6th Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium
2024-09-20 14:00 - 2024-09-21 16:00 (America/New_York) | AK
Come join us for the 6th Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium, co-hosted by the American Research Center in Egypt – Missouri Chapter (ARCE-MO) and the Archaeological Institute of America – Central Missouri Chapter. Eight presenters will discuss their latest research on aspects of ancient Egyptian Archaeology, with a keynote address by Dr. Didi El-Behaedi (University of Missouri – Columbia).
All paper presentations will be held in person on Saturday, September 21st in Swallow Hall 101, at the University of Missouri – Columbia. The evening before, on September 20th, there will be a pre-conference social event at Hexagon Alley board game cafe in Columbia, with appetizers provided. Here you’ll have the chance to play a variety of board games inspired by ancient Egypt!
Free and open to the public!

Midwest Archaeological Conference
2024-10-16 08:00 - 2024-10-19 17:00 (America/New_York) | Hyatt Hotel & Conference Center, West Kilbourn Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53203, United States
The 2024 Midwest Archaeological Conference (MAC) will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! This year’s theme for the conference is Inspiring Students. A series of programs, workshops, and tours are being designed to engage the next generation of archaeologists. The Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association will hold their annual Symposium at the MAC conference on Saturday Oct. 19 – International Archaeology Day!

Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association Fall Symposium
2024-10-19 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
The 18th Annual Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association Fall Symposium is being held in conjunction with the Midwest Archeology Conference at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee on October 19th, 2024. The Symposium featured a review of the Association’s 2024 fieldwork and will include details of new historic shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes. Additionally, presentations about the Wisconsin Historical Society Maritime Archeology program’s 2024 season fieldwork and the new Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary’s 2024 season fieldwork will be given.
Founded in 1990, WUAA is a 501c3 citizen science and community history organization devoted to preserving Wisconsin’s submerged history.

La Arquelogía y la evolución de los Mitos en Las Américas.
2024-10-19 - 2024-10-20 | Parque Punta de Vacas Study Center, Las Heras, Mendoza, Argentina
Se describirá en una Conferencia como aportó la Arqueología a comprender en parte la evolución de los Mitos en las Américas. Posteriormente se desarrollará un “Taller del Fuego” en Parque de Estudio y Reflexión Punta de Vacas.

CFP: JIAAW Spring Symposium 2026
2025-03-03 | Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Brown University, 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 02912, United States
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (JIAAW) is accepting collaborative proposals for a symposium to be held in the spring semester of 2026. Joukowsky symposia are one- or two-day affairs organized around a topic relevant to the central mission of the Institute. This includes a core strength in archaeological and allied approaches to the study of the ancient Mediterranean and the Near East, complemented by scholarship focused on the ancient Americas and East Asian antiquity. Proposals should focus on either: 1) a geographical area of particular relevance to the JIAAW; or 2) a methodology or theme relevant to JIAAW research, while bringing together scholars working in a variety of regions, including (but not limited to) those relevant to the JIAAW.
Proposals should be submitted by a pair of scholars who practice in relevant disciplines, at least one of whom must hold a Ph.D. At least one organizer should be based outside Brown University; the other should be a JIAAW Academic Faculty member, Faculty Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, or Ph.D. candidate or Graduate Student Fellow (ABD status only, in both cases). Proposal authors will serve as the organizers of the symposium, which will be held at Rhode Island Hall, the home of the JIAAW at Brown University. The JIAAW will cover all programming costs related to the event, including costs of travel and lodging for symposium organizers and all speakers at the event. JIAAW symposia typically have budgets of $15,000 to $30,000 and involve a mix of local, national, and international scholars.
Symposium organizers are encouraged to identify why the symposium is a good fit for the JIAAW and Brown University more broadly and to develop a plan for publication of the symposium, either in a special issue of a journal or an edited volume.
The proposal should include the following:
● A one- to two-page narrative outlining the scope and aims of the symposium and its potential impact on scholarship on archaeology and the ancient world
● A bibliography of relevant sources cited in the proposal (no more than 2 pages)
● A list of the names of 8-12 proposed speakers, including their current academic or professional affiliations
● Curriculum vitae of both organizers
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of JIAAW Academic Faculty based on the following criteria:
● Innovativeness
● Potential impact on scholarship related to archaeology and the ancient world, including publication plans
● The synergy of the proposed lineup of speakers relative to the proposed topics
● The symposium’s relevance to the central mission of the JIAAW and potential links to other ongoing academic initiatives at Brown University
● The relevant experience of the organizers, their history of publication, and prior experience planning and overseeing conferences.
A successful proposal will demonstrate capacity to meaningfully impact scholarship on a particular topic, help create or support meaningful partnerships with colleagues at other institutions, while also enriching the greater intellectual community of archaeology and the ancient world at Brown University.
The 2026 symposium is being considered a pilot event and if successful will lead to further calls for supported symposia in the future. Questions and completed proposals should be directed to jiaaw@brown.edu. For full consideration, please submit proposals by March 3, 2025.

