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CALL FOR PAPERS - CHAT 2004

Following the highly successful first meeting of the new Contemporary and
Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) conference group at Bristol
University in November 2003, the CHAT Standing Committee is delighted to be
able to announce that CHAT 2004 will take place at the University of
Leicester, 19-21 November 2004.

The conference includes a session on 'Industrialising Society', which may
be of interest to list members.

The First Call for Papers is forwarded below. Enquiries should be sent to
to Dr Sarah Tarlow - [log in to unmask]

Further details about CHAT are online at
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Archaeology/events/chat.html

Dan Hicks
University of Bristol


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Dear All,
Below is the call for papers for next year's CHAT. Please consider
submitting an abstract, and also please pass this on to anyone you think
might be interested. I'm also happy for anyone to post it to other lists
etc. Martin Hall and Nicholas Saunders have already agreed to offer keynote
papers. We should have web pages up sometime in January.
Thanks, Sarah.

CALL FOR PAPERS
CHAT 2004 (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory)
University of Leicester 19th-21st November 2004

CHAT is a new, British-based, archaeology conference group providing
opportunities for dialogue to develop among researchers in the fields of
later historical archaeology and the archaeology of the contemporary world.

Papers are invited on the following themes:

Conflict
The last 500 years have seen numerous battles and wars. What is the
archaeological contribution to their interpretation? How does scholarly
archaeology of war differ from popular (and profitable) battlefield
archaeology? What ethical and political issues confront the archaeologist
working in this area? What role has archaeology played in uncovering
evidence of very recent conflict, and what issues surround this?
Conflict need not only refer to state-organised large-scale violence. Other
kinds of confrontation between groups and individuals may also be
considered: riots and civil disobedience; national, ethnic or racial
antagonism; class or gender based conflict; insurgents, "terrorists"
and "freedom-fighters" and so on. Papers relating to any aspect of the
archaeology of conflict are welcome.

Industrialising society
The archaeology of industrialisation is about much more than the detailed
recording of steam engines and factory buildings in a narrowly defined
period-based study.  Instead, it is moving beyond period- and process-
based definitions to a more open, wide ranging, and theoretically informed
sub-discipline within the broader church of historical archaeology.  The
study of industrial society is about the whole range of human actions,
reactions and interactions with the processes associated with
industrialisation. The aim of this session will be to look beyond
industrial sites and monuments and look at the wider study of later post-
medieval society as it developed from the fifteenth to the twentieth
centuries. Issues tackled may include the archaeologies of consumption,
capitalism, colonialism and international trade; gender and ethnicity in
labour relations; and the meaning of industrial landscapes.  Papers should
also focus on an examination of the social world of the workplace itself -
discussing aspects such as the relationship between 'artisanship'
and 'proletarianisation', labour hierarchies and social identity.

Reform
Explicit and discursive reform is a key social and economic aspect of the
period, as well as an important part of its religious and political
history. How evident is a desire for reform, or the institution of a
designed programme of reform, in the archaeology of the period? Spheres to
consider might include religious practice, social conditions, crime and
punishment, landscape and civic planning and so on.

Please submit abstracts for papers, specifying the session for which you
would like to be considered, by 30th April 2004. Papers are especially
invited from archaeologists outside universities, and from those in the
early stages of their careers. Although we welcome all offers of papers, in
our final selection some preference may be shown for papers dealing with,
or of relevance to, the archaeology of Britain and Ireland. All papers must
have an interpretative, theoretical or critical dimension and should not be
purely data-presentation. At the same time, papers which do refer to the
interpretation of particular artefacts, landscapes or buildings will be
particularly welcome.

Abstracts as e-mail attachments to Sarah Tarlow ([log in to unmask]) or by post
to
Dr Sarah Tarlow
CHAT 2004
School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester
LE1 7RH

Dr Sarah Tarlow,
School of Archaeological Studies,
University of Leicester,
University Rd., Leicester, LE1 7RH
tel: (0)116 252 2846
fax: (0)116 252 5005
web: http://www.le.ac.uk/archaeology/