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Call For Papers: Forthcoming Aram Conferences July 2025

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On November 1, 2024

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The Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is hosting a series of conferences in July of 2024. Information on the different conferences can be found below

Alcohol in the Ancient Near East 3000 BC – 700 AD

Dates: June 3o – July  2, 2025

Transmission and Innovation: Scientific, technological and religious thought in the Ancient Near East (3000 BC – 700 AD), and its Fifty-Seventh International Conference, Part I, will study the theme of Alcohol in the Ancient Near East on 30th June – 2nd July 2025, at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Oxford, UK. The theme will include many disciplines, such as the alcohol industry, medicine, physics, chemistry, history, archaeology, art, religion, and mythology.

The conference will start on Monday 30th June at 9am, finishing on Wednesday 2nd July at 1pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 45 minutes, with an additional 15 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact the ARAM Society, the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, UK. Tel. 01865-514041 Email: aram@ames.ox.ac.uk

Religious Offerings and Sacrifices in the Ancient Near East 3000 BC – 700 AD

Dates: July 2 – July 4, 2025

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Fifty-Seventh International Conference, Part II, on Religious Offerings and Sacrifices in the Ancient Near East 3000 BC – 700 AD, 2nd -4th July 2025, at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Oxford, UK.

The conference will start on Wednesday 2nd July at 4pm, finishing on Friday 4th July at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 45 minutes, with an additional 15 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact the ARAM Society, the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England.  Tel.  01865-514041 Email: aram@ames.ox.ac.uk

The Armenians BC: History and Archaeology

Dates: July 14 – 15, 2025

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Fifty-Eighth International Conference (Part I) on the Aramaeans BC: History and Archaeology, to be held at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Easter Studies, the University of Oxford, on 14th – 15th July 2025.
The conference will start on Monday, July 14th at 9am, finishing on Tuesday 15th July at 6pm.

Each speaker’s paper is limited to 45 minutes, with an additional 15 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact the ARAM Society, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, UK.  Tel.  01865-514041 Email: aram@ames.ox.ac.uk

NINO Annual Meeting | Call for Papers

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On September 16, 2024

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The NINO Annual Meeting offers an opportunity for advanced students and researchers of the Near East (ancient to the early modern) in the Netherlands to meet and exchange ideas about ongoing and envisioned research projects. The event is co-organized by the Netherlands Institute of the Near East (NINO) and an alternating host institution. This year the meeting is hosted by the University of Groningen, on the topic: “Heritage and politics in the Middle East: Historical Perspectives.”

The study of the Near East has historically been entangled with politics, from those of early modern states and empires, to those of foreign institutes, universities, and museums. This annual meeting focuses on heritage politics of the Middle East from a historical perspective. How have the studies of historical sources, archaeological remains, and texts from the past, been involved with early modern state formation, (de)colonization, cultural diplomacy, economic policies, memory practices? How was this involvement received by people living in the Middle East, and heritage institutions abroad? And today, how is it represented in the curricula of degrees focusing on the Middle Eastern past? How does it influence fieldwork and archive practices?

The committee is currently accepting 20 min. papers on studies pertaining to this topic. In addition, they invite 5 min. research introductions on any ongoing and envisioned research on the Near East. Junior scholars (MA, PhD) are particularly welcome to apply.

Please register via email if you wish to attend, present during the lightning session, or present a longer paper on the topic of Heritage and Politics.

Please include the following information:

  • Surname
  • Name
  • Title
  • Affiliation
  • E-mail address
  • I would like to attend and give a 20’ paper
    • Title of paper
  • I would like to attend and present a 5’ presentation in the lightning session
    • Title of lightning session
  • Abstract (250 words)

Please register by email to ninoconf25@gmail.com by November 1, 2024.

Call for Papers | Collecting Her Thoughts: Lightning Talks on Women Art Collectors Across Time

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On April 11, 2024

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Boston University’s departments in History of Art & Architecture and Archaeology are currently open for submissions for their conference entitled “Collecting Her Thoughts: Lightning Talks on Women Art Collectors Across Time.”

