Archaeology Reading Group: Object-Image-Interpretation
Convenor: Will Anderson, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, archaeologyreading@gmail.com.
The group meets at 4:00 pm, generally on the fourth Thursday of the month during semester.
Venue: unless advised otherwise is the Common Room in the southwest corner of the first floor, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, Old Quad. Discussion usually centres on a selected reading on archaeology theory.
To be added to the email list to receive details of meetings, please email the convenor.
Programme for Semester 2 2009
3 September
Reading:
Claudia Glatz 2009: 'Empire as network: Spheres of material interaction in Late Bronze Age Anatolia', Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28, 127-41.
24 September
Reading:
William Anderson and Damjan Krsmanovic (unpublished): 'Critiquing the Archaeological Diary'.
22 October
Chair: Amanda Rose
Reading:
Denis Cosgrove 2004: 'Landscape and Landschaft', German Historical Institute Bulletin 35: 57-71.
Amanda Rose, 'The Spatial Turn in Archaeology', discussion paper.
26 November
Chair: Dianne Fitzpatrick
Reading:
W.H. Marquardt, A. Montet-White and S.C. Scholtz 1982: 'Resolving the crisis in archaeological collections curation', American Antiquity 47/2, 409-18.
Programme for Semester 1 2009
26 February
Reading:
J.J. McDonald et al. 2007: 'The first archaeological evidence for death by spearing in Australia', Antiquity 81, 877-85.
M.E. Lewis 2008: 'A traitor's death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire', Antiquity 82, 113-24.
12 March
Reading:
T. Webmoor and C.L. Witmore 2008: ‘Things are us! Commentary on human/things relations under the banner of a ‘social’ archaeology’, Norwegian Archaeological Review 41, 53-70.
M. McCarthy 2005: ‘Social dynamics on the northern frontier of Roman Britain’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 24, 47-71.
30 April
Reading:
C. Briault 2007: ‘High Fidelity or Chinese Whispers? Cult symbols and ritual transmission in the Bronze Age Aegean’, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 20/2, 239-65.
21 May
A special reading group meeting to coincide with the visit of Professor Norman Yoffee to Melbourne. Two readings by Professor Yoffee have been circulated by email: 'Making Ancient Cities Plausible' and 'Archaeology in the Humanities'. After the meeting we'll go out for dinner nearby. If you would like to come to dinner, please email Will Anderson - archaeologyreading@gmail.com.
Previous Papers
The programme and abstracts for 2008 are available here.
The programme and abstracts for 2007 are available here.
The programme and abstracts for 2006 are available here.