Dear Tim

 I'm really pleased to hear that you are considering a session for SHA in Leicester. You are more than welcome to post up this request for papers on the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/317346474993090/

 I am thinking about doing a post for the SHA blog which features some of the proposed sessions - would it be ok for me to reproduce your text below? The blog will then provide a permanent home for potential speakers to refer to, when they are looking for proposed sessions.

 With very best wishes

 Emma

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From: scarlett
Sent: 03/28/12 05:48 PM
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Subject: RFP: Reconsidering Archaeologies of Creativity

 Request for Papers: Reconsidering Archaeologies of Creativity Call for papers for the 46th Annual Conference on HIstorical and Underwater Archaeology, January 9-12, 2013, Leicester, Great Britain. Human creativity is fundamental to understanding the transformations brought about by both globalization and immigration, the dual themes of the 2012 conference. People act and react creatively to these processes, in mundane and grand ways, individually and collectively. Thus, creativity intertwines and entangles it's processes with all human interactions. The process and contexts of creative action, as well as the concept of creativity itself, can be understood from psychological, behavioral, social, humanistic, and philosophical perspectives. Individual persons and groups derive creativity from the cultural improvisations of social interactions surrounding economic, religious, technological, recreational, and familial activities; movement through spaces and among places; rituals;
  and the shifting practices of daily life. While archaeologists have produced numerous studies of human's creative responses, we have given less attention to creativity itself, particularly in those archaeologies of the modern world. Scholars in the sciences and humanities have been able to describe some of the processes and contexts of creative action in the human experience, but those insights have not lead to creativity's rationalization or "corporate domestication." I welcome archaeological studies that critically explore creativity from different perspectives, including: - the social construction of creative process - contexts of creative action, like work and play - archaeological perspectives on creativity and the brain - creativity and social change - creativity and adaptation - improvisation and creativity - creativity and behavior - creativity, capitalism, and entrepreneurial culture - prehistory vs. history in understanding creativity - detailed case studies of cre
 ative action, as critiques or assessment of creativity Please contact Timothy Scarlett by May 1st, 2012 to express interest. Best regards, Tim Timothy Scarlett Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Department of Social Sciences Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsed Dr. Houghton, MI 49931 (906)487-2359 [log in to unmask] Additional conference information: > The Conference Committee has announced their Call for Papers: http://ow.ly/9Vdzg Conference webpage: http://www.sha.org/meetings/annual_meetings.cfm



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