This inter-disciplinary conference brings together a variety of perspectives on destruction and encompasses several time periods and cultures. The goal is to treat the subject in a holistic manner and to acknowledge the problems that surround this complex topic. This extends beyond archaeology to history, sociology, anthropology, and several other disciplines. The aim is to examine what destruction as a phenomenon does to material culture and intangible heritage, and, by extension, our communities and perceptions. Included in this is why specific destruction occurred the way it did, what its effects were, how the collective 'memory' of destruction evolves over time, and the significance of the choices we make about interpreting and discussing destruction that occurred in the past. This conference will incorporate not just theoretical research about the past, but also topics such as how information about destruction is presented and used in the present, how this affects the conservation choices we make, and practical issues such as how we identify or isolate deliberate destruction from that caused by natural and other causes.(HPからのコピペです)
International SymposiumHeritage Education - Capacity Building in Heritage Management:June 14-18, 2006 the Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus(ドイツ)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES OF THE AMERICAS SYMPOSIUM 2006
ABSTRACTS FOR INDIVIDUAL POSTERS, PAPERS, AND COMPUTER SIMULATION STATIONS DUE JUNE 1, 2006!
SEPTEMBER 13 - 16, 2006
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL UNION
TUCSON, ARIZONA USA
More info and registration forms available online at:
http://asas06.ltc.arizona.edu
Applications for student travel scholarships, field trips, and vendors
recently udated.
The organizing committee of the Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium is pleased to solicit contributions for 2006. ASAS encourages regular and sustained collaboration between archaeological, conservation, and natural scientists in the Americas. The meeting will be hosted by graduate students in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program in Archaeological Sciences at the University of Arizona will co-sponsor this event.
The Biennial Symposium will focus on studies, techniques, and approaches that emphasize the analysis and interpretation of prehistoric and historic materials, human cultures and ecology. Researchers at all levels of experience and training are invited to participate. A special invitation is extended to colleagues from Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Conceptual and methodological contributions that transcend geographic boundaries of research are also encouraged; applications need not be confined to the Americas. In recognition that archaeological science represents an interdisciplinary effort, six major themes will be represented at the meeting:
1) Geoarchaeology
2) Conservation Studies and Ephemeral Remains
3) Spatial Analysis and Remote Sensing
4) Chronometry
5) Human-Environmental Interaction
6) Material Culture Studies
Abstracts for individually-submitted papers, posters, and computer
simulations are due June 1, 2006 and are limited to 250 words. Proposals of organized sessions (5-6 papers and one discussant) were due May 15, 2006, but the organizers are still willing to accept sessions on a case by case basis.
Application fees are $60(US) for students and $90(US) for professionals. Checks are to be made out to the University of Arizona. Please note that none of the application fee is tax deductible.
For more information, explore the sidebar links or contact one of the organizing committee members directly: R. Emerson Howell (rhowell@email.arizona.edu) or AJ Vonarx (ajvonarx@email.arizona.edu). We look forward to hearing from you and meeting you in Tucson in September 2006!
The Afterlife of Memory: Memoria/Historia/Amnesia
CongressCATH 2006, the fifth of a series of conferences promoted by AHRC CentreCATH, will take place at the University of Leeds, UK from the 5th to the 8th of July 2006.
In 1993 we initiated a student conference series focusing on Archaeology, History and Museum Studies. Since then, each year we have held a similar student conference, each year attracting about 50-60 presenters from throughout Romania and abroad. The proceedings of the conference are published annually in our nationally accredited academic journal, BCSS [http://arhist.uab.ro/pu/rev/pu-rev-bcss.php].
On behalf of the organizing committee, it is a great pleasure and honour for me to invite fellow students from all over the world to our 14th Annual Conference of Student Scholastic Organisations entitled "Beyond the Next Village - Globalisation of Studies of the Past" to be held 24-26 November, 2006 at "1 Decembrie 1918" University in Alba Iulia, Romania.
