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WAC-5 AT A GLANCE
WAC-5 is the first full World Archaeological
Congress to be held in North America. The
Patron for WAC-5 is Harriet Mayor Fulbright,
and the President is Richard West, Director
of the Smithsonian Institution’s National
Museum of the American Indian.
WAC-5 will be held at The Catholic University
of America, centrally located in northeast
Washington DC, and easily accessible to
the rest of the city and surroundings by
Metrorail. Participants may register as
congress "residents", using double-occupancy
dorm rooms at Catholic U., or they may select
housing from the many hotels and motels
in Washington, D.C.
WAC-5 is scheduled for Saturday, June
21st through Thursday, June 26th, 2003.
The congress will open on Saturday afternoon,
June 21st. Symposia will run
all day Sunday and Monday, June 22nd and
June 23rd; Tuesday, June 24th will be an
open day, featuring tours or free time for
sightseeing, research, library visits and
so on. Symposia will resume on Wednesday
and Thursday, with a closing plenary session
on Thursday afternoon, June 26th. Additional
workshops and events may spill over onto
Friday, June 27th, 2003.
WAC-5 will be held in partnership with
the Anthropology Department of the Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of Natural
History and the Smithsonian National Museum
of the American Indian. Pre-registered participants
may sign up (in limited numbers) for behind-the-scene
tours of facilities or collections. Pre-registered
participants may also sign up for workshops
on conservation and/or collections management.
All participants will be guests at a reception
in the Smithsonian Institution’s Natural
History museum rotunda.
WAC-5 registration is available at member
and non‑member rates. Registration
will cover conference materials, lunches
for four days, a welcoming reception at
Catholic U., a Smithsonian evening reception,
and an evening of embassy receptions throughout
Washington, D.C. Pre- and post-congress
tours will be organized to visit important
local and national archaeological sites.
WAC-5 themes will be finalized around three
areas:
- programmatic/policy issues concerning
corrections and future directions in the
practice of global archaeology.
- practical/ technical knowledge to increase
self-reliance and responsibility in protecting
sites, artefacts and intellectual property.
- theoretical frontiers and research
results with relevance across tribal and
national boundaries.
Some specific WAC-5 themes are already
emerging; other symposia will be proposed
by participants. Ideally, symposia will
all include participants from different
nations. Selected sessions at WAC-5 will
be simultaneously translated into Spanish,
French and Russian. Current suggestions
include (but are not limited to):
- Keeping the Trust: Conservation &
Data Management
- Community Archaeologies
- Consequences of Environmental Change
- Indigenous Arrivals and First Peoples
- Archaeology for Social Justice
- Public Archaeology
- Archaeology of Recent Time
- The Politics of Representation: Iconography
and Design
- Social Identities in the Past: Gender,
Age, Ethnicity, Class
- Material Matters: Effective Technologies,
Then and Now
- Archaeology in Practice
- Archaeology and Cultural Diversity
- Maritime Archaeology
TO LEARN MORE, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
http://www.american.edu/wac5
WAC-6
We currently have bids from the Caribbean
and Australasia to host WAC-6.
WAC InterCongress on Indigenous Issues
and Archaeology
World Indigenous Heritage – Agenda for
a New Millennium
Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.
5th–9th December 2001
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/emd/groups/cmipd/wac
Any enquires can also be addressed to the
Brenda Kingi, Secretary of the Organising
Committee, at kingib@lincoln.ac.nz
or
Centre for Maori and Indigenous Planning
and Development, PO Box 84,
Lincoln University,
Canterbury,
New Zealand
tel.(+64 3) 3252811
fax (+64 3) 3253817
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