ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE EVERYDAY
3rd – 5th JUNE 2008
(Apologies for cross-posting)
Archaeologists have tended to associate ‘the everyday’ with the mundane
and the routine, to
assume that we can readily understand it, and to oppose it to ritual.
However, recent
developments both in theory and in historical practice make it clear that
it is now time to question
this ‘transparency of the daily’. This multidisciplinary conference,
organized by the Centre for
Historical Archaeology, University of Sheffield, will bring together
scholars who are rethinking the
ways in which people in the historical past (from classical antiquity to
early modernity) perceived
and engaged with the world in which they lived, worked, suffered, and
worshipped - everyday. The
conference will be organised around 5 related themes – The Historicity of
the Senses; The Body in
Everyday Life; Everyday Life versus Ritual Life?; Living Outside the
Everyday; When Different
Everydays Collide.
Confirmed speakers include:
Professor Chris Gosden (Anthropology/Archaeology, Oxford),
Professor Helena Hamerow (Archaeology, Oxford), Dr Miriam Muller,
(Medieval History,Birmingham),
Professor Blair St George (Folklore, University of Pennsylvania),
Professor Carole Rawcliffe (History, UEA),
Dr Kate Giles (Archaeology, York),
Dr Mary Harlow (Ancient History,
Birmingham);
Dr Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Archaeology, University of Indiana).
Please see the Conference website for registration details and for further
information about the
programme -
http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/archaeologies-of-the-
everyday
We look forward to seeing you in Sheffield in June!
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