SHA 2009 Conference
Toronto, ON,
Canada
January 6-11, 2009
The Ed and Judy Jelks Student Travel Awards for SHA 2009
(application deadline: November 15, 2008)
SHA 2009 Conference Registration Form (PDF)
SHA 2009 Conference Preliminary Program (PDF)
SHA 2009 Conference Call for Silent Auction Donations (DOC)
SHA 2009 Conference Call for Papers (PDF)
SHA 2009 Dissertation Prize Guidelines (PDF)
SHA 2009 Student Paper Competition Guidelines (PDF)
SHA 2009 Conference Accommodation Information (PDF)
SHA 2009 Conference Exhibitor Prospectus (PDF)
SHA 2009 Conference Event Sponsorship Form (PDF)
SHA 2009 Corporate/Business Sponsorship Form (PDF)
SHA 2009 Conference Student Volunteer Form (PDF)
Public Archaeology Forms for Toronto Teachers and Students
SHA 2009 Public Archaeology Form #1
SHA 2009 Public Archaeology Form #2
THE TIES THAT DIVIDE: TRADE, CONFLICT & BORDERS
The 2009 conference theme speaks to Toronto’s place in the Great Lakes and its role as an early centre of interaction, exchange and trade between Aboriginal and European nations at the beginnings of the “New World Experience” for this part of the continent. It further speaks to the persistent frontier defined by the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, and to the conflict between Aboriginal, French, British, American, and Canadian peoples over territory now divided by the Canada-United States border. The conference theme also invites topics beyond a regional focus, since Conflict and Trade, in the broadest application of the concepts, are universal dimensions of past and present life. Likewise Borders, to constrain, separate, and transcend, is a concept that plays out across the entire human experience, such as between urban and rural life, between genders, age and ethnicities enhancing identity, between the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology and history, between underwater and land based archaeology, and between the archaeologist and others who also claim an interest in and ownership of the past.
We hope that you will visit us in Toronto, a city that both celebrates and transcends its past and global present with vibrant and diverse museums, galleries, neighborhoods and cuisines that showcase all of the world's cultures that now call Toronto home.
