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University of East Anglia (Norwich) is hosting Theoretical Archaeology Group's annual conference (TAG 2023). Its theme is Climate archaeology: temporalities and ontologies. Sessions and presentations will explore the relationship between human beings and climate, from the materiality of climate change and the archaeology of the Anthropocene to heritage loss and the vulnerability of people to climate alteration.
Panels convened
“The archaeology made all the difference.”: A Speculative Design Workshop for Sectorial Response to Climate Change - Organisers: Lorna Jane Richardson (UEA) and Claire Boardman (University of York)
Risk, resilience and response: societal responses to past and future rapid climate change - Organisers: Joanne Clarke (UEA) and Nick Brooks (Independent Researcher)
Mountains have souls and some statues are gods: Living artefacts, climate justice, and new animism in archaeology - Organisers: Eva Mol (University of York) and Jago Cooper (UEA)
Place, Climate and Health: archaeology, therapy and well-being - Organisers: Harriet Sams (Bournemouth University), Chris Elmer (University of Southampton) and Andy Hutcheson (UEA)
[Re:]Assembling Artefacts for the Anthropocene - Organisers: Abigail Moffett, Chris Wingfield (both UEA) and Julian Thomas (University of Manchester)
What Belongs in a Museum Belongs to Archaeology: The Perils and Benefits of Studying Museum Collections in Archaeology and Archaeological Sciences - Organisers: Samuele Tacconi, Anne Haour (both UEA) and Helen Anderson (British Museum)
Papers
Abdulmalik Abdulmalik (UEA) - Museum collections are synonymous with archaeological artefacts: An examination of Dr. Stanger's Niger Expedition collections from Wisbech and Fenland Museum, East Anglia, United Kingdom
Abigail Moffett (UEA / University of Cambridge), - Making and assembling beads: reflections from beaded materials in the Anthropocene
Andy Hutcheson (UEA) - Climate, archaeology, health and wellbeing
Andy Hutcheson (UEA) - Is this the Road to Hell? Money and its implications in the mid 1st millennium BCE
Chris Wingfield (UEA) - Artefacts are not (always) ‘objects’ and (almost) never ‘technofossils’
Lorna Richardson (UEA) - ‘Do Different’: Interdisciplinarity at a Time of Crisis
Na’ankwat Kwapnoe-Dakup (UEA) - Archaeological sites or living entities? Kofyar notion of ‘Archaeology’.
Na’ankwat Kwapnoe-Dakup (UEA) - Effects of Climatic Changes on Kofyar Cultural Practices
If you are interested, please register here:
Any questions, please write to climate.tag@uea.ac.uk
Anne Haour (and the rest of the organising committee – Andy Hutcheson, Lorna-Jane Richardson, Simon Kaner, George Lau, Jago Cooper and Jo Clarke)
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