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CFP: UISPP 2018

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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

You are warmly invited to take part in the XVIIIe Congrès de l’UISPP, which will be held in  Paris, France, from 4th to 9th June 2018
Personal ornaments are polythetic artifacts that are intimately connected to identity, social organization, and ritualized material practices. Their analysis, when performed with appropriate tools, offers unique insights into the social organization of prehistoric societies and, when considered longitudinally, cultural evolution. Evidence that has been uncovered in the last twenty years has substantially altered the timeline for the emergence of symbolic behavior and also shown that instead of a sudden emergence, personal adornment has a complex and mosaic prehistory marked at certain times and places by intensified investment. The conditions that motivate investment in symbolic material culture are complex and varied, and untangling them is crucial to understanding the contribution of symbolic practices to the form and function of human societies. This session will focus on methods and approaches that further a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the factors that have influenced personal adornment production and use over time and space, going beyond typology and technology to examine broader economic, social, and cultural contexts. Examples are welcome from a wide range of contexts across pre- and proto-history, from hunter-gatherer bands of the Pleistocene to early pastoral and farming societies and including ethnographic and ethnohistorical examples, without geographic restriction. Contributions should focus on analytical methods and techniques (including microscopy and imaging, use-wear analysis, sourcing, morphometrics, GIS analysis, and statistical approaches) that contribute to discussions of production organization, social organization, demography, mobility, landscape use, technology, exchange, and cultural transmission. The primary focus of the session is beads and pendants in biogenic materials (tooth, shell, ivory, bone, antler, amber, ostrich eggshell), but we invite contributions based on other materials related to adornment such as minerals, metals, pigments, residues, and perishable materials
such as hide, sinew, and hair.
The general theme held for the congress is :
ADAPTATION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF PREHISTORIC AND PROTOHISTORIC SOCIETIES CONFRONTED TO CLIMATE CHANGE

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/

CFP: TAG Gainesville May 11-13, 2018

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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/

Fieldwork Opportunity: Irish Archaeology Field School

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The Institute for Field Research (IFR) Ireland Ferrycarrig Program


We are Ireland’s leading provider of accredited, field-based archaeological research and training. The ethos of the school is to provide an opportunity for students of archaeology and anthropology to experience at first hand the excitement of archaeological excavation in a teaching environment.
Our archaeological and heritage include research projects in a number of locations in Ireland, including Co. Offally, Co. Wexford. Our new projects include, historical research, remote sensing and non-invasive survey, ground investigation and excavation. Our courses include programmes for novice and experienced students, internships, faulty led purpose-built programmes, and accredited programmes with partner organisations including the Institute for Field Research.
Whilst our programs are excavation-centered and aimed primarily at students of archaeology, anthropology and forensics, courses are open to all, and are guaranteed to give you an enriching and thoroughly worthwhile study abroad adventure.
This year the IAFS are launching an exciting new excavation at Carrick Castle (and settlement), the first Norman Castle in Ireland, constructed in 1169. The site is locating within the stunning confines of the Irish National Heritage Park, a 40 acre parkland featuring the largest open air museum in Ireland, in Wexford, southeast Ireland. The course is suitable for students from a wide range of backgrounds including archaeology, history, anthropology, experimental archaeology, medieval studies – or just students looking for a unique study abroad experience in general. The programme will include students of all ages and nationalities.
Most courses are open to undergraduate, graduate and post graduate students undertaking any major, and from any university in the world. Students must be 18 years or over, to participate. The courses are designed to support student development and are relevant to those who are not yet enrolled in university as well as current or graduate students.
For more information and to apply, visit our website: http://iafs.ie/

CFP: Izmir Center of the Archaeology of Western Anatolia (EKVAM) – Unguentarium Symposium

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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

Fellowship: Research Fellowship for Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center

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On August 23, 2017

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In 2010, SQCC established its Research Fellowship Program, which aims to promote and cultivate scholarly research about Oman across several academic disciplines. The fellowship is open to PhD candidates and university academics who are US citizens or affiliated with an American university, and funds one scholar or team of scholars to carry out research in Oman each year. The fellowship awards up to $51,000 for the fellow or team of fellows.
To read more about previous fellows and their research, visit this page.
The 2018 Fellowship application period is open.
To submit an application or find additional information, visit the website: https://www.sqcc.org/Scholarships-0024-Fellowships/Research-Fellowship-Program.aspx
Deadline to submit an application and supporting materials is September 17, 2017.

