Environment, Landscape and Society: Diachronic Perspectives on Settlement Patterns in Cyprus

Description: workshop and publication on diachronic landscape analyses in the eastern Mediterranean, organized by the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) and the Cyprus Institute.
Date: 17-19 February 2017, to be held at CAARI in Nicosia, Cyprus
How did people choose where to live? What environmental, social and economic factors went into the decisions to build a settlement, and why were settlements abandoned? The aim of this workshop is to investigate the changing patterns of human interaction with their physical environment from prehistory into historic periods (into the medieval period). It seeks to clarify the ways in which societies balanced landscape, natural resources, and the needs of social groups, and the impact these relationships had in shaping and reshaping settlement location and layout, economic development, ritual patterns, and was a key factor in establishing territoriality. We invite diachronic approaches to establish how and why communities chose to live in certain places and engage in certain economies at any given time. We aim to compare a range of settlements in their environmental and landscape (and seascape) contexts from Cyprus, test hypotheses about how and why humans chose to settle in particular places and demonstrate how this affected social change. The organizers are especially interested in studies that show explicit relationships between settlement patterns, uses of the landscape and environmental factors.
The diachronic nature of this conference means that papers will be accepted from a wide range of periods, from early prehistory to the medieval period, and we are particularly interested in a broad representation of disciplines.
A 300-word abstract should be sent to:
director@caari.org.cy and evimargaritis@gmail.com
before 1 October 2016 for consideration by the Steering Committee. Abstracts submitted after the deadline may be accepted or rejected at the discretion of the Committee.
Abstracts should include:

1. the name and full contact details and affiliation of the contributor
2. the title of the proposed paper
3. what the proposed paper intends to cover
4. an outline of the approach

Individual presentations will be limited to 20 minutes with additional time for questions.
We expect that some travel funding will be available to qualified participants and it is anticipated that the proceedings of this workshop will be published as part of the CAARI Monograph Series.

The final deadline for all submissions for the 2017 AIA Annual Meeting, which will be held in Toronto, Canada from January 5-8 is rapidly approaching. Submissions are still being accepted for workshops and open session paper or poster presentations. We would also like to encourage undergraduate students to submit to the undergraduate poster and paper sessions.
Deadline for Submissions – Sunday, August 7, 2016 and Sunday, August 21, 2016 (with $25 fee)
Full details on all submission types and requirements are available in the Annual Meeting section of our website. Questions about the online submission process may be directed to 2017annualmeeting@aia.bu.edu. All submitters are encouraged to review the Call for Papers (available at www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP) prior to submitting. Submission forms can be accessed at www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP/forms.
All submissions must be completed by August 21st and the administrative fee must be paid for any paper submitted after the August 7th deadline.
* View the 2017 Call for Papers: www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP
* Online Submission Forms: www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP/forms

Refuge and Refugees in the Ancient World
Columbia University Ancient World Graduate Student Conference
November 11-12, 2016. Columbia University in the City of New York, USA.

Keynote Speakers: Demetra Kasimis (University of Chicago) and Elena Isayev (University of Exeter)
We invite papers from graduate students working across disciplines related to the ancient world for a two-day conference which will explore the issues of refuge and refugees. From representations of refugees and the notions of “refuge” to their physical traces in the archaeological record, we hope to discuss how ancient societies experienced and conceptualized the flight and plight of displaced peoples.
In light of the recent upsurge in work on ancient Mediterranean migration and exile, as well as current events, new questions arise: What heuristic value does the term “refugee” have for our understanding of the ancient equivalent? How do we define refuge and refugees? Where do we look for the voices of refugees among the ancient evidence? What and where are the sites of “refuge” attested across the ancient Mediterranean world?
We welcome papers in any disciplinary field––and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged––pertaining to the ancient Mediterranean world and surrounding regions, including Egypt, the Near East and the expanses of the Roman Empire, and falling within the period spanning from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.
Potential topics could include:
• Literary and artistic representations of flight, refuge, or supplication, for example in epic, tragedy, vase or wall painting.
• Classical reception (contemporary engagements with classical representations of refuge and refugees).
• Philosophical and theoretical conceptualizations of refuge, for example in Stoic thought.
• Locations of refuge, such as sanctuary spaces.
• Intersections between refugees and the related spheres of ancient migration, exile, and diaspora.
• Ancient histories of migration catalyzed by displacement through war or other factors.
• The demographic impact of ancient refugees on ancient cities, landscapes, and economies.
• Archaeological evidence, for example, hoards and their significance in tracing ancient refugees.
• Refugee identity, for example, the transition from being a “refugee” to becoming a citizen of a new city.
The conference will include a roundtable on how the content and themes discussed in the context of the ancient world can be brought into dialogue with the contemporary refugee crisis.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to cuconference2016@gmail.com no later than May 2, 2016. In the body of your email, please include your name, institution, contact information, and the title of your abstract. The abstract should be anonymous and sent as an attachment. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in length in order to accommodate questions.

