Dear Julie
I am Principal Investigator for an AHRC funded project 'Tales of the
frontier' involving Hadrian's Wall funded under the Landscape and
Environment programme (see
http://www.dur.ac.uk/roman.centre/hadrianswall/). I am thinking of
offering you a joint paper with my colleagues on this topic, since I
think that it would fit well into your session. Would you like such a
paper? If so, I will email you an abstract later this week.
Best wishes
Dr Richard Hingley
Reader in Archaeology
Julie Candy wrote:
> The session entitled “From the everyday commute to a journey of a lifetime:
> the landscapes and material culture of movement” will take place at TAG 2007
> in York.
>
> If you are interested in presenting a paper, please get in touch with Julie
> Candy and Erin Gibson by email at [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
>
> Abstracts should be received by 28th August
> For more information on TAG 2007, see
> http://tag07.york.googlepages.com/home
>
> Thanks
>
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> The session abstract is as follows;
>
>>From the everyday commute to a journey of a lifetime: the landscapes and
> material culture of movement
> Landscapes are criss-crossed with route-ways and the places or ‘non-places’
> of travel. Spiritual journeys, daily commutes, migrations, exiles and
> homecomings – whatever the motive or the means – travel is an integral
> element of human life.
>
> The archaeology of landscape has proven a great success in recent decades
> yet still the focus lingers on the investigation of bounded places, fixed
> sites and settlements. It is this inability or unwillingness to step beyond
> the material culture of ‘places’ that limits our understanding of human
> activity and those individuals whose material presence in the landscape is
> fleeting.
>
> This multidisciplinary session will explore the dynamics of human movement
> in past and present landscapes. We invite debate on how we can identify and
> interrogate the material signs of movement in the landscape through
> theoretical engagement with core subjects such as sensory perception,
> practice theory, phenomenology, identity and the human body. Contributions
> to this session will confront pertinent issues relating to the performance
> of travel, the complex relationship between movement, landscape and
> experience, traveller identities and the forces that drive people to travel.
>
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