Revisiting Global Archaeologies | SHA 2023 Conference on Historical & Underwater Archaeology

Name: Revisiting Global Archaeologies | SHA 2023 Conference on Historical & Underwater Archaeology
Start: 2023-01-04T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-01-07T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Holiday Inn Lisbon - Continental

Schedule

Wed Jan 04 2023 at 09:00 am to Sat Jan 07 2023 at 05:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Holiday Inn Lisbon - Continental | Lisbon, LI

? SHA 2022 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology
? Lisbon, Portugal @ Holiday Inn Lisbon-Continental
? January 4-7, 2023
The Society for Historical Archaeology’s 2023 conference committee invites you to join us in Lisbon, Portugal, for our annual conference on historical and underwater archaeology. The 2023 SHA conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Lisbon-Continental Hotel
on January 4-7, 2023.
Lisbon features archaeological evidence of human presence since prehistoric times. Located at the mouth of the Tagus River, it has had continuous human occupation since becoming an important Iron Age settlement and, subsequently, a Roman city with many archaeological features still in evidence today (such as the Roman theater). Lisbon is one of the most interesting and historically important cities in Europe and was the capital of a major overseas empire at least from the late 15th through late 17th centuries. The Portuguese were directly responsible for initiating the European globalization that defines our period, and its influences include initiating the post-1500 commodity exchanges and population movements that are core to our discipline – also initiating modern plantation slavery. Rebuilding after the shattering earthquake of 1755 also left Lisbon with one of the most important 18th-century urban landscapes in Europe with several archaeological evidence which continues in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The theme for next year's conference not only references the international location and outlook of the meeting alongside the modern history of Lisbon as the center of one of the most significant global European empires of the early modern period but also acknowledges the transformation of historical archaeology into a truly global discipline. It is envisioned that the theme will encourage individual papers and symposia that address the increasingly global character of the discipline in the past, present, and future, as well as themes of movement and diaspora, and industrialization and mechanization. Many European archaeologists also define ‘historical’ archaeology differently, noting that the historical record dates back to earlier periods, and this conference may provide the opportunity to explore disciplinary definitions in a global context while still focusing on the post-1500 world.
You can learn more about SHA 2023 at: sha.org/conferences