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IFRAO – GLOBAL STATE OF THE ART
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An International Rock Art Meeting at the |
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Rationale The International Federation of Rock Art Organisations (IFRAO) is a federation of national and regional organisations promoting the study of palaeoart and cognitive archaeology globally. Nine members founded the federation in September 1988 in Darwin, Australia. Currently IFRAO has 42 regional member organizations covering most of the globe involving thousands of both professional and amateurs. Over the last 18 years IFRAO has organized, supported or promoted dozens of local and regional meetings on all continents. As a world non-governmental organization, IFRAO, has also organized major international rock art congresses. These IRACs took place in countries as diverse as Australia, Bolivia, China, India, Italy Namibia, Portugal, South Africa and the United States. In 2006 IFRAO will start a new kind of international meeting focusing on “The Global State of the Art” in the discipline of Rock Art. An invitation to this three-day event is extended to researchers and members of the IFRAO organizations, who are warmly asked to present the most relevant discoveries, studies and trends in the field of rock art from the last decade. Our sessions will be concurrent with the other sessions and workshops of the UISPP XV Congress that will take place in Lisbon (Portugal) in September 2006. Presentation of the event Academic Committee IFRAO President, Giriraj Kumar, India. Members Abdelkhalek Lemjidi, Morocco; Alanah Woody, Nevada; Angelo Fossati, Italy; Anne Solomon,South Africa; Anne-Marie Pessis, Brazil; Ara Demirkhanian, Armenia; Arsen Faradjev, Russia; B. K. Swartz Jr , IN – Usa; Carmen Sevillano, Spain; Carol Diaz-Granados MO – Usa; Charles Robert Bailey, MN - U.S.A. Chen Zhao Fu, P. R. China; Dario Seglie, Italy; David Coulson, Kenya; David Morris, South Africa; Edithe da Silva Pereira, Brazil; Eileen C. Brownlie, United Kingdom; Fernando Javier Costas Goberna, Spain; Fidelis T. Masao, Tanzania; Freddy Taboada, Bolivia; Gabriela Martin Avila, Brazil;George Dimitriadis, Greece; Graeme K. Ward, Australia;Guillermo Muñoz, Colombia; Herta Mandl-Neumann, Austria; Jack Steinbring Wi, Usa; Jane Kolber, AZ, U.S.A.; Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, France; Joerg W. Hansen, France; Julian Becares, Spain; K. K. Chakravarty, India; Kevin Sharpe, United Kingdom;Leigh Marymor, AZ - U.S.A.; Lothar Wanke, Austria; Majeed Khan, Saudi Arabia; Maria Soledad Crochon, Spain;María Mercedes Podestá, Argentina; Mario Consens, Uruguay; Matthias Strecker, Bolivia; Nobuhiro Yoshida, Japan; Paul Faulstich, U.S.A.; Paul S. C. Taçon, Australia; Pedro Schimtz, Brasil;Rob Burrett, Zimbabwe; Roy Querejazu Lewis, Bolivia; Thomas W. Wyrwoll, Germany; Vadim A. Ranov,Tadjikistan; Werner Pichler, Austria; Yakov A. Sher, Russia; Yann-Pierre Montelle, U.S.A. Organising Committee João Carlos Baptista, Cláudia Cunha, Angelo Fossati, Ludwig Jaffe, Pierluigi Rosina Meeting President Jean Clottes (Association pour le Rayonnement de L'Art Pariétal Européen and Société Préhistorique Ariège-Pyrénées – France) Meeting Chairpersons Mila Simões de Abreu (APAAR- Portugal) and Hipolito Collado (Colectivo Barbon) Spain Sessions The IFRAO Global State of the Art (IGSA) will be arranged in geographical or thematic sessions proposed both by the organisers (see proposed list) and by participants (see proposal). Each session will be coordinated by at least two persons from two different countries. The coordinators will be responsible for the organization before, during and after their session. This includes invitations, call for papers and selection of papers, chairing the session and pre and post editing of material for the web site or book. The final date for acceptance of new sessions will be 30 September 2005. Papers and posters All aspects of global rock art studies will be addressed, with emphasis on current concerns and developments, the future direction of the discipline and its global priorities. The title, summary and keywords (see proposal) should be sent directly to the session coordinators or to the secretariat of IFRAO by 31 December 2005. Later arrivals may be considered, depending on the discretion of the session coordinators. Summaries will be published on the official web site prior to their presentation. Final texts should include congress feedback. Languages The official languages will be English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Venue Lisbon is Portugal’s capital, a modern cosmopolitan city steeped in tradition. Inhabited since the Palaeolithic, Lisbon has a Roman past that can be seen in ruins like ones of the Roman Theater in the “Baixa” (downtown). Alfama and other surrounding quarters inherited an Arabic tradition and are among the few old areas that survived the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 1755. In the monument zone of Belém (UNESCO world heritage site), which includes the National Archaeological Museum in the monastery of Jerónimos, you can step back to the age of the first voyages around the oceans. The Parque das Nações is a new part of Lisbon, built for the remarkably successful EXPO 98. The surrounding beaches and seaside towns make of Lisbon a pleasant place to visit with all the family. The UISPP congress and IFRAO sessions will take place in the Faculdade de Letras in the “City” of the University of Lisbon. The venue can be easily reached by public and private transport from all parts of town. It is close to the airport and places like the Colombo shopping centre and the football stadiums of Sporting and Benfica. Excursions Besides a free trip during the Congress, participants can take part in a selection of special excursions to rock art sites in Portugal and Spain covering different chronologies and techniques. Excursions, both before and after the UISPP congress, will be guided by researchers and include rock art sites in the Tejo/Tagus Valley, Douro/Côa, Spanish Extremadura and Paleolithic caves. A grand-tour will take in sites both in Portugal and Spain. Registration This will be through the UISPP congress. Please see general information in For further information about the XV UISPP congress see the official web page |