Greetings! 

The December 2007 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html 

In December's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Richard 
Benjamin, Christopher Fennell, Jenna Coplin, Christopher Matthews, Timothy 
James Scarlett, and Helen Blouet; news reports and announcements; a film 
review and book reviews by Christopher Espenshade, John McCarthy, Liza 
Gijanto, and Patrick Morgan. A table of contents is set out below. 

Please contact me if you have essays, analysis papers, book reviews, project 
reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to contribute to the 
African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter. This Newsletter is 
published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December. We serve an 
expanding readership of over 5,000 per Newsletter issue. 

Cheers, 
Chris 


December 2007 Newsletter 

** Articles, Essays, and Reports **

The Development of the International Slavery Museum, by Richard Benjamin

Multivalent Symbols of an Enclosing Hand, by Christopher C. Fennell

The Archaeology of Captivity and Freedom at Joseph Lloyd Manor, by Jenna 
Coplin and Christopher Matthews

Teaching the Archaeology of the African Diaspora, and its Consequences: 
Thoughts about Entangling Education, by Timothy James Scarlett

Grave Site Identification on St. John, Virgin Islands: The Use of Grave Markers 
and Commemorative Space during the Danish Colonial Period, by Helen Blouet

** News and Announcements **

Nameless Are Memorialized at Old African Burial Site, by Elias E. Lopez

Virtual Museum of African-American History Opens

1807 Commemorated: Website Launch

Frederick Douglass Prize Awarded

Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, by Jillian Galle

Archaeology Field School: Sugar and Slavery in Colonial Jamaica

New Books: Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora; 
Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and 
Heritage; Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American 
Imagination; Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic; Early Slavery at the 
Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1717; The Seminole Freedmen: A History; History of 
The Urhobo People of Niger Delta

** Conferences and Calls for Papers **

Society for Historical Archaeology 2008 Conference

Lifting the Veil: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Identity

Cultural Memory of Sacred Spaces in Migrations and Diasporas

Making Race, Making Health: Historical Approaches

African American Life and Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry

Journal of Historical Sociology: Plantations Past and Present

** Book Reviews **

Editor's Note

Film Review of "Quilombo Country," by Chris Espenshade

Review of "The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology," by John P. 
McCarthy

Review of "Historical Archaeology in Africa," by Liza Gijanto

Review of "No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work," by 
Patrick H. Morgan