In his introduction to 19’s 2021 issue on women collectors, Tom Stammers writes that “the renewed study of female collectors promises to reconfigure the history of art and the history of gender alike.” Across time, women’s access to the social and financial resources necessary to collect art has been different from that of their male counterparts, often more limited. Both because of and in spite of these limitations, women have served as art patrons, developed ideologically and materially expansive collections, and promoted art in public arenas. Yet, women collectors have been systematically excluded from museum and curatorial studies, perhaps in part because their collections and practices may manifest differently.

For this graduate student colloquium, we seek brief, 10-minute lightning talks that take up the theme of women art collectors. How does the study of female collectors challenge and expand existing museum studies scholarship? Who were these women, and why did they collect? How might a private or domestic collecting practice differ from a public-facing curatorial project?

Possible subjects include, but are not limited to:

  • Women collectors, women archaeologists, women’s collecting circles
  • Women’s roles in taste-making and national identity formation
  • Museum formation, overlooked contributions to museum studies
  • Domestic collecting and decoration, revisiting the “separate spheres” phenomenon
  • Women’s philanthropy, collecting as activism
  • Feminist curatorial practice
  • Intersectional perspectives of women collectors and museum practice
  • Barriers or opportunities for women’s art acquisition
  • New methodologies or approaches to collection, revising gendered collecting terminology

The coordinators welcome submissions from graduate students in the disciplines of art history, archaeology, literary studies, queer and gender studies, history, English, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, museum studies, and related fields. Projects at all stages, including works in progress are welcome, as this will be a space for community and conversation.

Submission Information

Submit a 150-word abstract and a current CV to dadonato@bu.edu by April 26, 2024. The organizers will be in touch by May 3. Unfortunately, they are not able to provide financial support for travel.

This colloquium is organized by Danarenae Donato, Ilaria Trafficante, and Toni Armstrong at Boston University. It is supported by Boston University’s History of Art and Architecture Department, Archaeology Department, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department.

Call for Papers | The Connected Past: Religious Networks in Antiquity

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On April 3, 2024

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The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada is currently open for paper submissions for their October 2024 conference entitled The Connected Past: Religious Networks in Antiquity. The organizing committee, comprised of The Connected Past, The Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, and researchers at The University of British Columbia, invites scholars to submit abstracts for 20-minute papers that explore the intersections of network science, social network analysis, network theory, archaeology, and ancient religions.

Network approaches are used by archaeologists and historians as tools to model relational ties between individuals and groups in the past as key predictors of historical outcomes. The growing uptake of these approaches comes in an era recently dubbed the “Third Science Revolution” (Kristiansen 2014), where the advancement of Big Data and computational techniques have revolutionized the types and amounts of information at our fingertips and our means of analyzing and visualizing its patterns. This workshop and conference aim to build bridges between often divergent disciplinary skillsets: the quantitative and computational side of network analysis and the qualitative questions and explanations that undergird network theory alongside historical and archaeological work.

A special area of focus for the conference will be the application of network perspectives to the emergence and spread of religious beliefs and practices, positioning these phenomena as deeply intertwined with the human and material connections that comprised the ancient world. Religion has often been regarded as both an intensely local and intensely transcultural force for ancient communities. Now, at the digital frontiers of the twenty-first century, the resurgent interests in large-scale questions on human development have opened up new opportunities to study religion from relational and quantitative perspectives combined with deep qualitative and historical approaches developed in the humanities. Possible themes to investigate include:

  • Modeling religious diffusions
  • Networks and religious identities
  • Networks and collective memory
  • Networking myth
  • Religion, networks, and social complexity
  • Networks and materiality
  • Communities of (religious) practice
  • Knowledge networks and religious practice
  • Networks, rituals, and power
  • Network science techniques and humanities pedagogy

Specifics: Please submit abstracts of 300-400 words to connectedpast2024@gmail.com by March 24th April 5th 2024. Notification of acceptance will be in mid-April 2024. Please direct any questions to the above email address or email megan.daniels@ubc.ca. Please see this link for more information.

Conference registration will open in May, with more detailed information on the workshop that will precede the conference. We endeavour to provide fair and accessible registration fees. Registration costs will range from $50-100 CAD (concessionary, regular).

Optional workshop on network science to take place prior to the conference on UBC Vancouver Campus, Oct. 2nd-3rd 2024. Schedule and registration TBA. Workshop seats will be limited.

