19th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam
29 Nov to 5 Dec 2009
Peter Bellwood organised the 19th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam, 29 Nov to 5 Dec 2009. The congress was a huge success, with about 600 delegates attending from about 30 countries world-wide. These included 400 delegates who paid registration fees, another 104 from developing countries who received free registration and some assistance towards air airfares, and many Vietnamese delegates who also received registration waivers. Full details of the program and abstracts (by author family name and by session) can be accessed at http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/ippa/19thcongress.htm.
The main sponsors of the conference were the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (with administrative support from the Australian National University, Canberra); Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (Hanoi); Vietnam Institute of Archaeology (Hanoi); Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (New York); Granucci Fund for Archaeology in Indonesia and Timor Leste (Australian National University, through IPPA); and the Luce Foundation (via the University of Pennsylvania Middle Mekong Archaeological Project).
