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The Call for Papers for the SHA 2027 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology is now open

Posted On: 05/01/2026

Dear SHA Members,

The Call for Papers for the SHA 2027 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, January 6-9, 2027 in Austin, Texas is now available for download on the SHA website at https://sha.org/2027-conference-austin-texas/.  Please review the information in the call for papers and then follow the link on the Conference web page to submit abstracts for symposiums, forums/panels, or individual papers and posters.

The conference theme, Reflection on the Power of Place, invites you to consider how locations both create and conversely are shaped by culture. Through various forms of storytelling, collective action, and events, places can become powerful expressions of identity. In exploring this theme, we recognize that our inquiries are deeply rooted in the unique and diverse histories and identities of the places we study. The vast region that we today call Texas has served as a powerful anchor to Indigenous communities’ cultural and spiritual practices for millennia. Communities such as the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Karankawa, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa, and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo have and continue to define its cultural landscape.

Beyond that, Texas has seen many flags shape and reshape its culture and history. Between the Spanish and French Empires, the Mexican and Texas Republics, the United States, and the Confederacy, the geographic region that is Texas has long served as a backdrop through which global history has played out. Texas’ sense of place is embodied through its symbolism, architecture, and iconic landscapes. Its material record reflects the place-bound stories of those who experienced, responded to, and negotiated life within its boundaries.

The year 2027 marks the 60th anniversary of the SHA annual conference, an event that was born deep in the heart of Texas. Texas has played a role in some important firsts in the society’s history: the first annual conference was held at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas in 1967.  The organizing committee is excited to host the SHA conference back where it all began in Texas, and we look forward to reflecting on the influence that Austin and the state of Texas have on the future of archaeological praxis.

The Call for Papers will close on June 30, 2026.  If you need assistance with submitting your abstract for the 2027 Conference, please contact the SHA Austin Committee at shaAustin2027@gmail.com or the SHA office at hq@sha.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Austin for the 2027 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology!

The SHA 2027 Conference Committee

CFP: Harbor Archaeology: Between Local Communities and Connective Seas

Harbor Archaeology: Between Local Communities and Connective Seas

The Maritime Archaeology Interest Group of the AIA (MAIG) invites abstracts for a session focusing on the ways that ports, harbors and their attendant spaces shaped – and were shaped – by the diverse communities that inhabited them. Harbors, ranging from monumental urban ports to informal anchorages, exist at the intersection of the global and the local. These spaces serve as nodes in interregional exchange and loci for imperially or nationally sponsored building programs. At the same time, they are also lived spaces utilized by communities for economic opportunity, resource procurement, and community building. This panel puts the local at the forefront, centering community experience from the Shores of the Great Lakes to the wine-dark waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

We recognize harbors as flexible, multifaceted, and evolving spaces, encompassing large-scale seaports, as well as natural inlets, lakeshores, rivers, and beachfronts. Whatever their form, harbors were centers for diverse activities with distinct archaeological footprints. Far from static, they frequently underwent processes of decay, abandonment, reuse, and resurgence.

We seek papers that examine the reciprocal relationship between these changing spaces and the people that inhabited them. As liminal spaces of exchange and mobility, harbors shape cultural identities, religious expression, economic strategies, and political actions. Harborscapes are equally transformed by communities who navigated, ascribed meaning to, and negotiated their place within them. In conversation with the Annual Meeting’s theme of ‘Care and Mutual Aid,’ we especially welcome contributions addressing how communities were constructed and sustained in dynamic maritime landscapes. Hosted in Boston, a historic port city shaped by centuries of exchange, migration, labor, and resistance, this conversation is particularly apt. We aim to highlight how harbors function not only as nodes of connectivity, but as lived environments that actively structure daily life.

Please Note:  We invite paper proposals for a session at the 2027 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in Boston, January 7 – 10, 2027. Abstract submissions will close March 18, 2026. The session organizers will review abstracts and send decisions to authors in April. The session will only run if given final approval by the AIA. This is planned as a hybrid panel.

Application Submission: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdI24mKX6gMwFt-rFOuHtlkW7ac7xdhKiOfxg52gCcHUhrhVQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

CFP: Challenges in Maritime Archaeology

Call for Papers

Date

August 7, 2024 – October 15, 2024

Location

Connecticut, United States

Subject Fields

Ancient History, Archaeology, Maritime History / Studies, Social Sciences

Mainsheet, a peer-reviewed journal of multidisciplinary maritime studies published by Mystic Seaport Museum, is seeking submissions for an upcoming issue on “Challenges in Maritime Archaeology.”

The submission deadline is October 15, 2024. Please see our CFP for details: https://www.mainsheet.mysticseaport.org/post/2624-deadline-extension-for-cfp-challenges-in-maritime-archaeology 

Submissions are subject to double blind peer review. Accepted papers are published online open access with no fee to authors, in addition to our beautifully designed print version. The journal is multidisciplinary and global in scope and is intended to be accessible to both academics and interested non-academics. Our first issue, on Maritime Social History, is here: https://www.mainsheet.mysticseaport.org/issue/8878.

Contact Information

Dr. Michelle I. Turner, Managing Editor

Mystic Seaport Museum
75 Greenmanville Ave.
Mystic, CT  06355

Contact Email

michelle.turner@mysticseaport.org

CFP: 49th ALBERT REED & THELMA WALKER MARITIME SYMPOSIUM

49th ALBERT REED & THELMA WALKER MARITIME SYMPOSIUM

“RESURFACED”

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2024 (BATH, MAINE)

The depths of the ocean hold mysteries yet to be revealed, however, there are truths waiting to be discovered beneath the surface.  It is through diligent inquiry and open-minded exploration that we can begin to dive into the riches concealed below to enhance our collective understanding of the environment, our past, our creative endeavors, and our communities.

Maine Maritime Museum is pleased to announce its symposium “Resurfaced” on November 15, 2024. The symposium is interdisciplinary and seeks presenters from industry, science, and the humanities—including history, art history, nautical archaeology, ecology, maritime law, and other fields. We encourage presenters to approach the theme of “resurfaced” in broad and creative ways. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, how historical research champions underrepresented stories, how scientific data shifts understandings in marine ecosystems, how indigenous knowledge can inform waterway conservation,  how archaeological discoveries provide cultural insights into the past, and how economic studies reveal the impact of coastal industries.

Abstracts

Abstracts should be 300 words or less and will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Decisions will be made by August 2, 2024.

Please send abstracts to abstracts@maritimeme.org by July 15, 2024