This workshop and conference is sponsored by The Connected Past, The Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UBC Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, The UBC Centre for Computational Social Sciences, Green College UBC, The UBC Centre for Migration Studies, The UBC Public Humanities Hub, UBC History, UBC Anthropology, the Vancouver Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, and UBC Advanced Research Computing

Call for Papers | 14th Cambridge Heritage Symposium

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On April 3, 2024

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The Cambridge Heritage Research Centre is due to host the 24th Annual Cambridge Heritage Symposium between the 19th and 20th of June 2024 in the McDonald Building, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Entitled Heritage Expertise: Paradigm or Platitude? this year’s symposium provides the first constructive attempt to critically interrogate the skills and roles of those working and researching within heritage spheres. More importantly, the symposium makes an innovative and significant contribution to heritage theory, practice, and methodologies by focusing on skills and roles, some of which have been overlooked by the participative turn in heritage theory and practice.

For more information on the upcoming symposium, as well as how to submit your paper, please click this link.

Call For Papers | Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America

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On February 23, 2024

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The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is opening a call for papers for their annual meeting. The topic of this meeting is “Continuity, Transition, and Transformation of Urban Space in the Roman World,” and will be hosted Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It will take place from 2-4 January, 2025.

Throughout the Roman world, cities form a distinct locale for social and cultural interaction and are in a constant state of flux and transition. Under the lens of change and transformation, we are better able to observe the various socio-cultural dynamics and phases of development that are crucial for understanding urbanization processes of cities. Cities encompass not just the urban zones but also the surrounding suburban and rural areas. They are a combination of public and private spheres that intertwine in distinctive and fascinating ways. Over time, these spaces had various phases of occupation, abandonment, and reuse, encouraged by political, cultural, or religious events. These perhaps altered their original function and created new types of spaces and interactions within them. This panel intends to highlight the archaeology of Roman urban centers from across the Mediterranean and beyond, from the second half of the first millennium BCE to Late Antiquity. This colloquium offers a chance to explore these concepts, relationships, and the various methodologies used in archaeology and related fields to evaluate Roman urban areas

The AIA is open for papers especially pertaining to the following topics:

  • Creation, use and access of spaces
  • process of urbanization and deurbanization
  • Cultural interactions within spaces (entanglement, colonial encounters)
  • Reuse and recycling of space
  • Representations of public spaces (coins, mosaics, frescoes)
  • Relationships between urban, suburban and rural areas

The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2024. For more information on how to submit, please contact Katie Breyer at kbreyer@brynmawr.edu.  More information on the call for papers can be found on this flyer.

Updates from the Society of Black Archaeologists

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On February 23, 2024

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The Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA) has released their February Newsletter! Featured information includes upcoming publications, conferences, and call for papers.

Publications

  • Dossiê Arqueologias Negras: nossas lutas, nossas histórias – Primeira parte – NegrArqueo has recently published a special issue on Black Archaeology in the journal Revista de Arqueologia v. 37 n. 1 (2024).

Upcoming Events

  • The Northwest Anthropological Conference: Portland, Oregon | March 6-9, 2024 – The 2024 theme is “Building Bridges”: Consultation and Community Engagement, Registration is now open. This conference will also host a Tribal Caucus, the Portland Indigenous Marketplace with other vendors/organizations, a silent auction to support local nonprofits (The Chúush Fund: Water for Warm Springs, and All Tribes Mental Health Services, Inc.), and much more! Tribal member admission is free and there is a stipend application for tribal members to cover costs of attendance through the Association of Oregon Archaeologists (AOA). See the nwaconference.com website for more details
  • Anthropology and the Black Experience Conference | May 15-18, 2024 – The Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA), Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA), and the Black in BioAnth (BiBA) Collective are pleased to host The Anthropology and the Black Experience Conference, May 15-18, 2023 at University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. The 21st century has witnessed significant shifts in the anthropological landscape, with diverse voices and perspectives emerging to challenge traditional narratives. This conference seeks to explore the unique contributions and experiences of Black scholars in anthropology, emphasizing the rich tapestry of knowledge, methodologies, and insights they bring to the discipline. They invite scholars, researchers, and students from all sub-disciplines and related fields to reflect on the historiography of anthropology in Africa and the African diaspora, the role and contributions of people of African descent in the field, and the latest research being done by and in communities of African descent.

