SEAA News Blog: Conferences

The European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) has announced the call for papers for its 5th International Conference, to be held at the University of Vienna, Austria, from 29 August to 2 September 2027. The conference is jointly organized by EAAA and the University of Vienna’s Department of Art History and will bring together scholars working on Asian art, archaeology, material culture, and related fields.

Submission deadline: 22 September 2026.

We are excited to announce that the upcoming SEAA 11 conference will be held in Chengdu during July 19-23, 2027. The SEAA conference brings together researchers, educators, students, and professionals focusing on East Asian archaeology across all over the world to share the latest discoveries, exchange ideas, explore further directions, and strengthen corroborations in this field. 

The mini-conference “Distant Past(s) – Current Future(s): Digitization, Digital Objects and Datafication Approaches in Ancient and Medieval Studies” will take place on Tuesday, 28 July 2026, from 09:00 to 17:30 KST, as a pre-conference event of DH2026 “Engagement” in Daejeon, South Korea.

An online Undergraduate and Graduate Workshop on East Asian Archaeology and History will be held on 23 May 2026 via Zoom. Co-hosted with the Society for East Asian Archaeology and Colorado Mesa University, the event will provide students with opportunities to present research, connect internationally, and participate in a paper competition.

The full schedule and program for SEAA10 is now available on our website. 

You can find more information here: https://www.seaa-web.org/conferences/upcoming/seaa10/schedule

An abbreviated schedule for SEAA10 is now available on our website. You can download the PDF or access it via our website, see post for further details

From 13–15 November 2025, the University of Bonn, Germany, will host a conference on the Urban Metabolism and the Archaeology of Cities in Eurasia. The call for papers ends on Nov 15, 2024.

Thank you for your patience as we have been working diligently to complete our online registration and submission center for SEAA10, graciously hosted by the University of Aberdeen. We are pleased to inform you that you may now register for SEAA membership, register for SEAA10, and submit proposals for your research papers, posters, short films, and organized sessions all online. Registration will be open from now until November 29th. Feel free to use the image provided below to promote SEAA10.

You can find additional details regarding the conference and the call for papers here: https://seaa-web.org/conferences/upcoming/seaa10

On Behalf of the Council on East Asian Studies and the Archaia Program for the Study of Global Antiquity at Yale University:

Join scholars from across Japan, Europe, and North America for an exciting two-day conference, "The Archaeology of Early Japan: Debating Social Complexity." An in person event, coffee, lunch, light refreshments will be provided. Please register at the following link to attend: https://ceas.yale.edu/archaeology-early-japan-debating-social-complexity[/html]

The Board of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 4th EAAA Conference to be held at the School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon (Portugal) between 8 and 13 September 2025. The 4th Conference is jointly organised by the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA), the UNIARQ – Centre for Archaeology (School of Arts and Humanities), the CH-ULisboa – Centre for History of the University of Lisbon, ARTIS-Institute of Art History and ACN-Asia Collections Network.