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WAC Inter-Congress: Heritage Management in East and South East Asia PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 14 August 2010 10:43

Initial Announcement

WAC Inter-Congress: Heritage Management in East and South East Asia

In association with

The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and

The International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, UK

 

Date

5 July to Friday 8 July, 2011

 

Venue

The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

 

Themes

The Inter-congress will be divided into five themes:

  • Development pressures on heritage sites and landscapes
  • World Heritage nomination and management planning
  • Managing the multiple use of, and pressures on, heritage sites
  • Local community participation, interpretation, and education
  • Training in, and academic position of, Cultural Heritage Management

Abstracts

As there will be a limited number of opportunities for presentations all wishing to speak will have to submit an abstract, in English, to the Academic Programme Committee (see Provisional Timetable below). The Committee will then select papers to be presented using the following criteria:

  • Relevance to the Inter-Congress Themes
  • Geographical spread across the region (and world)
  • Key individuals with policy responsibilities

Papers

Once an abstract has been accepted all presenters will be asked to produce a full copy of their paper for translation into Chinese. All papers will be posted on the Conference web-site for participants to read before arrival to ensure the maximum amount of time for discussion.

 

Inter-Congress language

The Inter-Congress language will be English. Papers will be presented in English with Chinese subtitles/separate Power Point. This will require Power Point presentations submitted at least three weeks before the Inter-Congress for translation.

 

Main audiences

The main audience is intended to be heritage managers and academics (archaeology, cultural anthropology, tourism, town planning) from across, or with an interest in, the East and South East Asian Region. Special consideration will be given to student participation.

Accommodation

A number of hotels, of varying quality, are located close to the venue. Full details will be provided when registration opens.

Registration costs

Full details of the budget are being finalised.

 

It is anticipated the Registration fees for Participants (including students) will include

Book of abstracts and Inter-Congress programme

Other materials relating to Chinese archaeology

Password to Inter-Congress pre-circulated papers

Tea and coffee during Inter-Congress

Lunches during Inter-Congress

Evening meals during Inter-Congress

Mid Inter-Congress excursion

Transfers to and from Beijing airport

Evening cultural activities – eg, tours of Beijing, visiting Lake area

 

Registration fees for Accompanying persons will include

Lunches during Inter-Congress

Evening meals during Inter-Congress

Mid Inter-Congress excursion

Transfers to and from Beijing airport

Evening cultural activities

 

Post Inter-Congress tours

It is anticipated that Post Inter-Congress will be arranged to

[a] Anyang, Luoyang, and Longmen Grotto, and

[b] Xi’an.

 

Post conference publication

It is intended that there will be at least one book produced from the Inter-Congress. Depending on funding, this will be produced in both Chinese and English or Chinese with extended abstracts of presentations made in English. There is also scope for a special edition of Archaeologies.

 

 

Provisional timetable before the Inter-Congress

Action

Deadline

Submission of abstracts

1 December 2010

Acceptance of abstracts

1 February 2011

Receipt of complete pre-circulated papers

1 April 2011

Early bird registration

1 March 2011

Normal registration

1 April 2011

Late registration

1 May 2011

INTER-CONGRESS

July 2011

 

 

All the above information is correct when posted but may have to be modified before the Inter-Congress. Please check this web-site for further information and up-dates.

 

 

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:52
 
Inter-Congresses PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 09 May 2009 11:18

If you wish to propose an Inter-Congress at your affiliated institution, please notify any member of the WAC Executive.  For consideration for WAC funding, the proposal needs to reach the WAC Executive by January of the previous year of the proposed Inter-Congress.  For example, you need to submit a proposal of an Inter-Congress to be held in the year 2012 by January 2011.  Please note that you need to be a WAC member to propose an Inter-Congress.

Guidelines for preparing a proposal for a World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress (PDF)

Inter-Congresses are held between the major International Congresses convened by WAC every four years. Inter-Congresses bring together archaeologists to explore issues of interest. They are organised by members of WAC regional electoral colleges.

Forthcoming Inter-Congresses include:

Past Inter-Congresses:

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:51
 
Ramallah August 2009 - Sessions - Paper - Forced Displacement in the Iron Age PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 09 January 2009 00:00

FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN THE IRON AGE

Azer Keskin
Department of Anthropology
Binghamton University

Imperialist political entities have commonly displaced people in masses throughout history. In the Iron Age, the Assyrian Empire used mass deportations as a routine strategy for purposes of political domination. Assyrian deportations are studied almost exclusively through Assyrian historical texts and Biblical sources. Such studies are useful, but also complicated by ideological biases in the past and the present. Archaeological methodologies can complement analyses of historical sources, which are not interested in what happened to people after resettlement. More than 30 small single-period Iron Age sites dating to 9th to 7th centuries BC in Wadi Ajij in Syria are a point in case. Archaeological and historical data suggest that these were newly-founded sites in a marginal environment where deportees, likely from the west, were resettled. Spatial patterning of surface finds of various functional types of pottery from these sites is analyzed as impressions of the daily lives of deportees on the landscape.  Similarities and differences between spatial patterning of various sites are examined to get a glimpse of the daily lives of their inhabitants, and to address processes of enculturation following deportations.

 
Ramallah August 2009 - FINALIZED PROGRAM OVERVIEW PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:00

Ramallah | International Advisory Board | Sessions, Panels and Papers | Session and Paper Submissions | Sessions | Accommodations | Workshops & Tours | About the WAC InterCongress in Ramallah | Travel Details and Visa Information | Registration Fees

Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 August 2009 08:11
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Ramallah August 2009 - Sessions - Paper - Legislative Legacies – The Development of Laws Regulating the Antiquities Trade in the Middle East PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 02 July 2008 00:00

Legislative Legacies – The Development of Laws Regulating the Antiquities Trade in the Middle East

Morag M. Kersel

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Brown University

mokersel@hotmail.com

The current legal market for antiquities in Israel bears the legislative legacies of a 19th century Ottoman Law and the British Mandate. Rather than reflecting a Turkish interest in cultural heritage, the 1884 Ottoman law was originally created as a measure to ensure that artifacts remained within the boundaries of the far-flung Empire. Subsequent legal initiatives by other overseers of the region (British Mandate, Israel, and Jordan) retained the basic tenets of the 1884 law, resulting in the current paradoxical situation where legal purchase of artifacts is possible in Israel (from pre-1978 collections), but where excavation without a permit is illegal in all areas – Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority. Looted antiquities from the Ottoman Empire represent booty, tribute, and symbols of control and resistance. Similarly, plundered archaeological material from the PA and Jordan, routed through the legal market in Israel, continues a colonial legacy
as a symbol of control, domination, subjugation, and resistance. This is an investigation of the Ottoman legacy manifest in the legal mechanisms and archaeological record in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority.

Last Updated on Thursday, 02 July 2009 11:23
 
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