Of interest to archaeologists and perhaps historians on the list.
CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP CONVENORS
CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS
World Archaeology Congress 4
Cape Town: 10 - 14 January 1999
Theme: Global Archaeology at the Turn of the Millennium
WAC, the World Archaeology Congress, was inaugurated at its first
congress in Southampton in 1986, and last met in New Delhi in 1994.
Its conferences and inter-congresses have continued to develop the
global dimension of archaeology and the social role that
archaeologists play as interpreters of the past. We expect more than
a thousand delegates in Cape Town, and we are planning an exciting
and stimulating programme that will do justice to the turn of the
millennium.
It is appropriate that WAC4 should be held in South Africa. The World
Archaeology Congress was formed in opposition to apartheid, highlighting
the relationship between the study of the past and the politics of the
present. South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 ended a long,
bitter era and archaeologists here are now free to be part of a world
community of scholarship.
The academic programme of the Congress will be organised around
symposia. These will be half-day, full-day or running themes, each
organised by a Symposium Convenor. Papers will be available
electronically to registered delegates prior to the Congress, and
full details of the programme will be posted on our website as they
become available.
The Congress will be structured around three broad themes: time;
archaeology in a global context, and the future. This will provide a
rich vein of intellectual stimulation, offering a truly global
perspective on a discipline that has stimulated and satisfied many
for well over a century.
If you would like to attend the Congress, please visit our website (URL
below) and register electronically, or complete the registration form in
the Second Announcement which will be mailed shortly.
Should you wish to deliver a paper, organise a symposium or workshop,
present a poster or screen a film on an archaeological topic,
demonstrate an archaeology-related computer program or multimedia
product, or rent exhibition space at the Congress, please contact the
Congress Secretariat :
Contact: Carolyn Ackermann
WAC4 Congress Secretariat
Address: PO Box 44503
Claremont 7735 South Africa
Telephone: +27 (21) 762 8600
Fax: +27 (21) 762 8606
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/wac
Important dates:
30 April 1998: Closing date for submission of abstracts and symposium
convenor's packages with deposits where appropriate.
31 July 1998: Preliminary programme to be mailed. Applicants to be
notified of acceptance of abstracts/symposia.
15 November 1998: Papers to be made available on the congress website.
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