Alternate Realities: Reconsidering Power, History, and Representation - Mary L. Cornille
2025-03-21 09:00 - 2025-03-22 17:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
The 41st Annual Mary L. Cornille (GRS ’87) Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture
Submissions due: February 1st, 2025
Symposium dates: March 21st – 22nd, 2025
Alternate Realities: Reconsidering Power, History, and Representation
The 41st anniversary of the Mary L. Cornille (GRS ’87) Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture invites proposals for papers exploring themes of alterity through critically interrogating dominant historical narratives, canonical art prejudices and hegemonic power structures in visual and material culture, and in the field of art history.
Alternate realities exist beyond the accepted canon and the archive within the field of art history. This symposium will give emerging scholars a platform to unearth, illuminate, and honor those narratives and voices that have been marginalized, silenced, or erased within the dominant historical record. As educators and museum professionals, we are constantly at risk of reifying the elite and hegemonic potential of cultural institutions. Mining the museum and excavating the archive are at the heart of this symposium, but to combat complacency and ignorance, histories and realities that have been pushed to the margins must also be recognized. We seek papers that center alternative, subversive and resistance-oriented worldviews proffered by artists and communities through strategies that amplify community truths, cultural beliefs, and oral traditions, while questioning accepted canonical and archival structures. In the pursuit of expanding our perception of what is real and true, some of the questions we may ask include: which people and places have been left out of the art historical narrative? What accepted ideas in art history can be dismantled, expanded, or eradicated? How can we, as scholars in the field, be proactive and shape the field to handle alterity?
Possible subjects include but are not limited to: critical fabulation, global modernisms, reassessing archives, restitution and repatriation, collecting practices and institutions, the innovation of institutional pedagogical practices; art academies; workshops; counter-colonial and decolonial practices; south-south alliances; reclaiming visual autonomy; myth-making; alternate mediums; alternate time frames.
Submissions should align with the goal of this symposium to center BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, feminist, and counter-colonial voices, fostering a space for these perspectives to resonate within the academy and beyond. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches, bringing together art history, philosophy, architectural history, cultural studies, literature, and more. We welcome submissions from graduate students at all stages and from any area of study in the global history of art and architecture. Papers must be original and unpublished. Please email as a single Word document: title, abstract (250 words or less), and CV to artsymp@bu.edu. The deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2025. Selected speakers will be notified in early February. Presentations will be 15 minutes in length, followed by a question-and-answer session and keynote lecture. The symposium will be held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Friday, March 21st and Saturday, March 22nd, 2025.
This event is generously sponsored by Mary L. Cornille (GRS ’87). For more information, please visit our website or email artsymp@bu.edu.

Global Research Conference on Analog Electronics Sensors and Signal Processing (GRCSENSORS)
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-05 | Paris, France, Paris, France, Paris, France, paris, 62000, France
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Global Research Conference on Analog Electronics Sensors and Signal Processing (GRCSENSORS) is going held at Paris, France during April 03-05, 2025

2025 ARCE Annual meeting
2025-04-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square, 335 Powell St., San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
ARCE’s Annual Meeting will take place from April 25-27, 2025, at The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square.
Join us in San Francisco for an engaging blend of in-person presentations, panels, workshops, and networking opportunities. Showcase your expertise and connect with a vibrant scholarly community as we delve into the wonders of Egyptian history, heritage, fieldwork, and technological advancements!
With lectures, panels, and dynamic discussions, the Annual Meeting offers an in-depth exploration of Egypt’s rich cultural heritage.
Discover a wide array of topics—from ancient Egypt to Islamic and Coptic studies, and cutting-edge discoveries—while engaging with leading Egyptologists and researchers.
Visit arce.org/annual-meeting to register and learn more. For assistance, please email AMHelp@arce.org.
American Research Center in Egypt
909 N Washington Street, Suite 320 | Alexandria, VA 22314
www.arce.org/

The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival
2025-05-14 - 2025-05-18 | Sheffer Recital Hall, 285 E Broadway, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival is a juried international competition in the cultural heritage film genre, bringing you the world’s best films relating to the human past and our shared cultural heritage. These are great films for the whole family!
Our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Eske Willerslev, will kick off the event at the Festival Banquet, on May 14, 2025, 6-9pm, at the Gordon Hotel in Eugene. This is followed by four days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics, screened in the Sheffer Recital Hall at The Shedd Institute in Eugene. We plan other festival activities at other downtown venues as well. Event details are posted on TAC web site at archaeologychannel.org/festival.

