TAG-US 2014

On 17 January 2014 session proposals are due for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-US) 2014: Convergence, to be held at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana on 23-25 May 2014. On 7 March 2014 paper abstracts (300 words max) will be due to the session organizers. Further information, including already accepted conference sessions, is available at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1195202.

New Antiquities

On 31 January 2014 abstracts are due for a conference entitled New Antiquities: Transformations of the Past in the New Age and Beyond, to be held in Berlin on 26-28 June 2014. Critical, scientific papers are sought that take an historical, philological, and/or sociological approach towards transformations and constructions of the past in the literature and cultural discourse of the New Age and beyond, extending into movements such as Neo-Paganism and Neo-Gnosticism. Abstracts and a CV (both 500 words maximum) should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; further inquiries can be directed to the co-organizers of the workshop: Prof. Dr. Almut-Barbara Renger, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of History and Cultural Studies Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion Gosslerstr. 2-4 D - 14195 Berlin, Germany; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Dr. Dylan M. Burns, Universität Leipzig, Ägyptologisches Institut, DDGLC-Projekt, Ritterstr. 12 / 3.02, 04109 Leipzig, Germany; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Crafting Textiles

On 31 January 2014 abstracts are due for a conference entitled Crafting Textiles from the Bronze Age to AD 1600: A Tribute to Peter Collingwood, to be held at Franks Room, Wellcome Collection, London, Euston Road NW1 2BE on 10-11 October 2014 by the Early Textiles Study Group (ETSG). Proposals are welcomed from academics, research students, museum curators, practitioners, and independent scholars investigating ancient techniques, including tablet-weaving, braiding, sprang, and rug-making. Abstracts (1 page, plus a brief cv) should be sent to Frances Pritchard, Textiles Department, Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER; Fax: +44(0)161 275 7471; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

LAC 2014

On 1 April 2014 abstracts are due for the 3rd International Landscape Archaeology Conference 2014 (LAC 2014), to be held in Rome on 17-20 September 2014 for archaeologists, cultural and earth scientists and researchers from neighbouring disciplines to present and discuss results from the broad field of geo- and landscape archaeology. Abstracts (300-500 words) may be submitted via on-line form or in WORD document along with name and surname, academic affiliation, contact information, session number, and the first three words of the title. Further information, submission forms, and the list of sessions are available at http://www.let.vu.nl/en/research/conferences/lac-2014/index.asp.

Archaeology for the People

On 1 September 2014 submissions are due for the Archaeology for the People Competition, with a prize of $5,000 to the winner, whose article, together with those by eight to ten other runners-up, will be published in Spring 2015 in a volume of the Joukowsky Institute Publication series (published and distributed by Oxbow Books). Articles (5000-6000 words in length, with no references, notes, or other scholarly apparatus, and accompanied by a single piece of artwork) should be submitted as a double-spaced Word document with the author's name, address, and e-mail on the first page to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Submissions must be solely the work of their authors and must not have been published elsewhere; they should be accessible and exciting to non-specialists, but at the same time should avoid excessive simplification, speculation, mystification, or romanticization, conveying some of the fascinating and astonishing results that archaeology, as a discipline, has to report, which impact our entire understanding of who we are as a species, and how we have come to be as we are now. Further information is available at http://proteus.brown.edu/archforthepeoplecompetition/Home; questions concerning the competition should be directed to Prof. John Cherry (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Prof. Felipe Rojas (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).