Cfp: Theoretical Archaeology Group conference

Conference theme: ‘Revolutions’

TAG time! The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference will be hosted in Edinburgh this year for the first time (15-17 December 2022). The main theme will be 'revolutions', thus establishing a link with the most famous archaeologist who has worked at Edinburgh, Vere Gordon Childe, and his concepts of the Neolithic and the urban ‘revolutions’. While views on these specific topics have shifted considerably over time, we think that ‘revolution(s)’ – understood here in a broad sense – is still a relevant concept within the discipline.

Sessions

Please get in touch with the session organisers directly - information in the links below - to submit your paper proposal. Abstracts should be around 200-250 words. The call for papers is now open until the 31 July 2022.

Absence: Perspectives from archaeology and heritage

An archaeology of life

Archaeological osmosis: giving voice to those who put up with us

Reading artefacts and excavating books. A relation between archaeology and literature

Poetic champions compose? Archaeology and poetry

Archaeology, heritage and social activism

Beyond migration: How can biomolecular data help us interpret past social worlds?

Climate archaeology: Temporalities and ontologies

Colonial pasts and presents in Southwest Asia

Archaeological deathways in the contemporary world

5000 years of (r)evolution? Decentring colonial legacies around transitions to agriculture

Deposition in detail – Has there been a revolution, or have we missed it?

Revolutionizing early medieval forts

“More-than” approaches in heritagescapes of the Anthropocene: The environmental ethics of heritage

Revisiting the fragmentation revolution

From pencil to pixel: Revolutions in archaeological illustration and visual communication

Gender revolutions: Assessing the impact of gender and feminist theory in archaeological research and teaching

An archaeology of global medieval life

Heritage-making in and after conflict

Theoretical revolutions and popular apathy: How is the history of archaeology understood in the ‘real world’?

Revolutions in prehistoric households and houses

Revolutionising the Iron Age: Gender perspectives in archaeological interpretation

The elder trowels: What have archaeologists learned from time spent in Tamriel (etc.)?

Revolutions in the maritime world of the Late Bronze Age Aegean

Migration and integration: The aftermath of immigration

On the revolutionary potential of new materialist approaches: A workshop

The revolution will not be recognised: The phenomenology of past social change

Productive not reductive: An archaeological exploration of different differences

Revolutionary innovations? Rethinking long-term technological change

‘Revolutions’ in archaeological practice: Co-creation and delivery of research strategies in academic and commercial archaeology

Revolutions in the archaeology of early urbanism: Conceptual and methodological innovations

Rethinking rock art: Biographies of research, new theoretical explorations and multidisciplinary approaches

Further information

For updates and further information please check the TAG43 website and Twitter account. If you have any questions please contact TAG at tagedinburgh2022@gmail.com

Jul 31 2022

Cfp: Theoretical Archaeology Group conference

The Theoretical Archaeology Group conference TAG 43- 'Revolutions', will take place - for the first time - at the University of Edinburgh 15-17 December, 2022. The call for papers is open until the 31 July 2022.