Current News and Events

IEMA Inaugural Event

Thursday, April 3, 2-7 pm
University at Buffalo, Center for the Arts
Opening Ceremony including keynote lecture
by Dr. Graeme Barker, Disney Professor, University of Cambridge
Reception to follow


IEMA Visiting Scholar Conference

Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, 2008
Jacobs Executive Development Center, Buffalo, NY

Toward an Eventful Archaeology:
Approaches to Structural Change in the Archaeological Record

Dr. Graeme Barker's keynote lecture:
Archaeology as History: Revolutions, Transformations, Events

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Organizer: Dr. Douglas J. Bolender

The IEMA 2008 Visiting Scholar conference will focus on the archaeology of sudden social transformations. Papers will examine the identification and interpretation of eventful episodes in the archaeological record and explore their connection to other temporalities and modes of historical process and change.

For more information on the Conference, please visit this IEMA Visiting Scholar Conference link.


IEMA Lecture

April 22, 2008
Lecture presented by Professor Douglass Bailey, Department of Archaeology, University of Cardiff and
Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University: TBA.
Location: MFAC 355
Time: 6-7 pm