Date: 4th to 8th January 2012
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Contact Person / Registration Link: Lisa , Register Here
Breifing: Conference Theme: By the Dawn's Early Light: Forging Identity, Securing Freedom, and Overcoming Conflict.
You can view the complete program schedule here:
Complete session schedule of SHA Conference 2012

Date: 11th to the 13th January 2012
Location: Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester
Contact Person / Registration Link:
Please e-mail any questions to gms.manchester.2012@gmail.com / Registration On Campus: 12:45-1:45pm: Registration (Foyer)
Breifing: Gender and Punishment in ancient history. Masculinity and MassGraves in Anglo-Saxon England by Professor Dawn Hadley (University of Sheffield), Torture and Spectacle , Holy Women and Punishment and many more topics on Gender and Punishment.

Date: 30th January 2012 to 3rd February 2012
Location: Princess Alexandra Auditorium, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Contact Person / Registration Link:
Fr Dr Dr. Ikechukwu A. Orjinta / http://unnartsconference.com/conferenceform.html

Breifing: Various themes and sub-themes of the conference are: Climate change adaptation from the Arts, Gender and leadership in restructured Africa. etc

Date: 25 February 2012
Location: G-R06/07, 9 West Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB3 9DP
Contact Person / Registration Link: Sarah Waidler
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Breifing: This year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Barbara Crawford, OBE, Honorary Reader at the University of St Andrews. Dr. Crawford will be speaking on "The Joint Earldoms of Caithness and Orkney"

Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 6:00pm - Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 1:00pm
Location: Frankfurt University, Campus Westend, Frankfurt am Main 60323, Germany
Contact name: David Wigg-Wolf (info@rac2012.org)
Registration Link: Register Here!
Briefing:The Roman Archaeology Conference is the premier Roman archaeological conference in the United Kingdom. It is a biennial event – RAC 2010 was held in Oxford – that brings together interested parties from all sectors to present and discuss the latest archaeological discoveries from the Roman world and beyond.

Date: 1 to 3 March 2012
location: Florence, Italy
Contact name: Claudia Speciale / info@soma2012florence.net
Registration Link
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Briefing:
IDENTITY & CONNECTIVITY
Since prehistoric times the Mediterranean has been acting as a locale for interaction between groups inhabiting regions that are now studied mainly within the different sub-fields of ancient studies. In recent years, however, the development of research techniques and analytical models of archaeological evidence (e.g. the International spirit defined by C. Renfrew) have identified similar historical paths that are similar if not, in some cases, common to these different areas of the ancient world from the West (Iberian peninsula) to the East (Anatolia and Levant) from the North (Europe) to the South (Maghreb and Egypt).

Date: 6th to 9th March 2012
Location: Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad Complutense de Madri
Contact name: Tim Mitchell
Registration Link: Send your registrations to icongresohistpens@hotmail.es
Briefing:
This Congress aims to promote the encounter of the community of young researchers devoted to
History of Thought, focusing on the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissanc

Date: March 30-31, 2012
Location: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Contact name: Lydia Wilson Marshall
Registration link :
Submit registrations to Scholar, Dr. Lydia Wilson Marshall, at lwmarshall@siu.edu
Briefing: Plantation sites, particularly those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, do not represent the wide variety of geographic and temporal contexts in which slavery has occurred in human history. Read More here

Date: 29 - 31 March 2012
Location: The Open University, Milton Keynes
Contact name: : Carol Richardson
Registration link :
Submit registrations to Carol Richardson c.m.richardson@open.ac.uk (please include AAH 2012 in your
subject line).
Briefing: The date an artwork was produced does not seal it off from the rest of time. Indeed historical readings might trace how an artwork intersects different times. Art history
presents past art through conservation, exhibition and writing. Artworks are connected diachronically, linking the artist to predecessors, contemporaries and successors.
Narratives of art chart traditions and innovations, historians source-hunt for influences and appropriations. Artists are identified as precursors and rebels; periods and movements are labelled as renaissances and avantgardes. Read More here

Date:  4-7 April 2012
Location: Athens, Greece
Contact name: Gregory T. Papanikos
Registration link :http://www.atiner.gr/info/2012INFO-MDT.htm
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Briefing: Greek Night Entertainment, Athens Sightseeing: Old and New-An Educational Urban Walk, Cruise to Aegean Islands, Delphi Visit

Date: 9 to 13 April 2012
Location: Menorca, Balearic Island, Spain 
Registration link: http://www.congresopatrimoniomundialmenorca.cime.es/portal.aspx?IDIOMA=3
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Briefing: It will focus on Archaeology, keeping in mind that it needs to consider not only the sites, which have been inscribed as World Heritage due to its Archaeological nature, but also any site, property or group of material properties, inscribed as World Heritage, which can be studied using an archaeological methodology.

