On Behalf of the Council on East Asian Studies and the Archaia Program for the Study of Global Antiquity at Yale University: Join scholars from across Japan, Europe, and North America for an exciting two-day conference, "The Archaeology of Early Japan: Debating Social Complexity." An in person event, coffee, lunch, light refreshments will be provided. Please register at the following link to attend: https://ceas.yale.edu/archaeology-early-japan-debating-social-complexit…]

The Board of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 4th EAAA Conference to be held at the School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon (Portugal) between 8 and 13 September 2025. The 4th Conference is jointly organised by the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA), the UNIARQ – Centre for Archaeology (School of Arts and Humanities), the CH-ULisboa – Centre for History of the University of Lisbon, ARTIS-Institute of Art History and ACN-Asia Collections Network.

Our long-term member, Professor Koji Mizoguchi, was recently elected as an International Fellow of the British Academy. Koji Mizoguchi is the Professor of Archaeology at Kyushu University's Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies. He is the first Japanese archaeologist and the first researcher from Kyushu University to receive this honour. Over the past decades as a social archaeologist, Mizoguchi has analysed materials such as artefacts, architecture, and human remains to reconstruct how people lived, interacted, and organised their societies. His work aims to uncover the stories behind historical artefacts and experiences, understanding how knowledge is produced and its impact on both past and present societies. To know more about the full news release and Professor Koji Mizoguchi's research, please visit: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-86... https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/topics/view/580 https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K001760/english.html

The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge) will host a two-day symposium on "The Transition to Agriculture at the edges of Eurasia: Neolithisation in the British Isles and the Jomon-Yayoi transition" on July 4-5. This two-day symposium will present the latest advances on the transition to farming in the British Isles and the Japanese archipelago as well as the key outputs of the ENCOUNTER project. A total of 19 speakers will discuss different aspects of this pivotal event, covering aspects such as population genetics, cultural transmission, paleoecology, subsistence economy and paleodemography. The event will be both in person and online (the number of in-person attendees will be limited). For detailed programme and registration: https://www.encounterproject.info/announcements

A workshop on Silk Roads Archaeology organized by SEAA is going to take place in Oxford, UK, on November 7-8, 2024. The workshop includes a free visit to the Silk Roads Exhibition at the British Museum on November 7, followed by a one-day discussion on recent archaeological discoveries and insights drawn from the rich concept of Silk Roads at Oxford on November 8. An official Call for Papers and further information will be posted on our social media platforms and website in mid/late July, and the deadline for submission is planned on August 31. Please save the date!

A hybrid conference on the topic of Archaeology of Food and Foodways co-organized by the Institute of History and Philology of Academica Sinica and SEAA is going to take place on December 5-6, 2024. The conference will be held in hybrid format with the physical location being at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. After the conference, an optional conference tour is offered which runs from December 7-9. An official Call for Papers and further information will follow in August with a planned abstract submission deadline of mid August. Please save the date for this exciting event!