Announcements

October 6–7, 2023 Yerevan, Armenia

The canonical definition of the era of modernity goes as follows: “All that is solid melts into air.” In the modern epoch, seemingly eternal traditions and institutions, forms of economic life and social organization collapsed under the onslaught of revolutions, industrialization, and secularization. However, in this definition there is one surprisingly stable element – air. For too long, researchers have assumed that nature is a motionless decoration, a passive object that must be conquered or protected. The current planetary environmental crisis demands that we reconsider our conceptualization of “modernity” as an analytical category. Witness, for example, that as the relationship between human civilization and the environment has taken its place at the center of recent scholarly research agendas and public debates, some have abandoned “modernity” altogether in favor of the neologism “Anthropocene.” Simultaneously, environmental studies, previously a separate, and even marginal, field, has become a pervasive theme in the social and natural sciences. The conference Everything is Changing: Climate, Society, Landscapes aims to contribute to efforts to reappraise the relationship between the environment and “modernity.” We plan to discuss how modern human societies conceptualize, use, destroy, and create ecosystems. Likewise, we seek to reflect on how the material conditionality of modern economies, cultures, politics, and social structures shape and are in turn shaped by nature.

Topics for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:

Natural and social sciences in the era of the Anthropocene
Environmental protests and green movements
Social consequences of natural disasters
Ecology and war
Practices of adaptation of indigenous peoples to changing environments
Urban spaces and loci
Water-use issues: History, Economy, and Cultural Practices
Extractivism and the rational use of natural resources
Terraforming and geoengineering
(De)sacralization of landscapes
International Law and Environmental Protection
Climate change and new waves of migration
The languages of the conference are Armenian, Russian, and English. Please, submit your CV and abstracts (400-500 words) to iae.anthropology@gmail.com or anthroposchool@utmn.ru․ The deadline is August 20, 2023.

The organizers are able to offer a limited number of travel grants covering accommodation. There is no application fee.

School for Environmental and Social Studies (AnthropoSchool), University of Tyumen

Center for Science and Technology Studies (STS Center), European University at St. Petersburg

Department of Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography NAS RA

“EUSP Center for International Education" Foundation

Tue, 06/13/2023 - 10:00 to Thu, 06/15/2023 - 16:00
The Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences in Armenia and the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn are organizing a conference dedicated to the Soviet experience in Armenia and its legacy, which will be held in Yerevan, Armenia on June 13-15, 2023.

✅The conference will seek to analyze the impact of seventy years of Soviet rule in Armenia between 1920 and 1991. It will explore the trajectory of Soviet Armenian society, including but not restricted to critical developments and turning points in politics, the economy, and culture. Preference will be given to papers that tackle the key theoretical and methodological concepts that help elucidate the Soviet experience in Armenia.

✅The overall aim of the conference will be to analyze political, social, and other dynamics within Soviet Armenia, using applicable theoretical tools and methodologies established by specialists studying the broader Soviet world.

✅Conversely, the analysis of the Soviet Armenian experience can also be used to critique and challenge these frameworks. The papers can also explore the ways with which Armenian society in the homeland and the Diaspora is handling the legacy of the Soviet era since Armenia regained its political sovereignty and independence in 1991.

➡️The first part of the conference was held in October 2022 at the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The second part will be held in Yerevan, Armenia.

➡️Submitted papers should be original work. Papers that have previously been published or presented at other conferences will not be accepted.

Scholars researching the Soviet experience in Armenia and its legacy are invited to submit their applications (title, abstract of up to 300 words, and a short bio) ⏰ by March 10, 2023, through the following link: <https://forms.gle/fvtTmBEomqReaEHUA>:

The organizers request that applicants from Armenia should submit both the abstract and the bio in two languages – Armenian and English.
The main languages of the conference will be English and Armenian, with simultaneous translation provided. Exceptionally good papers can be accepted in Russian or French, provided that the participant also submits, prior to the conference, a detailed English summary or a full English translation of his/her paper. The English version of the paper will be distributed among those attending the conference.

