Dear All,
This is slightly off the thread, but near enough. Any list members who were
planning on coming to Sydney, Australia for either / both of the 2000
Olympics and Paralympics in September - October next year should get in
touch off-list. With some advance notice it should be possible to put
together a program of useful and relevant site visits and meetings to fit in
with your travel plans with Australian historical and Aboriginal site
archaeologists. The 2000 Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology
Conference is also being held in Adelaide in early(?) November, making it
possibly a long but very worthwhile trip. Turn your holiday into a
tax-deductible learning experience! I'm happy to act as a contact point and
put visitors in touch with the right people for their interests.
The preceding thread concerning a non-North American SHA highlights the need
for continuing exchange and movement of practitioners, whether in conference
mode or when other opportunities arise. With email lists like HISTARCH it
should be much easier to do this. A few suitably impressive letters from
relevant agencies thanking you for the opportunity to hear a talk about,
say, recent CRM archaeology in Wisconsin, and a few boxes of well-chosen
slides should make your holidays much cheaper than they otherwise would be.
Denis Gojak
Historical Archaeologist
National Parks and Wildlife Service
PO Box 1967
Hurstville NSW 2220
Ph: +61 2 9585 6469
Fax: +61 2 9585 6325
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert L Schuyler [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, 14 October 1999 1:26
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Internationalization
>
> In spirit I agree with the recent remarks by Alasdair Brooks;
> however, two points need to be made:
>
> (1) the is already an organized World Archaeological Congress
> and at its recent meeting in Capetown, South Africa historical archaeology
> was well represented. [Side note: Would someone connected with the WAC ask
> them not to overlap their meeting dates with those of SHA. The SHA is
> older
> and so was in that time slot first.] I see no reason to try to duplicate
> the WAC only for historical archaeolgists.
>
> (2) the "Historical Archaeological Community" does not have
> money; indeed, the North American branch is the richest as a group. We
> simply can not afford to go to, say, Sydney or Capetown or Lima. A meeting
> in Sydney, for example, would simply be the Australians-New Zealanders
> with
> a hand full of others.
>
> I would like to suggest that we try, for the time being, a more
> limited set of steps in internationalizing our discipline. Specifically:
>
> (1) would someone in Europe please put on this list instructions and
> information on how one can join the Society for Post-Medieval
> Archaeology (SPMA) with the fees in $$. I do not understand how
> anyone in the New World, especially the English speaking part of
> the New World, can be studying the colonial period and not belong
> to the SPMA and yet many in the States and Canada have yet to
> join.
> Their journal, POST-MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY, is excellent.
>
> (2) would someone in Australia (Ian? Susan?) please put on the list the
> same information on membership for the Australasian Society for
> Historical Archaeology (ASHA). Although it is a bit more distant,
> anyone in America studying the 19th and 20th centuries would find
> both the ASHA journal and Newsletter outstanding.
>
> (3) York
>
> Do not give up on this idea. If the major problem is the hotel can not
> you do what they did in London - i.e. put us all in several small
> hotels near the meeting site (British Museum)? Although such a
> meeting would be a bit unfair to our West Coast members, and SHA
> does have a large California contingent, it is in easy reach of
> most of the membership. Since such a meeting would be a few years
> off the SHA could also try to raise a special fund to help student
> members go and perhaps less expensive housing could be found in
> York.
>
> (4) SHA 2003 New England
>
> If SHA does go to Rhode Island in 2003 perhaps a theme of "The
> Atlantic
> World" would be a good way of getting our European colleagues
> (the SPMA and others) to come over and join us. Again, perhaps
> both
> the SHA and SPMA could try to raise a special fund for the
> European
> student members. Others regions (Africa, Asia and Latin America)
> are a much more difficult problem because of distance and $$$.
>
>
> Finally, I stand corrected about William Wallace. However, I suspect
> he
> did approach York until: (1) he was told there was no hotel that
> could house Scotland, and (2) he saw Alasdair on the York ramparts
> with a supply of large rocks. Is Durham in Scotland or England and
> is it a town, a village or a canal? [Perhaps Matthew Johnson
> knows.]
>
> I have been talking too much on HISTARCH and taking up too much
> space, so this is my last comment for some time.
>
> Bob Schuyler
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