Hello,

For the 47th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference on Historical
and Underwater Archaeology to be held from January 8-12, 2014, in Québec
City, Canada I am organizing a session on Historical Archaeological
Approaches to Jewish Diaspora, and am looking for additional participants.

Symposium Call for Papers for SHA 2014:

A Chosen People in Foreign Lands: Historical Archaeological Approaches to
the Jewish Diaspora

Since the inception of the field of historical archaeology, sites focusing
on diasporic and marginalized populations have received interest from
archaeologists. Despite voluminous publications, organizations and journals
specifically dealing with various diaspora populations, Jews – a people and
an experience from which the term originates – have been all but ignored in
historical archaeology. The concept of diaspora has evolved in modern
scholarship to encompass a variety of lived experiences through an
understanding of diasporic theory as either forced exile or continuing
exclusion. To this end, sites of Jewish antiquity have been interpreted
through the classical model of diaspora, yet historical Jewish contexts
have rarely been viewed through this adapted and modern conception of the
term. This session seeks to bring together a selection of a growing body of
scholarship that directly deals with the archaeology of the Jewish diaspora
in the historic period from a variety of theoretical and methodological
perspectives.

If you have any questions about the session or would like to participate
please email your proposed title and abstract to me at [log in to unmask]

- David M. Markus
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David M. Markus
Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of Anthropology
University of Florida