News - EASAA

Dev Publishers have announced the publication of the proceedings of EASAA conference in Stockholm (2014) and Cardiff (2016). Here you can find a preview of the books and a link to order them. Dev publishers will also be present in Barcelona in July for you to see the books and purchase them!

South Asian Archaeology and Art 2014
(Edited by Eva Myrdal, 2020, Hardcover, 28cms, 368pp..+figures USD 80, Inclusive of expedited shipping)

About The Book: Papers Presented at the Twenty-Second International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art held at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities/National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm, Sweden. From June 30 to July 4, 2014 100 researchers, curators, and PhD students from 20 nations and 3 continents met in Stockholm, Sweden for discussions and exchange of ideas during the 22nd conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art. The National Museums of World Culture (NMWC) hosted the conference that was held at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.The opening address was held by Professor emerita Romila Thapar, India and Dr Eva Myrdal, senior researcher at the NMWC, acted as President for the EASAA 22. Dr Myrdal has…

These two volumes, published by Dev, comprise a superb range of papers presented at the conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA) which took place at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, at the start of July 2016. The volumes include thirty-eight papers with a total of fifty-five authors from across the globe. Volume I encompasses ground-breaking research on the archaeology, epigraphy and iconography of the Indian subcontinent and of the neighboring countries of Central Asia, spanning a time-frame of approximately six-thousand years, bringing readers up to the fifth century CE. Beginning in the third century BCE and culminating in the twenty-first century Volume II assembles a rich collection of papers on Buddhist, Hindu and Mughal architecture; on paintings of both a religious and secular nature; on sculpture; on heritage, and on the practice of making.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 25th Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art that will take place in Barcelona on July 13th to 17th 2020. The conference will be held at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Campus Ciutadella in the very heart of the city and will be hosted by the Department of Humanities.

Colleagues are invited to submit an abstract for a 20-minute oral presentation or, alternatively, for a poster presentation. Abstracts, no longer than 350 words in text format (.doc, .docx, or .rtf format), should be submitted before December 17th 2019 to the address easaa2020barcelona@gmail.com. Decision on the acceptance will be communicated to the authors no later than February 15th 2020. Colleagues who need an earlier decision for funding application, should submit the abstract as soon as possible stating their funding deadline so that the committee can provide a timely decision.

Conference contributions should draw on current and unpublished research relating to the archaeology and art history of South Asia, from all periods. However, we welcome topics from neighboring regions if they throw light on South Asian archaeology or art history. Submissions by PhD candidates should be accompanied by a letter…

The School of the History of Art at the Edinburgh College of Art will host the 19th American Council for Southern Asian Arts Symposium from November 7-9, 2019.

For more information, please visit https://acsaa-symposium.eca.ed.ac.uk/

Bridget Allchin, who has died at the age of 90, was a pioneer in the field of South Asian archaeology. During her career, she made some of the most important discoveries of South Asian prehistory, and laid the foundations for (now standard) interdisciplinary approaches to its study. She also played a pivotal role in promoting and facilitating South Asian studies across Europe.

Born Bridget Gordon on February the 10th 1927 in Oxford, the daughter of Major Stephen Gordon of the Indian Army Medical Service and Elsie (née Cox), Bridget spent her childhood in Scotland. During the Second World War, she helped her mother run the family farm, which at that time also involved looking after evacuees and even a German prisoner of war. It was here, inspired by the works of William Sollas, that she resolved to study prehistory at university. However, archaeology was not taught as a degree in Britain at the time. So she enrolled for a Batchelor’s degree at University College London that included Ancient History, and spent her Easter holidays excavating a prehistoric site in Oxford.

Her studies were interrupted when her parents moved to South Africa; and Bridget was compelled to follow them. She planned…

Dr F.R. Allchin, FSA, FBA (1923-2010)

It is with great sadness that we announce the demise, after a short illness, of Dr. Raymond Allchin, who sadly passed away on the 4th of June at Addenbrookes Hospital, at the age of 86. Husband of Bridget, father of Sushila & William, grandfather of Benjamin, Joseph & Hannah and great grandfather to Rosa.

Raymond Allchin was born in Harrow in 1923 and educated at Westminster, but his lifetime commitment to South Asia came when he was posted there during the War in 1944. Quickly switching interests from architecture to archaeology, Raymond was appointed a Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1954 before moving to Cambridge in 1959. Following a career of fieldwork and research across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, he retired from Cambridge University with the title of Emeritus Reader in South Asian Archaeology in 1989. Now freed from University burdens, Raymond committed the next twenty years to developing the research profile of The Ancient India and Iran Trust.

Together with his wife, Bridget Allchin, he influenced generations of students and scholars through his joint and edited publications on the archaeology and history of South Asia.…