WAC-6 Themes

The WAC-6 Programme will be organised into large themes, each containing several sessions that relate to the same overall issue. Papers can be proposed for existing sessions, OR independently, to be placed into the programme as it develops.

Session formats:

• Working sessions
• Large plenary panels
• Position papers
• Forums
• Debates
• Demonstrations and workshops.

Congress themes:
Below is a PROVISIONAL list of Themes for WAC-6 - click on these to view the sessions therein. Sessions where the abstract is not yet clickable are still under review by theme organisers or the Programme Committee. Sessions will be timetabled after February 22nd, when all papers have been submitted. If you wish to submit a paper (due: Feb 22nd 2008) please complete the online form accessible via the Submit Proposals page of this website. If you have queries regarding a session or theme please contact the relevant organisers.

Theme and Session abstracts can be searched here >>

• Archaeological Theory? Legacies, Burdens, Futures
• Archaeologies of Art
• Archaeologists, War and Conflict: Ethics, Politics, Responsibility
• Archaeology and the Museum
• Archaeology in the Digital Age 2.0
• Archaeology of Spiritualities
• Archaeology, Development and Quality Assurance: An International Perspective
• Critical Technologies: the Making of the Modern World
• Cultural And Intellectual Property Issues in Archaeological Heritage: Identifying the Issues, Developing Modes of Resolution
• Developing International Geoarchaeology
• Emerging Global Archaeologies
  In association with ICOMOS Scientific Committee for Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM)
• Engaged and Useful Archaeologies
• Exploring WAC’s Approach(es) to Ethics
  In association with The WAC Committee on Ethics
• Getting the Message Across - Communicating Archaeology
• Heritage Tourism Agendas
• Indigenous Archaeologies: New Challenges
• Intimate Encounters, Postcolonial Engagements: Archaeologies of Empire and Sexuality
• Issues in Historical Archaeology
• Land and Archaeology
• Living in Island Worlds
• Maritime and Underwater Archaeology
• Materializing Identities I: personhood, politics and the presentation of identity
• Materializing Identities II: materials, techniques, practice
• Memory, Archaeology, and Oral Traditions
• Migration and Movement
• Moving Beyond the Meal: The Economics and Politics of Communal Foraging
• Our Changing Planet: Past Human Environments in Modern Contexts
• Peopling the Past, Individualizing the Present: Bioarchaeological Contributions in a Global Context
• Provisional Independent Sessions
• Rainforest as artefact
• Reflections on Archaeology and Politics
• The Impact of Innovation
• Wetland Archaeology Across the World