The globalisation of studies of the past in addition to cross border research and exchange of ideas, will play a significant role in the development of future international standardisation of research objectives, methods and ethics. This meeting will provide an ideal forum for the exchange of information and ideas on recent research and discoveries between students of Archaeology, History and Museum Studies from around the world. We aim to create a stimulating and open scientific atmosphere to support the development of new collaborations.
The conference will be divided into the following 3 sections:
1. Archaeology, prehistory, ancient history and auxiliary research sciences;
2. Mediaeval, modern, contemporary and art history; and
3. Museum and gallery studies, conservation, restoration and public education.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is 30 September 2006. The deadline for registration (for participants who will not present a paper) is 15 October 2006.
For more information on the conference, abstract submission, and registration, please visit our website at http://arhist.uab.ro/conf-2006/.
Archaeology in Conflict Conference
Cultural Heritage, Site Management and Sustainable Developmentin Conflict and Post-Conflict States in the Middle East
Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
10-12th November 2006.
ちょっと気が早いですが。。。
http://www.theasa.org/asa07/
Thinking through tourism
10th - 13th April 2007, London Metropolitan University, UK
This conference will mark over three decades of anthropological work on tourism and tourism related issues. It will combine reflections on the evolution of anthropological interest in the subject, on where the subject stands presently, and on the various directions in which it may be going. Possible panels will include the ethnography of tourism; the kinship between tourism, anthropology, and epistemology; images and objects; tourism and the body; tourism policy and planning; anthropological approaches to museums; anthropology and the global political-economy of tourism; anthropology and regional development; anthropology, tourism, and borderlands; tourism and nationalism. It will be held at London Metropolitan University.
The conference will start at midday on Tuesday 10th April 2007 and finish in the early afternoon of the 13th. Days will be divided into morning and afternoon sessions of approximately 3 hours duration. The conference will open on Tuesday afternoon with an extended plenary session. Morning sessions will consist of a one-hour plenary, followed by 90 minute parallel workshops. The afternoons of days two and three will be devoted to further parallel sessions, with time between lunchtime and 4pm on Thursday for network and business meetings. The conference will close at lunchtime on Friday. Thus there will be four plenary and six parallel sessions over the four days of the conference.
The Call for panels is now open - click here. The deadline for panel proposals is 8th November.
The Province of East-Flanders, the Provincial Archaeological Museum - Ename, the Flemish Heritage Institute, and the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation are pleased to announce a first call for papers for the:
3rd Annual Ename International Colloquium
to be held 21-24 March 2007 in Ghent, Belgium
THE FUTURE OF HERITAGE
Changing Visions, Attitudes, and Contexts
in the 21st Century
At a time when the field of cultural heritage is undergoing series of far-reaching yet contradictory transformations, this three-day colloquium will present a wide range of perspectives and predictions on the future of heritage policy, funding, interpretive technologies, and public involvement in Europe and throughout the world.
We are therefore seeking innovative contribution from heritage administrators, cultural economists, archaeologists, historians, educators, and cultural policy specialists under the following four themes:
*Philosophy and Public Policy: How will governments and heritage administrations view their responsibility toward tangible and intangible heritage in the coming generation? What are the major trends now affecting the development of public policy? What role will universities, NGOs, and international organizations play?
*Economics
How will the combination of public and private funding sources and of state and private management of heritage sites and museums evolve? With the continuing reduction of public culture budgets and increasing reliance on independent income generation, what economic strategies can be most effective in preserving the integrity of cultural heritage sites?
*Technologies
How can emerging digital technologies contribute to the long-term preservation, documentation and public interpretation of heritage resources? In which contexts are they sustainable and/or affordable? What is their social and intellectual impact on the public perception of heritage itself?
*Community Participation
Do heritage sites belong only to a nation, to regional and local administrations, to the communities that produced them, or to the specialists that study and conserve them as "universal" heritage? What is the role of the general public? What kinds of innovative programmes can most effectively enhance education and community identity?
Abstracts for poster presentations, short papers (10 min.) and research papers (20 min.) on these themes will be accepted until 1st December 2006.
They should be a maximum of 300 words, in English, and be sent by fax to +32-55-303-519 or by email to colloquium program coordinator Claudia Liuzza at claudia.liuzza@enamecenter.org.
