Dec 17 2009

From the Crossroads of Civilizations: Understanding Cultural Diversity to Connect Societies

UNIVERSITY OF AHI EVRAN FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Congress President: Erksin GÜLEÇ

E-mail: gulec@humanity.ankara.edu.tr

Phone: +903.862.114.045 Fax: +903.862.114.046

October 3-6, 2010, ANTALYA, TURKEY

To all IUAES Members and Interested Scholars

Concerning 2010 IUAES Inter-Congress Antalya, Turkey

The Ahi Evran University Department of Anthropology is proud to announce to you the 2010 IUAES Inter-Congress to be held October 3-6 2010 in Antalya, Turkey.

Since our approval to host the congress, preparations and arrangements have been conducted in collaboration with various anthropology departments, professors, and graduate students across Turkey. Our collaborative efforts promise to bring a diverse, exciting, and informative Inter-Congress.

Turkey’s location at a point where three continents of the old world are closest to each other and where Asia and Europe meet has served as a crossroads that is one of the few areas that has been continuously inhabited since the dawn of mankind. The archeological richness is a telling measure of the human history of cultural interaction, conflict, and integration that shape the region. Since the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1925 anthropology as a discipline has assumed an important role in understanding and theorizing cultural exchanges between ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse Anatolian peoples and their neighbors; we are honored to strengthen this legacy with IUAES.

We believe that the physical and metaphorical bridge that Turkey embodies creates an optimum perspective from which to approach, investigate, and share with one another methods for exploring key anthropological subjects: cultural diversity, multiculturalism, migration, transnationalism, the other, belonging, and religion, politics, ethnicity, culture, and gender. With this in mind, the general theme for the Inter-Congress has been chosen as follows: "From the Crossroads of Civilizations: Understanding Cultural Diversity to Connect Societies". We plan to touch on some of the biggest challenges to understand the individual and human societies in the age of global capitalism: the rapid movement from rural to urban, emigration, and transnational networks. We anticipate a diversity of papers and poster presentations from all the regions of the world on anthropological and ethnological subjects. Abstract submissions will be accepted April 15 – July 1, 2010 and notifaciton of acceptance will be given August 1, 2010. All abstracts can be e-mailed to the organization commitee listed below.

Ancient Antalya (Attaleia) was regarded as “the most beautiful place in the world.” Today’s Antalya, just as beautiful, is a sprawling modern city with a small, charming historic core, a good archeology museum, many ancient Lycian, Pisidian, and Pamphylian sites, a long sunny beach, the Turquoise coast’s best hotels, and many dramatic sea and mountain views. The conference will be held at the Atlantis Hotel, 40 km from downtown and 35 km from Antalya International Airport (www.celebi-ic.com / www.aytport.com). Your best option for travel may be Turkish Airlines (www. thy.com). Preparations for the organization of events and travel are being made through ASTERYA travel company (www.asterya.com). The early registration deadline is August 20, 2010. Online registration through ASTERYA will be available then. Three days preceeding and following the conferance excursions will be arranged to various sites in Antalya, Istanbul, Cappadocia and Ephesus. According to our budget we will aim to support some scholars with financial constraints.

We anticipate the 2010 IUAES Inter-congress will be an actualization of our commitment to the generation and dissemination of scientific knowledge that we share with the IUAES and European College of Anthropological Sciences.

3 – 6 October 2010 accommodation fees in Atlantis Hotel

on all inclusive basis:

In Double Room Per Person Per Night: 75.-Euro

Single Room per Night: 115.-Euro

Exchange rate: 1Euro= 2.03 TL

Please direct your questions to:

Organization Committee:

Anna Heumann

aheuma1@tigers.lsu.edu

Ferhat Kaya

ferhatkaya@att.net

For travel arrangments please contact:

ASTERYA Travel Agency

Banu Akman

banu@asterya.com

ODTU Yerleskesi, Yurtlar Bolgesi,

Terminal Binasi, 06550 Ankara

tel: +90-312-2103861

fax: +90-312-2103868

mobile: +90-532-5202950