Opportunities 

  • Herskovits Library of African Studies Research Grant | Northwestern University – The Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies is one of the largest separate African studies libraries in existence. Applications are open for the 2024-2025 Northwestern Libraries Travel Grants. This travel grant was established in 2021 to facilitate and support research projects that significantly benefit from substantial onsite use of the unique, special and archival collections of the Herskovits Library. The grant is available to researchers whose projects explore new lines of inquiry, interdisciplinary and multi-layered research and contribute to the deeper understanding of the diverse peoples and countries of the African continent. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2024.
  • Call for Papers – Archaeologies of Crisis and Constraint: African Tales from the Field | Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites – Contributors are asked to discuss the ways in which catastrophic or unexpected events influence the practice of heritage research, fieldwork, and management in Africa. In the issue, authors will detail how these occurrences (that we sometimes might not disclose) force us to adopt new innovative strategies that drive our work in new and exciting ways that would otherwise have not taken place. Email an abstract of no more than 300 words by April 1 2024 to Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann [raaengmann@theafricainstitute.org]
  • SBA Conference Travel Award – The award offers support for non-US SBA members traveling to present research at scholarly conferences. SBA will provide a total award of up to $1000 USD. Award funding is intended for conference and travel-related expenses, including conference registration, travel (e.g., airfare, vehicle rentals), and room/board. Questions about the award can be sent to treasurer@societyofblackarchaeologists.com

For more information on the SBA, as well as how to support their staff and scholars, please visit their website here.

Call for Papers | Theoretical Archaeology Group 2024 Meeting

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On February 23, 2024

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The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) is pleased to announce that the 2024 meeting  will convene from May 21-23 in Santa Fe, NM. For the first time, the meeting will be hosted by an Indigenous nation, Picuris Pueblo, at a 100%-tribally-owned venue: Hotel Santa Fe. Taking up a conference theme of “place,” TAG extends a special invitation to sessions, papers, and workshops that pose new questions about the archaeology of placemaking, native science, ecology, landscape, situated knowledge, multispecies analytics, critical cartographies, and anti-colonial localism. For more information about scheduling and logistics, visit the conference portal.

Paper submissions are due by April 22, 2024. More information on how to submit a paper to a session may be found on the conference portal; to join a session, directly email the session organizers. A list of current sessions may be found below:

  1. “Sanctity in Motion,” chaired by Robert Weiner (Robert.S.Weiner@dartmouth.edu) and Darryl Wilkinson (Darryl.A.Wilkinson@dartmouth.edu)
  2. “Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism,” chaired by Severin Fowles (sfowles@barnard.edu) and El Morris (emorris@barnard.edu)
  3. “Moving Place: Archaeologies of Mobility, Transit, and Emplacement,” chaired by Rosemary A. Joyce (rajoyce@berkeley.edu)
  4. “Artiplaces: From the Phenomenal to the Hyperreal,” chaired by Benjamin Alberti (balberti@framingham.edu) and Christopher Watts (c3watts@uwaterloo.ca)
  5. “Debating the Aesthetics and Poetics of Infrastructures,” chaired by Ed Swenson (edward.swenson@utoronto.ca)
  6. “TAG Takeover: Theorizing Indigenous Emergent Geographies,” chaired by Lindsay Montgomery (lindsay.montgomery@utoronto.ca) and Nate Acebo (nathan.acebo@uconn.edu)
  7. “Bioarchaeological Ethics in Practice: Returning and Emplacing,” chaired by Sabrina C. Agarwal (agarwal@berkeley.edu) and Alanna Warner
  8. “New Theoretical Perspectives on Relationships with the More-than-Human World,” chaired by Katelyn J. Bishop (kjbishop@illinois.edu), Ripan S. Malhi, Jenny L. Davis, and Sarah E. Oas
  9. “Situated Knowledge in a World of Archaeological Orthodoxy,” chaired by Jenny Ni (jn2512@columbia.edu), Brendon Connor Murray (bcm2153@columbia.edu), and Amanda Althoff (eaa2167@columbia.edu)
  10. “Community-based Archaeology: Uniting Community Priorities with Archaeological Practice,” chaired by Michael Graves (mwgraves@unm.edu)
  11. “Holding Uncertainty: Sketching the Unreliable Past,” chaired by Zoë Crossland (zc2149@columbia.edu), Andrew Roddick (roddick@mcmaster.ca), and Kathryn Killackey (kjkillackey@gmail.com)

