Rosetta

On 10 December 2013 submissions are due for the Spring 2014 issue of Rosetta - Papers of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, a semi-annual journal for postgraduates and professionals from a variety of historical and archaeological disciplines on any subject covered by the Department of CAHA, including but are not limited to Assyriology, Egyptology, Ancient History, Classical Studies, Archaeology, Visual and Spatial Technologies, Heritage Management, Conservation Studies and Museum Studies, and Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies; on 30 May 2014 submissions are due for the Summer 2014 issue. Articles will be welcomed covering a wide scope of archaeology, history, and classics subjects, book reviews, museum or conference reports and any responses to previous articles. Previous issues and further information are available at http://rosetta.bham.ac.uk/. Submissions should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Why Things Matter

On 15 December 2013 abstracts are due for a conference entitled Why Things Matter, to be held at California State University Fullerton on 6-8 March 2014. Abstracts (200 words maximum) should be sent to the organizers Emily Miller Bonney (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Kevin Lambert (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Papers are invited on subjects including the dependencies of things both on people and on other things; transformations of things precipitated by both internal and external forces and how these changes may impinge on human experience; the variance of time scales of things particularly compared to human life, with some things enduring well beyond human experience, and others so transitory that we hardly notice them; the way thingness can be hidden as when things like window panes or screens can be invisible, because we look through and not at them; different ways of conceptualizing things from Entanglement to ANT to SCOT; things in the formation and development of the human mind. Potential topics include:

The landscape

The emergence of modern humans

The extended mind

The artefact

Natural things

Intangible things

Crossroads

On 1 February 2014 abstracts are due for an international conference entitled The Crossroads II, or There and Back Again? to be held on 15-17 September 2014 at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Abstracts (300-400 words) for posters or papers (20-minutes, in English) on the study of relations between Egypt, the Aegean, the Levant, and the Sudan in the Second and First Millennia B.C.E. should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..