Dear colleagues,
Apologies to those who already saw this but I wanted to share a session that is being organised at Nordic TAG in May 2024 in Turku, Finland (https://sites.utu.fi/nordictag2024/). It may be of interest to many of you as this topic speaks to a theme that has grown more and more prevalent in recent years. Hopefully many of you will find the time and the interest to contribute papers for a lively and timely discussion.
Entangled Worlds, Entangled Methods: Archaeologies of Nature
Anatolijs Venovcevs ([log in to unmask]), Marjo Juola ([log in to unmask]), and Vesa-Pekka Herva ([log in to unmask])
The nature-culture binary has been extensively critiqued within archaeology and heritage studies to the point where its dismissal has become a given. Archaeologists and other heritage practitioners have routinely began stepping out of their traditional disciplinary boundaries to study the heritage of things that have previously been relegated to other disciplines. Non-human animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, geological formations, and etc. have come under scrutiny as inherently entangled objects of study while the enduring remains of the human past have become celebrated for their ecological affordances. While these developments have been promising in overcoming the exclusivity of cultural heritage there has been less emphasis on what an archaeology beyond the nature-culture split can actually look like. As such, this session seeks to bring heritage practitioners from within archaeology and beyond to interrogate the uncomfortable practicalities of working in the grey zone between clearly defined disciplinary boundaries. What new tools are necessary in order to conduct an archaeology of a deeply entangled world? What opportunities become available when heritage practitioners reach out to other scholars, scientists, and citizen science groups? How can heritage studies approaches contribute to biodiversity preservation and multi-species sustainability in the Anthropocene? And, ultimately, how can we learn with and not just about the heritage of non-human others? While framed as practical questions, this session rejects the clear division between theory and method whereby working and thinking with non-human others ultimately challenges our understandings of what archaeology and heritage studies is or can be.
The call for papers is now open with a deadline of December 1st - https://sites.utu.fi/nordictag2024/news/call-for-papers/ If you wish to present, please send the paper abstract to me by that date.
Thank you,
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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