Call for papers for the World Archaeology issue (46.4) on Mobility and Migration
The aim of this issue is to look beyond the mere observation of large-scale movements or migrant networks and to examine not only the reasons that motivated people to migrate but also the consequences for both migrants and their host societies. This issue is therefore not so much about finding ‘hard evidence’ of actual migrants and migrations, although that is certainly part of the equation, but it rather represents an endeavour to explore the diversity and complexity of mobility and migration in the past, both recent and distant, and to investigate the many dimensions of these broad processes. The emphasis of the issue thus falls on local actors, practices, contexts and networks that sustained migrations and enabled mobility of, within and between communities in order to highlight the social and economic dimensions of migration and mobility.
The issue is due for publication in October 2014 and the deadline for submission is 1 February 2014
Please contact the issue editor Peter van Dommelen with proposals and abstracts at peter_van_dommelen@brown.edu
For more details see below and at http://explore.tandfonline.com/mobility-and-migration
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Mobility & Migration  – World Archaeology 46.4 (2014)
Migration has long been a major topic in archaeology and as long as culture history framed archaeological understanding of material culture, migrations have been seen as the stuff that (pre)history was made of. As New, processual and post-processual perspectives have steered attention elsewhere in more recent decades, migration has rapidly dropped off the archaeological agendas.
A lack of interest does not mean, however, that people in the past did not migrate and scientific advances in physical anthropology have forced the issue back on the agenda. The case of the so-called ‘Lady of York’ who probably hailed from North Africa, is an evident case in point. In other fields, like the ancient Mediterranean or the post-medieval northern and central Atlantic, the combined archaeological and literary evidence leaves little doubt about large-scale and sustained migrations, voluntary and forcibly alike.
The question is therefore not so much whether people migrated – they clearly did.
The aim of this issue is accordingly to look beyond the mere observation of large-scale movements or migrant networks and to examine not only the reasons that motivated people to migrate but also the consequences for both migrants and their host societies. This issue is therefore not so much about finding ‘hard evidence’ of actual migrants and migrations, although that is certainly part of the equation, but it rather represents an endeavour to explore the diversity and complexity of mobility and migration in the past, both recent and distant, and to investigate the many dimensions of these broad processes. The emphasis of the issue thus falls on local actors, practices, contexts and networks that sustained migrations and enabled mobility of, within and between communities in order to highlight the social and economic dimensions of migration and mobility.
 

• Deadline for submission: 1 February 2014
• Article length: 5,000 words
• Instructions for Authors can be downloaded here

Afterwards: Art as Iterative Practice in the Roman Empire
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 – Saturday, February 15, 2014
Location:
Chicago, Ill
United States
College Art Association 2014, Chicago
Organizers:  Diana Ng, University of Michigan-Dearborn dmng@umd.umich.edu; Molly Swetnam-Burland, The College of William and Mary, mswetnam@wm.edu
Often, scholarship of ancient Roman art and architecture focuses upon an artwork or monument’s first creation or construction. But what happens when we explore the histories of buildings, sculptures, or paintings as diachronic and disruptive, and examine their rich and varied afterlives? We encourage papers treating the social use of spaces for ephemeral activities, as well as papers addressing modifications to and re-use of individual artworks. How did Roman buildings come to function differently over time to accommodate new political and social realities? How did durable monuments serve as settings for the display of transitory materials, such as decrees or religious dedications? How did the reworking of sculpture create new relationships between subject and viewer? We invite papers investigating the economic and legal exigencies—such as the impact of cost and the responsibility of maintenance—of secondary interventions in the lives of Roman objects and buildings.
Please send abstracts to Diana Ng or Molly Swetnam-Burland.  CAA individual membership is required of all speakers.  For more information, see the CAA call for papers at http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2014CallforParticipation.pdf
Website: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2014CallforParticipation.pdf

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Mapping the Mediterranean: Space, Memory, and the Long Road to Modernity”

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

11-12 October 2013

Keynote Panel: “The Present and Future of Mediterranean Studies”

Yasser Ellhariry, Dartmouth College

Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University

Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz

Karla Mallette, University of Michigan (chair)

The Mediterranean served as a site of transit, exchange, and interaction for well over two millennia, demonstrating tendencies towards both unification and dispersion. With the onset of modernity, however, linguistic, ethnic, and national boundaries solidified across the region. Language, history, memory, and space itself were literally reshaped by the tools of archaeology, architecture, tourism, mass print, national education, and transportation.
 
In recent years, scholarship has begun to excavate past connections and exchanges that belie our modern conception of the region, mapping out a diverse – yet united – series of Mediterranean identities centered on the connecting sea.
 
Mediterranean Topographies, the University of Michigan’s Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mediterranean Studies, is pleased to announce its second conference for graduate students and young faculty. Our symposium attempts to bring this new model – one that is deeply transnational and cross-cultural, yet situated primarily within the ancient, pre- and early-modern periods – into meaningful dialogue with modernity. We will engage the space of the Mediterranean through the cityscape, as seen through the lenses of literature, history, anthropology, cultural studies, architecture, and urban planning. Areas of focus will include (but not be restricted to):
 
* cartography and spatiality, city planning and historical narrative, architecture and collective memory;
* ideologies of the urban, relationships between city and peripheries (hinterlands, islands, deserts etc.);
* mobility, emigration, immigration, class-stratification, ghettoization, tourism;
* material history, consumption, trade, manufacturing, commodification, fashion;
* remembering the city, memoir, nostalgia;
* gendering and queering the city;
* (de)/(re)colonizing the city;
* and, in general, the destruction, re-construction, and re-imagining of the Mediterranean city space after the spread of nationalism.
 
Using these foci, we will explore the multiple Mediterraneans that have been built up and torn down since the onset of modernity. In short, this symposium will attempt to address the ways in which pre- and early-modern interconnectivities – both real and imagined – were destroyed, kept alive, or modulated over the long passage into modernity. Although our focus will be upon transitions stretching from the early modern to modernity (c. 1500 to today), we nonetheless encourage work that treats these same issues of urban transformation in the ancient world, especially within a diachronic, comparative framework. We also encourage contributions that focus on methodological debates and innovations for mapping and studying Mediterranean cities.
 
We seek to bring together work in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. We invite abstracts ranging from 200-250 words that relate to or expand upon the topics suggested above. Submissions are especially encouraged from disciplines such as literature, the history of art, history, anthropology, sociology, architecture and urbanism, gender and women’s studies, queer studies, African studies, and religious studies. Along with your abstract please suggest the category or categories to which you feel your submission is best suited. Please provide your institutional affiliation and mailing address, as well as telephone number. Indicate whether a/v equipment will be needed.
The presentation should be in English, twenty minutes in length (i.e., 10 double-spaced pages) and may address a topic from any relevant period(s) or discipline(s). Deadline for abstract submission: May 15, 2013.
 
Please direct questions and submissions to the Meditopos symposium co-chairs, Harry Kashdan and Will Stroebel, at kashdan@umich.edu and stroebel@umich.edu.