The International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar, the Montenegrin Ministry of Culture, and RPM Nautical Foundation are offering an underwater sciences field school during the upcoming summer field season. Students will gain hands on experience participating in ongoing underwater research while learning theory and methods in classroom sessions taught by experts in the field. Day trips and daily dives will expose students to a variety of site types found underwater, as well as the best practices for conducting question based research, survey, documentation, and site development over the month long field school.

To apply, please send a one page cover page explaining your qualifications as a candidate and a current CV that includes relevant coursework and previous experience to info@illyriancoast.org. Applications will be accepted until midnight GMT on May 1, 2013. Preference will be given to graduate students, Balkan students, and students that are experienced divers. Interviews may be conducted via telephone or Skype following application submission. Students may be asked to provide contact information for two references and evidence of good standing at the university during the application review process. Students will be notified no later than May 15, 2013, if they are accepted. Students from the Balkan region are encouraged to apply.

The field school fees are $2000 with an optional $1500 tuition fee from Transylvania University (Kentucky) if you wish for transferable credit. These fees cover housing, food, and travel during the field school. If opting for university credit, it is up to the applicant to check with their home university to ensure the credits will transfer. These fees to do not cover travel to Croatia or home from Montenegro, nor does it cover insurance or the optional AAUS scientific diving course offered from June 20 to July 3, which is an additional $1000 and requires a separate application.

Email: info@illyriancoast.org
Website: http://www.illyriancoast.org/

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - Saturday, February 15, 2014

Location:
Chicago, Ill
United States

College Art Association 2014, Chicago

Organizers:  Diana Ng, University of Michigan-Dearborn dmng@umd.umich.edu; Molly Swetnam-Burland, The College of William and Mary, mswetnam@wm.edu

Often, scholarship of ancient Roman art and architecture focuses upon an artwork or monument’s first creation or construction. But what happens when we explore the histories of buildings, sculptures, or paintings as diachronic and disruptive, and examine their rich and varied afterlives? We encourage papers treating the social use of spaces for ephemeral activities, as well as papers addressing modifications to and re-use of individual artworks. How did Roman buildings come to function differently over time to accommodate new political and social realities? How did durable monuments serve as settings for the display of transitory materials, such as decrees or religious dedications? How did the reworking of sculpture create new relationships between subject and viewer? We invite papers investigating the economic and legal exigencies—such as the impact of cost and the responsibility of maintenance—of secondary interventions in the lives of Roman objects and buildings.

Please send abstracts to Diana Ng or Molly Swetnam-Burland.  CAA individual membership is required of all speakers.  For more information, see the CAA call for papers at http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2014CallforParticipation.pdf

Website: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2014CallforParticipation.pdf

Was there ever a problem? That is the central question of a three-day conference to be held in June 2013 to reconsider the so-called ‘Problem of the Fifth Century’ in Sardinia. Focused on Sardinia, but with comparative papers on Spain and Sicily, this conference will draw on the abundant new evidence of recent excavations and surveys to address the long-held belief of a crisis and ‘dark’ fifth century BC.

The three-day conference La Sardegna nel Mediterraneo occidentale dalla fase fenicia all’egemonia cartaginese: il problema del V secolo is organized by Massimo Botto, Peter van Dommelen and Andrea Roppa. Supported by the Mediterranean Center ISCIMA of the Italian CNR and Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, it will take place in the Sardinian town of Santadi from May 31st until June 2nd, 2013.

Additional details can be found at http://proteus.brown.edu/sardinia/9176 .

Akko (historical Acre) is a coastal city that was first settled about 5000 years ago and has been continuously inhabited ever since. At various times the site has been home to Canaanites, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Mamluks, Crusaders, Ottomans, and just about everyone else who sailed the east Mediterranean sea in antiquity or recent history.

When enrolling in this field school, students will be able to select a course that focuses on training in archaeological fieldwork or a course that emphasizes both fieldwork and conservation of archaeological and architectural materials.

Our field training course focuses on methods of stratigraphic excavation, recording, and interpretation, and the study of ceramic typology and its applications. Staff specialists hold workshops on surveying, photography, ceramics, geology, faunal analysis, GIS analysis, and conservation of artifacts. Fieldwork is complemented by a series of lectures by staff and visiting or guest scholars.

