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Calendar of Events—2012 Meetings The first Zooarchaeology in Portugal conference (ZAP 2012), to be held in Portugal on the 8th and 9th March 2012. More information here. The Southern Anthropological Society's 47th Annual Meeting will meet in Birmingham, Alabama. The conference theme is Peace, Justice, and the Environment (from an Anthropological Perspective). Check out the conference website. A "Subsistence and Animals" session will be held at the conference Where the Wild Thins Are: Recent Advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research at the University of Durham, UK. More at the conference website. The Society of Ethnobiology invites you to our 2012 conference, "Conservation and Communities." to be held April 11 – 14, 2012 at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Colorado. This year's conference theme explores the importance and power of linking conservation efforts to communities. See the announcement in BoneCommons for more details. The Society for American Archaeology conference will take place in Memphis, Tennessee. The program lists a number of archaeozoology-related sessions, including "The Human/Dog Relationship," "Raw Material Perspectives on Technological Choice and Change," "Paleoecology and Taphonomy of Faunal Landscapes," "Zooarchaeology of Coastal Mesolithic," "Zooarchaeology and Animal Use," and "Zooarchaeological Methods and Applications." View the full program. The Association for Environmental Archaeology spring conference New trends in Environmental Archaeology will be held at Plymouth University, UK. Abstracts are due March 1, 2012. See here for more details. "Bioarchaeology in the Ancient Near East" session at the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE). View the full program. Early Farmers: The view from Archaeology and Science conference will be held at Cardiff University, UK. Visit the conference website for more information. El Encuentro Latinoamericano de Zooarqueologia (ELAZ) in Santiago, Chile. The first academic meeting of the Neotropical Zooarchaeology Working Group (NZWG) will be held in Santiago de Chile on June 1, 2012. It will be a one-day workshop on the issue Towards a Zooarchaeology of the Neotropics. See the NZWG page for more information. The next ICAZ working group on Archaeozoology and Genetics will take place in Basel, Switzerland from June 4 – 6, 2012. See the A&G Working Group page for more details. The third independent meeting of the Archaeomalacology Working Group (AMWG) will be held in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Visit the AMWG website for more details. A one-day conference on Integrating Zooarchaeology and Stable Isotope Analyses will be held at the MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Abstract submissions should be sent no later than Wednesday, 14 March 2012 for full consideration. Please send abstracts and questions to Suzanne Pilaar Birch (sp518@cam.ac.uk). The "Human/Animal" symposium of the International Medieval Society (IMS) will be held in Paris, France. The 8th annual Stanley J. Olsen Memorial Eagle Lake Zooarchaeology Conference will be held at Eagle Lake Field Station in northeastern California, USA. This year's theme is Zooarchaeology and Ecology: A Match Made in Heaven. Contact Deanna Grimstead (dng@email.arizona.edu) or Kelly Beck (raymond.beck@anthro.utah.edu). The 7th BWG meeting will be held August 27 – September 01, 2012, at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. There will be three days of presentations plus a trip of one/two days to Moldavia region/Danube Delta. View the call for papers and registration form in BoneCommons.For more information about the conference, contact: Luminita Bejenaru, E-mail: lumib@uaic.ro The biennial business meeting of the ICAZ International Committee and the business meeting of the Executive Committee will be held at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul, Turkey. The business meeting will be followed by a one-day scientific meeting (October 6, Saturday) entitled World Archaeozoology Today: International Approaches to Common Problems. The international conference on Use-Wear Analysis will be held in Faro, Portugal. See the conference website for more information. You can announce an upcoming meeting or event on the ICAZ Website or in the next ICAZ Newsletter* by e-mailing ICAZ Newsletter Editor Angela Trentacoste at a.trentacoste@sheffield.ac.uk. *Submission deadlines for the biannual ICAZ Newsletter are April 15 (Spring issue) and October 15 (Fall issue).
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