Virtual Conference Information

 

The Virtual conference for women Archeologists & Paleontologists begins from a simple premise: although there are much more women graduated in higher education, they are under-represented in the research community in France and also in different European countries.

This fact is not only happening at the European level, but also on a global scale. The latest report on the situation of women in higher education provided by UNESCO, as of 8 March 2021, indicates that while 53% of Bachelor´s and Master´s graduates in 2014 were women, 44% were PhD graduates, and only 30% of the world´s university researchers are women.

In addition, the Covid-19 crisis seems to have particularly affected women in several areas, including research (Minello 2020; Viglione 2020),  having them a lower academic production than their male colleagues (Viglione, 2020). Furthermore, recent research (Squazzoni et al. 2021) indicates, after analysing authors information on manuscripts and reviews from 2329 Elseviers journals, that women researchers submitted fewer manuscripts than men during the first wave of the pandemic, suggesting that early career women were affected the most. Not only was the scientific output of women lower, but that of our male colleagues increased during this period. 

 

To find out more you can check the following links:

about employment gender gap figures in the European Union https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/edn-20190307-1 

and gender inequality world´s figures on higher education

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000377182

 

Thus, our main aim with this conference is to promote the place of women in our scientific disciplines through the creation of an event open to all, as an audience. Through this event, we would like to offer young and/or early career researchers in archeology and palaeontology an opportunity to gain visibility by presenting recent developments in their research works. 

 

As last year and on the occasion of the International Women's Day, this second edition of the virtual conference will take place on the 7th and 8th March 2022 by videoconference. We invite proposals of the recent contributions of young and/or early career women researchers to the study of vertebrate populations and their relationships (including those between humans and other species) as well as to the study of technology, raw materials, past environments, climates, taphonomy and development of new methodologies, from Neogene up to the Neolithic period.  We propose to organize this congress around several axes:

 

  • Dynamics of populations and their environments through time and space.
  • Tracking functional and behavioral responses to environments.
  • Developping actualistic or experimental frameworks and accounting for biases and limits in past records.

 

The 7th of March, we will end the day with a round table. The topic of this year's round table will be the "Impostor Syndrome" (to be confirmed).

 

For any request or further information, please contact the organizing team at the following address, specifying «question» in the subject line of your email:

 

congressarcheopaleo@gmail.com

 

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