A session organized by Alfredo González-Ruibal (Complutense University of Madrid) and Ashish Chadha (Yale University). The relationship between archaeology and modernity is a growing concern for archaeologists. On the one hand, archaeologists ask how the discipline is involved in the construction of modern categories of thought, knowledge and society? Can modernist divides and prejudices be…
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Door knobs and handles
I came across an interesting article on a major German news site about the trend in the US to use door handles (common in Europe) instead of door knobs (until now common in the US). Der knubbelige Türöffner, so ur-amerikanisch wie Apfelkuchen und das Recht, Waffen zu tragen, steht vor dem Aussterben. In US-Eigenheimen finden…
Mapping sitting: datable structures, state imagination and the subordinated body
Ömür Harmansah ~ October 2, 2007 ~ Blue State cafe. —- N.B. This piece was written in the context of my graduate seminar The Rise (and Demise) of the State in the Near East taught at Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World in Fall 2007. I am grateful to the whole…
Supporting Teaching and Learning in Archaeology and Classics: a day in the life of a day school
By Andrew Cochrane (Cardiff University). On Wednesday 17 October 2007, the auspicious Council Chamber of the Glamorgan Building at Cardiff University, played host for a workshop dedicated to the skill enhancement of graduate and part-time teachers and new lectures in archaeology and classics. Rather than rely on more traditional approaches to lecturing and presentation, this…
Between Media Archaeology and Memory Practices: Two Recent Excavations
The recent opening of Paul Clancy’s “The Search for the Soul of a Building” in Providence, RI provided occasion for me to resurrect a languishing Archaeolog entry I had started back in the late spring and which has been annoyingly stapled to may desktop every since. Regarding the exhibition, Clancy’s subtext is what drew my…
CFP – Method And The Machine: theorising an archaeological approach to technical processes
in Critical Technologies the making of the modern world theme We welcome abstracts for the above-named WAC-6 session. The session is jointly organised by James Dixon (UWE Faculty of Creative Arts) and Brent Fortenberry (Boston University) and subsequent discussion will be chaired by Victor Buchli (UCL) The modern world is replete with technical processes. Whether…