20-21 March 2025: Looking at Things Differently – New Materialist Approaches in Archaeology
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26. February 2025
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Veranstaltungen
International conference on 20 and 21 March 2025 at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) in Mainz in cooperation with the AG Theories in Archaeology (TidA), the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence and the Marburg Centre for the Ancient World (MCAW)
Are things still as we imagine them? The insights provided by New Materialist approaches have turned the humanistic concept of science and the humanities upside down. Things are more than objects made only for and/or by humans, but are rather a gathering of things, assemblages and material forms and flows of living together.
Our conference will focus on the ontologies of past societies and the ways in which they viewed and lived in their world(s). To this end, links are often drawn to related theoretical approaches, such as New Animism, Feminist Materialism, New Vitalism, multispecies approaches, approaches to more-than-human bodies, assemblage theories or the entanglement of different objects and categories. In doing so, we want to bring the changed role of humans, other living beings, things and concepts in the context of an ontological turn to the centre of archaeological theory formation.
Registration
Please register by e-mail until 10 March 2025 at service(at)leiza.de.
Venue
Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie
Ludwig-Lindenschmit-Forum 1, 55116 Mainz
Contact
stefan.schreiber(at)leiza.de
Organization
Sarah Bockmeyer (EXC ROOTS, Kiel)
Sabine Neumann (MCAW, Marburg)
Stefan Schreiber (LEIZA, Mainz)
The entire programme, abstracts, and further information can be found at the conference website: https://www.leiza.de/die-dinge-einmal-anders-betrachten-neuer-materialismus-in-der-archaeologie
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