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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">LAPITA BIOLOGY, CHRONOLOGY AND CULTURE: THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL LAPITA CONFERENCE, PORT VILA, VANUATU, 5-10 JULY 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Dear potential Lapita conference attendees, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">The website for the conference, jointly organised by the Australian National University and the Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta/Vanuatu Cultural Centre is now online at:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><a href="http://chl.anu.edu.au/lapita8" target="_blank" id="NoLP" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://chl.anu.edu.au/lapita8</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">On the site is a section where you can provide your contact details and an expression of interest in attending. Please register there so we have an idea of likely numbers. Please also contact the
conference session organisers directly if you wish to present a paper or poster at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">We will be adding to the website as further details become available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">There is also a conference email address on the site if you have any specific queries to address to the organisers that are not answered on the site itself (<a href="mailto:Lapita.Conference8@anu.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Lapita.Conference8@anu.edu.au</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Please also forward this to your students and colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">We look forward to seeing you in Port Vila next July!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Matthew Spriggs for the Organising Committee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: blue; ">Professor Matthew Spriggs, FSA, FAHA, GSM(Vanuatu)<br>
School of Archaeology and Anthropology, AD Hope Bldg<br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: blue; ">ANU- VCC Eighth Lapita Conference, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 5-10 July 2015. Web site:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: blue; "><a href="http://chl.anu.edu.au/lapita8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://chl.anu.edu.au/lapita8</a></span></div>
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