Please note that EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION for the WAC8 conference CLOSES on APRIL 30.Prices will rise after this date. Also don’t forget to register for the Gala Dinner. Registration SUBMISSION OF PAPERS and TRAVEL SUPPORT for WAC-8 also CLOSE on APRIL 30. Travel support Call for papers  

Gala dinner tickets are available here.    

Click here for details. Please complete your registration for WAC-8 Kyoto before applying for Travel Support.  

To access any submission forms, please register your personal information here and set up username and password first. We welcome you to register for WAC-8. Early Bird Registration is available until 30 April 2016. Call for papers: https://wac8.org/call-for-submissions/call-for-papers/ Registration: https://wac8.org/registration/  

You can reserve hotel rooms at discounted rates on this site. Please be aware that Kyoto is a very popular tourist destination, and many hotels will be fully reserved soon for the period of WAC-8. We encourage you to reserve your hotels as soon as possible. Click here to “Accommodation”

Session proposals deadline now extended to 31st Dec.

‘Accepted sessions’ page now open. Click here!

The international symposium “The Current Trends and Issues in World Archeology”, supported by the Kyoto University Foundation, was held at the Faculty of Letters of Kyoto University on 19th September 2015. In the symposium, Katsuyuki Okamura of Osaka City Cultural Properties Association and the four Officers of WAC, Koji Mizoguchi (President), Anne Pyburn (Vice President), Dru McGill (Treasurer) and Akira Matsuda (Secretary), delivered talks about issues in world archaeology and their hopes for WAC-8. The speakers and participants in the symposium then discussed the challenges of WAC and expectations from WAC-8.

Call for sessions now open! Click here to “Call for sessions”