Conveners: Belinda Duke (Flinders University) and Helen Lewis (University College Dublin)
We invite papers from all fields of geoarchaeology, investigating sites, landscapes and objects to interpret ancient and historical societies in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to archaeological case studies, we welcome papers on approaches and methods.
Please forward abstracts to: duke0035@flinders.edu.au
In this panel, we are going to revisit the conventional hypotheses of the transmission of ideas, transportation of materials, and transition of society. New models will be proposed to explore the
craftsmen movement in this maritime region and illustrate the emergence of prehistoric iron industry in Taiwan. New data of the interactions between complex societies with the written record will also be presented to plot the trade route and to examine the reaction of local indigenous when encounter with foreign powers. These new perspectives and data from the presentations in this panel seek to expand our understanding of the long-existed network and its impact on societies. Our panel will have seven presentations of papers on this topics follow by an open discussion.
PhD candidate, Archaeology Program
Department of Anthropology
University of Washington
Email: jyliu[at]uw.edu
Organizers:
1. Athiwat Wattanapituksakul (Prehistoric Population and Cultural Dynamics in Highland Pang Mapha Project)
2. Sze Haw Liew (Prehistoric Population and Cultural Dynamics in Highland Pang Mapha Project)
3. Chonchanok Samrit (Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University and Prehistoric Population and Cultural Dynamics in Highland Pang Mapha Project)
Please find attached file of abstract.
The materiality of ritual performance is a growing focus for archaeologists. In Europe, collective ritual performance is expected to be highly structured and to leave behind a loud archaeological signature that can be further contextualised through synergies between written histories, physical features (including monumental architecture, roads and trackways) and artefacts. In Australasia and the Pacific, ritual is highly structured; however, material signatures of performance are not always apparent, with ritual frequently bound up in the surrounding natural and cultural landscape. This has requiredreconceptionalisation of what constitutes constructed ritual places with a focus on broad themes such as “cosmologies”, “ontologies” (e.g. David 2011; David and Wilson 1999), “spiritscapes”, “seascapes” (e.g. McNiven 2003; Rainbird 2004), “Landscapes of movement” (Ucko and Layton 1999) and “sacred geographies” (Ashmore and Knapp 1999; Ballard 1994; Taçon 1999). This session provides a forum to discuss recent archaeological research relating to the archaeology of ritual performance in regions that to date have been under-represented in global dialogues. Contributors may wish to consider region-specific models and methods or provide case studies that relate to dynamic and performative aspects of prehistoric ritual. This could include bodily understandings of space and material culture; materiality of inter-connected ritual places and processions; the role of monumental architecture and funerary activity and the construction and reuse of memory places.
Convenors: Duncan Wright and Marc Oxenham (The Australian National University)
Email address: Duncan.wright@anu.edu.au
Please direct enquiries and offers of papers in the first instance to: admin.CBAP@anu.edu.au
mailto: anna.karlstrom@konstvet.uu.se
This session aims to bring together early career researchers with ambitions to develop innovative methodologies in the study of ancient Southeast Asian Hindu and Buddhist art. This field has long been accessory to the discipline of History, with iconographic analyses defining styles and forms of influence as a means of supporting the scholarly establishment of chronological developments across the Southeast Asian and neighbouring regions. Building on the historical and art historical knowledge developed through this long-established approach, scholars are now able to expand our horizons, in for example, attending to close material analyses, bringing anthropological methods into dialogue with art historical findings to sound the nexus of form and function, exploring aesthetic dimensions of the materials, or turning a critical eye to the political and ideological frameworks of art historical analyses… The broad goal is to support early career scholars in developing thicker, more diverse histories of Southeast Asian Hindu and Buddhist art, where exploring the art is deemed a worthy goal in and of itself, rather than a path to supposed higher forms of scientific knowledge.
The session is dedicated to the late Prof. Yoji Aoyagi who passed away in September 2017, in honour of his several decades of work in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
Organisers:
Rintaro Ono (Tokai University, Japan), Hsiao-chun Hung (Australian National University, Australia), Frederique Valentine (French National Center for Scientific Research, France), and Kazuhiko Tanaka (Tsurumi University, Japan)
Contact e-mail address: rintaro@tokai-u.jp
From Ian Lilley, IPPA Sec-Gen
Dear IPPA Community,
On behalf of the co-Presidents of the 2018 IPPA Congress, Prof. Nguyen Giang Hai and Dr. Phan Thanh Hai, I would like to open the call for sessions and papers. The Congress will open on Sunday 23 September and sessions will run on Monday 24, Tuesday 25, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 September. Following IPPA tradition, we will keep Wednesday 25 September free for rest and local tours in and around Hue, where there is plenty to do and see. Vietnam has an excellent tourist industry, so all tours (including pre- and post-Congress tours) will be the responsibility of individual IPPA delegates, not the conference organisers.
Program space will be limited. Scheduling priority will be given to sessions rather than individual papers. There will be four 90-minute session blocks each day, with parallel sessions running in each time-block as required. A standard single session will be 90 minutes, ending in a coffee or lunch break. Sessions may take up more than one 90 block as required, but only in whole blocks. The session format is up to session organisers (ie standard group of presentations, discussion panel, forum etc). Individual papers that are not part of an organised session will be aggregated in unthemed sessions as program space permits.
Individual delegates may have their name on any number of sessions or papers but to keep the organisation of the program manageable each delegate will be limited to two (2) presenting/speaking roles only (such as presenter/speaker, discussant, panel member, forum member, facilitator, moderator, chair).
Please have your suggestions to me by no later than 30 November 2017. Acceptance of late submissions cannot be guaranteed.
Formal letters of invitation will be provided by the Vietnamese conference hosts as required after sessions and papers have been accepted. Funding assistance will be very limited, with priority given to currently-enrolled students.