Housing accommodations will be provided by Columbia graduate students on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information please visit: cuancientrefugees2016.wordpress.com

Call for Papers and Panels – Critical Perspectives on Culture and Preservation: Precarity in our Past, Present, and Future Cultural Heritages

This year’s Critical Legal Conference will feature a stream on “Critical Perspectives on Culture and Preservation: Precarity in our Past, Present, and Future Cultural Heritages”, for which both paper and panel submissions are encouraged. The conference occurs between September 1st and 3rd, 2016 at Kent University.
The past few years have born witness to the destruction of places, spaces, and objects that carry unquantifiable historical, heritage, and cultural value. As the world gazes on, horrified, many critical questions arise in relation to preservation, protection, ownership, and intervention. What role can or does law have? And how is the view of law’s role shaped by critical legal and radical perspectives?
Atrocities committed against relics of the past are but one aspect of the greater question of the role of preservation and protection in our globalizing world. Just as the term “culture” can capture nearly endless possibilities, so too can the question of what should be protected and preserved as “culture”.
What about the destruction of that which exists intangibly within the boundaries of cultural spaces, and practices? As the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage enters its next decade, has it been successful in its goals and intentions? Questions of how to strengthen and better dedicate ourselves to the preservation of human culture go far beyond the physical and the physically destroyed. Much of what constitutes art and culture is intangible—yet these cultural aspects are as vital to human civilization as the towering ruins of the past.
Alongside the question of how law should (or should not) employ preservation strategies in areas of conflict and war, the question of how law should respond to the privatization and commodification of culture within neoliberal development initiatives also arises.
What about urban culture in our cities? As neighbourhoods face gentrifying forces and municipal redevelopment strategies, what important buildings and spaces should be preserved? How do we determine what to preserve? Can live music venues benefit from intangible cultural heritage protection? In the UK, can and should pubs receive protection through legal tools such as designation as an Asset of Community Value in the face of an owner’s development rights? Or, in New York City, does an otherwise unremarkable building, such as the Stonewall Inn, merit landmark designation based on past important events or the importance it carries to a community like the LGBT community?
Further, if we critically deconstruct existing decisions and paradigms to provide, or not to provide, legally enforceable protection to spaces, places, and objects, will we find a replication of the architectures of hegemony, unequal valuation, or even, recolonization? Or will we find something else? Is the notion of “culture” itself something hegemonic or colonial?
This stream seeks to engage the work of critical and radical scholars and perspectives working at the intersections of law, culture, preservation, and the governance of culture—municipally, domestically, and internationally—as well as those interested in tangible and intangible cultural heritage matters and our human right to culture in all of its varied forms. The goal is to create a lively critical dialogue surrounding how we will treat crucial issues in the preservation of our array of collective past, present, and future cultures moving forward.
Possible ideas for conference papers could include (but are absolutely not limited to):
–    The destruction or theft of cultural heritage in conflict regions.
–    The role of cultural preservation during periods of urbanization or urban redevelopment.
–    International or domestic law and the rise of tangible and intangible cultural heritage protection.
–    The interaction between governance and culture.
Paper Proposals should include an abstracts of no longer than 300 words and a brief author biography. Panel Proposals should include the panel title and rationale (of no more than 300 words) and abstracts and biographies for all participants in the panel. Please send your Paper and Panel Proposal to SaraRoss@osgoode.yorku.ca in a *.doc file. The Call Closes on 1 July 2016.

2017 AIA Annual Meeting: Submission Deadline

The first submission deadline for the 118th AIA Annual Meeting is fast approaching.  The 2017 Meeting will be held in Toronto, Canada from January 5-8. We encourage everyone to review the full Call for Papers (available at www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP) prior to submitting. Submission forms can be accessed at www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP/forms.

Deadline for Submissions
As in past years, all colloquium sessions must be submitted by the first round of deadlines in March. Workshops and open session submissions may be submitted to meet either the March deadlines (if an early decision is needed to acquire a visa or obtain funding) or the second set of deadlines in August. The full submission system will be open through August 21, 2016.  Lightning Session and Roundtable proposals will be accepted through November 13, 2016.  If you expect to be in the field without Internet access you may submit your abstracts early, but you will not be notified of the PAMC’s decision until late September.

