AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE -- 2004

[Jacques Cinq-Mars]

All,

The following (from Iain Davidson) is for archaeologically and palaeoanthropologically conscious people who will be or will want to be in Armidale (Australia), in mid-December 2004. It could be an interesting program.

Jacques Cinq-Mars

NETWORKS AND NARRATIVES

AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

ARMIDALE 13-15 DECEMBER 2004

The conference will take place on the UNE Campus.  Details will be available on the web site by 20 March.

Theme of conference

The theme of the conference will be Networks and Narratives.  Social networks are construed by some as the very basis of human cultural interaction and some archaeologists have attempted to identify the process of their emergence and maintenance in the archaeological record.  How do archaeologists go about recognising them in the past, and how have they been maintained?  What is the role of narratives in maintaining them, and how do archaeologists hope to deal with the evanescence of spoken stories?

 At another level, we can also discuss the role of networks in the business of doing archaeology, and the role of narratives about the past in teaching, researching and publicising archaeology.

 The conference will be organised around papers of 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions.  There will be no concurrent sessions.  There will be either four or five papers in each of four sessions a day.

 Call for Sessions

 The conference will offer sessions dealing with these aspects and others related to Networks and Narratives.  We are now asking for nominations for sessions. Please send an outline with a proposal of about 200 words, stating the objectives of the session, how it fits with the theme, with the name of the organiser(s) of the session.

 In the event that there are too many proposals, the organising committee will choose among them on the basis of their relationship to the overall structure of the conference.  There will, as usual, be a poster session at which overflow sessions could be presented.

 Timing

 20 March - Session proposals submitted

 1 April - Final selection of sessions and call for papers

 1 June  - Closing date for paper proposals

 Contact

 Iain Davidson - Iain.Davidson@une.edu.au

 Wendy Beck - wbeck@pobox.une.edu.au

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[Jacques Cinq-Mars]

All,

Here is, again from Iain Davidson, some additonal info on the 2004 AAA Conference:

- The session titles for the Australian Archaeological Association Conference in Armidale have now been settled. They are:

- Archaeology of Art: Networks and Narratives

- The First Colonisation of Australia in Narratives of Human Evolution

- Networks and Narratives in Australian Indigenous Archaeology

- Learning Archaeology

- Astride the Wallace Line: The Archaeology of Flores and Sunda

- Heritage, Artefacts and Narratives

- Artefacts with Narratives and Objects with Agency

For the actual Program and to monitor further developments, click HERE.

Jacques Cinq-Mars