| May
2008
Dear
colleagues,
since
the EAA conference at Malta is approaching (16 - 21 September 2008), let
me please draw the attention of those who have not yet registered to the
deadline for early booking and contribution submission, both until the
31st of May. After this date, registration fees will be considerably higher
and no more paper proposals will be accepted. Please have a look at
http://events.um.edu.mt/eaa2008/eaa_14.html
for the list of approved sessions - should you be interested in speaking
in one of them, please contact the session organizer directly; in case
your contribution does not fit in any session, please send your text to
the Head of the Scientific committee at nicholas.vella@um.edu.mt
If you have not yet paid your 2008
membership
fees, please register at non-member rates. Members of the EAA can newly
enjoy a wide range of benefits, including discounts on books (please consult
the members only section) etc.
Best
wishes from the EAA Secretariat,
Sylvie
Kvetinova nad Magda Turkova
March 2008
Dear
EAA members,
let
me draw your attention to the web page of our conference at Malta (16 -
21 September 2008, http://events.um.edu.mt/eaa2008),
which has now been updated with details regarding registration, accommodation,
programme etc. You are welcome to submit your contribution proposal, register
and pay on-line or by bank transfer – please take advantage of the early
rates which apply until 30 April. As current EAA member, please select
the „member rate“. The registration fees have risen in comparison with
the past years, but I am sure you will agree that such an attractive venue
and the archaeological riches of Malta deserve it. Do not forget to book
your access to the Hypogeum (link to be found under „social programme“)
soon. Delegates from former socialist block may be eligible for grant support
if our application to the Wenner-Gren Foundation is successful.
Looking
forward to seeing you at Malta, and best wishes for the Easter holiday,
Sylvie
and Magda
EAA
Secretariat
Elections to EAA
Boards and Nomination Committee
Dear
member of the European Association of Archaeologists,
It
is the time of year when we need your help in selecting the members of
the Executive Board, Editorial Board and Nomination Committee of the EAA.
This year too sees the need to elect a new President (to serve from 2009)
and Secretary (to serve from 2008). The election process is the basic way
in which each member can affect the running of the Association. You are
therefore urged to participate in the election for the good of the Association
and its members.
You,
as an EAA member, can not only vote in the elections but in this first
stage you are encouraged to become a candidate yourself or propose a colleague.
Nominations must be received at the EAA Secretariat not later than 15 April
2008 to be further considered in the election process. Candidate forms
must be accompanied by a statement and a short biography.
Executive
Board and Editorial Board
Candidates
running for a position on the Executive Board, including those of President
and Secretary, must be supported by 10 full members of the EAA. Candidates
running for a position on the Editorial Board must be supported by 5 full
members of the EAA. In their statements, candidates should say what experience
they would bring to the Board; in the case of the Editorial Board, they
should also indicate in what special areas they are expert, and in which
they could act as peer reviewers of papers submitted.
Nominations
received by 15 April will be forwarded for consideration to the Nomination
Committee which will produce candidate lists to be sent to all full members
in July together with ballot papers. You may then vote by post, fax or
e-mail; alternatively, you may vote using your ballot papers at the Malta
conference.
Nomination
Committee
To
broaden the democratic principles which form the basis of the election
process, you are this year for the first time encouraged to propose also
candidates for the Nomination Committee itself, which will then be voted
on at the Annual Business Meeting in September. This procedure is
an innovation which the Executive Board decided to implement this year
for the first time. Candidates running for a position on the Nomination
Committee should be supported by 10 full members of the EAA. Please send
nominations to the Secretariat by 31 August; these will obviously not be
sent to the current Nomination Committee but brought to the Business Meeting.
The
chart below represents the current situation in the EAA boards and committees
- positions that will be available for election in 2008 are highlighted
in green italics. If you are interested in serving the EAA in any of the
positions or if you have any suggestions for candidates, just send the
filled out candidate form (attached) to the EAA Secretariat.
Please
participate for the future of the EAA!
EAA
Elections in 2008_letter to members.doc
EAA
Candidate Form nomination by members 2008.doc
EAA
Regulation on Candidate Statements.pdf
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Dear
colleagues,
Thank
you for becoming EAA member in 2008. You will by now wonder why you
have
not recently heard from the EAA Secretariat about the on-line administration
system which is shortly before launching now. However, I have to beg you
for more patience, since I just learnt that the data-base administrator
who is in charge of the system has suffered an injury and is in hospital,
waiting for an operation. I believe you will apologize the inconvenience.
Since everything is nearly ready to become operational, I will be e-mailing
you the updated information after the system can be launched.
