Dear all,
Please find below the call for papers for a session at the upcoming TAG
Syracuse conference on the theme of 'Slow Archaeology'.
The 'At the Pace of Things? Archaeology in the Anthropocene' session is
affiliated with the Unruly Heritage project at UiT (www.unrulyheritage.com),
and chaired by Þóra Pétursdóttir and myself.
Please, do not hesitate to contact us at the email addresses below if you
have any questions.
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*Session 006: At the Pace of Things? Archaeology in the Anthropocene*
http://tag2019.maxwell.syr.edu/program/sessions-and-abstracts/
Session Chairs:
Þóra Pétursdóttir ([log in to unmask])
Geneviève Godin ([log in to unmask])
The Anthropocene has recently made an abrupt and forceful entry into
academic and public discourses, wherein the bleak prospect of an imminent
future calls for immediate action. Despite this haste, the Anthropocene may
be argued to introduce a rhythmic paradox. While pronounced in terms of
acceleration, it is in essence defined by a slowness of heritage—things
that linger, stick around, come back to us, resurface, and refuse to meet
their end.
The urgency at present, therefore, may equally involve acknowledging other,
less frantic and less anthropocentric rhythms. That is to say, approaches
that explore and employ a ‘thing-led’ slowness. Such approaches are already
pursued in various new materialisms and ontological turns. Nevertheless, it
may be argued that, despite archaeology’s direct commitment to soiled and
unruly matter, there remains a tendency to keep things conveniently at
arms’ length. One may ask, then, what would a sincerely object-oriented
form of care involve? And what would it mean to operate at the pace of
things?
Grounded in the ongoing Unruly Heritage project hosted at UiT – The Arctic
University of Norway (see unrulyheritage.com for more information), this
session aims to investigate these questions as well as open up related
avenues for thought. Embracing a depiction of archaeology as ‘slow’ and
‘patient’, we especially welcome explorations of how fieldwork traditions
of repeated visits, hands-on engagements, embodied experiences and
corporeal acquaintances may underpin significant methodological and
onto-epistemological approaches to the challenges faced in the Anthropocene.
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