Students in the conservation course work on projects ranging from the Bronze Age remains from the site, to the Crusader castle that is emerging from the rubble under the Old City, and on architectural features built during the period of Ottoman Imperial rule in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Along with the field and lab training, students in both of the class will take part in a month-long series of lectures and seminars focussing on: (1) the archaeology of Israel and the east Mediterranean coast; (2) the emergence of urbanism, states, and empires in the region; and (3) political economy and trade.

Issues of cultural heritage are woven in throughout the course. Students will be able to work with professionals (archaeologists, architectural historians, and conservators) and with members of the contemporary communities of Akko to develop plans for identifying, conserving, and presenting material and intangible cultural heritage.

Students at the field school live in the dormitory of the Akko Nautical Academy, an air-conditioned building in a walled campus with its own beach. Meals will be served both in the dining hall of the Nautical Academy and on the excavation site.

The field school will take place from June 30th to July 27th 2013, and will cost about $5200 (though we may be able to lower that cost if enough students apply). This is a 6 credit class.

The program is directed jointly by faculty from UMass Amherst, Trinity College, Penn State, Claremont University, and the Pacific School of Religion.

I am the director of the UMass program, so feel free to write back to me with questions.

You can find out about the field school and the site at http://people.umass.edu/sugerman/Akko

Enrollment information can be found at http://www.ipo.umass.edu/?go=IsraelFieldSchool

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Michael O. Sugerman
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003
t: 413 577 0783
f: 413-545-9494

http://people.umass.edu/sugerman/Home.html

Brown University, Providence, RI

The Program in Early Cultures at Brown University (PEC) invites applications for a post-doctoral fellow to participate in a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar, “Animal Magnetism: The Emotional Ecology of Animals and Humans.”  This will be a one-year position, beginning on July 1, 2013.

Funded by the Mellon Foundation, this Sawyer Seminar addresses the emotional, symbolic, and social dimensions of past human relations with animals.  Three themes inform the year-long program—animals as symbolic resources for the human imagination, the emotional bond between humans and animals, and the nature of such bonds as both extensions and complications of human society.  The applicant’s specific research and teaching interests, geographical and temporal specializations and areas of expertise are left open, although—consistent with the mission of the PEC—these should focus on pre-modern cultures in the Old or New Worlds.

The successful candidate will probably be housed in the Departments of Anthropology or Classics or in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. The successful candidate will teach two courses—one each term—on topics related to the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar. The fellow will also help coordinate the activities of the Seminar during the academic year. In their applications, candidates should submit a proposal describing research to be done over the course of the fellowship. Applicants must normally have received their Ph.D. within the last five years, from an institution other than Brown.

All candidates should submit a letter of application, a list and brief description of proposed courses, and curriculum vitae by April 1, 2013. Applicants should arrange for three letters of reference to be submitted by the application deadline. Applications received by that date will receive full consideration, but the search will remain open until the position is closed or filled.

Application materials must be submitted online at https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/21245.

For further information:

Chair, Mellon-Sawyer Post-doctoral Search
Program in Early Cultures
Brown University
Box 1837, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
PEC@brown.edu

Brown is an EEO/AA employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications for post-doctoral fellowships.

We invite applications in four spheres, looking particularly for original and innovative work in:

1) the archaeology and art of the Late Antique and Islamic worlds;
2) environmental archaeology;
3) visual culture of the ancient world;
4) the material culture of the Brown University campus and of Providence, RI.

Other fields that complement the present strengths of the Joukowsky Institute community will also be considered.

In addition to pursuing their research, successful candidates will be expected to teach half time — i.e., one course per semester.  Teaching will be at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; interdisciplinary offerings are desirable.  Applicants must normally have received their Ph.D. from an institution other than Brown within the last five years.  Successful candidates will be expected to make substantive contributions to the ongoing development of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, such as the organization of reading or working groups, a topical symposium, or another project intended to foster a stimulating intellectual environment in which to pursue research and to develop new interdisciplinary connections.  This will be a one-year position, with the possibility of a one-year renewal, beginning on July 1, 2013.

All candidates should submit a letter of application, a list and brief description of proposed courses, and curriculum vitae by April 1, 2013.  Applicants should arrange for three letters of reference to be submitted by the application deadline. Applications received by April 1, 2013 will receive full consideration, but the search will remain open until the position is closed or filled.

Please submit application materials online at https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/21243.

