Want to do more than participate?
ASA Conferences are an on-going series of conferences organised by
students, for students, to allow for the continued development of student
involvement with academic archaeology. In order to make this ambition a reality
we need students from around the country to pull together and organise another
inspiring ASA conference for 2014 and beyond.
The ASA ideal sees students coming together to put on an event for students across the country, at low costs and with high impact. Such an event is a significant undertaking and requires a level of dedication, as well as a belief in what it is that the ASA conference symbolises. This first conference has laid stable foundations for future years, with promotional links, social media outlets and organisational templates to allow for even smoother and wider reaching conferences in the future. Furthermore, it is important that new ideas continue to be integrated into the way that ASA conferences are run, and as such we hope next year’s conference will see new developments as well as exciting and innovative new ways of further developing the conference.
We are looking for a team of students at Masters or Undergraduate level of study interested in understanding the past, who are dedicated and hardworking individuals willing to put in the necessary work to make next year’s conference a success. If successful your team would receive all of the information that went into organising this year’s conference, as well as the technological infrastructure that was created. Furthermore any profits from this year’s conference would go into the production of ASA2 for use at the discretion of the new organising team. While advice and support would be on hand as and when required from the outgoing organising committee, the structure and organisation of ASA2 would be entirely at the hands of the new committee.
If you are part of a university which you feel has the capacity to put on the Second Annual Student Archaeology Conference and would like your university to be formally considered as the next base for ASA, then please get in contact through [email protected]. For formal consideration you will be required to fill in a short application form where you will be asked to consider what both you, and the organisation you represent, can bring to this national conference.
We believe that the ASA has the capacity to become a long running and reliable annual conference. As such the new organising committee would take on the role of the current committee, handing over to another team for 2015, ensuring the continuation of the conference and in so doing, becoming a part of a truly national student movement. Running this year’s conference has been a pleasure and a delight as well as a fantastic challenge for us. ASA conferences are not only a fantastic place to learn about and debate archaeological research through attendance, but organising this one has provided many fantastic moments, and taught us more than we thought possible at the start.
We sincerely hope that you consider applying to run next year’s ASA conference, and with it gain the technological, financial and student support that this year’s conference has successfully built up. By bringing together research from different areas of the past in a continuing tradition, and encouraging national, not regional, participation we can do far more, and have a far greater impact than separate and divided approaches.
The ASA ideal sees students coming together to put on an event for students across the country, at low costs and with high impact. Such an event is a significant undertaking and requires a level of dedication, as well as a belief in what it is that the ASA conference symbolises. This first conference has laid stable foundations for future years, with promotional links, social media outlets and organisational templates to allow for even smoother and wider reaching conferences in the future. Furthermore, it is important that new ideas continue to be integrated into the way that ASA conferences are run, and as such we hope next year’s conference will see new developments as well as exciting and innovative new ways of further developing the conference.
We are looking for a team of students at Masters or Undergraduate level of study interested in understanding the past, who are dedicated and hardworking individuals willing to put in the necessary work to make next year’s conference a success. If successful your team would receive all of the information that went into organising this year’s conference, as well as the technological infrastructure that was created. Furthermore any profits from this year’s conference would go into the production of ASA2 for use at the discretion of the new organising team. While advice and support would be on hand as and when required from the outgoing organising committee, the structure and organisation of ASA2 would be entirely at the hands of the new committee.
If you are part of a university which you feel has the capacity to put on the Second Annual Student Archaeology Conference and would like your university to be formally considered as the next base for ASA, then please get in contact through [email protected]. For formal consideration you will be required to fill in a short application form where you will be asked to consider what both you, and the organisation you represent, can bring to this national conference.
We believe that the ASA has the capacity to become a long running and reliable annual conference. As such the new organising committee would take on the role of the current committee, handing over to another team for 2015, ensuring the continuation of the conference and in so doing, becoming a part of a truly national student movement. Running this year’s conference has been a pleasure and a delight as well as a fantastic challenge for us. ASA conferences are not only a fantastic place to learn about and debate archaeological research through attendance, but organising this one has provided many fantastic moments, and taught us more than we thought possible at the start.
We sincerely hope that you consider applying to run next year’s ASA conference, and with it gain the technological, financial and student support that this year’s conference has successfully built up. By bringing together research from different areas of the past in a continuing tradition, and encouraging national, not regional, participation we can do far more, and have a far greater impact than separate and divided approaches.