[RNLD] Fwd: Reminder Abstracts Due March 1st

[Nick Thieberger]

The International Society for Archaeoastronomy & Astronomy in Culture
(ISAAC), The University of the Western Cape, The South African Astronomical
Observatory, and The African Cultural Astronomy Network Announce

 Official Call for Abstracts Oxford X 2014


The Oxford X theme is ³Astronomy, Indigenous Knowledge, and Interpretation.²
There has been an ongoing tension in archaeoastronomy over interpretations
of alignments and sky knowledge that are consistent with existing knowledge
of the culture under examination. Added to this is the possibility that when
working with living cultures more than one interpretation may exist.
Indigenous Knowledge Studies (IKS) which works from within cultures is
working to incorporate sky knowledge, whereas cultural astronomy is working
to incorporate more knowledge about cultures. The conference will bring
together these communities and others to examine the linkages, theories, and
INTERPRETATIONS of the human relationship to the sky.

The School Teacher & Graduate Student workshop is July 12 & 13, 2014 before
the conference at SAAO Auditorium.

 Call for Abstracts:

Please submit abstracts of between 400 and 600 words on the theme of
"Astronomy, Indigenous Knowledge, and Interpretation" or more broadly on
archaeoastronomy, history of astronomy, literature, divination, art,
biography, or other areas of research connected to studying people and their
relationships to the sky. The conference is multidisciplinary so please
state in the abstract from which discipline you have drawn your data
collection and analysis methods. Include your hypothesis/theory, data
source, and conclusions.  About cited references:

Your abstract may be sent back asking for references if they are not
included and deemed necessary by the SOC.  References are not included in
the abstract word count.

Please email abstracts directly in the body of the email to
oxfordx2014 at gmail.com.

NO ATTACHMENTS PLEASE!

Deadlines:

Abstracts Due March 1, 2014

Decisions before April 1, 2014

Conference Details:

Venue: South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), Cape Town, South
Africa

Dates: July 14 - 19, 2014

Conference Website:

culturalastronomy.saao.ac.za <http://culturalastronomy.saao.ac.za/>



The International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture
(ISAAC) and the Oxford Conferences in Archaeoastronomy

http://www2.archaeoastronomy.org/index.php/about-isaac


African Cultural Astronomy Network
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