10th – 13th April 2007, in Daniel Libeskind’s ORION building, London Metropolitan University, the annual conference for the Association of Social Anthropologists entitled ‘Thinking through Tourism’ was held. At one level the Libeskind building operates through the three intersecting structural elements that form the building, emphasising sets of relations between the existing environment, the general…
Author: Ian Russell
TAG 2006: A Highlight
On 17 December 2006, an amalgamation archaeologists, anthropologists, social theorists and artists descended on the University of Exeter for a full day of debates and deliberations in the spirit of the 28th meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group. Taking part in a session organised by Vitor Oliveira Jorge and Julian Thomas, a dynamic and accomplished…
CHAT 2006: Some Highlights
Andrew Cochrane and Ian Russell The 2006 Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) conference provided an instalment of discussions, dialogues and debates, which did not disappoint those searching for a healthy argument over the relevance of possibilities of performing archaeology in a contemporary world. On the Saturday night (11 November 2006), a host of…
Reflexive Representations: The Partibility of Archaeology
An artistic exploration of archaeological theory Andrew Cochrane (Cardiff University) Ian Russell (Trinity College, Dublin) The pieces in this exhibition seek to contest traditional mechanisms for representation and spectatorship by questioning the status that visual images occupy in archaeological discourse. Photomosaics of iconic archaeologists and archaeological objects are constructed through the manufacture of archives and…