For further information:

Professor Susan E. Alcock
Chair, Search Committee
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
joukowsky_institute@brown.edu

Brown is an EEO/AA employer.  Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.

“Mapping the Mediterranean: Space, Memory, and the Long Road to Modernity”

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

11-12 October 2013

Keynote Panel: “The Present and Future of Mediterranean Studies”

Yasser Ellhariry, Dartmouth College

Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University

Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz

Karla Mallette, University of Michigan (chair)

The Mediterranean served as a site of transit, exchange, and interaction for well over two millennia, demonstrating tendencies towards both unification and dispersion. With the onset of modernity, however, linguistic, ethnic, and national boundaries solidified across the region. Language, history, memory, and space itself were literally reshaped by the tools of archaeology, architecture, tourism, mass print, national education, and transportation.

In recent years, scholarship has begun to excavate past connections and exchanges that belie our modern conception of the region, mapping out a diverse – yet united – series of Mediterranean identities centered on the connecting sea.

Mediterranean Topographies, the University of Michigan’s Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mediterranean Studies, is pleased to announce its second conference for graduate students and young faculty. Our symposium attempts to bring this new model – one that is deeply transnational and cross-cultural, yet situated primarily within the ancient, pre- and early-modern periods – into meaningful dialogue with modernity. We will engage the space of the Mediterranean through the cityscape, as seen through the lenses of literature, history, anthropology, cultural studies, architecture, and urban planning. Areas of focus will include (but not be restricted to):

* cartography and spatiality, city planning and historical narrative, architecture and collective memory;

* ideologies of the urban, relationships between city and peripheries (hinterlands, islands, deserts etc.);

* mobility, emigration, immigration, class-stratification, ghettoization, tourism;

* material history, consumption, trade, manufacturing, commodification, fashion;

* remembering the city, memoir, nostalgia;

* gendering and queering the city;

* (de)/(re)colonizing the city;

* and, in general, the destruction, re-construction, and re-imagining of the Mediterranean city space after the spread of nationalism.

Using these foci, we will explore the multiple Mediterraneans that have been built up and torn down since the onset of modernity. In short, this symposium will attempt to address the ways in which pre- and early-modern interconnectivities – both real and imagined – were destroyed, kept alive, or modulated over the long passage into modernity. Although our focus will be upon transitions stretching from the early modern to modernity (c. 1500 to today), we nonetheless encourage work that treats these same issues of urban transformation in the ancient world, especially within a diachronic, comparative framework. We also encourage contributions that focus on methodological debates and innovations for mapping and studying Mediterranean cities.

We seek to bring together work in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. We invite abstracts ranging from 200-250 words that relate to or expand upon the topics suggested above. Submissions are especially encouraged from disciplines such as literature, the history of art, history, anthropology, sociology, architecture and urbanism, gender and women’s studies, queer studies, African studies, and religious studies. Along with your abstract please suggest the category or categories to which you feel your submission is best suited. Please provide your institutional affiliation and mailing address, as well as telephone number. Indicate whether a/v equipment will be needed.

The presentation should be in English, twenty minutes in length (i.e., 10 double-spaced pages) and may address a topic from any relevant period(s) or discipline(s). Deadline for abstract submission: May 15, 2013.

Please direct questions and submissions to the Meditopos symposium co-chairs, Harry Kashdan and Will Stroebel, at kashdan@umich.edu and stroebel@umich.edu.

Exploration of the coexistence between historic and modern Athens

Dear Colleague,

I would like to inform you about our program in Athens, Greece, this summer. This 12 day visit of Athens will be a thoughtful exploration of the history and preservation and conservation issues facing the city, organized around a series of lectures and visits lead by some of the top Athenian archaeologists, architects, historians, conservators and planners who have been dealing with the problem of preserving monuments and cultural heritage in the midst of a growing modern city. Our deadline for applying is April 30, 2013.

The faculty of our program includes Dr. Manolis Korres, Chief Architect on the Acropolis Restoration Project, who will lead lectures and visits to the Acropolis area. Please visit our website and syllabus to see a complete list of faculty, lectures and visits.

The program is intended for people studying, or professionally involved in, the fields of: History, Archaeology, Architecture Art History, Architecture, Urban Planning, Anthropology, Conservation and Historic Preservation, but is also open for people with a general interest in preservation.

