Julian Thomas schrieb:
> What future for studying the past?
> Essay competition on archaeology in the 21st century
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> Archaeological Dialogues organizes an essay competition on the future of
> archaeology. Young scholars are invited to send in manuscripts in which they
> develop their visionary perspectives about the nature of the discipline in
> the coming decades. Submissions should not be longer than 3,500 words and
> are due 1 February 2002. All manuscripts will be evaluated by an independent
> jury of international experts. The three best essays will be published in
> Archaeological Dialogues, the author of the winning essay receives a 1,000
> euro cheque.
>
>
> Theme
> In 1962, Lewis Binford wrote his landmark essay ŒArchaeology as
> anthropology¹ which set the New Archeology into motion. Twenty years later,
> Ian Hodder published his ŒTheoretical archaeology: a reactionary view¹, an
> article which marked the birthdate of contextual archaeology. Today, we are
> another twenty years further. Postprocessual archaeology has ramified into a
> variety of theoretical perspectives and thematic fields. Greeted with
> scepticism at first, it has successfully opened up new worlds of
> archaeological research and has enriched the discipline with a number of
> innovative studies and approaches. Yet just like its processual precedent,
> it has developed from theoretical avant-garde to academic establishment.
>     Apart from these intellectual developments, archaeology has also
> undergone in the previous decades dramatic changes in terms of its social
> and political embeddedness. Awareness has been raised about the role
> archaeology has played and continues to play in the construction of
> political identity discourses. And the spectacular rise of contract
> archaeology in most Western countries has raised new questions about the
> role of our discipline in large-scale landscape modifications and about the
> relationship between academic archaeology and society at large. Furthermore,
> processes of globalization and virtualization have severely challenged
> traditional perceptions of time and space, two of the key parameters in
> archaeological research.
>     Where do we go from here? What role do you see for theoretical
> reflection in the archaeology of the coming decades? What position will
> archaeology occupy in these radically new social, political and intellectual
> climates? How do you see archaeology develop in the near future? And what
> sort of archaeology do you think we should be working towards?
>
> Essay competition
> The questions raised above are all very close to the intellectual interests
> of Archaeological Dialogues. Since its start in 1994, the journal has
> stimulated in-depth reflection and discussion about contemporary archaeology
> in Europe, irrespective of any chronological or thematic boundaries.
> Important contributions have been published in the field of theory,
> methodology, interpretation and history of archaeology, alongside a great
> number of articles dealing with the socio-politics of our discipline.
> Like no other journal in archaeology, Archaeological Dialogues gives a
> prominent role to scholarly debate. This happens through the publication of
> discussion articles where experts from archaeology and adjacent disciplines
> like anthropology, history and geography engage with each other¹s ideas.
> Regular interviews with leading figures in the field also stress the
> dialectic nature of archaeological knowledge production. As such, the
> journal continues to play its role as a key forum for archaeological debate.
>
> The essay competition organized by Archaeological Dialogues seeks to
> stimulate the discussion about the future of archaeology. In this it can be
> seen as a sequel to the ŒWhither archaeology?¹ prize contest that was
> organized by Antiquity in 1969-1971 (and which was won by Glynn Isaac and
> Ev_en Neustupn_). The present essay competition gives the floor to a new
> generation of young and promising scholars for innovative thinking about the
> long-term developments of our field.
>
> Competition rules
>
> 1. The essay competition is open to all archaeologists born after 1962,
> regardless of their nationality or professional position. Members of the
> journal¹s editorial board, advisory board, and executive committee are
> excluded from participation.
> 2. The theme of the competition is ŒWhat future for studying the past?¹.
> Essays should not exceed a 3,500 word limit.
> 3. Deadline for submission is fixed at 1 February 2002. Essays received
> after that date will not be considered. Submissions should be e-mailed to
> [log in to unmask] Alternatively, they can be sent to Archaeological
> Dialogues, P.O.Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. Authors should
> provide their date of birth.
> 4. All submissions will be evaluated by an independent jury whose members
> will be selected from the journal¹s editorial and advisory board.
> Submissions will be studied anonimously and confidentially.
> 5. The three best essays will be published in Archaeological Dialogues 9.1
> (Summer 2002); the author of the winning essay will receive a 1,000 euro
> cheque. In case of deficient quality of the submissions, the jury preserves
> the right not to present the prize.
> 6. Laureates will be given written notice of the jury¹s evaluation, prior to
> publication in the journal.
> 7. No correspondence shall be made about the jury report.


geoff carver
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