The call for papers for the 2014 conference is officially open! The submission of abstracts for session proposals and individual presentations, as described in the call for papers, can be done online on the web site starting NOW!

As you have been doing for 46 years, SHA members will be proposing many and varied sessions. In order to stimulate your reflection on the conference theme, “Questions that Count: a critical evaluation of historical archaeology in the 21st century”, the Program Committee has several suggestions for themes that could be of particular interest to you and your network of colleagues. Are you interested in organizing a workshop on one of the following themes for the 47th Conference on historical and underwater archaeology?

  • The Ethics of Archaeological Practice
  • Historical Archaeology and the Media
  • Commercial and Governmental Archaeology: New laws, new practices?
  • Archaeology and UNESCO World Heritage Sites
  • New Research in Material culture studies: Ceramics
  • Historical Archaeology as Anthropology; globalization and environmental archaeology
  • The Historical archaeology of Central America and the Caribbean
  • Who owns the past: sacred sites, battlefield archaeology, sites of pain, difficult heritage

These subjects – and many more—have been discussed on the SHA Facebook page. More will follow so come and “Like” the page with no further delay: https://www.facebook.com/SocietyforHistoricalArchaeology!

If you are interested in organizing one of these sessions, the new online submission interface will permit you to offer your services as a session chair. It will also permit individual presenters to suggest papers for sessions that have not been closed by their organizers. A series of general subjects is proposed to help the Program Committee group contributed papers into new sessions, to avoid scheduling conflicts between similarly-themed sessions and to structure poster presentations. Themes identified so far include the following. Can you see others?

  • Diaspora Archaeology
  • Environmental and Landscape Archaeology
  • First Nations Archaeology
  • Information Technologies
  • Legislation and Archaeological Practice
  • Material Culture Studies
  • Identity
  • Methodology
  • Military Archaeology
  • Regional Studies
  • Theory
  • Underwater and Maritime Archaeologies
  • Urban Archaeology
  • Other

We hope this new process and a simplified interface will make the submission process easier for you and that it will result in a strong and interesting conference for all. Contact the Conference Committee through our web site at www.sha2014.com should you have any questions or problems with the submission process.

Don’t forget to download the conference poster while you are writing your abstract: http://www.sha2014.com/index_e.html!

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