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Apologies for cross-posting:
The Graduate Student Association of the Boston University
Department of Archaeology is would like to announce the
FINAL call for papers for the Tenth Biennial Graduate Student Forum
on February 17-19, 2012. The title of this year's conference is
"Found objects, past lives: archaeological perspectives on material and
materiality".
Our keynote speaker is Dr. Carl Knappett, Walter Graham / Homer Thompson
Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto.
Topics for discussion could include, but are not limited to:
-The role of material culture in past societies
-Theoretical approaches to material agency
-Interpreting and exhibiting artifacts
-Artifact databases and collections management
-Scientific analysis of cultural assemblages
For consideration, graduate students should submit a 250-word
abstract on our website by December 15, 2011:
http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/2012-bu-graduate-student-forum/
Selected participants will be notified by early January and the full paper
will be due by February 1st. Paper presentations will be 20 minutes in
length.
There is no registration fee for this conference.
We kindly request that faculty and graduate students forward this message
to interested parties and related university departments.
You can also download a pdf of our CFP for display in your department here:
http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/files/2011/10/2012_BU_GSF_CFP.pdf
If you have any questions, please direct them to:
Graduate Student Conference Committee
Department of Archaeology, Boston University
675 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
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