Dear all,
This is a 2nd call for papers for the Neolithic Postgraduate Symposium, taking place at Cardiff University on the 28th of June.
The abstract deadline is the 30th of April. Registration is free.
Here's a link to the symposium, where you will find the registartion form, symposium abstract and accomodation details:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/newsandevents/archaeology/creative-analogies-in-the-neolithic.html
Call for Papers
This day symposium explores how and why we integrate analogical insights into our theorising of Neolithic worlds. Papers are encouraged to tackle the influence and challenges of an analogical approach to these theories. We are concerned with the diversities and multiplicities of different approaches, looking towards the ways these can affect archaeological theory from any perspective, including research that includes the work of theorists in the hard sciences (e.g. Thomas Bayes), art history (e.g. Alfred Gell), philosophy (e.g. Bruno Latour, Jacques Derrida) and anthropology (e.g. Tim Ingold, Maurice Bloch, Marilyn Strathern). These influences enable us to move beyond considering all non-Western groups as ‘other’ and ‘timeless’, and to instead consider analogy as a vital technique used to broaden the range of possibilities in interpretation and to widen imagination (e.g. Alasdair Whittle). Is it not through complex, challenging and multi-contextual dialogues that new understandings emerge? By looking at the use of analogy critically, this symposium poses a fundamental challenge to archaeological theory. Can an archaeology that focuses on the use of analogy really be substantiated?
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