Dear all,

According to the decision of the plenary session of the last
Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA), the next event will
be hosted by the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory of the
University of Sheffield.

The event will take place on the 18th until the 20th of February of
the year 2000. The following message is a copy of the first call and
of the application form. The original copy of those should be
attached.

For more information please contact us at the following address:

SOMA 2000
Research School of Archaeology and Archaeological Science
The University of Sheffield
Westcourt, 2 Mappin Street,
Sheffield S1 4DT
United Kingdom

fax: + 44 - 114 - 2727347
email: <[log in to unmask]>

You can also visit our web site, although a great part of it is still
under construction (http://usit.shef.ac.uk/~soma)

We apologise for any cross posting and we hope to see as many of you
as possible at Sheffield.

On behalf of the SOMA Committee

Giorgos Vavouranakis


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S O M A  2 0 0 0
SYMPOSIUM ON MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY
FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF POST-GRADUATE RESEARCHERS

FRIDAY 18TH - SUNDAY 20TH  FEBRUARY 2000
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Department of Archaeology & Prehistory
Research School of Archaeology & Archaeological Science
Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology


FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS & POSTERS

SOMA is a conference designed to provide postgraduate students of
Mediterranean archaeology with an opportunity to present and discuss
work in progress with their contemporaries. The informal setting and
wide variety of topics and approaches have combined to make the
previous meetings at Edinburgh and Birmingham a great success.
Presentations on any aspect of Mediterranean archaeology may take the
form of a read paper of either 10 or 20 minutes length, or of a
poster.


DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 29TH NOVEMBER 1999


SOMA 2000
Research School of Archaeology and Archaeological Science
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
WESTCOURT, 2 MAPPIN STREET
Sheffield S1 4DT
email: <[log in to unmask]>.
Web page: http://usit.shef.ac.uk/~soma

NOTE ON OUR EMBLEM :We have chosen
Aineias/Aeneas carrying his father Anchises as a symbol for SOMA2000.
According to tradition, Aineias and his family travelled throughout
the Mediterranean, between European and African shores, after their
escape from the pillaging of Troy. Thus Aineias with his father
represent not only the connections between Mediterranean traditions,
which transcend modern national and continental boundaries, but they
also remind us of some ways in which people living in antiquity would
have understood their own history: ancestry, memory and monuments, the
abandonment of old homes and the founding of new ones.


There are no strict thematic parameters to the conference, but we
would like to propose some guidelines for participants to think about
when composing their presentations.

· Studying material culture: applications, implications and
potential
· The present past: Museums, heritage management, history
and role of the discipline
 · Power, complexity and change
· Social and natural environment
· Archaeology of death
· In the field: Recent developments in excavation projects and techniques
 · Archaeology and identity: gender, ethnicity, group / categories
· Interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology:anthropology, ethnography, sociology,
history, classics, science

Apart from the above topics, we will welcome any presentations, as long as they aim to contribute to the understanding of Mediterranean
archaeology, either in terms of material or in method. No differentiation is made between levels of Post-graduate or
Post-doctoral research. Please send abstracts of no more than 150 words to

SOMA 2000
The University of Sheffield
 Research School of
Archaeology & Archaeological Science
 Westcourt, 2 Mappin Street
Sheffield S1 4DT
UNITED KINGDOM
 fax: (+44) - 114 272 7347
 email <[log in to unmask]>

For more information, please contact us at the
above address or refer to our Web page <http://usit.shef.ac.uk/~soma>

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 29TH NOVEMBER 1999

Conference fees: Waged=£18   Students/unwaged=£12   Academics=£35
(Cheques to be made payable to the University of Sheffield)


APPLICATION FORM

NAME:

ADDRESS:

TEL:

E-MAIL:

FIELD OF RESEARCH:

STUDENT STATUS (MA, PHD, ETC.):

INSTITUTION:

JUST ATTENDING:         PRESENTING:
(tick where appropriate)

TITLE OF PRESENTATION:





LENGTH OF PRESENTATION:

10MIN:          OR   20MIN              AND/OR POSTER:
 (tick all appropriate choices)