Call for Papers now open!

The Call for Papers for the SHA 2025 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology in New Orleans, Louisiana, 8^th to 11^th January, 2025 is now open at www.conftool.com/sha2025. The theme for the conference is Landscapes in Transition: Looking to the Past to Adapt to the Future.

The Call for Papers for the 2025 Conference offers presenters the following options:

1. OPEN vs. CLOSED SYMPOSIA. Symposium organizers can choose whether their session is “open” to additional presenters in the session or “closed” to additional presenters. Organizers will need to indicate this when they submit their session. For OPEN symposia, the title, abstract and organizer contact information will be posted to the SHA Conference page at https://sha.org/conferences/. Individuals interested in submitting their paper to a particular “open” symposium must contact the organizer to request permission to submit to the session prior to submitting their abstract. The Conference Program Committee may also assign relevant general submissions to an open symposium, subject to the approval of the organizers. For CLOSED symposia, only presenters identified by the organizer at the time the session abstract is submitted will present in that session.
2. IN-PERSON vs. PRE-RECORDED PRESENTATION. You will be asked to indicate whether you will be presenting your paper/session in person at the conference in New Orelans or whether you wish to pre-record your paper/session and have it uploaded to a website platform for viewing by conference registrants. All forum and poster presentations must be in-person. It is at the discretion of a symposium organizer or general submission paper author as to whether their contribution is pre-recorded or in-person, but there will be no mixing and matching of formats within a session. This means that all papers in an in-person symposium must be presented by an individual in New Orleans; no pre-recorded presentations will be permitted for in-person symposia (or vice versa). All pre-recorded papers and sessions will be uploaded to the virtual conference platform and included in the conference program.

Important dates

The abstract submission period for the 2025 Call for Papers will close June 30^th, 2024. If you have questions on the Call for Papers or using ConfTool to submit your abstract, please contact the Program Chairs at nolasha2025@gmail.com or SHA Headquarters at hq@sha.org.

Registration for the 2025 Conference will open on October 1, 2024.

For more information, please see Society for Historical Archaeology: SHA 2025 Conference Call for Papers Now Open!