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From: Akira MATSUDA (UCL) [mailto:a.matsuda@...]
Sent: 28 February 2007 18:30
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Subject: Call for papers - WAC Jamaica Inter-Congress

Dear all,

Below follows a call for papers for a session that we (WAC Student
Committee)
are going to organise at the WAC Jamaica Inter-Congress (20-27 May 2007).
For information about this conference, please visit
http://asjam.com/index.php .

The official deadline for the submission of individual paper abstracts is
28 Feb (today), but our Committee will ask the conference organiser
to extend it specially for a week (until 5 March). So, please consider this!

If you have any further question, please feel free to contact me.

Best wishes,

Akira Matsuda

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Akira Matsuda
Chair of WAC Student Committee
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The WAC Student Committee would like to call for papers for the
session we are going to organise at the WAC Jamaica Inter-Congress
(20-27 May 2007). The session is titled "(Re-)Defining Archaeology:
Emerging Perspectives from International Student Research", and its
abstract follows at the end of this message.

We would like to invite papers particularly from students, but also
from interested professionals.

The research of students is often considered as 'secondary' in
archaeology, be it for disciplinary or structural reasons. Even
looking at WAC, which has been effectively promoting the importance
of giving voice to the 'subjugated', the secondary position of
students can be confirmed by the small number of WAC student members
(only about 60 all over the world!), as well as traditionally small
numbers of student participants in WAC conferences and symposia
except those from within the host country. In our session, we hope to
highlight new, innovative and challenging student research
perspectives that may 're-define' archaeology in the future.

In the session, several students from different countries will
present their research, to be followed by comments from a few
discussants. We invite interested professional archaeologists to
participate in our session either as discussants or by presenting
papers on the the role of student research in archaeology and/or WAC.
Dr. Peter Stone (UK) has graciously offered to give such a
presentation, but we would welcome additional papers.

If you are interested in the session, please contact either Dru
McGill
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We need your paper abstract (150-250 words) immediately.

For those students who wish to participate in the session but cannot
make it to Jamaica for some reason - particularly financial ones
(students have a far smaller chance of getting a grant to participate
in a conference!), we plan to organise an electronic symposium as
well, independent of the actual session. If you or your students are
interested in this electronic symposium, please feel free to contact us.

Best wishes,

Akira Matsuda (on behalf of the WAC Student Committee)

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Akira Matsuda
PhD Student (public archaeology)
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
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Dru McGill
PhD Student- Anthropology
Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest (http://www.indiana.edu/~capi)
Student Building 130
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
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[WAC Student Committee's session at the WAC Jamaica Inter-Congress]

Session title:
"(Re-)Defining Archaeology: Emerging Perspectives from International
Student Research"

Session Abstract:
This session highlights research by international student members of
the World Archaeological Congress. Young scholars from around the
globe are re-defining the importance, values, and development of
archaeology through education and research. This research
simultaneously supports archaeology's history as a science of past
cultures and tests the limits of contemporary methods, theories, and
ethics. To some, emerging research may seem a "threat" to
archaeology. We believe, instead, that the presentation and debate
of innovative, revolutionary, and potentially controversial research
will foster growth within our discipline. Stretching across themes of
Indigenous Archaeology, Archaeology Education, Archaeology and
Tourism, Community Archaeology, Public Archaeology, and more, this
session will systematically overview important emerging perspectives
in the field of archaeology.