All authors should include full contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail address).
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 January 2007.
For questions or requests for additional information, please visit our website www.enamecenter.org or contact Eva Roels at colloquium@enamecenter.org.
Please feel free to distribute this announcement to any interested colleagues. We hope you will find this colloquium to be of interest and look forward to seeing you in Ghent next year!
The Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation
> CALL FOR PAPERS - 18TH JAPAN ANTHROPOLOGY WORKSHOP
> (JAWS) CONFERENCE
> University of Oslo
> Museum of Cultural History
>
> March 14-17, 2007
>
> JAPAN AND MATERIALITY IN A BROADER PERSPECTIVE
>
> Dear Group Colleagues with a Japan focus,
>
> You are invited to sign up for the
> next Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) conference
> in Oslo. The
> conference addresses the theme "Japan and
> Materiality in a Broader
> Perspective." But any other topic as well is equally
> welcome, whether
> this would be a proposal for a panel, an individual
> paper, a special lecture, a media event, or a round table discussion.
> Contributors to the
> conference are also invited to approach issues
> related to Japan from a
> cross-disciplinary point of view. Students and
> doctoral candidates are welcome to participate. The inclusive approach to
> the issue of
> Japan and materiality may be illustrated by the
> following possible topics:
>
> * Popular culture: media, film, fashion, commercial
> culture, food & drink
> * Place and landscape: monuments, sights,
> itineraries, mementos
> * The materiality of display: theme parks, museums,
> games, virtual reality
> * Significant objects: tools for identity making,
> proprietorship,
> emblems of power and interest
> * Inalienable or marketable crafts and skills
> * Nature, body, sexuality, and the sacred within the
> context of tools
> and technology
> * The physicality of selfhood: social use of the
> body
>
> Received submissions will be posted on the
> conference website http://www.khm.uio.no/jaws-2007/. Some of the
> already registered panels may be open for additional participants. Please
> contact the organizer for information on this. Papers submitted as
> individual presentations will be grouped into thematically coherent panels.
> You are welcome to address any inquiry to the email address below.
> Conference communication in Japanese is welcomed.
>
> Email address:
> jaws-2007@khm.uio.no
>
> Looking forward to seeing you in Oslo next year!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Arne Rokkum
> --
> Professor of Social Anthropology
> Department of Ethnography
> Museum of Cultural History University of Oslo
> P.O. Box 6762 St. Olavs Plass
> NO-0130 Oslo, Norway
> Tel +47-22859965
> Fax +47-22859960
> Mobile phone: +47-97711558
> www.khm.uio.no
>
前に紹介したASAの観光に関するコンフェランスですが、現在Call for papersです。ASAのメンバーでなくても応募できるので、関心ある方はぜひチェックされてください。
締め切りは1月12日。
http://www.theasa.org/asa07/
Thinking through tourism
10th - 13th April 2007, London Metropolitan University, UK
This conference will mark over three decades of anthropological work on tourism and tourism related issues. It will combine reflections on the evolution of anthropological interest in the subject, on where the subject stands presently, and on the various directions in which it may be going. Possible panels will include the ethnography of tourism; the kinship between tourism, anthropology, and epistemology; images and objects; tourism and the body; tourism policy and planning; anthropological approaches to museums; anthropology and the global political-economy of tourism; anthropology and regional development; anthropology, tourism, and borderlands; tourism and nationalism. It will be held at London Metropolitan University.
8TH CAMBRIDGE HERITAGE SEMINAR Re-visioning the Nation:
Cultural heritage and the politics of disaster
at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Saturday 12 May 2007
For nearly ten years the Cambridge Heritage Seminars have brought together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning cultural heritage today.