Accepted papers will be announced on April 10, 2023.

The organizers expect that invited speakers, especially with appointments in established universities or research centers, seek funding for travel from their respective institutions. Applicants who have no means to obtain outside assistance should also submit to the conference organizers a request for travel assistance.

✔️All invited speakers will be provided with accommodation and meals during the length of the conference.

In case of additional questions, please reach out to the organizing committee at <iae.anthropology@gmail.com>.

This lecture will encompass 17 years of research in the Caucasus in the frame of international collaborations working together on climate, landscape changes, and archaeology.

The impact of the Caspian sea relative level changes on the hydrosystem and prehistoric settlements will be explained. This to the discovering of the oldest water management and irrigation structures known, linked to climate and development of the Neolithic societies in the Lesser Caucasus.

The international conference «Zooming the City։ An Anthropological Perspective», organized by the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies at the Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, will be held in Yerevan from 3 to 7 May, 2022.

There are different approaches to the study of the city, most of which are usually grouped under the name "urban studies". At this conference, the problems will be considered from an anthropological point of view and will be presented in two main sections: anthropology of the city and anthropology in the city.

The program of the conference see here.

The academic biographies of the conference speakers and panel discussants, as well as the speakers' abstracts, see here.

May 3-6, 09:30-19:00: round hall of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences, 24, Marshall Baghramian Ave. 0019, Yerevan, RA

May 7, 11:00: library of the Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography of the NAS RA, 15 Charents st. 0025, Yerevan, RA

To connect the conference online please use the Zoom link below:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84884322380?pwd=VWw3UFRoaW1sVjh5MUF4eTNDYUI5UT09

In academic literature, the various issues of power and hierarchy in ancient societies occupy a special place. In the middle of the II millennium BC, Kura-Araxes interfluve is represented by communities with various manifestations of power structures, i.e., early state formations along with the societies responsible for the creation of states in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Asia Minor, on the Iranian Plateau, and in the Balkan Peninsula. Many studies dedicated to social landscape, societal structure and early state formations, have been carried out with archaeological data collected in the aforementioned areas, although the archaeological and anthropological manifestations of privilege and hierarchy have not yet been the subject of a wider discussion.

The History Museum of Armenia and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS of Armenia organize an international conference with a subject of the research dedicated to various manifestations of privileges and hierarchy in complex societies.

A discussion on the issue in question as well as the participation of archaeologists, physical and cultural anthropologists, historians, specialists in comparative mythology and linguistics as well as representatives of other concomitant disciplines, will be a part of the respective conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS

16th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS

ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY, FOLKLORISTICS:

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

National Academy of Sciences, RA

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography

16th International Conference of Young Scientists

20-22 November, 2019, Yerevan

Young Scientists Council of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography invites scholars, junior researchers and Ph.D. students (up to 40 years old) to take part in the 16th International Conference of Young Scientists. The conference is interdisciplinary, including

Archaeology
Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology
Folkloristics
The applicants are required to submit:

Abstracts in Armenian or English not more than 300 words, Word doc, Sylfaen font, composed of first and last names of the presenter, presentation title and 10 keywords. The abstract should contain brief content of research, main research problem as well as methodological and theoretical approaches.
Application form.
Deadline for abstracts submission is June 21, 2019 (late applications will not be accepted). Please, send application form and abstract at ysc@iae.am cc: ysc.iae.arm@gmail.com

The authors of the selected abstracts will be contacted via e-mail by July 26, 2019.

Draft version of papers (approx. 3000 words) submission deadline is October 25, 2019.

The languages of the conference are Armenian, English and Russian. Online presentations are also welcomed. Duration of the presentation will be 15 minutes.

Selected papers will be published as articles after being approved by the editorial board.

For international IAE will cover only accommodation costs.

For more information you can email at ysc.iae.arm@gmail.com

The Annual Conference is organized by YSC of IAE NAS RA.

Address: 15 Charents Str., 0025, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.

Tel. (+374) 10 55 68 96, Email: info@iae.am