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Call for papers:
The Archaeology of Travel
Proposed session for the 2005 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
York, England
5-10 January 2005
Abstract: Travel has rarely been a topic of focused or serious study in
archaeology, especially as it pertains to social relations in the past.
Travel is not solely the product of play, leisure, or the simple movement
of people through space, but is enmeshed in key social relations. Travel
creates contexts for the expression and elaboration of social relations and
it is these contexts we wish to explore. This session focuses on the
connections between social relations and travel in the past through
archaeological examples, which can include travel related sites or
landscapes. Papers can explore a broad range of issues, including
continuity and change in travel; the production and consumption of space,
place and leisure; and social relations such as class, religion, ethnicity,
nationality, race, gender, or other forms of identity as they relate to
travel. We aim for a broad, comparative framework of processes that will
help us illuminate the importance of travel in the past and how it relates
to the formation of our modern landscapes of mass tourism and globalization.
We envision the session as focusing on broad scale process through
exploration of case studies. Solely descriptive studies of individual
sites, artifact assemblages, or the nuts and bolts of heritage management
do not necessarily fall within the purview of this session. Papers that
explore process through theoretically informed studies of material culture
or landscape are preferred.
Deadline: April 23, 2004. Participants notified of acceptance by May 1, 2004.
Contact: For further information, or to submit an abstract, please contact:
Maria O'Donovan ([log in to unmask]) &
Lynda Carroll ([log in to unmask])
(607)-777-6319
Public Archaeology Facility
Binghamton University, SUNY
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000 USA
For additional information: For additional information on the SHA and its
2005 conference, please refer to the SHA website
at http://www.sha.org/default.htm
Membership in the Society: Membership in the society is not required to
present a paper or poster at the SHA conference; however, SHA members remit
substantially lower registration fees to participate in the annual meeting.
Scholars from other disciplines, whose invitation to participate is
approved in advance by conference organizers, may have the non-member
premium waived. In order to avoid scheduling conflicts, program
participation is limited to one formal paper as senior author, though a
presenter also may contribute as a junior author of another paper or serve
as a session chair or discussant.
Lynda Carroll
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology Public Archaeology Facility
Binghamton University, SUNY & Binghamton University, SUNY
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
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