IEREK
2025-09-09 08:00 - 2025-09-15 17:00 (America/New_York) | The American University in Emirates, Dubai, UAE, Academic City - Dubai - United Arab Emirates, Dubai, --Choose One--, 503000, United Arab Emirates
Cultural theory, humanities, and social studies illuminate identity, representation, and human interaction. By dissecting power dynamics, globalization, and ethical dilemmas, these fields drive critical thinking and foster empathy. This conference focuses on media’s role in societal trends, evolving cultural practices, and preserving heritage while embracing technological advancements. It bridges humanities, technology, and environmental studies, addressing global challenges and inequalities to inspire interdisciplinary innovation and dialogue.
This conference will take place from September 9 to September 15, 2025, at the American University in the Emirates, Dubai. For inquiries, please contact us via email at cicrw@ierek-scholar.org.

Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (URS) - 6th Edition
2025-11-11 09:00 - 2025-11-13 17:00 (America/New_York) | Italy, Rome, Italy, Rome, Italy, AK, 00123, India
The “Urban Regeneration and Sustainability” conference holds huge importance in today’s world. As cities face numerous challenges, such as quick urbanization, environmental degradation, and social inequality, it is crucial to address these issues through sustainable urban regeneration practices. That is why IEREK is hosting the sixth edition of the conference offering attendees a platform to learn, collaborate, highlight their projects, access resources, and enhance their reputation. By participating in this conference, attendees can gain valuable knowledge, make partnerships, and accelerate their efforts toward creating sustainable urban spaces.

Entangled Christianities (100-1500 CE)
2025-11-24 - 2025-11-26 | Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymvari, 73006, Greece
This conference explores the diverse manifestations of global Christianities from the early first to the mid-second Millennium CE and its “entanglement” with diverse local cultures and contexts. For example, what did it mean to be Christian in medieval Kiev? What enabled Christians in the Middle East to maintain their faith identity under Muslim domination? To what extent did Christianity lend a sense of homogeneity to its practitioners through its eclectic nature and vast global reach? We invite papers dealing with the theme of “entanglement” and the complex influences, interactions, and intersections within and between different varieties of global Christianity across the period 100–1500. The history of Christianity is not a monolithic narrative but a tapestry woven from diverse threads of doctrine, theology, practice, and belief. Entangled Christianities aims to unravel the individual threads that form this complex tapestry to gain a more nuanced understanding of the overall makeup of historical Christianity in its global contexts.

Egypt and Sudan: From Prehistory to the Present. An international conference supporting The World Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa exhibition on view at The Fralin Museum of Art
2026-02-27 09:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | AK
The event brings together a distinguished group of Egyptologists and Nubiologists to explore the historical, archaeological, and cultural trajectories of the Nile Valley through an interdisciplinary lens. The conference is part of the programming for the ongoing exhibition The World Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa at The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia (through May 31, 2026). It provides vital context to the themes of the exhibition and up-to-date insight on the sociopolitical developments and artistic transitions that shaped Egypt and Nubia over millennia.
This is a webinar attached to an in-person event. Registration is required.
https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0e3Iq_rkQpm7BtbgG0LaAQ#/registration

Baptism in Early Christianity and Baptismal Inscriptions in Asia Minor
2026-03-06 - 2026-03-07 | Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymvari, 73006, Greece
Water has been the central element of Christian baptism since the very beginnings of Christianity. Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, has always been the primary initiation ritual for Christians. But where did this ritual come from? And what did it mean? Although the term “baptism” is not today used to describe Jewish rituals(in contrast to New Testament times, when the Greek word βαπτισμός did indicate Jewish ablutions or rites of purification), the purification rites (or ֶוה ְק ִמ / מקווה; mikvah—ritual immersion) in Jewish law and tradition are similar to baptism, and the two have been linked. This e-meeting will focus on the following questions related to baptism in Early Christianity: how did people practice and understand baptism in Early Christian Minor, what kind of connotations did the baptismal use of water evoke in the Asian context, and what significance did baptism gain during the first centuries A.D.? Baptism seems to have been developed in the early years in close contact with the local religious context and the construction of baptisteries in the sixth century A.D. adapted local pagan elements of architecture. The Early Christian baptisteries featured water as the central element of baptism in an architecturally, ritually, and theologically reflected way.
In the study of baptism in Early Christian Asia Minor, we will especially focus on epigraphic evidence, which has been overlooked, whereas there is still a huge amount of material from excavations and museums in Turkey. Our aim is also to analyze the subject with literary sources and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the liturgy and the actions of early Christians, especially in ancient Anatolia. In this e-meeting, we only focus on baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. and attempt to set out a comprehensive model for the study of Early Christian baptism in Asia Minor. It is also our intention to create a complete bibliography of previous publications on Early Christian baptism and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor.
We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate students from a variety of disciplines related to this subject. Intended to bring together scholars of Early Christian theology, Roman history, and Greek epigraphy to discuss a range of issues concerning this ritual’s characteristics, this video conference should be an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge about this subject. The following theme groups are the main questions of the symposium, which are prescriptive:
-The origins and development of baptism in Asia Minor,
-Relevance and performance of baptism in Early Christian contexts in Asia Minor,
-Early Christian baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor from archaeological field projects and museums,
-Etymology of Early Christian baptism,
-Ancient Greek and Latin textual sources on Early Christian baptism in Asia Minor,
-Hellenistic and Roman gravestones and other iconographic media depicting Early Christian baptism and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor,
-Miscellanea.
On these themes and questions, all approaches and methods susceptible to bringing some progress to our current knowledge are, of course, welcome: theology, ancient history, epigraphy, archaeology, history of art, cultural anthropology, etc. All the readings and discussions in our conference will be in English, and recorded for later viewing as a podcast on YouTube. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in 2028-29.
We would be delighted if you could consider contributing to our symposium and contact us with the required information below before October 1, 2025. Our e-mail addresses are: ztsiami@oac.gr and/or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
For all your queries concerning the symposium, our phone number is: +90.544.938 54 64. The organizers seek to widen participation at this symposium and would like to encourage colleagues from all parts of the world to attend. We kindly request that you alert any interested researchers, colleagues, and students within your research community who would be interested in participating in this conference, either by forwarding our first circular and poster through Academia, Researchgate, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other similar social media, or by printing them and displaying in your institution. Please share them also on your ListServs. We hope that you will be able to join us at the Orthodox Academy, and we look forward to seeing you!

