Also, we're looking at "modern" in the sense of the historical rubric
of the early modern/modern world, not so much the contested notion of
modernity or the here and now. But even so, modernity may be seen to
have gotten started long before Europeans stumbled stinking and
ship-worn onto the shores of the Americas.
MCB, former CHAT steering committee member
Mary C. Beaudry, PhD, RPA, FSA
Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology
Department of Archaeology
Boston University
675 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215-1406
tel. 617-358-1650
people.bu.edu/beaudry/Mary_Beaudrys_Research/Welcome.html
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Kelley Deetz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What's old to Americans is new to others....the conference is in England.
> :)
>
>> Things made in 1600 hardly seem "modern" to me.
>>
>> Ron May
>> Legacy 106, Inc.
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 3/23/2009 2:28:36 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>> CHAT 2009
>> KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY
>>
>> Call for Papers
>>
>> Modern Materials:
>> the archaeology of things from the early modern, modern and
>> contemporary world
>>
>> Friday 16 - Sunday 18 October 2009
>>
>> How does the study of material things contribute to our understanding
>> of the early modern, modern
>> and contemporary world? What is the distinctive contribution of
>> archaeology in these studies?
>>
>> CHAT 2009 focuses on the archaeological study of ‘Modern Materials’ -
>> from ‘small things forgotten’ to
>> large and complex technological artefacts; and from discrete, single
>> objects to large, disparate
>> assemblages.
>>
>> The study of material things is a central element of all archaeology.
>> But some have argued that a
>> concentration on materials fetishizes things, focusing too much
>> attention on the empirical detail of
>> materials or manufacture. Equally, others have suggested that material
>> culture studies are too often
>> strangely dematerialised – focused only on social relationships and
>> not on the physicality of objects.
>> Responding to both these arguments, CHAT 2009 considers and celebrates
>> the diversity of
>> archaeological studies of ‘modern materials’, and their
>> interdisciplinary contribution.
>>
>> Papers are invited that focus on the study of particular ‘modern
>> materials,’ broadly interpreted: the
>> many material dimensions of the early modern and modern periods and
>> the contemporary world (c. AD
>> 1600 to present).
>>
>> Questions addressed by the conference will include, but are not
>> limited to:
>>
>> - Is it helpful to define the archaeology of the modern world
>> according to its focus upon material
>> things?
>> - How can contemporary and historical archaeology relate to
>> anthropological material culture studies?
>> - How can we rethink archaeology’s distinctive approaches to studying
>> things as important tools and
>> resources, rather than simply methods for dry empiricism?
>>
>> Keynote speakers and discussants: to be confirmed March 2009.
>>
>> Registration: £40 (including tea and coffee, wine reception, excluding
>> accommodation)
>>
>> Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to the conference
>> committee at
>> [log in to unmask] by 31 May 2009 at the latest. Any queries should
>> also be sent to the same
>> email address.
>>
>> The conference website will be updated in the coming weeks:
>> http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk/
>>
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