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:
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 -- CALL FOR PAPERS:
Archaeology of Transformation: Changing Scapes
A TAG-Sponsored Workshop at the University of Chicago (held virtually)
October 21, 2022
Submissions due by August 20th 2022
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.
Potential topics include:
Scapes as ways of knowing
Temporality
Rapid change
Life cycles
Engagement with landscapes
Community engagement
Agency Creation vs. modification
Too many scapes?
Cityscapes Soundscapes Ritualscapes Knowledgescapes Taskscapes
Staticscape Waterscapes Icescapes Smellscapes
We invite submissions for 15 minute presentations, which will be grouped into sessions. Please include your:
Name, Title, Institution Paper title Abstract (250 words)
Submissions due by August 20, 2022.
Please email your submissions to the 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). Also feel free to contact us in case of any questions.
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PAST WORKSHOPS:
Inclusive and Antiracist Teaching Methods in Archaeology and Related Fields
Friday, October 15th 2021
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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.
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
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
