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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