Meetings and Conferences

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:

  1. Human activities in the Circumpolar area during Pleistocene and Holocene: changes in natural environment and subsistence systems
  2. Socio-cultural variability in antiquity: archaeological evidences and interpretations
  3. Art, sacral environment, and myth-ritual practices of the ancient Northerners
  4. Colonization of the North and cultural interactions during Middle Ages and Modern Time
  5. 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

 

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

  • What impacts did these communities have on their environments?
  • How does environmental archaeology inform our understanding of northern societies?
  • How do social and cultural constructs shape our understanding of these environments?

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.

NABO

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 2010


March 25-27, 2009
Reykjavik, Iceland

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