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Please find below a final call for papers for a proposed TAG 2012 session, ‘Crafting-in-the-World: the temporal and spatial dynamics of craft and its practitioners’. Abstract: Whilst the last two decades have witnessed a prolific interest in craft studies, which have increasingly acknowledged the sociality of craft, the role of choice, and the importance of the body in the development and transmission of craft traditions, there remains an uncomfortable dichotomy between the temporal and spatial understandings of craft practice. The abundance of existing research has traditionally focused on either describing production processes or attempted to theorise how the finished products of craft acquire meaning. The separation of object from process has resulted in the products of craft looming un-tethered to practice, devoid of spatial and temporal understandings of craft practice. Papers for the session could address the following themes: • Reconciling continuity and change: redundancy, innovation and change (every innovation involves loss and gain); re-contextualisation of innovations; why some things change and others don’t (i.e., there is no such thing as progress). • Spatial articulation of craft: technological ‘features’ as architecture; space shaping practices and practices shaping space; compartmentalization of space and time geographies. • Tangled web of technological practice: communities of practice; Complementing, referencing, incorporating aspects of other crafts; mobile crafts (i.e., itinerant crafts people). A full poster of the call for papers can be found here: http://sheffield.academia.edu/JessieSlater/Papers/1732851/Crafting-in-the-World_CFP_TAG_2012_session_deadline_27_06_12_ The 34th Annual Meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group will be held at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, from the 17th-19th of December 2012. You can view the conference website at: http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/livetag/index.htm If you wish to submit to the session, please email [log in to unmask] by the 27th of June with the following: • Paper title (20 words max) • Paper abstract (150 words max) • Your name, affiliation and contact details If you have any queries or problems, please feel free to contact us. Clare Burke Davies & Jessica Slater PhD candidates Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield http://sheffield.academia.edu/ClareBurkeDavies http://sheffield.academia.edu/JessieSlater