CFP: Archaeology and Social Justice, Brown University (March 2018)

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Call for Papers:

State of the Field 2018:
Archaeology and Social Justice

Friday, March 2 – Saturday, March 3, 2018
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World will host a workshop called State of the Field 2018: Archaeology and Social Justice on March 2-3, 2018.  The workshop will be the culmination of two years of discussion on this theme, and is also intended to raise new issues, ask new questions, and encourage ongoing dialogue.  Our gathering builds on a tradition of “State of the Field” workshops hosted by the Joukowsky Institute to reflect upon trends in archaeological work, each year focusing our discussion on issues impacting an area of particular interest to our faculty and students.  While previous versions have dealt with a country or region of archaeological significance, this year’s event will focus on archaeology’s relationship to ongoing movements for social justice.
Within the context of archaeology, we conceive of social justice as pertaining to issues of privilege and opportunity that affect the makeup of scholars in the field, efforts among archaeologists to engage with the public and with broader social and political discussions, and the degree to which archaeological scholarship and pedagogy intersect with or impact these issues. It also refers to the asymmetries of power and structural inequalities in society at large. This choice of topic has been inspired by recent global social and political concerns, responses from universities and academia that seek to address issues of representation and access, and, most importantly, grassroots movements for social justice.
This workshop thus seeks to engage primarily with the role of archaeology in contemporary social justice movements, while insisting that discussions of diversity in the past can inform experience in the present. We welcome papers that explore the relationship between archaeology and the present political climate, with the intention of addressing the challenges currently facing the field of archaeology and the academy more broadly. We also seek to engage in conversations about the biases and structural problems that make archaeology more accessible to some than to others, in order to help the discipline reach a broader and more inclusive public.
The workshop will include four sessions, each addressing issues of the relationship of archaeology to ongoing struggles for social justice and/or the role of archaeology in those struggles. Rather than predefining the content of these sessions, we intend to shape them with contributions from this call for papers; we wish to offer an open space for discussion of the following, and other, relevant issues:

  • The materiality and temporality of current social issues
  • Disciplinary decolonization
  • Archaeology’s role in discussions of “diversity and inclusion”
  • Identity and inequality in the past and present
  • Structural and practical access to archaeology and the academy
  • Activism and engagement within archaeology
  • Archaeology in/of social justice movements
  • Archaeology’s relationship to white nationalism
  • Archaeology in moments of crisis

To submit a proposal for a paper of approximately 20 minutes, please send an abstract of 350 words or less to Joukowsky_Institute@brown.edu by October 1, 2017.
For questions about this CFP, or about the conference, please see our conference website, www.brown.edu/go/sotf2018 or email Joukowsky_Institute@brown.edu.

CFP: College Art Association – 2018 Call for Participation Now Open

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The 2018 Call for Participation for the 106th Annual Conference, taking place February 21–24, 2018, in Los Angeles, is now open.
Contributors are sought to present their own work related to session topics outlined in CAA’s 2018 Call for Participation. This document shows only Sessions Seeking Contributors via an open call. Check the CAA website in October for full CAA 2018 conference listings (including Complete and Composed Sessions).
The 2018 Call for Participation (CFP) is available as a PDF download; CAA will not mail hard copies of this document. Send paper/project proposals directly to the appropriate session chair(s) listed in the CFP. Instructions for sending Poster Session Proposals are also included.
The deadline for CFP proposals is August 14, 2017.
Additionally, there is also still time to propose a Professional Development Workshop for CAA 2018 (deadline: July 9, 2017).
We look forward to your participation in the annual conference; see you in LA!
Contact and Questions:
For questions about the CAA Annual Conference, please contact Tiffany Dugan, CAA director of programs at tdugan@collegeart.org, or Katie Apsey, CAA manager of programs, at kapsey@collegeart.org.

Position Announcement: Assistant Professor at Brown University

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Assistant Professor of Roman Art, Archaeology, and Architecture

Brown University, Providence, RI

Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Department of History of Art and Architecture invite applications for an assistant professor in the fields of Roman archaeology, art, and architecture, whose research focuses on any region of the Mediterranean and/or Near East. We seek exceptional junior scholars who augment or complement the present strengths and diversity of our communities at Brown University, and who enhance our commitment to inclusive education and research.
Applications are welcome from candidates who have demonstrated a capacity for innovative research and cross-disciplinary thinking in the fields of Roman archaeology, art, and architecture. Candidates must have an outstanding record of scholarly achievement, as well as a proven record of publication, outreach, and service commensurate with their career stage. Excellence in, and commitment to, undergraduate and graduate teaching are essential. We particularly value active involvement and leading roles in ongoing fieldwork projects.
All candidates should submit a letter of application and curriculum vitae by October 10, 2017.  Applicants should provide the names of three referees with up-to-date contact information (including email, if possible); referees will be contacted directly by the Search Committee. The Search Committee may also contact candidates to request additional materials, such as course descriptions or writing samples. Applications received by October 10, 2017 will receive full consideration, but the search will remain open until the position is closed or filled.
Please submit application materials online at apply.interfolio.com/42728.  There is no need to provide hard copies of application materials for those that have already been submitted electronically.
For further information:

