About SEAA Worldwide Conferences
The Society for East Asian Archaeology is dedicated to further promoting interest and research in the field of East Asian Archaeology and to enhancing international and interdisciplinary communication. One of the main activities of SEAA is organizing and attending a worldwide SEAA conference every three years with alternating loci among the major world locations. The SEAA Conference is a means for getting together, and for presenting and discussing the latest outcomes in the field of East Asian archaeology among researchers from East Asia and the world.
Upcoming conferences:
- The Tenth Worldwide SEAA Conference, 19-23 August 2025, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
- Archaeology of Food and Foodways, 5-6 December 2024, co-organized by the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica and SEAA, Academia Sinicia, Taipei, Taiwan
- Silk Roads Archaeology Workshop, 7-8 November 2024, Oxford
Previous conferences:
- Ninth Worldwide SEAA Conference, 29 June - 3 July, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
- Eighth Worldwide SEAA Conference, 8-11 June 2018, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
- Seventh Worldwide SEAA Conference, 8-12 June 2016, Harvard and Boston Universities, Cambridge and Boston (Massachusetts), USA.
- Sixth Worldwide SEAA Conference, June 2014, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- Fifth Worldwide SEAA Conference, 6-10 June, 2012, Kyushu University Nishijin Plaza and Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan
- Fourth Worldwide SEAA Conference, 2-5 June, 2008, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IACASS), Beijing, PR China
- Third Worldwide SEAA Conference, 16-19 June 2004, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
- Second Worldwide SEAA Conference, 6-9 July 2000, University of Durham, Durham, UK.
- First World Conference of EAANetwork, 10-11 April 1996, Hilton Hawaii Village Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
In addition we had several regional conferences and roundtables in the years between the worldwide conferences.
Annual meetings of the amEAAN (the American branch of EAAN) took place from 1990 to 1997, all in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Most of them were organized by Prof. Katheryn M. Linduff (University of Pittsburgh, USA).
1997 a conference of the euroEAAN (the European branch of EAAN) took place in Durham, organized by Prof. Gina L. Barnes (Durham University, England), and in conjunction with the Joint East Asian Studies Conference.
For programs and abstracts of previous conferences see: Past Conferences