Engendering Material Culture:  -- Fifth Women in Archaeology Conference
 
University of New South Wales, Sydney  -- Date:  2-4 JULY 1999
 
- First Announcement -
 
This interdisciplinary conference will examine how material culture can
render the intangibilities of the past concrete and 'real' in the
present.
Physical evidence has long been used as a resource to construct a
gendered
sensibility in both the past and present. The ways in which material
culture is used to negotiate gender politics, and how disciplinary
attitudes and definitions of 'gender' influence and define studies of
the
past, will be a focus of the conference.
 
This conference builds on over ten years of feminist research in
archaeology, a discipline centred on the study of material culture.
However, the conference explicitly aims to further the development of
interdisciplinary research and networks and to stimulate new research
directions in feminist scholarship into gender and material culture.
 
As an embodiment of history and the past, the interpretation of material
 
culture and the meanings assigned to it by a variety of disciplines,
carry
popular authority and significance.  How material culture is defined,
understood, popularised, consumed and commodified in both public and
academic domains has significant implications for how gender - both in
the
past and present - is defined and understood.
 
This conference will be of interest to scholars in history and
archaeology,
anthropology, cultural studies, visual representations, sociology,
museum
studies, educationists and anyone with an interest in feminism.
 
 
For further information, offers of papers and/or sessions contact:
 
Laurajane Smith [log in to unmask]
Anne McGrath [log in to unmask]  - or
Phone: 02 93851267
Fax: 02 9385 1062
Women in Archaeology Conference
Aboriginal Research and Resource Centre
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
 
 
REGISTRATION DETAILS
 
 
REGISTRATION FEES:
 
3 Days          $120.00
                $ 80.00 student/unemployed
 
Daily Rate      $  50.00/day
                $  30.00/day student/unemployed.
 
 
Name:
 
Address:
 
 
 
 
Email address:
Affiliated institution:
 
 
 
I would like to give a paper:  Yes/No;
I would like to organise a session Yes/No.
 
 
Paper/Session title:
 
 
 
Please enclose a 100 word abstract of your proposed paper or session.
 
 
I will/will not require accommodation (details of available
accommodation
will be forwarded to you).
 
I will/will not require child care.  Number of children:         Ages:
 
 
 
Cheques/Money orders should be made payable to the 'Women in Archaeology
 
Conference'.
 
 
Laurajane Smith
University of New South Wales
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