Dear friends and colleagues,
I and Dr. Amy J. Jordan would like to invite you to consider presenting in a session related to the relevance of archaeology to contemporary times (e.g., sustainability, resilience, pandemic, calamities, catastrophes, climate change lifeways, food and foodways, practices, and crisis) for the upcoming 2022 Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) Meetings in Chiang Mai, Thailand on November 6-12, 2022. This time, we expanded the coverage from the foodways related sessions that we successfully organized for the 2014 and 2018 IPPA Meetings. Below are the session title and description:
Archaeology and Traumatic Times:
Looking at Human Resiliency and Sustainability Through Archaeology in the
Indo-Pacific
Starting with calamities, such as the Taal volcanic eruption in the Philippines
and the Australian bushfires, and moving into a global COVID-19 pandemic, 2020
produced a surfeit of global and local catastrophes. Archaeology, which
provides long-term perspectives, is uniquely positioned to demonstrate how
societies have previously adapted to catastrophes, such as climate change,
pandemics, natural disasters, as well as economic and government collapse. This
session aims to highlight multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and
transdisciplinary approaches and case studies of resilience based on the
archaeological and environmental records during traumatic times, when the way
of life and material conditions are overwhelmingly interrupted. We welcome
papers on how material culture, food and foodways, technology, indigenous
knowledge and practices, as well as ritual behaviour helped (or hindered) the
survival of people in the Indo-Pacific region during natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, disease, climate change, etc.) and/or social disasters (e.g., colonialism, economic collapse, etc.), as well as made them resilient and sustainable even after the crisis period.
Please submit your title and abstract on or before August 15, 2022 if interested to join us at https://forms.gle/fj53akNJ5WdU1SrC7. Please choose “S19 Archaeology and Traumatic Times….. Indo-Pacific” for the session where the paper is going to be presented. Please feel free to disseminate this invitation to your colleagues. See you in Thailand! Thank you very much!
Amy Jordan and Michelle S. Eusebio