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International Conference: Call for Papers.
Challenging Frontiers: Mobility, Transition, And Change
4th–5th April 2008
Hosted by the Graduate Archaeology Organisation, University of Oxford.
Deadline for paper proposals: 1 Nov 2007
Following the successes of previous G.A.O. conferences, we will be
continuing the momentum and holding a conference titled: Challenging
Frontiers: Mobility, Transition and Change.
This conference aims to address the question of mobility in the
archaeological record. The physical remains of the past are fixed in
archaeological contexts. However, these remains are not the product of a
static environment but of change, mobility and transition. Many differing
mobility centred concepts are deeply embedded into archaeological thought
and interpretations. It is these aspects of the past which, despite being
elusive, are crucial to our understanding of change in societies and groups
over time.
This conference will be interested in all the diverse concepts of mobility
used in study of the past, material culture, people, ideas and society,
timing and scale, landscapes and the environment. In particular, it will
focus on the different ways in which we reconstruct these concepts into
explanations for cultural changes, past populations, events and social
interactions. We will welcome papers or posters from academics and
postgraduates, from any country and discipline who can contribute to this
debate in an articulate and intellectual style. Papers should
aim to be 20 minutes in length. Posters are also welcome.
The main aim of this conference is to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue
between the arts and sciences. This conference will be published; so all
contributors are asked to submit their paper before the conference takes
place Selected papers will be published, pending a peer review process.
This will help to ensure that your contributions are published alongside the
highest standard of research and that this conference has the impact and
lasting effect that your papers deserve. Abstracts should be no more than
500 words.
Overnight accommodation for delegates will be available at Hertford College
Oxford, details of which will be available in November. We are in a
position to offer a limited number of modest bursaries to assist with
accommodation costs for those wishing to attend or give papers at the
conference. Preference will be given to those presenting papers at the
conference. Those interested in the bursary should submit 100 words
outlining how this conference relates to their studies or research by 31st
of January 2008.
Some Key Words: Mobility, change, social dynamics, material culture,
transition, environment chronology, trade, and exchange.
Time Table
Submission of titles and abstracts: 1st November 2007.
Delegate registration/ accommodation bookings open: 20th November 2007.
Delegate registration/ accommodation bookings close: 31st January 2008.
Conference: 4th–5th April 2008.
Enquiries and submission of abstracts/papers to:
Paul Preston, (GAO President), School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
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further details: http://www.graduatearchaeologyoxford.co.uk
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