12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) - 06-07-08-09-10/04
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 06-07-08-09-10/04/2021
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: (Bologna, Italy)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Pierfrancesco Callieri; Maurizio Cattani; Enrico Cirelli; Antonio Curci; Anna Chiara Fariselli; Elisabetta Govi; Mattia Guidetti; Gianni Marchesi; Nicolò Marchetti (Chair); Adriano V. Rossi; Marco Zecchi.
INFO: web - 12icaane@unibo.it
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE:
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
The 12th ICAANE will be carried out both in presence and remotely (only for registered participants) during the week from 6th to 10th April 2021. Of course, attendees will be subject to the precautionary limitations that health regulations require in terms of social distancing and reduced capacity of classrooms (we will strictly follow the guidelines (https://www.unibo.it/en/university/covid-19-The-measures-adopted-by-the-University-of-Bologna/information-about-the-contagion-and-the-protection-of-our-communitys-health) which will be in place in April 2021 for the University of Bologna). The use of a face mask will be mandatory at all times, hand sanitizers will be placed on multiple spots and speakers will be required to use a new pair of gloves during each presentation. The welcome cocktail will be held in an open space with strict observation of social distancing, coffee breaks are guaranteed through the distribution of individual bags, while the social dinner is canceled. On top of the funds collected through fees, we are investing also considerable resources into a live streaming website and equipment and into the open access publication of proceedings with Harrassowitz. 15 classrooms functioning in parallel will allow speakers to present, with copyright protection, their papers to both the in-person and virtual audience of registered participants. Discussions moderated by the session chairperson will be possible (remote questions via chat only). All speakers will be required to send also a video of Their presentation as a further precaution against their own internet connection failures (detailed instructions will be circulated later on). Posters will be presented into a virtual classroom and they will be available for download, with a prior registration into the SocArXiv (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv) database for intellectual protection. Poster authors will have the possibility discuss their work with participants within this digital environment. Printed posters may be exhibited as well in additon to the digital version. Check the page (https://eventi.unibo.it/12icaane/prizes) for the announcements of cash prizes offered to registered participants. We please ask colleagues wishing to update their abstracts and/or titles to do so by December 1st 2020 at the latest. Participants will need to specify if their attendance will be either remote or in person by March 5th 2021. With the rescheduling, a limited additional call for papers has been established following the requests which we received. An addition of up to 40 new papers will be allowed into the program. Interested scholars may send a request and an abstract before November 1st, 2020 to 12icaane@unibo.it and, if accepted, they may then pay the registration fee in order to reach confirmed status.
UPDATE:
Workshops are confirmed in the schedule within the main themes of the
Congress. Posters will be presented into a virtual room and they will
be available for download, with a prior registration into the SocArXiv
database for intellectual protection. Poster authors will have the
possibility to discuss their work with participants within this
digital environment. Printed posters may be exhibited as well in
addition to the digital version.
By March 5th 2021 at the latest, all participants are kindly requested to: a) update their title and/or abstract if needed; b) let us know if they wish to attend remotely or in person; c) those living outside of Europe should let us know their time preference (morning or afternoon) for their papers, according to their time zone; d) send us a video recording of their 15-minutes paper for backup (extensions: .wmv, .avi, .mov, .mp4) or send us their poster (extensions: .pdf, .jpg,
.tiff).
Check the page for the announcements of cash prizes offered to registered participants (note that one of the Ice Prizes goes to a paper not necessarily signed up in the program and which in fact may be written on purpose drawing on published sources). Additional useful information will be uploaded on the website of the Congress in the coming weeks.
All participants that wish to take part to the conference in person will be subject - in addition to the standard control measures foreseen for international travel at the time of COVID - to further precautionary limitations during the conference itself required by health regulations as regard social distancing and reduced capacity of conference rooms (we will strictly follow the guidelines which will be in place in April 2021 at the University of Bologna). The use of a
face mask will be mandatory at all times and hand sanitizers will be placed on multiple spots (the use of which is mandatory for speakers immediately before their presentation). The welcome cocktail will be held in an open space with the strict observation of social distancing. Individual food bags will be distributed during coffee breaks, while the social dinner has been cancelled.
We look forward to finally welcoming, either remotely or in person, all participants in Bologna next April and we send you our warmest regards