* First Deadline: Sunday, March 13th and Sunday, March 27th (with $25 fee)
* Second Deadline: Sunday, August 7th and Sunday, August 21st (with $25 fee)

All submissions must be made electronically by means of the online submission system via the AIA website. All submissions, of course, must pass the PAMC’s vetting process to be put onto the program. The online submission forms and supporting documents are available on the AIA website.

* View the 2017 Call for Papers: www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP
* Online Submission Forms: www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP/forms

The Heritage of Displacement:
Forced Migration in the Mediterranean through History

Saturday, 14 May, 2016
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
Throughout history mass movements of  people have created heritage, at the time and retrospectively. Sites left behind are reused or fall into ruin, objects are taken on journeys, cultural practices are introduced to new environments, and,  sometimes, return journeys are attempted. This movement generates countless stories and leaves a ‘trail of crumbs’ of both tangible and intangible heritage.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by 29 February 2016 to Margaret Comer (mac201@cam.ac.uk).
To register, please contact Minjae Zoh (mz369@cam.ac.uk)
The Heritage of Displacement – Poster
The Heritage of Displacement – Call for Papers
The Heritage of Displacement – Registration Form

The 4th International Landscape Archaeology Conference will be hosted by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History. It will be held at Uppsala University on 23-25 of August, 2016.
The LAC 2016 Scientific Committee is now inviting submissions of abstracts for individual papers and posters!
Deadline: 1st of April 2016
Call for papers and posters: http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/digitalAssets/447/447246_1call_for_individual_papers_and_posters.pdf
Abstract submission form and further information is available at the LAC 2016 web page: http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/LAC_2016+/?languageId=1.

Battles and Bloodsports: Portrayal of Death and Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean World

The Graduate Departmental Representatives from the Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Master’s program at Brandeis University are collecting paper-abstracts for the third annual Graduate Student Conference, which is scheduled for Saturday, 16th April 2016 from 01:00pm – 04:00pm with a reception to follow. The title for the 2016 Graduate Student Conference is Battles and Bloodsports: Portrayal of Death and Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean World.
Any graduate student interested in the conference should submit an abstract (no more than 500 words) for a 10 – 15 minute presentation by Friday, 04th March 2016. The notifications will be distributed the no later than Friday, 11th March 2016.
If you have any questions regarding the conference, please feel free to contact the Graduate Departmental Representatives:
Jonathan Quiery (jquiery@brandeis.edu)
James Martin (martinja@brandeis.edu)
Melanie Harris (melanieh@brandeis.edu)
Brandeis University Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers

April 16^th to 18^th, 2016
National University of Ireland, Galway

www.seventhconfitalianarch.com
The Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology will be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway in April 2016, as a successor to the previous meetings held in Lancaster (1977), Sheffield (1980), Cambridge (1984), London (1990), Oxford (1992), and Groningen (2003). The conference will focus on the archaeology of Italy and its islands from prehistory through to the modern period. We hope to provide a forum for debate, as well as the presentation of fresh theoretical and methodological approaches to Italian archaeology. The primary theme of the conference will be the archaeology of death, but we have also panels that consider recent developments in Italian archaeology. In addition a poster session will provide the opportunity for excavators to present site reports and other topics of interest.
The Archaeology of Death
Contributors are invited to present papers of 20 minutes in duration on the archaeology of death that introduces new data and/or novel theoretical approaches. Suggested themes through which contributors might explore the question of funerary archaeology include, but are not limited to:

• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Landscapes of death
• The Experience of Death
• Personhood
• Marginalised burials
• Osteoarchaeological approaches
• Ritual

Timetable
Titles of contributions and declaration of interest are open now; to make a submission please navigate to the conference website:

• Paper and poster abstracts due: 31^st January 2016

For further information please contact either Eóin O’Donoghue or Edward Herring.

The 5th Biennial Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference
Forging Faith(s) in Global Borderlands
University of California, Santa Barbara
March 11-13, 2016
The Borderlands Research Focus Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites graduate scholars from all disciplines to submit abstracts for papers addressing the theme of Forging Faith(s) in Global Borderlands.
Please send a 300-word abstract to UCSBborderlands2016@gmail.com by December 20, 2015 **deadline extended to January 8, 2016 ** to be considered. Please see the attached call for paper for more information. Further questions can be directed to UCSBborderlands2016@gmail.com.
Thank you,
Organizing Committee Members
UCSB Borderlands Conference 2016
“Forging Faith(s) in Global Borderlands”
UCSBborderlands2016@gmail.com
 
2016 – UCSB Borderlands CfP