure that your name and the title of your paper are included in your letter of introduction, but that your name and other identifying marks are left off the abstract.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013.
If you have any questions concerning the conference, please contact us at gvca@queensu.ca.
Graduate Student Conference Committee
Graduate Visual Culture Association
Department of Art, Ontario Hall
Queen’s University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
Canada
Boston University Archaeology Biennial Graduate Student Conference
February 14-16th, 2014
Breaching Boundaries: Identity and Conflict
This year’s theme focuses on Identity and Conflict. Issues of conflict are of growing concern and interest in the world. Oftentimes these issues are spurred by the interaction of dissonant or opposing identities; these conflicts visibly impact the way populations view themselves and others. The interaction between identity and conflict can be studied in the material record left behind by past societies and in the modern world. While archaeology is the primary way of studying these past material remains, it is the interaction between this field and many other fields that pushes theory in this area. It is in this spirit that the forum has the potential to attract the interest and participation of a broad range of graduate students, not only archaeologists but also anthropologists, historians, sociologists, classicists, geographers, and others. The forum offers an opportunity for emerging scholars to discuss new research in the study of identity and conflict.
Topics for discussion could include, but are not limited to:
Issues of Colonialism and Nationalism
Formation and Maintenance of Boundaries
Indigenous Communities and Cultural Patrimony
Material Culture as Indicators of Conflict
Interactions in Gender Studies and Embodiment and Sexuality
The conference will begin on Friday night with a keynote address by Pamela Geller, University of Miami. Saturday will be devoted to morning and afternoon sessions of conference papers, and Sunday morning will be devoted to a roundtable discussion from 10-12.
Papers are limited to 20 minutes and may address any time period, geographic area, or related theoretical issue.
The deadline for abstracts this December 15, 2013. There is no registration fee for this conference. Selected participants will be notified by early January, and your full paper will be due by February 1st.
Submit Abstracts Here
(http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/2014-bu-graduate-student-forum/abstract-submission/)
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us at:
Graduate Student Conference Committee Department of Archaeology,
Boston University 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/graduate/2014-bu-graduate-student-forum/
bu.archaeoconf.2014@gmail.com