If you, or someone you know, are interested in this program you can get further information at our website. Thank you.

You may also be interested in our other field school programs this summer in Italy, in particular our classes and workshop on the Conservation of Archaeological Ceramics (May 26 thru June 22^nd). The deadline for this program has been extended to April 15^th, 2013. Please visit our website for more information.

Cordially,

Prof. Nikos Vakalis
Director Athens Program
International Institute for Restoration & Preservation Studies
nvakal@athensprog.org

We are especially proud to promote our graduate programs in:

Middle East Studies, MA.

Arabic Studies, M.A.

Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, M.A.

International Human Rights Law, M.A.

Egyptology, M.A.

Gender and Women Studies, M.A.

Teaching Arabic as  a Foreign Language, M.A.

Sociology/Anthropology, M.A

International Counseling and Community Psychology, M.A.

Political Science, M.A.

All information on programs are viewable at http://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/grad/Pages/default.aspx

More information on the graduate admissions cycle, requirements, and deadlines, is available at http://www.aucegypt.edu/admissions/grad/Pages/default.aspx

More information on tuition and fees and the various financial assistance opportunities, is available at http://www.aucegypt.edu/admissions/grad/Pages/Financial.aspx

Information on graduate student life, services, and available opportunities, is accessed from within the following http://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/grad/Pages/default.aspx

For more information, please contact Yasmine Ibrahim at y.ibrahim@aucegypt.edu

Students interested in taking part in the Field School are required to register BEFORE THE 10th OF APRIL 2013. We also attach some background information about the Field School and the dates of the summer 2013 season, together with an application form. This form must be filled in and sent along with an updated CV to: fieldschool@bioarqueologia.
Please visit www.bioarqueologia.es/fieldschool for further information.  To download all the documents, please go to: www.bioarqueologia.es/downloads.html

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hear from you!

Best Wishes,

Professional Association of Bioarchaeology (APB)

ASOCIACIÓN PROFESIONAL DE BIOARQUEOLOGÍA

C/Cánovas del Castillo nº4

41400 - Écija, Sevilla

Email: socios@bioarqueologia.es

Web: www.bioarqueologia.es

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Bioarqueologia

Twitter: @Bioarqueologia

We are still accepting applicants for the field school, which runs from June 30- July 27.  We would appreciate it if you would pass this information on to your students.

For further information about the scholarships, go to

http://www.montclair.edu/chss/center-heritage-archaeological-studies/projects/italy/ralphjtorracoscholarship/

As we mentioned in an announcement in January, the site includes a monumental bath complex and evidence of decoration with precious marbles from around the Mediterranean—features which suit the site’s traditional description as an imperial villa. This year we will devote special attention to the building that we were able to identify as amphitheater in 2012 and that we believe may be the setting where emperor Commodus earned the nickname “Roman Hercules” after killing wild animals in the arena.

For further information about the program in general, go to

http://www.montclair.edu/chss/center-heritage-archaeological-studies/students/thevillaoftheantonines2013/

or

https://montclair.studioabroad.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=45376&Type=O

Please do not hesitate to contact us for further clarification. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration, and best wishes for the end of the semester.

Sincerely,

Deborah Chatr Aryamontri and Timothy Renner

Dept. of Classics and Center for Heritage & Archaeological Studies

Montclair State University

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Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies
Montclair State University
973-655-3479
chas@mail.montclair.edu

The Apolline Project is an open research network which sheds light on the hitherto neglected past of the area to the north of Mt. Vesuvius in the bay of Naples. The project has been active since 2004 with several components. Our current work focuses on two sites; a Medieval church and a Roman villa – complete with baths – buried by volcanoclastic debris from Mt Vesuvius.

The Apolline Project is now welcoming applications for the 2013 lab and field activities. These are organized into three projects and participants are invited to participate on one, two or all three if they wish. Lab work will take place during Spring break while summer fieldwork will be carried out at the Roman villa and baths in Pollena Trocchia. Finally, there will be a summer boot camp in Human Osteology at the Medieval church in Pernosano.

For further information, please visit our website at www.apollineproject.org/dig.html.

Thank you for your time,
Shannon Davis
Secretary for the Apolline Project

June 16 – July 27, 2013

We are now accepting applications from students and volunteers to participate in our ninth season of excavations of the baths at Roman Carsulae.

