Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, London 2008
The Tales of the Frontier (AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme) team
will convene a session at the RGS annual conference to be held in London in
2008
Session Title: Matters of Interdisciplinarity: Archaeology meets Geography
Session Convenors: Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Durham, Geography), Rob Witcher
(Durham Archaeology), Richard Hingley (Durham Archaeology)
ABSTRACT: In this session we aim to bring together current
interdisciplinary research which bridges the disciplines of Archaeology and
Geography. In recent geographical research the influence of Anthropology
has been significant in the areas of materiality and landscape. Many of our
archaeological colleagues are also engaged with a post-processual approach
to landscape, monuments, ruins and sites which engage with memory,
phenomenology, emotional experience, sensory textures of touch, light and
sound as well as making analyses of various antiquarian sites and texts
through varied theoretical approaches, including post-structural theory,
post-colonial theory, cultural materialism and issues raised through
political economy. The session is inspired by the AHRC’s Landscape and
Environment programme which is currently funding many interdisciplinary
collaborations.
· To what intellectual effect are these interdisciplinary dialogues
and partnerships?
· What do these convergences ‘add’ to theory and method?
· How are approaches to materiality and landscape affected and
effected in this collaborative approach?
We welcome abstracts of 150 words maximum that address the themes of the
session abstract. Please forward to [log in to unmask] by
February 4th 2008.
Tales of the Frontier Project
http://www.dur.ac.uk/roman.centre/hadrianswall/
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