EXARC Newsletter, Number 2017/07

OBE & the Scottish Crannog Centre

We are absolutely thrilled, delighted and very proud to announce that long time EXARC member  Dr Nick Dixon, Research Director of The Scottish Crannog Centre and Honorary President of The Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology has been awarded an OBE for services to underwater archaeology, public engagement and the economy of Scotland! Huge congratulations to Nick!

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The 2017 Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - EXARC Fellowship

The 2017 Fellowship goes to Nikola Krstović from Serbia, with his project "Museum OFF Boundaries (Reviving She/Stories & Heritage [in a] Supermarket)". It is the process of meanings and values co-creation, and especially refers to the interpretative framework. He will bringing together and confront two main female actors who play different characters and host diverse guests through reviving/interpreting selected themes (Reviving she/stories), and offer the audience the possibility to get more engaged with the paradoxical relationship between the symbolical and cultural value and material worth of artefacts (Heritage [in a] Supermarket concept). Dr Krstović's fellowship includes a full month in Colonial Williamsburg later this year.

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Photo: Colonial Williamsburg

So far, all recent articles published in the EXARC Journal, the reviewed articles, were only accessible to EXARC members and went open access after two years. This has been changed: all articles will go open access from day 1 of publication. This means that another 40 articles which were previously behind password are now easily accessible through http://journal.exarc.net. These include articles on glass, bronze, open-air sites and beekeeping.

March 20-22, 2018 are the dates for Africa's First Conference on Experimental Archaeology, taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa. We call for anybody with experience in this field in this continent to join us. The conference will consist of two days of presentations and posters and one day of mini-workshops, demonstrations and discussions. Your contribution needs to be relevant within an African context, and we are interested in projects working within any time frame from the earliest humans to historical archaeology. If you have an idea but are not sure of the format of your contribution or if you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us. Registration of participants will follow from the 15th of August. The conference fee will be R 1500 (EUR 105) for EXARC members, including conference material and lunch every day of the conference. We will provide information about conference dinner and excursions and any co-payment for this when these events are confirmed.
The call for papers is published HERE

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