[Archport] CfP: Archaeologies of Unfree Labor in Europe and the Mediterranean

[Rui Gomes Coelho <ruigomescoelho@gmail.com>]

Dear colleagues,

Fahri Dikkaya (TED University, Turkey) and I will be hosting a session called "Archaeologies of Unfree Labor in Europe and the Mediterranean" at the upcoming European Association of Archaeologists meeting in Barcelona (4-8 September 2018). Submit an abstract if you are working on the materialities of slavery, serfdom, forced labor, and other forms of unfree labor. We are open to all periods and types of research.

Please share widely!

Best,
Rui Gomes Coelho

Postdoctoral Associate
Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS)
Department of Art History
Rutgers University
Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

P. +1-848-932-7041

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24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists

Barcelona, Spain, 4-8 September 2018

https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2018 

Call for Papers

Archaeologies of Unfree Labor in Europe and the Mediterranean
 
Organizers:

Rui Gomes Coelho
Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies
Department of Art History, Rutgers University, USA
rui.gomescoelho@rutgers.edu 

Fahri Dikkaya
Basic Sciences Unit
TED University, Turkey
fahri.dikkaya@tedu.edu.tr 

Abstract:

Throughout most history, the subjection of people to forms of unfree and coerced labor was an important aspect of class-based societies in Europe and in the Mediterranean basin. The labor of slaves, bonded or forced workers were in many cases the main source of economic prosperity, and their bodies were the violent marker of social boundaries and modes of existence. In Anthropologie de L’Esclavage (1986), Claude Meillassoux argues that people are desocialized, depersonalized, desexualized and decivilized during the process of enslavement. In the end, the subject is unable to socially reproduce itself while being assigned to economic functions. In this session we will ask: In what ways does unfree labor have a materiality, from prehistory to now? How can we use materiality to examine the different modes of unfree labor, historical transitions between unfree labor and freedom, its experiences and legacies? We welcome contributions about contexts in Europe, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, as well as case studies from around the world that are related to the legacies of colonialism and imperialism in European and Mediterranean contexts.

Deadline to submit an abstract:

15 February 2018