[Archport] Calls for papers for EurASEAA14

["Paulo Monteiro" <pmonteiro@ntasa.pt>]

14th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists

Dublin, September 18th  - 21st 2012

 

 

Sessions and calls for papers for EurASEAA14

 

Please contact session organisers directly in the first instance; if you are not sure whether your

paper proposal fits a session listed here, please send it to the committee at euraseaa14@ucd.ie.

 

This page will be updated as sessions come in; if you do not see your session listed yet, please

contact the organisers at the email address above.

 

All sessions listed here have been approved by the conference committee of EurASEAA14.

 

New Research on Old Images: The Rock Art of Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia sits at the intersection of India, China and Australia - three regions with notable

amounts of rock art, and it is thus surprising that so little is known of the rock art at the

crossroads.

In the last decade we have seen an increase in rock art research conducted throughout Southeast

Asia, and it is readily apparent that this area of research is not particularly well understood. This

session calls for presentation of new and recent research on the rock art from all parts of

Southeast Asia, particularly in the discovery of new sites and in studies investigating sites located

in more than one

country.

Organiser and contact: Noel Hidalgo Tan (ANU), noel.tan@anu.edu.au

 

The sub-Himalayan Corridor: Just what is going on in North East India?

It is has long been recognised that the initial human colonisation of mainland Southeast Asia

probably took place via the sub-Himalayan land bridge with South Asia: the Arakan Mountains.

Textual sources also document that in recent centuries this area of extraordinary ethnolinguistic

diversity constituted a critical cultural corridor on one of the so-called 'silk roads' spanning

Eurasia. What happened in North East India during the many millennia between these two

phenomena has generally been considered a mystery, with many Southeast Asianists appearing to

regard an undeniably severe dearth of data as prima facie evidence that there was no prehistoric

social interaction of significance with India prior to the establishment of sustained maritime links

in the mid 1st millennium BCE. Subsequently, whilst the cultural influence of India is heavily

acknowledged for later periods, many early Southeast Asian developments (e.g. agriculture and

metallurgy) have been seen as related exclusively to bilateral communication and exchange with

China. There is no doubting the weight of evidence in favour of China's important role, but can

we afford to dismiss North East India out of hand?

A young and dynamic generation of North East Indian researchers are now working towards

filling in the Arakan data gap, to flesh out their own cultural history and also to enrich the

potential for rewarding syntheses with Southeast Asian datasets. For this session we invite

papers drawing upon all manner of evidence (e.g. archaeological, botanical, environmental,

linguistic, textual) from all chronological periods that will contribute an improved understanding

of past social interactions through the sub-Himalayan corridor.

Organisers: Thomas Oliver Pryce (Oxford) and Tia Toshi Jamir (Nagaland)

Contact: opryce@gmail.com, tiatoshijamir@rediffmail.com

 

Historical Archaeology of the Khmer Empire: Challenges and New Perspectives

Our knowledge of the Angkorian past has been largely driven by the investigation of epigraphic

records and of masonry architectural remains. This has produced a dogmatic attitude to the

interpretation of both individual events and large-scale historic processes of the Khmer Empire.

Over the past decade, the introduction of new investigative tools and the expansion of

archaeological fieldwork in Angkor and its surrounding centres have contributed substantial

insight into the validity and pitfalls of interpretations based on these old sources. This session

intends to examine the benefits and difficulties of applying an “Historical Archaeology” for the

Khmer world and its implications for future research. Individual papers will present recent works

and new data emphasising issues of historiography, interaction of various independent data sets,

multi-scalar analysis and the challenges of producing coherent interpretations.

Organisers: Christoffe Pottier (EFEO) and Mitch Hendrickson (UIC)

Contact: pottiersydney@gmail.com, mjhendri72@yahoo.ca

 

The Maritime Dimension: Nautical Approaches to Southeast Asian Archaeology

This session will explore the current work in Southeast Asia that is addressed through maritime

themes. 'Maritime' is a very wide reaching term and the Southeast Asia region is traversed with

inland waterways and connected by over-sea highways. Past and present peoples have recorded

their experiences of nautical technology in tangible and intangible mediums. To appreciate the

extent of these possibilities we welcome papers on terrestrial, littoral, coastal and underwater

sites. We would also like to explore archaeological/anthropological examples of iconography,

ethnography, museology, modern art, etc. We aim to raise awareness and build networks between

colleagues whose work has addressed interpretations of the nautical approaches in the Southeast

Asian region. Papers from colleagues whose projects may be out of the geographical bounds of

the Southeast Asian region but whose work has contributed to the Southeast Asian context are

also welcome.

Organisers: Veronica Walker Vadillo (Oxford), Charlotte Pham (Murdoch) and Jennifer

Craig (Oxford)

Contact: v.walker.vadillo@gmail.com, charlotte.pham@gmail.com,

jennifer.craig@arch.ox.ac.uk

 

 

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Alexandre Monteiro
Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências (UNL/UAlg)
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www.iap.fcsh.unl.pt

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