This year's seminar focuses on the uses and abuses of heritage by states and societies as they emerge from crisis situations. Societies emerging from a natural disaster, armed conflict or acute social and economic crisis share many needs regarding their cultural heritage: restoring the rule of law, integrating traumatic events into historical consciousness, negotiating memories, limiting illicit trade and looting, and so on. Some scholars have argued for a distinction between "life issues" and "quality of life issues," suggesting that the former needs are more pressing in a post-crisis situation. But this dichotomy collapses under scrutiny: the values that inform the rebuilding of physical needs will also inform the reconstruction of other dimensions of civic life, such as the use of the recently traumatised past. In this light the post-crisis situation can be seen as a dialectic in which the newly formed (or fragmented) state offers a vision to its citizens of their identity and heritage, and the citizens accept it, reject it, or make a counter-offer in turn.
One domain in which this dialectic plays out is the visual representation of the nation, its past, and its identity: new images arise out of the ashes, and old ones are re-envisioned to satisfy the agenda of the state. As part of the historical record, works of a society's cultural heritage are liable to be manipulated in this process. An investigation of the ever-changing interpretation of cultural heritage in post-crisis situations can help understand how such material becomes instrumental in the reconstruction process, illuminating how and why it is preserved, exhibited or destroyed. With the international community (including UNESCO and a large number of NGOs) becoming increasingly involved in the restoration and safeguarding of cultural heritage in societies emerging from disasters, it is timely to look at some of the issues this raises.
The 8th Cambridge Heritage Seminar solicits contributions addressing the complexity and nuances found in these and related processes. Contributions based on case studies are particularly welcome. Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes; posters should contain a mix of visual and verbal information and be no smaller than A2 size. Some indicative questions of the type we hope to address are: - How do states re-image the nation after natural disasters, economic crisis, political or social conflict? How do they draw on history and the material evidence of the past to do so? Do new symbols of power and nation emerge? Does a revised vision of history become public history? - What nation-building dynamics are in play in these post-disaster moments? How are identities and perceptions of the past/present/future reinterpreted? How does cultural heritage play a role in this process? - What sites of memory or commemoration emerge, and how are they interpreted or made to fit within the national narrative? - How is the symbolic landscape of a place affected by disasters? How do the politics of space play out? How are the urban and natural landscapes re-mapped and their meanings altered? Please send 500-word paper and poster proposals, or any further enquiries, to Dacia Viejo-Rose at dv230@cam.ac.uk, or Benjamin Morris at bam32@cam.ac.uk. Proposals should be sent as PDF or Word documents and should include full contact information and a brief academic biography. Deadline for proposals is 15 February 2007; acceptance will follow shortly afterwards. For further information visit http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/heritageseminar.
ICME SESSIONS AT ICOM 2007 - VIENNA, AUSTRIA. AUGUST 19 - 24
THE WORLD UNDER ONE ROOF: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ETHNOGRAPHIC
APPROACHES TO UNIVERSALITY
Building on the ICOM general conference theme of "Museums and Universal
Heritage"
Arranged by the ICOM International Committee for Museums of Ethnography
INTRODUCTION
In the Age of Enlightenment, the tension between particularism and universalism gave birth to the modern discipline of Anthropology. The scholarly challenge was to reconcile a burgeoning number of travel narratives depicting 'strange' customs in remote places with a general science of Humanity. In this époque, the idea of a "Universal Museum" was conceived and with it the curatorial problem of how to classify, arrange and exhibit the "curious objects" under its roof. Clearly a
number of problems arise with the hierarchical 'othering' inherent in this historical approach, which lingers today. The ICME sessions will chart past, present and what might constitute future curatorial approaches to the following question:
What universal narratives, if any, do ethnographic objects speak to?
Contemporary touchdowns might include the Musée du Quai-Branly in Paris, where the exhibition Qu'est-ce qu'un corps? (What is a body?), features different perceptions of reality and aesthetics tied to specific places and times. The curatorial approach seems one of comparing and juxtaposing different cultural representations and perceptions of a universal category: The body. In D'un regard l'autre we enter yet another approach to universality: The production of ethnographic materials as an instrument of Empire. In other words, ethnography understood as the "White Man's labeling", a colonial knowledge project embedded in the relations between France and her peripheries.
Another contemporary approach is found in the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. Here the focus is on connections, frictions and migrations between the cultures of the world, resulting in de-territorialized patchwork of Diasporas and trans-national ethnicities as carriers and makers of hybrid ethnographic materials.
