Apropos of the ongoing discussion, you might find this ongoing
collection of essays interesting/useful:
https://medium.com/slowdown-papers
Best,
Alex
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Alex Claman
MA/MS Student
Department of Classical and Modern Literature and Languages
Department of Geosciences
Texas Tech University
They/He
On 28 Apr 2020, at 15:53, Nina Pope wrote:
> Evening everyone - I hope some of you will be reading this after
> returning from the virtual pub! Sorry I wasn’t able to join you …
> I just wanted to echo the thanks from others for kicking off this
> interesting discussion today Hilary, it’s been very timely for me as
> we (Karen Guthrie and I) are trying to figure out how/if to carry our
> ‘Prospection’ project this year.
> Some of you have taken part in this in the past but in a nut shell
> we’ve been attempting to carry out a 2 day ‘survey’ of a brand
> new place - Eddington (North West Cambridge) once a year since 2014
> when the archaeologists ‘left’ and the construction team moved in!
> Obviously a physical visit and survey this year is most probably out
> of the question but it’s raised an interesting dilemma as to how we
> might carry out the project remotely via the web or indeed on the site
> by inviting residents to film or record themselves etc.
> Anyway all to say we’d be interested if we do manage to go ahead in
> past Prospectors contributing to a discussion about it and indeed
> input from anyone interested in joining in the future.
>
> There’s a bit more info here:
>
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.somewhere.org.uk%2Fprojects%2Fprospection%2F&data=02%7C01%7Calex.claman%40TTU.EDU%7C8cae18448ec74cfd663108d7ebb63849%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C637237040186812163&sdata=hijEussJY%2FqZ2QhdleZPZwmZEw0cAQr14AIaSzNz41o%3D&reserved=0
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> On another note I’m currently living on Mull, which those of you in
> the UK might have seen featured on the news last night as an example
> of an Island during Isolation … all to say if I’d been making the
> recording as to what it feels like from here it wouldn’t have looked
> like the bit shown on the news!
>
> Thanks and hope the pub CHAT went well,
>
> Nina
>
>> On 28 Apr 2020, at 18:06, Hilary Orange <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the interesting discussion this afternoon. It bodes well
>> for PubCHAT. Starting 5 minutes ago.
>>
>> I have no ready answers to the question of ethics, aside from being
>> law abiding, respecting human rights and dignity I tend to be guided
>> in these things by my conscience, seeking to do good (and in turn to
>> do no harm) and to acknowledge when I have erred. In that, I perform,
>> I guess, a type of reflexive practice around contemporary archaeology
>> which often feels fluid and unmapped. However, I tend to agree with
>> Paul, particularly the part on ‘bearing witness.’ Are
>> contemporary archaeologists damned if they do and damned if they
>> don’t? There is certainly a tight-rope that may be walked at times.
>>
>> In the background I’ve been kindly sent a couple of other examples
>> of initiatives that I have permission to share with the group.
>>
>> Hope to see some of you in the Pub where I’m sure this discussion
>> will continue!
>> Hilary
>>
>> And here's another one, that I've just seen, the Elphinstone
>> Institute at the University of Aberdeen have started collecting too:
>> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abdn.ac.uk%2Felphinstone%2Fpublic-engagement%2FLockdownLore&data=02%7C01%7Calex.claman%40TTU.EDU%7C8cae18448ec74cfd663108d7ebb63849%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C637237040186812163&sdata=F58%2FYONJ4CsAVoBGoUIFW2I17bxYrJOP5xO0zj%2F5Vn4%3D&reserved=0
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>> Dear Hilary,
>> I am new to CHAT and I don't think I can attend the virtual meeting
>> today. But, did want to pass along info pertinent to the pandemic. In
>> spring 2017 I initiated a pedagogical exercise with students in my
>> Principles of Archaeology course documenting single-use plastic
>> artifacts. The social media component is on Instagram as
>> @plasticsasmaterialculture. The past few weeks the cataloguing has
>> shifted from #plasticarchaeology to #pandemicarchaeology given the
>> increasing number of disposable gloves, disinfectant wipes, and
>> surgical masks I now encounter.
>>
>> Feel free to share with the larger group.
>> All the best,
>> Pamela
>> Pamela L. Geller, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor
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