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The lecture will present some results of the joint Georgian-Italian archaeological project of Ca' Foscari University of Venice in collaboration with the Georgian National Museum in the Shida Kartli province of Georgia, focusing on their relevance for the integration of the pre-classical cultures of the Southern Caucasus into the general framework of Near Eastern archaeology. In particular, recent excavations at Aradetis Orgora, one of the main sites of the region, yielded a continuous occupational sequence able to highlight the development of local societies from the Early to the Middle and to the Late Bronze Age and, together with data from the neighbouring site of Khashuri Natsargora, contribute to the ongoing debate about the Kura-Araxes culture.

Elena Rova is associate professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research interests concentrate on the study of the first urban civilizations of the Near East, with a special focus on the archaeology of Upper Mesopotamia and its connections with the Southern Caucasus during the Late Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age (4th-2rd millennia BC). She has been doing field research in Northern Iraq (Tell Karrana 3) in Syria (Tell Leilan, Tell Beydar) and, since 2009, she is director of the "Georgian-Italian Shida Kartli Archaeological Project" of Ca' Foscari University of Venice in collaboration with the Georgian National Museum of Tbilisi (excavations of Natsargora, Okherakhevi and Aradetis Orgora). Among her main research topics are: the comparative chronology of the first urban civilizations, the interconnections between Mesopotamia and the neighbouring areas, the chronological and geographical distribution of ceramic styles, seals and iconographies (both with traditional methodologies, and with the help of mathematic-statistical analysis methods). She is the author (or co-author) of 6 monographs and of more than 100 articles and reviews in scientific journals, conference proceedings and miscellaneous volumes, and the editor (or co-editor) of 4 volumes of conference proceedings and miscellaneous studies.

AFTER GENOCIDE: GENDERED TRAUMA, TRANSMISSION AND REINVENTION: CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference in Yerevan, May 21-22-23 2016
organised by Women in War (Paris)
in partnership with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan

This international conference will bring together multidisciplinary scholars, activists and professionals working on different aspects of historical and contemporary genocide.
We will be basing ourselves on the following definition Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• (a) Killing members of the group;
• (b) Causing serious bodily, mental or individual integrity harm to members of the group;
• (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Taking previous conferences further, this event shall focus on the gendered nature of personal, political and social consequences of genocide and explore the commonalities experienced by generations growing up the shadow of genocide. The key notions to be explored here are trauma, memory and commemoration, reinvention of tradition, post conflict nationalism and the instrumentalization of genocide, all seen through a gendered lens. An essential contemporary dimension will be added as we shall reflect on how genocide is treated in international law. Feminists thinkers and activists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, lawyers shall bring together their experiences and research: the intersection of their work will bring a unique dimension to this conference.

Recognized genocide and massacres with a genocidal purpose from a gendered perspective will form the starting point of this conference. We will consider proposals that cover different geographic and historic areas including but not limited to the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Liberia, Congo Free State, the Hereros in Namibia, the massacres that occurred as a result of the colonization of the American and Australian continent.

Although the conference concerns recent and historic genocide, propositions concerning ongoing massacres will be considered.

Proposals should cover the following themes, however other suggestions are possible:

How is genocide shaped by regimes of gender and sexuality?

– Feminist reflections on genocide
– Queer reflections on genocide
– Sexual and gender violence in genocide
– Reconstruction of personal integrity after sexual violence during war genocide
– Children born of wartime rape

Rewriting the history of genocide and the transmission of gendered cultural practices

– Language, verbal memory, lullabies, nursery rhymes
– Domestic practices: the home, cooking, celebrations, the body
– Women’s writings
– Counting and recognizing the victims of genocide
– Does genocide ever end?
– The gender dimension of forgotten and neglected massacres: indigenous tribes during colonization, the Congo Free State, Australia, the Spanish Inquisition and others.

The aftermath of genocide
– Transgenerational trauma amongst the descendants of the victims,
Transgenerational guilt amongst descendants of perpetrators)
– Establishing the culture of memory and the place of reconciliation
– The role of awareness and education in the avoidance of future genocides, the place of women in historical narratives.
– Memory of trauma and resilience in rebuilding a gendered identity

Genocide in political thinking and the judiciary

– The recognition of genocide, its gendered intersectionalities and the political price of censorship and denial
– Genocide in international law: the place of women’s claims and access to justice
– The experience of genocide as a political and national claim: the place of gender in instrumentalized tradition.
– Gender dimensions of international humanitarian interventions in the post-genocide period
– Gender sensitive reparations

Untold stories

Growing up in the shadow of genocide: the multiple forms of the unsaid
– Family Secrets Revealed: When a hidden identity is disclosed
– When the last witnesses die: building family memories

This conference is organised by Women in War, an NGO based in Paris, working specifically on Gender and Armed conflict run by Dr. Carol Mann, historian and sociologist specialized in these subjects, with one branch in Sarajevo, headed by Nermina Trbonja and another in Beirut, with Yeghia Tashjian. Dr Nona Shahnazarian is the representative in Yerevan, asssisted by Dr. Hasmik Grigorian.

From 2014 to 2018 , Women in War organises yearly large international conferences to commemorate the part played by women in World War One. Each event takes place in an emblematic location, in partnership with an important local university: Sarajevo (with the University of Sarajevo), Beirut (with the Lebanese-American-University) and for 2016, Yerevan. The conference will be filmed and fully documented online and in print.

PROPOSALS (in English or French) with a short bio SHOULD BE SENT BY DECEMBER 30th to
infoATwomeninwar.org
Please put your name in the “subject’ of mail
Queries should be sent to the same address.

All candidates will be notified by February 1st

Papers should be sent in by March Ist 2016 and a selection will be subsequently published after the conference․

The editorial board of the Journal "Habitus: Studies in Anthropology and Archaeology"* invites authors to submit research articles in anthropology (interdisciplinary studies are welcome as well) for the second volume (2016). For detailed information on submitted paper please see attached file.
Deadline for the paper submition is 31.05.2016.
For any questions regarding the publication, please contact the editors.

Paper submission call "ETHNOGRAPHY, ARCHAEOLOGY, FOLKLORISTICS: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES ".

* "Habitus: Studies in Anthropology and Archaeology" is one of the official scientific periodicals of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of NAS, RA. It is published in Yerevan, by "Gitutyun" Publishing House.

Instructions for Authors
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Young Scientists Council
Institute of Archeology and Ethnography
National Academy of Sciences, Armenia
Address: 15 Charents str., 0025, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
Phones: (+374) 10 55 68 96 (inst.)

ETHNOGRAPHY, ARCHAEOLOGY, FOLKLORISTICS: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

14TH JUNIOR RESEARCHERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 29-31 October 2015##

Yerevan Young Scientists Council of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography organizes the conference “Ethnography, Archaeology, Folklore: Interdisciplinary Approaches”.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, junior researchers, Ph.D. and Master degree students from all areas of Anthropology and related disciplines.

Deadline for abstracts submission is August 15, 2015 (email: ysc@iae.am, cc: ysc.iae.arm@gmail.com).

The abstracts should not exceed 300 words, Sylfaen font. Please also mention your current institution, position and academic degree.

The authors of the selected abstracts will be contacted by the Organizing Committee by September 15, 2015.

The selected presentations will be published in a separate volume.

*Please, note for successful abstracts from abroad the IAE will cover accommodation costs.

Annual Conference organizer: Young Scientists Council of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA.

Contacts: Address: 15 Charents str., 0025, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.

Contact Tel. (+374) 93 06 56 24, (+374) 10 55 68 96.

For additional information please contact us: ysc.iae.arm@gmail.com.