Call for papers
European Association of Archaeologists 24th Annual Meeting,
Barcelona, 5th-8th September 2018
‘Reflecting Futures’
We invite abstracts for a panel on ‘Lived Ancient Religion in North Africa’. The title may have max. 20 words and abstract min. 200 words and max. 300 words. Five keywords are allowed. The deadline for submitting or modifying an abstract is 15 February 2018, 23h59 CET. Proposing a paper, poster or other contribution can only be done via online submission form (link: https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2018). Current and past EAA members can log in using their EAA credentials (EAA ID, username, password). For assistance with retrieving credentials, please contact the EAA Secretariat at helpdesk@e-a-a.org. New members need to sign up for EAA account first at www.e-a-a.org. You can either pay your membership fees upon signing up or at any time before 31 March 2018 when registering for the Annual Meeting at www.e-a-a.org/eaa2018.
General queries can be directed at this email address: valentino.gasparini@gmail.com
Panel Proposal
Thematic field: The archaeology of material culture, bodies, and landscapes
Proposal number: # 634
Title: Lived Ancient Religion in North Africa
Abstract: The session claims to explore how, in the Roman provinces of North Africa, local religious preferences were strongly influenced by shifting social networks, changing over time according to specific historical contexts. The historical issue at the core of this panel is the process of integration of the pre-Roman gods within the Roman ‘pantheon’ and, at the same time, the permeability of the ‘traditional’ Roman deities in encounters with the cults problematically labelled ‘Oriental’. Speakers will be asked to approach the study of these ‘cults in motion’ not from the perspective of the civic religion as the dominant structure (based on the static and standardised performance of public, collective rites, and on elite-driven ideology), but of the individual as an active (often unpredictable) actor, capable of situational and creative innovation. This line of research is interested in the single cultic agents, not as ‘normalising’ actors (viz. representatives of institutional entities or local oligarchies), but as individuals who (independently of their social position) act as decision-makers and conscious modifiers of established religious patterns. Papers will deal with the archaeological evidence attesting the social dimension of this religious practice, including variety, creativity, religious multiplicity, fluidity and flexibility of identities, changes in forms of individuality, and spaces for individual distinction. The goal is to examine empirically religion as a practical resource available to emergent or self-styled religious providers, and explore how this resource was selected and instrumentalised by other agents, whether individuals, families, cities, or other social groupings.
Kind regards,
Jaime Alvar, Valentino Gasparini, Attilio Mastino

CALL FOR PAPERS
We are currently accepting abstract submission for the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, hosted by the  Department of Art and the Graduate Union of the Students of Art at the University of Toronto.
The Art of Passage: Transnational Encounters and the Convergence of Cultures: A Symposium exploring how cultural interactions and artistic migrations have shaped the growth of art and art history.
Friday March 9th, 2018
East Common Room Hart House
7 Hart House Circle
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Keynote Address: Professor Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University
The transnational dimension of cultural transformation – migration, diaspora, displacement, relocation – makes the process of cultural translation a complex form of signification.
– Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture
Concepts such as influence, originality, hybridity, and authenticity have long come to shape our perception and understanding of art history. While much of the discipline was shaped by the search for specific identities, typologies, or styles, artistic transformations brought about by intercultural exchanges and transnational interactions in diverse parts of the world throughout the history of art, have forced us to reassess seemingly fixed borders and to reconsider the mobility of art history.
Considering the expansive definition of “passage,” this symposium hopes to contribute to the increasingly robust scholarship that seeks to rehabilitate, reveal, and interrogate the formative role that intercultural encounters have had on the history of art. We encourage submissions from students and scholars employing interdisciplinary approaches in the context of visual culture from antiquity to the present.
Potential paper topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Colonialism and postcolonial perspectives
• Cultural exchange through artistic movements, techniques, methods, etc.
• Exiles, networking, and circulations of ideas
• Transnationalism and its impact on local traditions
• Nationalism, independence, and globalization
• Cosmopolitanism vs tradition
• Dislocation in the shaping of art in and beyond the “margins”
• The effect of globalism on art and art history
• Migrations and utopias
• “Hybridity,” “mimicry,” and artistic practices
• Art and ideologies
• Art beyond the Western canon