Date: 15-17 April 2012
Location: Zahedan, IRAN 
Registration link: http://seminars.usb.ac.ir/sosaa/en-us/Page899/
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Briefing: The Congress of the Society of South Asian Archaeology (SOSAA) has had three hugely successful events. The Archaeological Sciences Research Centre (ASRC) of the University of Sistan and Baluchestan (USB) is proud to announce the fourth Congress (4SOSAA)

Date: 27 April 2012 to 28 May 2012
Location: Queensland, Australia  
Contact: Dr Amelia Brown (conference@aema.net.au)
Registration link: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/conference2012/
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Briefing: This conference addresses the theme of LAND and SEA in the Early Medieval World, ca. 300-1100.

Date: 2 to 4 May 2012
Location: Amherst, MA, United States
Contact name: Angela Labrador
Briefing; While 3D visualizations, complex databases, interactive websites, social media, and Geographical Information Systems allow us to model, record, analyze, disseminate, map, and interpret information about cultural heritage, they are also profoundly transforming our views of the past. Major questions about the past have long been studied through chronology, typology, space, and narrative. Read More

Date: 20 to 22 May 2012
location: Athens, Greece
Contact name: Dr Stavros Paspalas
Briefing; The site of Zagora is fundamental for our understanding of life in the Aegean in the Geometric period. This conference aims to highlight new discoveries and emphasize their contribution to a better understanding of the site and its environs

Date: 23 to 24 May 2012
Location:Taza, Taza, Morocco
Contact name: Tabyaoui
Briefing: The Geographic information Systems are used worldwide to solve problems related to emergency services, land use, business efficiency, education and public safety. The Taza-GIS-Days will take in two days (May 23-24, 2012). Participants will have the opportunity to learn about GIS through a series of presentations, exhibitions and practical exercises presented by a distinguished group of professionals.

Date: 23 to 26 May 2012
location: Istanbul, Turkey
Contact name: Efe Duyan
Briefing; ARCHHIST '12, hosted by MSFAU, opens its doors to studies that will re-evaluate the history of architecture with a interdisciplinary point of view within a fluctuant and heterogenic basis.

Date: 28 MAY - 3 JUNE 2012
location: Tallinn, Estonia
Contact name: Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director
Briefing; The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, 36th annual IAPL conference, held at Tallinn University, Estonia, 28 May-3 June 2012. Online paper or panel submissions on the conference theme are welcome. Deadline:15 Sept 2011

Date: 8th June 2012
Location: Reading, United Kingdom
Contact name: Alice Rogers and Courtney Nimura
Briefing:
The scope of the conference will cover the following session themes:

Ancient megastructures and their environment

Landscape resilience to human impact

Human adaptation to landscape changes

Spatial information systems in landscape archaeology

Theoretical concepts in landscape archaeology

Date: June 20th to 23rd 2012
Location: Victoria College, University of Toronto
Contact name: Justin Pargeter (Justin.pargeter@gmail.com) and Adrienne Daggette (daggetta@gmail.com)
Registration Link: http://www.uofttix.ca/view.php?id=798
Briefing:
1. Diverse cognitive interpretations of the MSA, chair Lyn Wadley
2. Zooarchaeology in African contexts, chair Genevieve Dewar
3. Northwest African prehistory: recent work, new results and interpretations, chair David Lubell
4. Post-Conflict Archaeology in Africa: Restrictions, Responsibilities and Responses, chair John Giblin
5. Cultural heritage management African in the next 15 years, chair Scott Maceachern
6. The Archaeology of the Iringa region, southern Tanzania, chair Pamela Willoughby
7. Science and Archaeology: Studies Presented in Honor of Nikolaas van der Merwe, chair David Killick
8. Making Meals, Producing Pots: Comparing Craft and Culinary Practice in Africa, chairs Cameron Gokee and Amanda Lee Logan
9. The archaeology of the Maloti-Drakensburg region, chair Peter Mitchell
10. Human bones and teeth in African Archaeological record, chairs Lesley Harrington and Wendy Black
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Date: June 3 to 8, 2012
Location:  Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Contact name: http://www.kwanlindunculturalcentre.com/frozenpasts/contact-us/
Registration Link: https://frozenpasts.leafsolutions.ca/
Briefing:
The 2012 symposium will highlight the discoveries of North American glacial archaeologists and showcase the opening of a major new Yukon First Nation Cultural Centre featuring ice patch discoveries. The 3rd International Glacial Archaeology Symposium will be hosted by Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Government of Yukon.

Date: 4-6 June 2012
Location:  St. Petersburg, Russia
Contact name:  Dr.Daria Yu. Hookk ( HOOKK@HERMITAGE.RU )
Briefing:
The First International Conference on Virtual Archaeology will be organized by the Department of the Eastern Europe and Siberian Archaeology of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint-Petersburg (Russian Federation).

Date: 8th to 12th July 2012
Location: MSanta Rosa, California, United States
Contact name: Mary Dell Lucas
Registration link:http://www.farhorizons.com/easterislandconference/index.php
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Briefing: The First International Conference on Virtual Archaeology will be organized by the Department of the Eastern Europe and Siberian Archaeology of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint-Petersburg (Russian Federation).

Date: 5th to 7th July 2012
Location: London, United Kinom
Contact name: S McDaid
Registration link :
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Briefing: The EVA London organising committee seeks a distinctive and attractive logo for branding and promotion of the EVA London Conference, on the theme of Art and Technology. The logo should symbolise visualization in the arts, and be colourful, eye?catching, uncluttered, and convey something of the spirit of London and camaraderie of the event. It should be adaptable for use at various scales in print, stationery, and presentation graphics and on the Web. It should also be effective in grey?scale or black?and?white for monochrome copy.

Date: 2nd to 5th August 2012
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Contact name: Conference Secretariat
Registration Link:
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Briefing: The Conference will address interdisciplinary practices across the social sciences, and between the social sciences and the natural sciences, applied sciences and the professions. Plenary speakers will include some of the world's leading thinkers in the social sciences, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations.

Date: 1st to 4th September 2012
Location: The Hague, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
Registration link:
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Briefing: The meeting will be preceded by a separate one-day conference on science-based archaeology. The pre-conference meeting will take place on Tuesday, 31st August 2012, at Delft University, and is organised by the Delft-Leiden Centre for Archaeology, Art history and Science (CAAS). Registered participants of the EAA annual meeting can attend free of charge.

Date: 10 to 11 September 2012
Location: Leeds, United kingdom
Contact name: Dr Mark Westgarth/Dr Abigail Harrison Moore
The conference invites papers on themes such as;
The role of agents and dealers in the development of museum collections. The intersections between the market, the museum and evolving discourses; art history, the history of science and museography/museology. The market and its relationship to the role of patronage and philanthropy in the museum. The influence of the market in the history of museum practice; for example the developing influence of the blockbuster exhibition. The role of museums, galleries and heritage in local and national economies; for example in cultural-led economic regeneration. The relationship between museums/heritage, the market and evolving national and international legislation; for example restrictions on the ownership, movement and circulation of cultural property, such as the Waverley Criteria. The relationships between museums/galleries and contemporary commodity culture.

Date : 13th to 17th September 2012
Location: Santander, Spain
Briefing:
The Eighth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe will be held in Santander from 13th to 17th September 2012, organised by the Cantabrian International Institute for Prehistoric Research with the support of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Cantabrian Government and the University of Cantabria. This is the first time this prestigious series of conferences is held in southern Europe; furthermore, in a region with a long tradition in prehistoric studies, particularly on the Mesolithic.

Date: 29th September to 2nd October 2012
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Contact name: Professor Anders Ahlqvist
Briefing: The Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic Studies will take place at the University of Sydney, from Wednesday 29 September to Saturday 2 October 2012.