School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan

Early Bird Registration, priced at £80 (£35 student/unwaged), will be available until Friday 6 October 2023, at which point prices will increase to £95/£45. A 3-course conference dinner will take place on Wednesday 3 January 2024, after the Keynote and a reception, and is priced at £55. Places are limited to 40 for the dinner on a first come first served basis.

If you are unsure whether you are currently a member of BANEA, please contact the BANEA membership secretary to enquire at y.heffron@ucl.ac.uk .

Grants for expenses are available for eligible applicants

Organised around Archaeological and heritage practice in Southwest Asia: towards equitable futures, the conference will foreground archaeology’s role and responsibilities in climate change discourse; the discipline’s colonial inheritances and legacies, and strategies for addressing and mitigating them; and equitable and sustainable archaeological, cultural heritage, and community engagement practice. A keynote speech from Rozhen Kamal Mohammed-Amin will tackle issues related to these themes.

Paper submissions for the main sessions should be made to neil.erskine@glasgow.ac.uk by Friday 6^th October and should indicate a preferred session topic. If paper acceptance is a requirement of your visa to travel to the UK and is needed urgently, please make this clear in your email and the committee will respond as soon as possible.

Paper submissions for workshops should be made directly to the relevant session chair.

Main sessions

Archaeological fairness. E.g., decolonising practice; cultural heritage practice, archaeological labour relations; community engagement, equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Landscape. E.g., theoretical and methodological approaches to landscape; socio-ecological dynamics, the use of archaeological science in climate change discourse.

Foodways. E.g., Subsistence practices, food webs, and cultural identities; commensal equipment, chaîne opératoires, and vibrant materialities; bioarchaeology and isotope studies

Digital archaeologies. E.g., Digital recording and representation of archaeology; big data; web and technology-based public engagement.

Field reports. E.g., Ongoing and recently completed fieldwork results.

Social worlds. E.g., Social interaction and interpretative approaches to it; inequality; art and literature, including modern reception and representations.

The committee encourage authors to interpret the above session topics and suggestions broadly and inventively. We particularly welcome submissions that seek to address the main conference themes by, for instance, presenting original archaeological perspectives on climate change, either in the past or present; engaging with, challenging, and developing mitigating strategies for West Asian archaeology’s colonial structures and legacies; or presenting ongoing fieldwork that utilises new or emerging approaches designed with equitable field practice in mind.

Workshops (full abstracts here)

Achaemenid Environments: Agenda-setting economic, landscape, environmental and bioarchaeological approaches to Achaemenid Impact
Organisers: Catherine M. Draycott, catherine.draycott@durham.ac.uk, Benjamin Irvine, and Max D. PriceThe Archaeology and

Cultural Heritage of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region
Organisers: Claudia Glatz, Claudia.Glatz@glasgow.ac.uk, and Daniel Calderbank

Big Dig Energy: Gendered practices and internalised patriarchy in archaeological fieldwork in West Asia
Organiser: Yağmur Heffron, y.heffron@ucl.ac.uk

Dialogues Across Landscapes: New Challenges to Practicing Landscape Archaeology in Western Asia
Organisers: Dan Lawrence, dan.lawrence@durham.ac.uk, Claudia Glatz, Jennie Bradbury, and Ömür Harmanşah

When is Urban, Really? Looking Back, Moving Forward – Exploring temporalities of Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia in the present: A workshop celebrating historic innovations in early urban archaeology, and tackling current challenges to the field
Organiser: Ailbhe Nic Thoirealaigh, a.turley.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Whose Heritage Is it? A Discussion on Community Engagement and Local Counter-narratives 
in Archaeology of Southwest Asia
Organiser: Yasaman Nabati, y.nabati-mazloumi.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Workshop proposals are welcome and should be made by an organiser/chair to neil.erskine@glasgow.ac.uk by 16 June 2023.

Paper submissions should be made to neil.erskine@glasgow.ac.uk by Sunday 15 October 2023 and should indicate a preferred session topic. If paper acceptance is a requirement of your visa to travel to the UK and is needed urgently, please make this clear in your email and the committee will respond as soon as possible.

Session topics will include:

Archaeological fairness. E.g., decolonising practice; cultural heritage practice, archaeological labour relations; community engagement, equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Landscape. E.g., theoretical and methodological approaches to landscape; socio-ecological dynamics, the use of archaeological science in climate change discourse.

Foodways. E.g., Subsistence practices, food webs, and cultural identities; commensal equipment, chaîne opératoires, and vibrant materialities; bioarchaeology and isotope studies

Digital archaeologies. E.g., Digital recording and representation of archaeology; big data; web and technology-based public engagement.

Field reports. E.g., Ongoing and recently completed fieldwork results.

Social worlds. E.g., Social interaction and interpretative approaches to it; inequality; art and literature, including modern reception and representations.

The committee encourage authors to interpret the above session topics and suggestions broadly and inventively. We particularly welcome submissions that seek to address the main conference themes by, for instance, presenting original archaeological perspectives on climate change, either in the past or present; engaging with, challenging, and developing mitigating strategies for West Asian archaeology’s colonial structures and legacies; or presenting ongoing fieldwork that utilises new or emerging approaches designed with equitable field practice in mind.