This curatorial approach seems to be underwritten by the notion of a world in cultural flux, where notions of authenticity and origin are subject to critical questioning.
It is now more than a Century ago since the Pitt Rivers Museum opened its doors to yet another universal approach to ethnographic materials. In Oxford, Pitt Rivers organized the ethnographic objects typologically, according to each object's ability to solve a technological problem associated with everyday life: fire making, shelter, clothing, hunting and gathering, etc. The layout of the displays was not organized by
cultures or connections, but arranged within a universal evolutionary framework. While much of the public face of the displays reflects this discredited Victorian heritage - representing a meta-statement on the idea of universality vis-à-vis ethnographic objects - the museum today is simultaneously engaged in serious consultation with both 'source communities' around the world as well as local Oxford groups.
Against this backdrop of changing approaches to universality, ICME invites papers to interrogate past and present assumptions about universality so we can better understand and perhaps rediscover possible futures of Universal Heritage in Ethnographic Museums.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper proposals are invited addressing "The World under One Roof: Past,
Present and Future Ethnographic Approaches to Universality" or any of the following sub-themes:
- 'Ethnographic Curatorship' and Universal Heritage in historical and
contemporary perspectives.
- 'Locality' and ethnographic representation.
- 'Holism' as an ethnographic focus.
- The future of 'The Collection', and collections of the future: What's next?
Paper proposals of up to 250 words may be submitted
to ICME2007@yahoogroups.com until March 31, 2007. Fifteen minutes will be allotted for presentation of each accepted paper, and five additional minutes for discussion. In addition to regular presentations, a
limited number of "Virtual Presentations" will be accepted, consisting of "stand alone" PowerPoint or other types of media presentations which wouldn't need a live speaker to be understood by the audience.
REGISTRATION
General information about the conference is available on the main conference web site: http://www.icom2007.com
Information about the ICME sessions and ICME post-conference tour is available at http://icme.icom.museum
Registration is possible through the Austropa Interconvention agency:
http://www.austropa-interconvention.at/congress/icom2007/book.asp
Further information is available in the latest ICME news - the quarterly electronic newsletter of the ICOM International Committee for Museums of Ethnography - available by email subscription at icme-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or online at http://icme.icom.museum
For other questions, contact the ICME2007 working group at icme2007@yahoogroups.com, fax/voicemail number +13094245780, or Skype: icmepresident
Regards from
Daniel Winfree Papuga
president@icme.icom.museum
http://icme.icom.museum
ICME - International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography
International Council of Museums
さらに5月の末からGlasgowである主として院生向けの学際的な学会の案内も。日本で行われる予定のものの紹介とかできてなくて申し訳ないです。(伝てをしらなくて…)
VISIONS
31st May - 1st June 2007
The University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, Scotland
This multidisciplinary postgraduate conference aims to explore the cultural, historical and literary perceptions and misconceptions within human societies.
Discussion will involve questioning our perceptions of change, assumptions, and conceptions of belief within a variety of time periods and geographic locations. The envisaged outcome of this discussion will be an understanding of the complexity of human visions of past, present and future.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite submissions relating to the theme of 'visions' from all disciplines. This free-ranging theme allows speakers to explore imaginatively questions of how we perceive and interpret the world around us.
Possible topics/ areas of interest might incorporate but are not limited to:
Understanding cultural heritage
Perceptions of individual or national identity
Notions of beauty and aesthetics
How past and present historical thought influences our understanding of who we are
The role of perceptual illusion, distortion, and imagination in one’s experience of the world
The implications and complexities of imaginative capabilities
The presence of the immaterial within our lives in national, social, and individual histories
Representation within the visual arts and images
The world as viewed through imaginative literature
Visions of the future
The significance of myth and belief
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words by email by 16th February 2007 to visions@crichton.gla.ac.uk.
All papers will be twenty minutes. For more information please visit our website at www.cc.gla.ac.uk.
Ashley Parke
Research Student
University of Glasgow Crichton Campus
Room 345 Rutherford/McCowan Building
Bankend Road
Dumfries
DG1 4ZL
01387 702057