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The Second University of Chicago
Eurasian Archaeology Conference
Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Eurasian Archaeology |
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April 15 and April 16, 2005
Hosted by Graduate Students of The University of Chicago Anthropology and Near East Languages and Civilizations Departments
CALL FOR PAPERS! Conference Committee Advisor - Dr. Adam T. Smith, University of Chicago, Department of
Anthropology
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• To highlight a new direction in research for Eurasian archaeology that focuses on how people lived in their local
environment and interacted with their near and distant neighbors, rather than on overarching comparisons of culture groups.
• To break apart the traditional notion of Eurasia as a homogenous landmass that stretches from the Carpathian Mountains to the Korean Peninsula, and instead understand it as a more complex landscape fragmented by
historically contingent and shifting social boundaries
• To demonstrate the importance of a truly interdisciplinary approach, in which researchers from different disciplines work together to create a far more nuanced picture of the past than could be achieved alone.
We would like to extend our invitation not only to archaeologists, but also to researchers from related disciplines (e.g. art history, geology, paleoecology), to join in this discussion. In addition, 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.
Please contact Laura Popova at lmsoikke@uchicago.edu with any conference related questions.
Financial support for the University of Chicago Eurasian Archaeology Conference is provided
by the Committee on Central Asian Studies,
the Center for East Asian Studies, the Marion
and Adolph Lichtstern Conference Fund, and the Norman Wait Harris Memorial fund.