North American Theoretical Archaeology Group
  • home
  • next TAG meeting
    • TAG workshops
  • about tag
    • british tag
    • TAG and Black Lives Matter >
      • Panel discussion June 25th 2020
    • nordic tag
    • tag turkey
    • theoretical archaeology seminar at Athens
    • TAAS
  • previous meetings
  • art at TAG
  • contact us
  • home
  • next TAG meeting
    • TAG workshops
  • about tag
    • british tag
    • TAG and Black Lives Matter >
      • Panel discussion June 25th 2020
    • nordic tag
    • tag turkey
    • theoretical archaeology seminar at Athens
    • TAAS
  • previous meetings
  • art at TAG
  • contact us
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

TAG workshops 2021-22
Given the continuing uncertainties of the Covid19 pandemic, TAG US has decided to run a series of small workshops for 2021-22, held at different institutions. The next event will be hosted by the University of Chicago:


TAG WORKSHOPS

Archaeology of Transformation: Changing Scapes

 

A TAG-Sponsored Workshop at the University of Chicago (held virtually)
October 21, 2022

SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION

Photo by Ihor N on Unsplash
Photo by Ihor N on Unsplash

In the face of sudden, large-scale social and environmental changes, it can be easy to neglect the gradual and less visible changes that create the conditions for both crisis and positive transformations. Theoretical archaeologists have recently turned to a proliferation of “scapes,” extending ways of thinking that originated in landscape archaeology to other spheres such as “seascapes,” “knowledgescapes,” and “objectscapes,” among many others. Yet the utility of generating so many “scapes” has been called into question.

Does the plurality of scapes offer a way to explore different loci of human experience, or does it unduly fracture the world into distinct domains, each with its own “scape”?  Other critiques have addressed importing the landscape concept’s visual bias and its peculiar ways of understanding historical change. Can we move past these constraining connotations and employ “scapes” to think about longer term, gradual transformations and temporality? What do we gain by defining different “scapes,” and what types of information might we lose?

This conference will explore these questions in order to understand the value of scapes in focusing archaeological attention toward long-scale change.
 



Co-organizers: Anna Berlekamp (aberlekamp@uchicago.edu), Nikki Grigg (ngrigg@uchicago.edu), Daniel Hansen (danrhan@uchicago.edu), and Luiza Osorio G. Silva (losilva@uchicago.edu).


*******


PAST WORKSHOPS:

Inclusive and Antiracist Teaching Methods in Archaeology and Related Fields
Friday, October 15th 2021


WATCH RECORDINGS OF THESE AND OTHER TALKS
ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL PEDAGOGY


Presentations by Sydney Pickens, talking about her experiences as an educator and graduate of Columbia University's archaeology major, Maxine Oland who discusses her recent article in the Journal of Archaeology and Education on teaching archaeology with inclusive pedagogy, Stephen Sansom on the work he has done with Cornell University's Active Learning Initiative, and Kristina Douglass of Pennsylvania State University on inclusive fieldwork and teaching in Madagascar. 
Picture
Sydney Pickens, Archaeology in the Community
Alumna Reflections on Columbia/Barnard Archaeology

Maxine Oland, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst 
Teaching Archaeology with Inclusive Pedagogy

Stephen Sansom, Classics, Cornell University
Inclusivity, Authority, and Active Learning

Kristina Douglass, Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
Setting the Stage for Empowered Collaboration through Inclusive Pedagogy and Team Building

Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.