Upcoming Conferences RAC/TRAC 2024 London UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, WC1H 0AL 11th-14th April 2024 The Call for Papers is now closed. Registration now open! Click here to register and buy tickets. We are pleased to invite you to 32nd edition of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Every two years the TRAC and RAC are organised as a combined conference. This year the location for this will be London, with UCL being the host institution. The conference venue will be at the UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society located at 2O Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL. A full session program can be consulted here. This year the TRAC part of the combined conference will contain 9 themed sessions and one general session. As every year the fantastic TRAC community has proposed a great variety of themed sessions, targeting topics from post-pop-culture to post-materialism and post-colonialism. Digital tools and ‘Big Data’ have dedicated sessions, as critical methods of any future archaeologies, whilst Mario Puddu’s session is dedicated to the physical and academic labour of fieldwork, and its impact on the archaeologists’ body. We do realise that London is a very expensive city to travel to and the costs for the conference would exceed some potential delegates’ capability to attend. In order to offer support a small number of travel grants are available (up to 100£ each). For further details please click here. Conference proceedings are not published, but some of the papers appear as articles in the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ). TRAC 2024 Sessions 27. Investigating Public Spaces with Digital Tools Alexander Braun (University of Cologne, alexanderbraun6@freenet.de), Kamil Kopij (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, k.kopij@uj.edu.pl) 28. Theoretical Approaches to Big data in Roman archaeology Penny Coombe (Getty Research Institute/University of Reading, pclcoombe@gmail.com), Nicky Garland (Archaeology Data Service, nicky.garland@york.ac.uk) 29. Going theoretical: Roman archaeology in South-eastern Europe Ewan Coopey (Macquarie University, ewan.coopey@hdr.mq.edu.au), Thomas J. Derrick (Macquarie University, tjderrick@gmail.com), Jere Drpić (Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, drpic.jere@gmail.com), Kaja Stemberger Flegar (PJP d.o.o., kaja.stemberger@gmail.com) 30. Inclusion and Exclusion: Ritual Practice in the Roman World and Beyond Alessandra Esposito (King’s Digital Lab, alessandra.g.esposito@kcl.ac.uk), Jason Lundock (Full Sail University, jlundock@fullsail.edu), Kaja Stemberger Flegar (PJP d.o.o., kaja.stemberger@pjpdoo.com), David Walsh (Newcastle University, david.walsh@ newcastle.ac.uk) 33. For a fistful of Daleks: scholarship, popular culture, Roman world Ljubica Perinić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; bperinic@gmail.com), Anton Baryshnikov (Russian State University for the Humanities, baryshnikov85@gmail.com), Andrew Gardner (UCL, andrew.gardner@ucl.ac.uk) 34. For a Feminist, Postcolonial, Roman Archaeology Mauro Puddu (Venice, mauro.puddu@unive.it) 35. The Body of the (Roman) Archaeologist (Or, against ‘Fast-Archaeology) Mauro Puddu (Venice, mauro.puddu@unive.it) 36. Theorising arts and crafts Kaja Stemberger Flegar (PJP d.o.o., kaja.stemberger@pjpdoo.com), Jason Lundock (Full Sail University, lundock.jason@gmail.com) 37.Sexuality, Gender, and Roman Imperialism Sanja Vucetic (University of Sheffield, s.vucetic@sheffield.ac.uk) and Kelsey Madden (University of Sheffield, ksmadden1@sheffield.ac.uk) TRAC General Session Acknowledgements This is event was made possible thanks to generous support of the Society for Roman Studies, University College London (UCL) and the work of the TRAC Local Organising Committee, with the support of the TRAC Standing Committee. TRAC 2025 (TBA) Applications are now open for prospective hosts for TRAC 2025. Please send any queries or expressions of interest to our Chair/Secretary (not sure who?) by 31st August 2024 (?). To register your interest, please send your Expression of Interest containing the following: – where the conference sessions would be hosted – who would make up the local organising committee – possible venues for evening events – possible destinations for excursions – accommodation options in the location RAC/TRAC 2026 (TBA) Applications are now open for prospective hosts for RAC/TRAC 2026. Every four years RAC/TRAC takes place in a non-UK location, in order to broaden the community and access to the conference. The Archaeology Committee of the Roman Society is thus now inviting Expressions of Interest from non-UK institutions who wish to host the joint RAC/TRAC conference in 2026. Host institutions must cover all conference organisation and venue booking themselves, as well as some excursion activities to places of interest in the region of the conference venue. They receive some financial support from the Roman Society, as well as advice and support in publicising the event. To register your interest, please send your Expression of Interest containing the following: – where the conference sessions would be hosted – who would make up the local organising committee – possible venues for evening events – possible destinations for excursions – accommodation options in the location to Dr Ursula Rothe, chair of the Archaeology Committee (Ursula.rothe@open.ac.uk), by 31st March 2024.