The Third University of Chicago
Conference on Eurasian Archaeology
Regimes and Revolutions:
Power, Violence, and Labor in Eurasia Between the Ancient and the Modern

Mayday

May 1 - May 3, 2008
Hosted by Graduate Students of The University of Chicago
Anthropology and Near East Languages
and Civilizations Departments


PRESENTATION GUIDELINES:

1) All presentations must be kept within the 20-minute time period. The session moderator will notify each presenter when they have reached the "2 minute" mark, the "30 second" mark, and finally when their allotted time has expired (and their presentation begins to infringe upon their colleague's presentation).

2) For any Powerpoint presentations to be used:
a. A copy of the presentation (on either CD or USB flash drive) must be given to the conference Audio-Visual Tech for transfer to the conference computer. Please have this CD or USB flash drive available upon registration.
b. Avoid using animations (Quicktime, Flash, etc.) in your presentation if possible. This is particularly true for presentations that have been created using a Mac OS version of Powerpoint. The plugins required are often not available on Windows computers.
c. All presentations must have all images compressed. To compress images:
i. Select one or more pictures in a file.
ii. On the "Picture" toolbar click "Compress Picture Button" image.
iii. Select the options you want.

For a more detailed version of the conference presentation guidelines you may downlaod them in PDF format here.



The University of Chicago Conferences on Eurasian Archaeology bring together graduate students and senior researchers from institutions across North America, Europe, and Asia. Organized and run by the graduate students of the University of Chicago, each conference centers on a theme that is intended to encapsulate a broad set of pressing issues in the field. But the conferences also provide a forum for sharing new data, testing original ideas, and developing cross-cultural conversations that will forward the next decade of research in Eurasia.

We encourage the attendance of scholars whose research is in regions that have been historically linked to Eurasia: Eastern Europe, the Near East, and East Asia. Most importantly, we strongly urge graduate students to participate.

Our goals for the conference are to:
•Examine the instruments of power, the semiotics of legitimation, and the mobilization of labor in the constitution of politics from prehistory to today.
•Explore the work of power without subsuming it to the domain of governmental institutions.
•Understand what the picture of authority over the longue durée looks like across Eurasia.

Please contact Charles Hartley at chartley@uchicago.edu with any conference related questions.


Financial support for the University of Chicago Eurasian Archaeology Conference is provided by the University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, the Committee on Central Asian Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Marion and Adolph Lichtstern Conference Fund, the Norman Wait Harris Memorial fund, and by the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop.

Conference Committee Advisor -
Dr. Adam T. Smith, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology

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