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Save the Date! SEAA10 Conference, August 19-23, 2025

10th SEAA Aberdeen, Scotland, UKKey Information:

  • Publication of call for papers, posters, and sessions: Now Live!
  • Registration and abstracts due: November 29, 2024
  • Conference dates: August 19-23, 2025

The 10th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology will be held next year in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Please save the date and plan for your papers and visits. The conference dates are August 19-23rd, 2025.  The call for papers, posters, and sessions is now open and registration and abstracts, to be submitted by November 29, 2024.  Topics can cover the archaeology of East Asia and adjacent regions including Eurasia, North Asia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia as well as the East Asian diaspora worldwide. There will be concurrent sessions and plenty of space for posters. Our meeting will be hosted by the Department of Archaeology in the School of Geosciences. 

The conference will take place on the historic campus of the University of Aberdeen (https://www.abdn.ac.uk), one of the ancient universities of Britain in one of the northernmost cities of the British Isles. Don’t worry, it is connected by air and train and road to the UK and Europe. 

We will have field trips!  This includes the Aberdeenshire archaeology mid-conference trip. The mid conference trip includes a full day trip to visit some of Aberdeenshire's archaeological remains, including megalithic stone circles, Pictish carved stones, Iron Age settlement and more (available for all participants, packed lunch provided). The conference will facilitate several post-conference tours or 1 to 4 days in length. These will go forward depending on interest. Please check any that you are interested in:

  • One day guided trip around the tourist sites of Aberdeenshire, including a castle, lunch at regional hotel and visit of a whisky
    distillery. (c. £115 per person).       
  • Two-day guided trip around tourist sites of Northeast Scotland (c. £300, single occupancy)
  • Behind the scenes visit to the East Asian holdings of the National Museum of Scotland, (Edinburgh) and the Burrell Collection (Glasgow). 2 days, including overnight stay, transport, and fees ( c. £500 per person, single occupancy)
  • Guided trip to the World Heritage sites and archaeology of the Orkney islands, 2 nights and 3 days  (c. £1,000.00 per person single occupancy + transport by sea).       

Are you also planning a trip to the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) meetings in Belgrade? That is 3-6 September 2025, so the SEAA will fit nicely right before. 

If you have any questions please contact Dr Joshua Wright, the organiser of the conference at jwright@aberdeen.ac.uk

We are looking forward to seeing all of you in Aberdeen!

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