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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The International Association for Critical Antiquities (IACA) welcomes the submission of abstracts for its inaugural conference to be held in Paris, France,
<b>21-23 June 2027</b>.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The IACA aims to foster research and collaboration at the intersection of the academic
study of critical theory and ancient worlds, broadly understood across diverse historical periods, cultural traditions, and disciplinary approaches.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The IACA builds upon and extends the collaborative foundations established by the Critical Antiquities Network (CAN) to support scholars, students, and independent researchers working internationally
in the study of Critical Antiquities. Its concern is examining the ways antiquity and contemporary social, political, and cultural questions may illuminate each other. More information about the Critical Antiquities approach can be found at
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The IACA welcomes submissions that advance the interdisciplinary exchange among scholars working across philosophy, classics, history, political theory, archaeology, law, literary studies, religious
studies, anthropology, and other relevant fields. We are committed to developing innovative approaches to the study of antiquity that move beyond narrowly antiquarian or disciplinary concerns, while remaining attentive to historical specificity, cultural difference,
and the complexities of interpretation. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Open Call:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Please send abstracts of roughly 250 words. If selected, presenters should plan papers of appropriate length for a twenty-minute conference presentation followed by a brief period of discussion.
We hope to gather an inclusive group of speakers from multiple backgrounds and a diversity of academic ranks; we especially encourage submissions from scholars belonging to underrepresented communities in their field of study. All abstracts should be submitted
at the following link by <b>11:59pm (CET)</b> on <b>1</b> <b>December, 2026: </b>
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an Abstract - 2027 International Association for Critical Antiquities Conference</u></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">All papers will be peer-reviewed and may address topics including but not limited to slavery, debt, law, democracy, authoritarianism, social collapse and renewal, religion, and the methods of
Critical Antiquities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">While the conference will run in a hybrid format to allow online audience attendance, please note that all presentations are to be given in person. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All participants will need to be current members of the International Association for Critical Antiquities in order to register for the conference. Both association membership and conference
registration will open in early 2027.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Confirmed speakers: </b></span></p>
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<div role="presentation"><span style="text-transform: none;"><b>Simona Forti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)</b></span></div>
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<div role="presentation"><span style="text-transform: none;"><b>Leopoldo Iribarren (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)</b></span></div>
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<div role="presentation"><span style="text-transform: none;"><b>Alessandro Mulieri (CNRS/Sciences Po, Paris)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The conference will be held at the University of Chicago’s International Institute of Research in Paris within the John W Boyer Center. The address is 41 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, France.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For further information, please contact
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><a href="mailto:enquiries@criticalantiquities.org" title="mailto:enquiries@criticalantiquities.org" data-outlook-id="ce23a0cd-6a44-4d2b-9ecd-7d0fad6b83b6" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>enquiries@criticalantiquities.org</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span></p>
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Best wishes from the conference convenors,</div>
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Tristan Bradshaw </div>
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