Symposium Vesuvianum: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience
2026-10-07 12:00 - 2026-10-11 13:00 (Europe/Rome) | Villa Vergiliana, Via Cuma 320, Bacoli, NA, 80070, Italy
Organizers: John Bodel, Brown University; William Owens, Ohio University; Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College
In his 1965 book Sklaverei und Humanität, Joseph Vogt offered a description of Roman slavery in which the enslaved accommodated themselves to the moral universe created by their enslavers. A dozen years later Moses Finley delivered a riposte to Vogt in a lecture at the Collège de France on “Slavery and Humanity,” in which he insisted on “a sharp distinction between more or less humane treatment of individual slaves by individual masters and the inhumanity of slavery as an institution”. Finley considered “the ambiguity inherent in slavery” to be “an excellent starting-point from which to examine the theme” but in the end concluded that the topic, “slavery and humanity, is plunged into the centre of modern moral and ideological controversy, as much a field for the philosopher and the theologian as for the historian” (Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, p. 122).
Now, nearly fifty years after Finley’s pronouncement, we propose to return to the issue of slavery and humanity and to convene a group of scholars with diverse interests and methodologies to consider the impact of ancient Mediterranean slave systems on persons, both the enslaved and the enslavers. What effect did systemic slavery have on the personal experiences and worldview of enslavers and the enslaved in ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern societies? What new insights into this question can be gained through methodologies developed over the past fifty years? Of particular relevance to the focus on persons are the distortions in the archive created by systems of domination. Such distortion is especially true for ancient Mediterranean slavery. Consideration of an enslaved person’s point of view often entails reading the ancient archive against the grain and increases our reliance on the comparative method and other heuristic devices as well as our obligation to employ them self-consciously and critically.
We solicit papers that consider any aspect of human experience in ancient Mediterranean or Near Eastern slavery. Possible topics include: the contexts of economic activity and social relations; affectual relations among the enslaved and between enslavers and enslaved; modes of resistance or accommodation; solidarity among the enslaved and among enslavers; religion and other aspects of cultural memory among the enslaved; trauma, or the psychic assault of enslavement and its consequences.
The symposium will include three and a half days of papers and discussion. Papers will be 25-30 minutes long with time for discussion. The schedule will also include visits to selected sites nearby. Meals and housing will be provided by the Villa Vergiliana (a bed in a double room with breakfast and dinner is approximately €70 a day; single rooms are available at private hotel/B&B accommodations within walking distance of the Villa). Those staying at the Villa should also figure in the cost of Vergilian Society membership ($35 for the year). In addition, there may be a modest registration fee, dependent on outside funding, to help defray the cost of lunches and other conference activities.
Confirmed participants include: Seth Bernard (University of Toronto), Ronald Charles (University of Toronto), Chris DeWet (University of Pretoria), Deborah Kamen (University of Washington), Sarah Levin-Richardson (University of Washington), David Lewis (University of Edinburgh) and Lauren Petersen (University of Delaware).
Please submit abstracts (300-400 words) to William Owens (owensb@ohio.edu) by February 15, 2026.
The organizers will get back to you during the first week of March.
