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Next Seminar: “Imitation in Archaeology”
The Mediterranean basin contains complex and dynamic communication networks. Since Antiquity, ideas, objects and people have travelled on a regular base generating various forms of cultural contact....
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Next Seminar: “Anachronistic Identities?”
“Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished fact… we should think, instead, of identity as a ‘production’, which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted...
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Change of time for the “Anachronistic Identities?” seminar
The seminar is going to take place at 5.00pm on December 17.
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Next Seminar: “Mortuary Practices and Society”
Mortuary practices have been used as a tool to track changes through time in elite ideologies and local political geographies. Preston (2004) discussed local mortuary practices in order to comment on...
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Next Seminar: “Social Memory in Archaeology”
Memory is not data stored in the mind, but ‘emerges from the mutual engagement between the person and world’ (Jones 2007). It mediates between the past and the present and is not a passive reading of...
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Next Seminar: “Linguistics and Archaeology”
This TASA session aims at examining recent approaches on the interdisciplinary studies which combine linguistics and archaeology. Admittedly, the collaboration between these two very diverse fields has...
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Next Seminar: Theoretical & Methodological Perspectives on Networks &...
Albeit within the archaeological discourse interaction has always played a critical role, it can be safely asserted that for many years its functioning has been one of the most under-theorized themes...
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Next Seminar: Gender in Archaeology
Attention to gender and feminist questions within archaeological practice and theory has followed a somewhat different path from other disciplines, but inquiry into the presence of women and the...
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Next Seminar: Reading the Past? Images in Archaeology as a Source of Information
The study of images has always played a significant part in archaeology as it is considered a useful tool towards the reconstruction of various aspects of life of ancient societies, such as beliefs and...
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Next Seminar: Approaches to ‘Social Complexity’ in Archaeology
In recent decades the theoretical parameters of ‘social complexity’ in archaeology have shifted considerably. Those neoevolutionist theories which formed the foundation of many previous avenues of...
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Next Seminar: ARCHAEOLOGICAL ETHNOGRAPHIES OF ABSENCE
Archaeology, in both theory and practice, constantly encounters absence; the absence of people who once lived at a site, the absence of finds and evidence, the fragmentary nature of archaeological...
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Next Seminar: The Phenomenon of ‘Phantom Place’ and Ships
This seminar, led by Dr. Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (Leventis Fellow at BSA), aims to discuss the phenomenon of ‘phantom place’, and its occurrences and impact on our experience of Place. This...
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Next Seminar: Entanglement and Identity in the Mediterranean
In trying to move beyond the older, simplistic extremes of diffusion v. indigenous development as well as outmoded and uncomfortable ideas about colonisation, particularly in the Mediterranean,...
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