Dear all,
Sorry for any cross posting!
I'm very happy to announce the line-up for the Neolithic Postgraduate symposium (organised BY postgraduates, but as you will see not confined to postgraduate speakers!)
If any of you would like to attend, registration is free (registration form can be found on our webpage)
Could you also circulate this information within your universities/organisations? We would really appreciate it
Hope to see some of you on the day!
Best, Ffion
WEB PAGE: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/newsandevents/archaeology/creative-analogies-in-the-neolithic.html
Programme for the Neolithic Postgraduate Symposium
The value of creative analogies in the Neolithic
The symposium will be followed by a meal at Pizza Express, St. Mary’s Street, Cardiff.
EXCLUDES LUNCH (available locally or bring your own)
This day symposium, held at the Tower Building, Lecture Theatre 2, Cardiff University, is designed to bring together students, early-career postgraduates and researchers working on relevant topics in the field of Neolithic archaeology in Europe. This event is multidisciplinary and will explore the value of analogy in our interpretation of Neolithic worlds, whether this is from an art historic, anthropological, philosophical or science perspective.
10.00–10.30 Registration, tea & coffee
10.30–10.40 Welcome and introduction (Ffion Reynolds and Seren Griffiths, Cardiff University)
Morning session
10.40–11.05 Heather Price (Cardiff University): Personhood, networks and beyond: what can relational personhood tell us about social organisation
11.05–11.30 Ffion Reynolds (Cardiff University): Using indigenous theory as analogy in the Early Neolithic
11.30–11.55 Prof. Mike Parker-Pearson (Sheffield University): Ancestral materialities: Stonehenge ten years after
11.55–12.20 Dr Ollie Harris (University of Newcastle): The Empire strikes back?
12.20–12.45 Dr Ben Edwards (University of Liverpool): Neolithic analogies: a sceptical view
12.45–13.05 Discussion by Prof. Alasdair Whittle (Cardiff University)
13.05–14.15 Lunch
Afternoon session
14.15–14.40 Seren Griffiths (Cardiff University): Drawing time in the past: visual analogies and their roles in the conception of neolithic time and temporality
14.40–15.05 Dr Fumihito Nagase (Handa Japanese Archaeology fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich): unearthed: the comparative study of prehistoric clay figurines from the Neolithic Balkans and Jomon Japan
15.05–15.30 Prof. Dragos Georghiu (National University of Arts, Hungary): Artcheology
15.30–16.00 Tea & coffee
16.00–16.25 Simon Pascoe (Red Earth): Doors into the Neolithic mind. Performance as method: experiential interpretation of the Neolithic mindset
16.25–17.50 Sean Harris (The Wild Boar Press): Colour – Texture – Emotion. Connecting communities with their ancestors and ancestral landscapes through the medium of animation
17.50–18.20 Discussion by Prof. Alison Wylie (University of Washington)
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