Dear all,

FYI, another candidate for 2025. Last time when Radoslaw made the suggestion organizing a workshop, it was not finalized, because he never answered my emails on when and where he wants to organize an AIW. I hope it functions better this time.

I have informed him that we already have a candidate for 2025, Madrid, and I have asked him whether he would be interested in organizing it in 2027. If he still wants to organize it in 2025, we should have a decision by vote where to go in 2025 at the Business Meeting this year.

Best

Renate

Von: Radosław Palonka <radek.palonka@uj.edu.pl mailto:radek.palonka@uj.edu.pl > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. März 2024 09:26 An: bartl@american-indian-workshop.org mailto:bartl@american-indian-workshop.org Betreff: 2025 AIW meeting? Proposal

Dear Renate,

We were corresponding some time ago (with the help of Bartosz Hlebowicz) about the possibility of organizing one of the AIW conferences/workshops at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland; then it wasn't finalized.

But I would like to come back to this idea, of course if you and the AIW Organizing Committee would be interested. I see that the 46th American Indian Workshop (2025) is still to be announced. If that means you don't have a place for the meeting, I would propose our university and especially the Department of New World Archaeology within the Institute of Archaeology, where I work. This unit provide classes on archaeology, anthropology, and history of North, Meso, and South Americas and field projects conducted in Colorado (USA) and Guatemala:

https://archeo.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/zns I also teach at the Institute of American Studies at JU, so there will be even more interested people and potential participants at the conference from different scientific disciplines.

Since 2011, I have been conducting an archaeological project in southwestern Colorado, in the Mesa Verde region. It focuses on the reconstruction of socio-cultural changes of the Ancestral Pueblo community during the thirteenth century AD, but also documentation for architecture and rock art: paintings and petroglyphs from different time periods and various native cultures as well as traces of first European-American settlers in this area. Apart from "traditional" archaeological methods this includes digital applications, like advanced photography and 3D laser scanning, from the ground and from the air/LiDAR to a great extent. The project is also conducted with strong collaboration with several American institutions, but also Hopi tribe (Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, Second Mesa, AZ) and Ute Mountain Ute tribe (Towaoc, Colorado) in terms of indigenous oral traditions referring to the sites we investigate.

So, if you would be interested, I do believe we can organize such an event, especially as there is a growing and growing number of students and other people interested in various topics on Native American cultures and tribes. I also collaborate with other Polish institutions that have classes or are engaged in different ways in scientific research or even popularizing the knowledge about indigenous societies of North and South America.

Best regards,

Radosław Palonka

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