The next CHaGS will be held at the University of Liverpool, England, in June 2013. This much-awaited conference is already creating a great deal of interest and the organisers have published the preliminary list of session themes and coordinators (see below).
Researchers wishing to suggest further session themes or wishing to contribute to the proposed sessions listed below should contact Professor Larry Barham and Dr Thomas Widlok by the end of July 2011. The organisers are particularly interested in inter-disciplinary themes. The final selection of themes will be decided by the organising committee and will be announced at the end of August. A call for papers will follow. The emphasis will be on enabling the widest possible participation and there will be fewer parallel sessions than at CHaGS 9.
The conference will be held in the University of Liverpool and accommodation will be available for delegates on campus in a new, environmentally friendly, purpose built block.
A website is under construction and we will post the details on the Before Farming news pages as and when they become available.
Violence & non-violence in hunter-gatherer societies
Kirk Endicott, Dartmouth College, USA
Ritual & dance
Jerome Lewis, University College London, UK
Population genetics
Paul Verdu, University of Michigan, USA
Energetics & mechanics of hunting & gathering
Nathaniel J Dominy, Dartmouth College, USA
Childhood, child culture & social learning
Barry Hewlett, Washington State University, USA
Maritime adaptations
Caroline Wickham-Jones, Aberdeen University, UK
Mobile Lives?
Thomas Widlok, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands,
& University of Cologne, Germany
Hunter-gatherer analogy & the African archaeological record
Peter Mitchell, University of Oxford, UK
Evolutionary perspectives
Jim O’Connell, University of Utah, USA
Ethno-historical & eco-historical approaches to hunter-gatherer research
Kazunobu Ikeya, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers
Khaled Hakami, University of Vienna, Austria
Language of perception among hunter-gatherers
Niclas Burenhult, University of Lund, Sweden
Asifa Majid, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
The crafts of hunter-gatherers
Lye Tuck-Po, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Contemporary issues in Amazonian hunter-gatherer research
Laura Rival, University of Oxford, UK
Hunter-gatherers/former hunter-gatherers, the state and climate change
Sita Venkateswar, Massey University, New Zealand
Hunter-gatherer identity politics
Vishvajit Pandya, Dhirubhai.Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gujarat, India
Is there a hunter-gatherer mode of sociality?
Penny Spikins, University of York, UK
Cultural resilience
Jana Fortier, University of California San Diego, USA
Perspectives on Dravidian hunting & gathering
Peter Gardner, University of Missouri, USA
Relationships to the land: ontological resistance & entanglement
in the 21st century
Co-organisers: Françoise Dussart, University of Connecticut, USA and Sylvie Poirier Université Laval, Canada
Larry Barham
University of Liverpool, UK
Kirk Endicott
Dartmouth College, USA
Kazunobu Ikeya
National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
Jerome Lewis
University College London, UK
Peter Mitchell
University of Oxford, UK
Gustavo Politis
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Lye Tuck-Po
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Caroline Wickham-Jones
Aberdeen University, UK
Thomas Widlok
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands and University of Cologne, Germany
