Event: Difficult Heritage: Summer Fieldwork in the Czech Republic (July 3 – 16, 2017, Lety, Czech Republic)

Difficult Heritage: Summer Fieldwork in the Czech Republic
Dates: July 3 – 16, 2017
Location: Lety, near Prague, Czech Republic

Summer School/Fieldwork
Difficult Heritage: Summer Fieldwork in the Czech Republic
3 July – 16 July 2017
Lety, near Prague, Czech Republic

There are opportunities for Heritage and memory students to join an archaeological fieldwork project in the Czech Republic this summer. Excavations are being directed by Prof. Pavel Vareka of the University of West Bohemia, in Plzen in co-operation with Dr. Caroline Sturdy Colls of Staffordshire University, as part of Prof. Rob van Laarse’ s HERA Campscapes project. The project involves the Lety Concentration Camp, a World War II internment camp for Romani people from the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. A programme of test-pitting the Summer will follow up on recent geophysical work and is aimed at locating traces of the WWII camp which has until recently been covered by a modern farm. If students are interested in going for two months (until the end of August) additional archaeological activities and sight-seeing trips will be organised.

Please make your interest know as soon as possible to Prof. James Symonds (J.Symonds2@uva.nl), ACASA Department of Archaeology, University of Amsterdam.