Greetings HISTARCHers,
We are proud to announce a preliminary list of presenters and keynote
speakers for Stanford University's "Seeing the Past" conference. All are
welcome to attend free of charge. Please read below for more information on
our presenters and keynote speakers. Detailed information on the conference
and a schedule of events can be found on our website:
http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/31/Home
We hope to see you at "Seeing the Past!"
Stacey Camp
Sarah Levin-Richardson
Lela Urquhart
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
Seeing The Past: Building Knowledge of the Past and Present Through Acts of
Seeing
A conference hosted by the Archaeology Center at Stanford University
February 4-6, 2005
Stanford University
http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/31/Home
Speakers:
Michael Ashley, UC-Berkeley
Michael Marmor, Stanford University
Michael Shanks, Stanford University
Participants:
Jennifer Anderson, San Jose State University: "Out of the Treasure House:
Tea Utensils as a Locus of Japanese Ethnicity"
Professor Sue Blundell, the Open University, UK and Professor Nancy
Rabinowitz, Hamilton College: "Gendered Viewing in Classical Greece"
Geraldine Chimirri-Russell, Curator of Numismatics, The Nickle Arts Museum,
University of Calgary, Canada: "Seeing the Past Obliquely Through the Eyes
of Celtic Coins"
Rochelle Davis, Fellow--Introduction to the Humanities, Stanford University:
"Mapping the Past, Recreating the Homeland: Contemporary Palestinian
Recollections of pre-1948 Life"
Professor Dennis Doxtater, School of Architecture, University of Arizona:
"A Chacoan Georitual Visitor Center on I-40"
Adam Fish, Executive Director of the Center for Landscape & Artefact, WA:
TBA
Vessela Gertcheva, VIR Society for Alternative Culture and Education, Sofia,
Bulgaria: "Seeing the Past in countries in transition in South Eastern
Europe or the media-created vision for the past in Bulgaria"
Marina Haworth, Department of Classics, Harvard University: "The Grooming
of Athletes: Seeing in the Greek Symposium"
Liliana Janik, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge: "Against
Interpretation/Against Phenomenology and Semiotics"
Tobias Kampf: "Saint Cecilia and the Devout Gaze: Viewing Early
Christianity in Post-Tridentine Rome"
Sarah Levin-Richardson, Department of Classics, Stanford University: "Sex,
Sight, and ''Societas'' in the Lupanar, Pompeii"
Professors Geoff and Sharisse McCafferty, Department of Archaeology,
University of Calgary, Canada: "The Malinche Code: The Symbology of Female
Discourse in Postclassical Mexico"
Slobodan Mitrovic, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center:
"Looking at Neolithic Sites Vinca and Catalhoyuk Through Time"
Georgina Muskett, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, The
University of Liverpool: "The Use of Visual Perception in the
Interpretation of Mycenaean Art"
Karen Oeh, Foothill College: "Putting a Face on Prehistory: The Facial
Reconstruction of Two Native American Crania"
Sven Ouzman, Townsend Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University
of California at Berkeley: "Prose has its Cons: Seeing beyond 'material
culture as text'"
Professor John Pollini, Department of Art History, University of Southern
California: "Problematics of Making Ambiguity Explicit in Virtual
Reconstructions: A Case Study of the Mausoleum of Augustus"
Professor Charles Rhyne, Department of Art History, Reed College: "Imaging
Uxmal"
Professor Robin Skeates, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham:
"Fetishism and Visual Culture in Later Neolithic South-East Italy"
Erin Stepney, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada:
"Parallax: The Effect of Aerial Photography as a Structured Perception
Upon Terrestrial Archaeological Survey"
Professor Ruth Tringham, Department of Anthropology, University of
California at Berkeley: "Putting Vision in its Place: the interweaving of
senses to create a sense of place at Catalhoyuk"
Christopher Witmore, Department of Classics, Stanford University: "Seeing
the past and hearing the fold: Symmetrical approaches to mediation
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Seeing the Past is a conference designed to explore the act of seeing
and how observation leads to certain types of knowledge. This conference
explores how visual media are used to inform and construct our knowledge of
the past. It will engage in a discussion of a wide range of forms,
practices and theories of perception and the subsequent formation of
knowledge in both the past and the present.
The objective of this conference is to promote productive dialogue and
provide a forum for discussion in moderated sessions. Papers will be
pre-circulated and posted on a conference website. All participants are
encouraged to read papers and participate in an online forum. The
presentation of papers will be limited to a 5-10 minute ‘provocative
statement’, intended to stimulate discussion. Following the conference,
the papers will be published in Stanford’s Archaeology Journal.
1) Seeing the Past (in the present)
This category encompasses the ways in which we present the past through
visual technologies and media to other scholars, the public and ourselves.
Our aim is to explore how different media present different pasts. Possible
topics in this area may include (but are not limited to) GIS/Digital
rendering of sites and monuments, visual modeling, the
commercialization/packaging of archaeology, the past through
photography/other media, how modern sites are used (i.e. heritage/
tourism), and museology.
2) Seeing the Past (in the past)
This category includes studies on how past peoples used visual culture to
understand their past and present. What can an image, sculpture or monument
convey that a text cannot? How did people see? What did people see?
Possible topics may include (but are not limited to) temporal and spatial
development of settlements and cemeteries, rock art, textual and artistic
representations, monumentality, spatial re-use, ritualized architecture,
and landscape studies.
The conference theme is designed to enable productive dialogue across a
range of disciplines including: Anthropological Sciences; Architecture; Art
and Design History; Classics; Cultural and Social Anthropology; Biology;
Cultural Studies; Education; Film Studies; Dramatic and Performance
Studies; Fine Art; Geography; Geology and Earth Sciences; History; Literary
Studies; Museum Studies; Photography; Psychology; Sociology, Visual Culture.
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