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…

This year a record number of archaeologists descended upon “the live music capital of the world” for the 72nd annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). In true Texas style, the conference offered a huge array of opportunities for archaeologists to present, discuss and interact with recent disciplinary contributions. With the sessions running…

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…

Estimates of the blogosphere are that it now expands exponentially, with a new blog born every half second. This watershed media move to digital capture, storage, retrieval and distribution makes information increasingly easy to share and re-mix, but correspondingly difficult to keep track of. The boon and bane of digital fungibility. But if once the…

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…