Meetings and Conferences
The 2013 NABO General Meeting will be held at the Stefansson Arctic Institute on the campus of University of Akureyri, Iceland. There will be two days of public meetings (all open plenary session) on Friday July 12 and Saturday July 13th with breakout potential. We will accommodate both traditional 15 min presentations and longer group reports and discussions, and we welcome your suggestions now. Posters will be accepted freely and students are especially encouraged. Multi-media is also encouraged and with some notice we can arrange for videos. There will be an optional excursion day (probably with bus) to see archaeology and natural wonders in the Myvatn area and local site tours are definitely possible in the Eyjafjord region.
Further details about this exciting meeting, including how to register.
NABO would like to thank the Stefansson Arctic Institute and Jón Haukur Ingimundarson in particular for hosting this meeting and we look forward to seeing as many you there as possible.
Open Workshop in Sustainability Science and Education October 15th 2012
CUNY Graduate Center
With support from the NSF Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability GHEA grant (SEES 1140106) the CUNY Human Ecodynamics Research Center hosted a well-attended one day Open Workshop in Sustainability Science and Education October 15th 2012 at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. This is the first in an annual series intended to connect different disciplinary approaches to sustainability and to showcase the work of graduate students and early career professionals. After a welcoming address by HERC director Sophia Perdikaris the keynote speakers Jago Cooper (then UCL, now British Museum), Steven Hartman (Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Sweden) and Anna Evely (Project MAYA) made presentations on Archaeology for Sustainability, the Advent of Interdisciplinary Environmental Humanities, and Social Media for Sustainability. Following a poster session, Ruth Maher (William Patterson Univ.) made a presentation on the joint CUNY/ WPU/ U Bradford/ Orkney College field school sponsored by the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) cooperative. There followed a series of powerpoint presentations by over a dozen younger scholars based at CUNY, Columbia U., Copenhagen, Arizona State University, Washington State University, and the University of Maryland. The meeting was socially successful as well, with many contacts made or renewed and good fun before and after. Thanks to all who helped make this a success.
The schedule of the HERC 2012 Open Workshop Sustainability Science and Education
The presentations are available on the GHEA slideshare site.
Twenty-Fourth IACA Congress
The 24th Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology was held in Martinique (25th-30th July 2011).
The Circumpolar Archaeological Record: Threats from Global Change
June 22-26 2011, ICASS VII Conference, Akureyri, Iceland
Details on the ICASS VII conference.
This session will focus on threats to the archeological record, particularly that in the circumpolar North, which are arising due to global climate change. Archaeological sites and the associated paleoecological record hold much of the data needed to understand the past, and to place human ecodynamics in the broad spatial and temporal perspective that is essential to developing a meaningful and actionable understanding of the topic. Such an understanding would seem to be vital for to efforts to support and increase sustainability and resilience in the face of changes which appear to be inevitable.
Global change-related threats include: increased coastal erosion (due to sea level rise, possible increases in number and/or strength of storms, and diminished sea ice in Polar regions), increased riverine erosion (due to increases in precipitation amount or intensity and increases in glacial melting), drying of waterlogged sites and bogs (due to hydrological changes), changes in land use which result in greater ground disturbance (due to changing conditions for agriculture or displacement of populations from more threatened areas). In northern areas the warming and thawing of permafrost is a major threat to the archaeological and paleoecological record.
We are interested in papers that describe threats, and in particular in papers that deal with ways to document, assess and monitor relative threats over broad areas, so that mitigation efforts can be prioritized. We are also interested in mitigation efforts, whether or not they proved to be successful. Although this is primarily a Northern conference, we welcome papers from those working in other areas of the world who share similar problems.
Session Organiser
Anne M. Jensen, UIC Science LLC, Barrow, AK USA (anne.jensen@uicscience.org) 907-230-8228
Workshop on the Eyjafjallajökull eruptions of 2010 and implications for tephrochronology, volcanology, and Quaternary studies
University of Edinburgh, 5th-6th May 2011
The first meeting of Tephra in Quaternary Science (TIQS), the new Quaternary Research Association (QRA) research group. As a UK research group aiming to bring together individuals and groups with wide-ranging expertise in order to promote cross-group collaborations for optimising and advancing tephrochronology, it is most appropriate that we begin with discussing the lessons that can learnt from the most recent eruption impacting the UK: Eyjafjallajökull 2010.
The TIQS 2011 Report and Community Statement is now available.
III International Northern Archaeological Congress (NAC)
8-12th November, 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
III Northern Archaeological Congress will take place on 8-12th November, 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The Organizing Committee invites for participation the representatives of the Russian and international research centres, specialists in the fields of archaeology and related disciplines.
The deadline for filing applications and abstracts is the 15th April, 2010. More details are available here.
Tentative agenda of the III Northern Archaeological Congress' panels will be as follows:
- Human activities in the Circumpolar area during Pleistocene and Holocene: changes in natural environment and subsistence systems
- Socio-cultural variability in antiquity: archaeological evidences and interpretations
- Art, sacral environment, and myth-ritual practices of the ancient Northerners
- Colonization of the North and cultural interactions during Middle Ages and Modern Time
- Archaeological heritage as a public resource: protection and use
Viking Age Scandinavia - Transformation and Expansion
The University of Aarhus Summer School 2010 16-25 August 2010
The University of Aarhus Summer School on Viking Age Scandinavia is an intensive shortsession course designed to meet the needs of students interested in a brief but challenging educational experience during the summer.
Teaching takes place in a museum environment and brings together Danish and foreign students and staff. The course is open to BA and MA students in archaeology, history, literature and related disciplines from Denmark and elsewhere, as well as to other foreign students in Denmark and history teachers in secondary schools.