The TAG 2024 meeting is still open to session proposals. To propose a session for the conference, submit a title and abstract on the conference portal or contact a member of the 2024 TAG Organizing Committee. Please note: unlike most conferences, session organizers do not need to solicit all or even most session participants. Once proposed, sessions will be advertised as a part of the wider call for papers. The 2024 TAG Organizing Committee and their contact information may be found below:

 

Society of Black Archaeologists: January Updates

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On January 26, 2024

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The Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA) wishes you a happy new year! This January, the SBA highlights some of their members’ achievements, as well as announces their new SBA elected officials.

2024 Elected Officials

President-elect: Alicia Odewale

Secretary: Jordan Davis

Treasurer: Craig Stevens

Student Representative: Rebecca Davis

 

Milestones & Achievements 

  • Congratulations to the Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology Project (BAHA) for receiving the Society for Historical Archaeology Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Awards for January 2024! The award honors research project teams who exhibit outstanding best practices in community collaboration, engagement, and outreach in their historical archaeology and heritage preservation work. The BAHA team is being acknowledged for their public archaeology and curation efforts at Providence Island and the National Museum of Liberia. Shoutout to the BAHA team for the great work!
Upcoming Events & Opportunities 
  • The Archaeological Society of Jamaica: “Public Archaeology and Heritage at White Marl” Virtual Webinar | Wednesday, January 24, 2024, at 6:00 PM local time – This engaging session will delve into the rich tapestry of Heritage and Archaeology at White Marl in Central Village, Saint Catherine.The focus will be on exploring the intricacies of this complex, organized pre-colonial site and shedding light on the potential risks it faces in the context of highway development. The discussion will extend to the profound concepts of memory and heritage, connecting decades of archaeological research to the contemporary life of the modern community surrounding the site. Join for an enlightening evening as we uncover the layers of history, weaving together the threads of the past with the challenges and opportunities of the present.
  • “Anthropology and the Black Experience” Dakar, Senegal | May 15-18, 2024 – The Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA), Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA), and the Black in BioAnth (BiBA) Collective are pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference entitled “Anthropology and the Black Experience.” The 21st century has witnessed significant shifts in the anthropological landscape, with diverse voices and perspectives emerging to challenge traditional narratives. This conference seeks to explore the unique contributions and experiences of Black scholars in anthropology, emphasizing the rich tapestry of knowledge, methodologies, and insights they bring to the discipline. We invite scholars, researchers, and students from all sub-disciplines and related fields to reflect on the historiography of anthropology in Africa and the African diaspora, the role and contributions of people of African descent in the field, and the latest research being done by and in communities of African descent.
  • SBA Conference Travel Award | The award offers support for non-US SBA members traveling to present research at scholarly conferences. SBA will provide a total award of up to $1000 USD. Award funding is intended for conference and travel-related expenses, including conference registration, travel (e.g., airfare, vehicle rentals), and room/board. Questions about the review criteria and the award can be directed to treasurer@societyofblackarchaeologists.com
  • Climate Change and Archaeology Survey | The Heritage-at-Risk Task Force of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) is conducting a short survey on the effects of climate change on the practice of archaeology and the resources we study. They invite all SBA members to contribute!
For more information on the SBA, please visit their webpage linked here.

Journal of Roman Archaeology Highlights

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On January 26, 2024

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The Journal of Roman Archaeology (JRA) marks AIASCS 2024 in Chicago this week with free-access research articles included in the Cambridge Archaeology Journals collection. Access (where not already OA) is granted across the conference and throughout January.

33 free articles may be accessed through this link. The JRA also interviewed Professor Greg Woolf, the new editor-in-chief of the journal! A recording of this interview may be accessed for free at this link.

To find out more about the Journal of Roman Archaeology, as well as publishing open access with them, visit the JRA’s webpage!

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