Professor Sheila Bonde Professor Peter van Dommelen
Co-Chair, Search Committee Co-Chair, Search Committee
Chair, Department of History of Art & Architecture Director, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology
Brown University Brown University
Box 1855 Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912 Providence, RI  02912
Sheila_Bonde@brown.edu Joukowsky_Institute@brown.edu

Brown University is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic global community; as an EEO/AA employer, Brown considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, gender, race, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

CFP: Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the 1st millennium BC – Recent discoveries and research results

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UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
DEPARTMENT OF MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES
Religion and Cult in the Dodecanee during the first millennium BC: Recent discoveries and research results
International Conference
Rhodes, October 2018
FIRST CIRCULAR
Rhodes, 09 June 2017
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are pleased to invite proposals for papers at the international conference Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the first millennium BC to be held at the University of the Aegean on Rhodes in October 2018.
Religion has always been one of the major components of peoples’ lives, an integral part of social, economic and political contexts, contributing to the formation of culture and history. In order to study and understand the religious and cult practices of a particular region, it is necessary to explore their various expressions through material culture and written sources.
The oldest known cult remains in the Dodecanese can be dated to the end of the tenth and early ninth centuries B.C. and throughout the first millennium B.C. These display the existence of a vibrant island society with various evolving cult practices. As a major stopover on maritime trade routes, the southeastern Aegean was influenced by contacts from throughout the Greek world and beyond. This conference will explore the archaeology and literature that testify to the development and continuation of cults in the Dodecanese, from the Early Iron Age through to the first century B.C.
The conference will particularly welcome papers in the following thematic circles:

  • New archaeological finds on sanctuaries and cult practices in the Dodecanese
  • Epigraphical and literary evidence on the religion and cults in the Dodecanese
  • The context of religion and cult practice in the Dodecanese
  • Theoretical issues on the relation of archaeology, religion and cult

Please complete and return the attached participation form (Religion_and _Cult_participation_form) by Monday 30th October 2017 to the Colloquium Secretariats at the following e-mail addresses:
gmavroudis@rhodes.aegean.gr  and  msd15001@aegean.gr
Notifications of acceptance will be announced in early January of 2018. A second circular with further information concerning the conference and a provisional programme will be circulated in January 2018.
The duration of papers should not exceed 20 minutes.
CONFERENCE LANGUAGE
English
REGISTRATION
There is no registration fee. Participants are required to cover their own travel and other costs.
ACTS of the Conference: The acts of the Conference will be published (following peer review) in a volume by Archaeopress Publishing Limited, Oxford.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Georgios Mavroudis: gmavroudis@rhodes.aegean.gr
Eirini Savigkou: msd15001@aegean.gr
CONFERENCE WEBSITE
to be announced
THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Manolis I. Stefanakis (University of the Aegean)
Georgios Mavroudis (University of the Aegean)
Fani Seroglou (Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese)
Paolo Daniele Scirpo (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens -Italian Archaeological School at Athens)
Nicholas Salmon (Birkbeck College – The British Museum)
Eirini Savigkou (University of the Aegean)
Evangelia Demetriou (University of the Aegean)
 
Religion_and _Cult_Circular-01
Religion_and _Cult_participation_form

CFP: 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology

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19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology:
Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World

Cologne/Bonn (Germany), 22 – 26 May 2018
The International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) would like to invite you to the XIXth International Congress of Classical Archaeology with the theme: ‘Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World‘.
The objective of this congress will be to understand economy as a central element of classical societies and analyse its mutual interaction with current geographical, political, social, religious and cultural backgrounds. The theme of the congress is therefore addressed to all disciplines of classical archaeology and related sciences.
The main theme will be discussed in 11 different sessions.  Session 12 is a general session open to various topics.

  1. The human factor
  2. The impact of natural environmental factors
  3. Systems of production
  4. Systems of extraction
  5. Distribution
  6. Consumption
  7. Economy of cult
  8. The role of the city in the ancient economy
  9. The military economy at war and peace
  10. Economy of knowledge
  11. Methodology
  12. Other topics outside the main theme

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers (20 min.) will take place within thematically structured panels. Proposals can be submitted either for one of the already accepted panels or for one of the 12 session topics.
CALL FOR POSTERS
A poster session is scheduled for 24 May 2018. Proposals for the main theme of the congress are desirable.
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Two-hour workshops can be organized, which should be oriented towards methods or practical applications.
The call for papers, posters and workshops is open until 31 August 2017. For all three categories the submission of an abstract (1500 characters incl. spaces) is required. For further information, please see our homepage: www.aiac2018.de
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Early Bird: 15 May – 15 August 2017
Regular: 16 August – 31 January 2018
Late: 1 February – 21 May 2018
On-site: 22/23 May 2018
Discounts: AIAC-Members; Students/Unemployed/Retired; Student groups
A certain number of travel grants can be provided.

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