Presentations should be 20 minutes in length and will be followed by a 10-minute question and answer session for each presentation. Selected presentations will be chosen for publication in the University of Toronto Art Journal, an online publication of the symposium proceedings. For more information, please visit: https://gustasymposium.wordpress.com/. Please submit an abstract (.doc/.docx/.pdf) of no more than 300 words to the Graduate Students of Art at gustasymposium@gmail.com by Friday, December 22, 2017 at 5:00 pm EST. Participants will be notified by email by the middle of January.
With appreciation,
Rachel Dewan and Marina Dumont-Gauthier
Co-Chairs of the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium

Beyond Marginality: Race, Ethnicity, and Memory

April 6-8, 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Borderlands Research Focus Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the 6th Biennial Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference, to be held April 6-8 2018. We invite graduate students from any disciplines and any regions to submit abstracts for papers addressing the theme of Beyond Marginality: Race, Ethnicity, and Memory. Please see the attached call for papers for more information.
Please send a 300 word abstract to UCSBborderlands2018@gmail.com by December 29, 2017 to be considered. Paper presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length, and may address the conference theme from any region or historical period. We welcome both individual papers or full panels that address the conference theme in any geographical region or historical period. If submitting a full panel (3-4 papers) please send all abstracts together.
If you have any questions or comments, please email UCSBborderlands2018@gmail.com.

The Izmir Center of the Archaeology of Western Anatolia (EKVAM) is organizing an international symposium entitled “Unguentarium: A terracotta vessel form and other related vessels in the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine Meditterranean” that will take place on May 17-18, 2018 at the Dokuz Eylul University (DEU) in Izmir, Turkey. The first circular of this symposium as well as its poster are attached.
An unguentarium is a small ceramic or glass bottle, found in relatively large quantities in the entire Mediterranean, from Spain to Syria and Egypt to France, where they were produced from the early Hellenistic to the early Medieval periods. In this symposium we only focus on terracotta unguentaria between c. mid fourth century B.C. and mid sixth century A.D., and attempt to set out a comprehensive model for the study of terracotta unguentaria, including their definition, typology, chronology, contexts, function, regional characteristics, and distribution patterns in the whole Mediterranean geographies, including eastern Mediterranean, Roman provinces in the western Mediterranean, north of Alps (Germania and Britannia etc.) and north Africa.
We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate students from a variety of disciplines of ancient studies related to this vessel form. The symposium is free of charge. A post-symposium excursion is planned on May 19-21 to Lesbos, Greece through Ayvalik.
We would be delighted, if you could consider contributing to our symposium and contact us with the required information below before January 1, 2018. Our e-mail address are: gulserenkan@hotmail.com or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
For more updates on this symposium:
https://independent.academia.edu/TheLydiaSymposium
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/The_Lydia_Symposium
Best wishes from Izmir,
Dr Gulseren Kan Sahin
Unguentarium First Circular – English – Notice
Unguentarium Poster

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

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

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 Izmir Center of the Archaeology of Western Anatolia (EKVAM) is organizing a symposium entitled „Unguentarium. A terracotta vessel form in the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine Meditterranean” that will take place on May 17-18, 2018 at the Dokuz Eylul University (DEU) in Izmir, Turkey. The first circular of this symposium as well as its poster are attached below.
An unguentarium is a small ceramic or glass bottle, found in relatively large quantities in the entire Mediterranean, from Spain to Syria, from Egypt to France, where they were produced from the early Hellenistic (i.e. mid fourth cent. B.C.) to the early Medieval periods (i.e. mid sixth cent. A.D.). In this symposium we only focus on terracotta unguentaria between c. 4th century B.C. and 6th century A.D., and attempt to set out a comprehensive model for the study of terracotta unguentaria, including their definition, typology, chronology, contexts, function, regional characteristics, and distribution patterns in the whole Mediterranean geographies, including whole eastern Mediterranean, Roman provinces in the western Mediterranean, north of Alps (Germania, Britannia etc.) and north Africa. We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate students from a variety of disciplines of ancient studies related to this vessel form. The symposium is free of charge. A post-symposium excursion is planned on May 19-21 to Lesbos, Greece through Ayvalik.
We would be delighted, if you could consider contributing to our symposium and contact us with the required information below before January 1, 2018. Our e-mail addresses are: gulserenkan@hotmail.com or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
First Circular – English – Notice
Poster