This is a call for papers – of sorts. With fellow Aarhus PhD students Tim (Flohr Sørensen) and Mads (Dengsø Jessen), I’m organizing a seminar and PhD course entitled “The Art of Destruction: Phenomenology, Fragmentation and Material Culture” in Aarhus, 6-7 December 2007. The seminar is generously funded by the Danish PhD School in Archaeology, […]
Category archives: Conferences
AIAC and why (printed) conference proceedings should be a thing of the past
AIAC has recently issued the call for papers to the 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology to be held in Rome 22-26 September 2008 with the theme of “Meetings of Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean”. I’m planning to attend as part of a session organized by our late antiquity centre here in Aarhus. The proceedings […]
Desert Chic in San Diego: A report from the AIA annual meeting
Marriott San Diego Marina & Hotel, site of this year’s AIA/APA annual meeting. Photo: TMK, January 2007. Here is, as promised, a brief report from this year’s AIA/APA annual meeting in San Diego. Or rather, as I (just like last year) didn’t get a chance to attend any of the APA sessions, I can really […]
Off to San Diego
When you read this, I’ll be on my way to San Diego for the 108th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. It promises to be a very well attended meeting this year. Could the fact that it’s held in southern California play a part in this? Surely, I won’t comment on that. But […]
AIA Montreal Day Three: A Little Bit of Everything
On this last day of the AIA annual meeting, I frequently commuted between sessions. Consequently, I have organized today’s notes by session and not by the order that they appeared. I begun the day at the “Roman Houses and Villas”, another session chaired by Christopher Parslow (Wesleyan). Five out of seven papers were on villas, […]
AIA Montreal Day Two: From the Tiber to the Agora
I started the second day at the “Water as a Cultural Force” session, chaired by Rabun Taylor (Harvard). It was something of a mixed bag, but quite enjoyable. Like yesterday, I present a brief overview of the papers that I saw today: The Palais des Congrés, Montréal – site of the AIA annual meeting 2006. […]
AIA Montreal Day One: Sculpture and Slavery
I arrived early at the Palais des Congrés, but registration turned out to be a breeze. The morning was spent almost entirely in the “(Re)Considering Roman Sculpture“ session, chaired by Elaine Gazda (Michigan). Due to a no-show and a cancellation, the session was unfortunately down to five papers. During the long break I had hoped […]
AIA Montreal Day Zero: Arrival
Back in snowcovered, electioneering Canada. My connecting flight from Philadelphia to Montreal took us directly over a very wintery-looking Manhattan. However, just north of New York the clouds entirely covered the landscapes below. On arrival, everything was white and the snow was still falling, when I was lining up for the very long taxi queue […]
Sheffield TAG and a Sense of Christmas
The timetables and abstracts for the sessions at this year’s TAG are now available online. There are several papers on sensory and phenomenological themes, so as I was doing my Saturday shopping this morning at “The Real Canadian Superstore“, I could not help to be overwhelmed by the international smells and sounds of Christmas in […]
The Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism
I haven’t been keeping up with entries lately. I plan to return to more regular updates next week. In the meantime, here’s news about an interesting forthcoming conference – although this one I unfortunately won’t be able to attend. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LATE ANTIQUE PAGANISM (LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY 2005, MEETING 2) KULeuven, Belgium, 25th-26th November […]