SEAArch – The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog

The Port Clusters of Southeast Asia and the Middle East
Dates: 27-29 July 2010
Venue: Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
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The student-run journal for graduate students based at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa is seeking papers for the Spring 2010 issue. Deadline for submissions is November 9, 2009. Download the flyer here.

Explorations showcases student research on Southeast Asia from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives and welcomes submissions from graduate students currently enrolled in a formal program of study in the US and abroad. We welcome submissions from all disciplines, including history, Asian studies, languages and literature, social sciences and the humanities.

The 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA) will be held next year in Berlin. The call for papers can be found here and the closing date is August 1, 2009.

A call for papers related to history, anthropology, heritage studies and other social sciences relating to Malays. This journal published by the Malay Language and Culture department of the National Institute of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University is calling for papers for the second issue to be published at the end of the year. The deadline for submissions is 30 July 2009 and details can be found here.

Jurnal e-Utama
Deadline 30 July 2009

E-Utama is an annual online peer reviewed journal dedicated to the publication of interdisciplinary, theoretical and review articles of high scholastic quality in Malay education, culture, language and literature. The purpose of the journal is to bring together scholars and researchers from all areas of Malay Studies to stimulate the exchange of ideas, opinions and critical inquiry between these groups. The journal is published by the Malay Language and Culture department of the National Institute of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.

The articles published in this journal seek to showcase innovative scholarship in the area of Malay Studies. E-Utama aims to foster Malay research, but is not exclusively Malay, having an international authorship, readership and a collective of international peer reviewers. The editorial practice is to promote and include multi and interdisciplinary work and the journal accepts papers from a wide range of disciplinary areas in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Educational Pedagogy pertaining to the Malays, including, but not limited to: Philosophy, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Feminism, Media and Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Policy and Management, Geography, Economics, Political Science, Literary Studies, Legal Studies, Social Theory, Law, Education, Theology, Multicultural Studies, Globalisation, Labour Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, Archaeology, Heritage Studies, Race Studies, Science and Technology, Development Studies.

The basis for accepting papers for publication is the agreement among three reviewers (via a double-blind review process) that they show relevance, compelling justification for study, subject mastery and originality in any of the major sub-areas of Malay Studies.

Submission details can be found here.

The Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies is back again! The forum is organised by the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. Registration details can be found here.

4th Asian Graduate Forum On Southeast Asian Studies
Date: 13 Jul 2009 – 17 Jul 2009
Venue: National University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Campus & Kent Ridge Campus
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A conference on Archaeological Tourism to be held in next April in Peru, home of the Machu Picchu, a World Heritage Site in danger of being loved to death (which also calls to mind Angkor). Read about the conference details below, and download the registration form here (Deadline 12 Jan 2009).

IV International Conference in Archaeological Tourism

Professionals and researchers of archaeological tourism are invited to participate in the IV International Conference in Archaeological Tourism. This event will take place in Trujillo (Peru), on April 3-5, 2009, organized by IBERTUR Network and PromPeru – Peru Export and Tourism Promotion Board.
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10th Cambridge Heritage Seminar
The Future of Historic Cities: Challenges, Contradictions, Continuities
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK
18-19 April 2009

Deadline for paper proposals: 15 November 2008 (Please see submission details here)

For the past ten years the Cambridge Heritage Seminars have brought together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to explore the most pressing issues in heritage studies today.

For its tenth anniversary in 2009, coinciding with the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Cambridge, the Cambridge Heritage Seminar will focus on cultural heritage, architecture, and the built environment in the context of a rapidly globalising and modernising world. Taking historic cities as its departure point, the seminar asks: how can urban cultural landscapes be preserved and sustained, challenged as they are by development, legislation, and commodification-and what are the reasons for and outcomes of such preservation?

As scholars such as Patrick Wright, David Lowenthal, and Laurajane Smith argue, the emergence of a heritage consciousness in modernity has depended on a complex, changing relationship not just to what the built heritage is, but how it is valued: what a community reads into the heritage and what they hope to gain from it. Aided by legal protocols that standardise heritage into readymade frameworks of historical, political and economic value, such processes take place on numerous interacting levels – the local, the national, and the international – which rarely operate in harmony. Within an urban setting, where the built environment (and its ruins) produces and is produced by a changing relationship to the past, these issues are highlighted in an immediate and unavoidable way. With this awareness, the Seminar hopes to explore the challenges, contradictions, and complexities that arise in the contemporary analysis of the historic city.
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