See the website for more information:
http://www.aal.au.dk/en/medieval/studies/summer
For further information and questions about the summer school, applications etc. please send an email.
Association for Environmental Archaeology: Spring Meeting, University of Aberdeen, 30th March-1st April 2010
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The Spring Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology will be held between the 30th March to 1st April, 2010 at the University of Aberdeen. The conference will explore the human interactions with northern environments and will foster discussion about how individuals and communties understood, adapted to, and transformed the landscapes in which they moved and acted
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First call for papers: the organising committee would like to invite oral and poster presentations based on these broad themes, involving any aspect of environmental archaeology by November 1st, 2009 to t.mighall@abdn.ac.uk To advertise this conference, please feel free to download and print out the full size poster by clicking on the image to the left. The registration form for all attendees is available here. |
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NABO Spring Meetings, Museum of Scotland and University of Edinburgh, March 24-26 2010
More details are available from the website.
On March 24th there will be a meeting to discuss artefacts and e-museum initiatives. Please note that the venue has changed to Room 3.04 Crew Building at the Kings Buildings , University of Edinburgh. The agenda is available here.
On March 25th there will be a meeting to discuss Isotopic Studies and North Atlantic Human Ecodynamics: Taking stock and looking forward hosted by the University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences. The focus will be research related to the current Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences grant 0732327 as part of the International Polar Year Humans in the Polar Regions project "IPY: Long Term Human Ecodynamics in the Norse North Atlantic: cases of sustainability, survival, and collapse". For further information contact Andrew Dugmore. The draft agenda is available here.
On March 26th there will be a meeting on Global themes in Human ecodynamics: Taking stock and looking forward this will be a joint SAGES and NABO meeting at the University of Edinburgh. The main purpose of this workshop is build on a recent meeting in Maine to develop interactive discussion of human ecodynamics operating in different areas and on different time scales, but with a particular focus on the last 800 years, with the objective of getting a better comparative understanding of the interaction of climate change, human environmental impacts, human-human interaction (politics, proto-globalization etc.) and integrative themes of rigidity traps, connectedness and path dependency. The main focus will not be so much about global climate correlations as an exploration of the human-climate-environment interface with the aim of extracting common patterns and research questions of collective interest as well as sharing ideas, expertise, tools (especially modelling) and best practice approaches. In other words, a good set of discussions about human /landscape/ climate interactions and some sharing of integrative approaches to successful discipline-crossing endeavours. The goals are to bring together members of the SAGES community with NABO and a wider evolving international community of researchers on human ecodynamics and discuss research questions of common interest, and explore new alliances within the SAGES community. International speakers will include Professor Peggy Nelson from Arizona State University and Professor Tom McGovern from CUNY New York. NABO contact and meeting co-ordination Andrew Dugmore amd SAGES members should contact Stephanie West. A draft agenda is available here.
EAC Annual Meeting 2010March 25-27, 2009 Reykjavik, Iceland |
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The 2010 EAC Annual meeting will be held in Reykjavík in March. This meeting will also include a symposium titled "Remote Sensing for Archaeological Heritage Management in the 21st century".
This EAC symposium will examine Remote Sensing for Archaeological Heritage Management at the start of the 21st century. The key themes to be explored will be: the registration of monuments; the creation of reliable monuments records; approaches to large-scale mapping; monitoring and management of monument condition; and applications of historic imagery. Well-established approaches and techniques will be set alongside new technologies and data-sources, with discussion covering relative merits and applicability. Approaches to be considered will include aerial photography, both modern and historic, LiDAR, satellite imagery, multi-and hyper-spectral data, sonar and geophysical survey. Both terrestrial and maritime contexts will be addressed.
Symposium organised by:
Dave Cowley (AARG/RCAHMS)
Kristín Huld Sigurðardóttir (EAC/The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland)
Europae Archaeologiae Consilium website
General Programme of the Meeting [pdf]
Symposium Programme [pdf]
Papar landscapes in Hebridean and North Atlantic contexts
Western Isles Campus, University of Stirling, Room 2438, Western Isles Hospital, Macaulay Road, Stornoway
20th March 2009
To mark the COMPLETION of the Hebridean phase of the Papar Project and the launch of the new web pages http://www.paparproject.org.uk/ we would like to invite you to an informal workshop in Stornoway, 20th March. The workshop will review progress and consider a next phase for the project.
So that we can cater for lunch, RSVP to Ian Simpson by 18th March
A PDF file showing the details of this workshop are available here.
Living in the Northern Landscape: Connecting Archaeology, History, and Environmental Science International Polar Year Day
Friday, October 24, 5 pm, $20 ($15 for ASF members, free to students with valid ID)
This symposium, presented in observance of the International Polar Year, is comprised of four lectures investigating geological and cultural relationships based on the polar region's interactions with global ecosystems. Further information is available from here.
Venue:
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Streets)
New York, NY 10016
Tel: (212) 879-9779
Web site: www.scandinaviahouse.org
Email: info@amscan.org
Archaeological Futures: A Research Agenda for the North Atlantic
The 2008 NABO conference is to be held in Bradford (UK) between 30th August - 1st September 2008.
The Bradford meeting was designed to review and report on existing research projects and to formulate an Agenda for Future Archaeological Research in the North Atlantic. The conference was in two parts; discussant-led theme sessions with invited specialist contributions provided the framework for the research agenda, alongside open sessions on current research.
Further details can be found at the conference website. The conference email address is nabo08.bradford@googlemail.com.
NABO 2008 Bradford Community Statement
Problems, Potentials, and Progress in North Atlantic Human Ecodynamics