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This is a CFP for papers for a planned session at SHA 2018 on the archaeology of Europe in the Interwar Period (1918-1939). This is being proposed by the team from the Durham University Landscape Archaeology of Great Depression Projec t (www.slumpscape.org)  - please circulate to anyone who may be interested

 

The Archaeology of Interwar Europe (1918-1939)

 

The interwar period was one of extraordinary change. Out of the ashes of WWI grew an increase in consumerism, paradoxically played out alongside the Great Depression. Extreme politics flourished, and authoritarian regimes became established in Spain, Italy, Russia and Germany. The tensions between these new state formations and traditional polities resulted in re-armament and ultimately conflict. Simultaneously, the foundations of the post-War settlement and the welfare states were being laid. These social, economic and political developments all resulted in material developments that can be interrogated archaeologically. Whilst the archaeology of the 1920s and 1930s has been embraced by the research and CRM community in the US, it has largely remained underexplored in Europe, although the archaeology of the two World Wars has become increasingly a topic of interest. This session proposes to address this lacuna in research, highlighting existing work and identifying avenues for further research.

 

Organiser: Dr David Petts, Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK ([log in to unmask]) ; Dr Ronan O’Donnell (Post-Doctoral Research Associate), Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK; Dr Kayt Armstrong (Post-Doctoral Research Associate), Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK

 

 

Cheers

David

 

 

 

**Please circulate!**

 

Final reminder about our upcoming conference, Call for Papers closes 7^th May:

 

 

Call for Papers for the first University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute Conference:

 

‘Our Islands, Our Past’

 

14-17 September 2017

A celebration of island Identities, collective traits and traditions, through aspects of recent and contemporary archaeology, this conference intends to contribute to the Scottish Government’s ‘Our Islands, Our Future’ agenda, initiated by the Local Authorities of the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland.

Research themes include:

• Migration
• Abandonment
• Creativity and Innovation
• Islands and identities
• Future islands, future archaeologies
• Materials and resources
• Travellers and voyagers
• Boundedness and permeability
• Island utopias
• Connectivity and communications
• Fragility, sustainability

Please see our website for further details.

We wish to encourage multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions that engage critically with Scottish islands’ archaeology, as well as comparative islands perspectives. 

We invite papers, posters, exhibitions and installations.  Abstracts of no more than 150 words together with name, email and institution should be sent to: [log in to unmask]

Call for papers closes 7^th May 2017.

We would be grateful if you could distribute this Call for Papers as widely as possible within your network and to anyone who would be interested.

 

With best wishes

 

The Conference Committee

 

 

 

 

Dan Lee | Lifelong Learning & Outreach Archaeologist

Archaeology Institute

University of the Highlands and Islands | Orkney College | East Road | Kirkwall | Orkney | KW15 1LX | UK

+44 (0)1856 569214

 

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