Sorry
again for the inconvenience, and best wishes,
Secretariat
European
Association of Archaeologists
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Dear Colleagues
You will have heard about
the dreadful train fire in Bulgaria last week. What you will probably
not know is that one of the victims was the Director of the Archaeological
Institute in Sofia, Professor Rasho Rashev. Professor Rashev only
became Director last year, but had already taken a number of steps to improve
the situation of archaeology in Bulgaria. We in the EAA had started
a dialogue with him, and were looking forward to continuing our fruitful
collaboration with the Institute.
On behalf of the EAA, I have
sent a letter of condolence to the Institute, asking also that our sympathies
be passed on to Professor Rashev’s family.
Yours sincerely
Anthony Harding
EAA President
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Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe
http://discovering-archaeologists.eu/
Discovering the Archaeologists
of Europe is a transnational project that is providing an examination and
profile of the archaeological profession across twelve countries of the
European Union. It is funded by the European Commission through the Leonardo
da Vinci II fund. The project will run from 2006-2008, with progress and
final reports being posted on this website.
EAA is a partner in this
project which is being managed by the Institute of Field Archaeologists
in the UK. The project which seeks to identify barriers to transnational
professional mobility will achieve its objectives through the collation
and dissemination of discrete national surveys, conducted by each of the
project’s twelve national partners. These surveys are profiling the
archaeological profession in each country and the results, in turn, will
feed into an integrated European report setting out the principle findings.
The project is seeking to
improve understanding of the requirements for, and future capacity to provide,
transparent qualifications and professional mobility for archaeologists
across Europe.
Through EAA, and its Committee
on Professional Associations in Archaeology,
the project has created
a very successful transnational network of organisations with common interests.
National surveys by the project partners are currently nearing completion
and are defining “What is an archaeologist?” and “Who is an archaeologist”
in each participating country. This is being achieved through surveys
that seek to define:
• the number of archaeologists
employed
• age profile and gender
• qualifications and skills
• nationality
• professional titles and
roles
• salary profiles
The results of the national
surveys will be presented the 6th World Archaeological Congress in Dublin
in June 2008 and will inform a final integrated report, to be prepared
by IFA, which will be presented at the EAA Annual Conference 2008 in Malta
and which will be published subsequently in the European Journal of Archaeology.
As the results of national
surveys become available in June, these will be hosted on the project’s
website in their national languages and in English, with the final integrated
report ready for circulation some time after September 2008 and will be
accessible through a link to the project website from the EAA website.
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January 2008
EAA 14th Annual Meeting -
September 16-21, 2008 - Valetta, Malta. 1st
call for papers
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Dear Colleagues
I am very happy to be able
to tell you that Sylvie Kvetinova, EAA
Administrator, and her husband
Petr Kvetina became the proud parents of
Klara on 21 December 2007.
Sylvie and Klara are both fine, and Sylvie
tells me that Klara is a
very good baby.
Since Sylvie is now on maternity
leave, I hope you will forgive any
delays that may occur when
you communicate with the Secretariat.
However, with Magda Turkova
filling the gap as part-time Assistant
Administrator, membership
services should remain uninterrupted and you
will soon be able to see
improvements in the services we offer,
including the on-line administration
of membership records and
personalized access to a
range of information sources.
I am sure you will
join me in congratulating Sylvie and Petr, and in
wishing Klara a long and
happy life! Petr said in one of his messages
that they intend to enrol
her as an EAA member at the earliest
opportunity - so maybe we
should have a membership category for babies.
I wish you much happiness
and success in the year just started
Anthony Harding
EAA President
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Dear
colleagues,
2007
is coming to an end and together with it your membership of the
European
Association of Archaeologists. Thank you for your involvement in
our
Association this year; I hope you have benefited from it. If you have
not
done so already, I would ask you to renew your membership for next year
on-line
at www.e-a-a.org/member_form.php,
or by returning the completed
membership
form (PDF/WORD).
2008
will see major improvements in the membership services, for instance
individualized
access to your personal account, an on-line membership database,
access
to the new jobs service, etc. You will be notified how to proceed upon
r
eceipt
of your payment. On the EAA web page or at events.um.edu.mt/eaa2008/,
you
will also find the latest information about the 2008 conference, to be
held on
September
16 - 21 in Malta.
For
now, please let me wish you a very happy Christmas and all the best for
the
New Year.
Yours,
Anthony
Harding, President, on behalf of the EAA Boards and Secretariat
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December 2007
Journal
of European Archaeology - all articles and reviews that have appeared
in the years 1993-1997 now fully accessible online to the EAA members.
The abstracts are available also for non-members in the EJA
section.
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November 2007
TEA
28, Winter 2007/2008 - new
issue of the EAA Newsletter (accessible only to the EAA Members)
Benefit
For Members: Save on Books!
New service consisting in discounts
on books has been launched for members of the EAA. Learn more about particular
offers in the Members Section
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