Hi Matt,
Nice session idea. I'm interested. I tried emailing the address listed on
your lab's website, but it got bounced back. Please email me at
[log in to unmask] so we can talk through what you're looking for in a little
more detail.
Thanks,
Stefan
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022, 11:54 AM Pete Gregory <
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> Dr.Greer.
> This sounds great. I won't be at SAA, but hope you can get this
> going. I forwarded it to out Black Studies directors, the Chreole Heritage
> Center here and Dr. George Avery at Steven F, Austin University in Texas.
> Think about community-based research it is a great thing allaround. Maybe
> you could work it into your session.
> Pete Gregory
> Prof.Anthropology,
> Northwestern State University, Natchitoches La.
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> Hello everyone,
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> My name is Matt Greer and I am interested in organising a session at SAA
> 2023 on the intersection of archaeology and Black studies. I was wondering
> if anyone would be interested in presenting in a session like this or would
> be interested in co-organizing it with me. A tentative abstract is below.
>
> *Archaeology as Black Studies *
>
> Cultural anthropologist Savannah Shange (2019: 7, 10) writes that because
> Black studies scholars "work largely in the fields of English, history, and
> film studies, we don't know much about how their interventions map onto
> blackness as lived and loved on a daily basis across the diaspora." This,
> she argues, creates a space for anthropology to serve as a critical branch
> of Black studies, as our work can often account for "the daily practices
> that facilitate Black material and symbolic death" in ways that other
> disciplines cannot. Following Shange's lead, this session explores what it
> would look like for archaeology in particular to operate as a critical
> branch of Black studies by considering three interrelated questions. First,
> how can archaeological case studies add new texture to the theories
> proposed by Black studies scholars? Second, how would archaeological
> theories and methods need to change for us to align our work with Black
> studies? And third, can we push the spatial, temporal, and thematic
> boundaries of Black studies by applying the ideas of scholars like Angela
> Davis, W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Saidiya Hartman, bell hooks, or Sylvia
> Wynter to studies of Spanish colonialism, Inka or Roman imperialism, or
> deep prehistory?
>
> Thank you all for considering this,
> Matt Greer
>
> Matthew C. Greer, PhD
> (he/him)
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> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor
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