Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15 – July 5, 2010

Tentative IUAES 2010 Session Topics:
“From the Crossroads of Civilizations: Understanding Diversity to Connect Societies”

The main topics for the symposia are:

Social/Cultural

• Knowledge, Imagination, and Strategies for Well-being and Empowerment: Gendered Obstacles and Opportunities
• Anthropology of Globalization
• Local Identity and Transnational Social Space: The Decolonization of the (Indigenous) Mind
• Food and Identity Politics and Modernization
• Contemporary Middle Eastern Culture
• On Religious Movement: Space-Time Dynamics of Religious Practice
• Religious Collective Action
• Transnational German-Turkish Networks
• Integrating Islam and Modernity
• Ethnography of Turkey and the Balkans
• Anthropology and Islam
• Globalization and Religious Cultures
• Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the EU
• Myth Creation and Identity
• Monotheism and Indigenous Religion
• Transnationalism: EU and the Middle East
• Secularism and Multiculturalism

Biological

• Evolution and Creationism and Evolution Education
• Miocene Hominoids Dispersal and Early Hominid Evolution
• Visualization of Homo erectus in Eurasia
• Molecular Anthropology
• Ancient DNA Studies
• The Genetic Basis of Brain Development and Evolution
• Multiethnic Origins of Ancient Civilization in Anatolia
• Genealogy, Evolution, and Influence
• Causes of Chronological Changes in Craniofacial Morphology
• Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans
• Co-evolution of Genes and Culture
• Human Ecology and Anthropometrics
• Sexuality and Reproduction in the Middle East
• Recent Findings in the Prehistory and Cultures of Middle East and Asia
• Paleopathological Evidence and Paleodemographical Research in Osteoarcheological Research
• Modernization and Bio-Cultural Adaptation
• Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology- Biomedical and Socio-Cultural Dimensions

Linguistic

• Evolution of Turkic Languages
• Debates over Language Endangerment
• Globalization and Linguistic Hybridization
• Language Assimilation and Self-Preservation

The Committee reserves the right to make modifications or changes to the programme if necessary.