Project and Location  

Carsulae was a Roman city that developed in the late third century BCE along the Via Flaminia, approximately 100 kilometers north of Rome in modern Umbria. The major public buildings of Carsulae were excavated from 1950 to 1970, but most of the ancient city still lies undisturbed in what is now a beautiful archaeological park. The current excavation of the public baths at Carsulae began in 2004.  We plan to dedicate the 2013 season to excavating the remainder of the areas beneath the protective roof, and also to developing a longterm plan for the conservation and partial restoration of the bath complex.

Program  

The field program welcomes both students and volunteers. No experience is necessary, only an enthusiasm for archaeology and the ability to work hard in rigorous conditions.  Participants are instructed in excavation strategies, techniques and recording, handling and conservation of artifacts, drafting of site plans and analytical rendering.

Cost and Credit  

The cost is $850.00 per week. This includes a shared room as well as breakfast daily, lunch and dinner five days a week. All equipment is provided. We ask all students and volunteers to participate for a minimum of three weeks.  Students interested in receiving credit for the program should contact us for further information.

Accommodations and Meals  

We stay at the Albergo Duomo (three or four people to a room) in the charming hill town of San Gemini, just three kilometers from Carsulae.  All rooms have private baths and air conditioning, and the hotel is equipped with free wireless internet.  Meals are eaten in the elegant dining room of the hotel.

Schedule

Participants work in the field Monday through Friday from 5 am to noon. After lunch and a well-earned siesta, afternoons are spent in the lab processing each day’s finds and sometimes attending classes, expert lectures, or working with our conservators. Weekends are open for travel or relaxation. Group trips to nearby sites of interest are often available.

For further details and to apply:

EBARC WEBSITE LINK

Inquiries may be sent to ebarc2013@gmail.com.

The courses offered are listed below:

Building Restoration* (May 26^th thru June 22^nd, 2013)

Introduction to Art and Building Restoration in Italy

Surveying and Analyzing Historic Buildings

Ceramics Restoration (May 26^th thru June 22^nd, 2013)

Introduction to Conservation of Archaeological Ceramics

Workshop on Ceramics and Ceramics Conservation

(NEW) Book Bindings Restoration* (May 26^th thru June 22^nd, 2013)

Introduction to the Restoration of Book Bindings
Workshop on the Restoration of Book Bindings

Paper Restoration* (July 7^th thru August 3^rd, 2013)

Introduction to Restoration of Paper in Books and Archival Documents

Restoration Workshop – Paper in Books and Archival Documents

Traditional Painting Materials & Techniques (July 7^th thru August 3^rd, 2013)

Traditional Painting Methods and Techniques in Italy, including Issues of Weathering and Aging

Painting Workshop – Traditional Painting Methods and Techniques in Italy

Preservation Theory and Practice in Italy (July 7^th thru August 3^rd, 2013)

Restoration in Italy – Issues and Theory

*Field Projects:

Restoration of the Porta Burgi (12^th Century city gate in San Gemini)

Surveying the 12^th Century San Giovanni Battista Church complex

Archaeological survey of the public baths in Carsulae

San Gemini Historic Archives Project (restoration and digitalization of 16-18 Century archival material)

To find out more about the project’s programs and to review the syllabi, please visit their website.

Our courses are open to students from various disciplines, both undergraduate and graduate. All lessons are taught in English.

The Tell Timai Project Conservation Field School (TTPCFS) is a new education initiative that has as its primary goal to bring Egyptian conservators and scholars together with their international colleagues in order to exchange knowledge and methods and to train students and inspectors in the latest methods and procedures for artifact analysis, conservation, and digital archiving. The TTCPFS will include classroom learning and a rare opportunity to work with recently excavated artifacts from Tell Timai . The practicums will include a high ratio of professional conservators working side by side with the students to teach techniques of restoration and conservation. Restoration of the buildings of Thmouis is paramount to preparing the site of World Heritage status, but it is also one of the most poorly understood areas of architectural restoration.

16 July to 14 August 2013

Course fee covering room and board and in-country transportation is $4000.
Some support may be available.
For those registered in the Tell Timai Excavation Field School (June 5-July 12 2013) the Conservation School fee is $2000.

Contact: Dr. Jay Silverstein, Jsilvers@hawaii.edu
www.TellTimai.org
AIA Announcement : http://www.archaeological.org/fieldwork/afob/10197