Welcome to the new website of our lab and studio at Stanford University – projects in research creation Welcome to our network of colleagues, friends and collaborators, projects, aspirations, and hopes. This is a new version of an online presence, combining elements of what was previously called metamedia@Stanford, archaeolog, and archaeography.com. There will be regular…
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On the Trace
Tim Flohr Sørensen and Þóra Pétursdóttir are organizing a conference, “On the Trace: Passing, Presence and the Persistence of the Past,” at the Saxo Institute, the University of Copenhagen, September 22-23, 2016. Here is their rationale and call for submissions: In recent decades, the concept of ‘cultural heritage’ as process has largely replaced notions of ‘static’ relics…
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: Translation, Imagination and Archaeology
by Maria O’Connell “The Linear B tablets have a stark beauty. Some have smooth, charcoal-gray surfaces resembling slate, others are reddish brown, still others are bright orange. (The color depends on the level of oxygen to which they were exposed when the palace burned down)…On the backs of the tablets…scribes left traces of themselves in the…
Night of the Living Dead: modern ruins and archaeology
By Maksymilian Frąckowiak, Kornelia Kajda, Dawid Kobiałka Archaeologies of the present A spectre is haunting contemporary archaeologies – the spectre of the present. That is to say, one has recently been witnessing a shift in archaeological approaches: a new, ‘neo-materialistic paradigm’ (so-called return to things) is slowly emerging on the scene. It indicates weak aspects…
Tara 2009 Symposium: Live Webstream
The UCD School of Archaeology, in association with the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, is hosting a symposium entitled Tara – From the Past to the Future. ————- LIVE WEBSTREAM: http://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/tarasymposium2009/livestream/ ————- Featuring approximately forty papers by an international group of scholars, the symposium promises to be the most extensive review of the…
Michael Shanks’ intervention into Tara 2009
Michael Shanks has intervened in the proceedings of the Tara 2009 Symposium at UCD via iChat from Stanford University. You can read his paper here: http://documents.stanford.edu/MichaelShanks/400 ————————- Ian Russell – www.iarchitectures.com