21st-23rd November
Friday 21st November
1pm-3pm: The Archaeology of Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds 1 (Session Chair: Dr Mark Horton, University of Bristol)
• Chris Cumberpatch and Reuben Thorpe, Archaeological practice in a post-colonial situation; an example from Lebanon.
• Sarah Croucher, Cultural Identity and Perceptions of Slavery in the Clove Plantations of Zanzibar.
• Jana Scholtz, Creating identity: Africa and Saxony.
• Angela Michael, Postcolonialism, tourism and archaeology in Cyprus.
• Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Slipping the Shackles: Material Culture and Australian Chain Gang Life
3pm-3.30pm TEA
3.30pm-5.30pm: Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds 2 (Session Chair: Dr Mark Horton, University of Bristol)
• Dan Hicks, The Material Atlantic.
• David Petts, The London Lead Company and Internal Colonialism in the North Pennines.
• Andrew Tierney, Genealogies of the Irish tower house.
• David Harvey, Cultures of antiquity and the practice of archaeology in Britain and Ireland (c. 1700-1850) – a post-colonial perspective.
• Sarah Tarlow, Act globally, think locally: colonialism and British historical archaeology.
Discussant (Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds): Dr Mark Horton (University of Bristol)
6pm-7.30pm: WINE RECEPTION AND KEYNOTE PAPERS
Two keynote papers will be given: by Dr Victor Buchli (Department of Anthropology, University College London) and Professor Mary Beaudry (Department of Archaeology, University of Boston).
Saturday 22nd November
9.30am-12 noon: Archaeology and Popular Culture 1 (Session Chair: Dr Angela Piccini (Departments of Drama and Archaeology, University of Bristol)
• Brian Gohacki, Slavers, Swashbucklers, and Salvagers: Popular Culture and Nautical Archaeology
• Daniel Costura, The Cultural Landscape as an Interpretive Tool
• Krysta Ryzewski, Patent Medicines as Popular Culture: Archaeological Evidence for the Persuasive Power of ‘Medicinal’ Advertisements in Post-Colonial New England
• Nigel Jeffries, Ceramics, Popular Culture and 19th century London
10.30-11.00am: COFFEE
• Julian Bowsher, Actor – audience interaction at the Rose Theatre 1587-1606; the archaeological interpretation
• Martin Newman, Not Surfing but Drowning: Historic Environment Data on the Internet and Intellectual Barriers to Access
• Graham Fairclough, Change and Creation: The Later Twentieth Century Landscape
Discussant (Archaeology and Popular Culture 1): Professor David Austin (Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter)
1.30pm-3pm: Archaeology and Popular Culture 2 (Session Chair: Dr Dan Hicks (Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol)
• Sara Cohen and John Schofield, The Sounds of the Suburbs
• Karol Kulik, British TV Archaeology and the Public (1998-2002)
• Paul Graves-Brown, Concrete Islands
• Angela Piccini, Guttersnipe: a micro road movie
Discussant (Archaeology and Popular Culture 2): Professor David Austin (Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter)
3pm-3.30pm: TEA
4pm-5.30pm: Connection and evocation: beyond explanation in archaeology (Session Chairs: Douglass Bailey (University of Cardiff) and Michael Shanks (Stanford University)
• Douglass Bailey, The Neolithic apartment: architecture and transgressing boundaries
• Mike Pearson, Antarctic Archaeology
• Michael Shanks, Matters of metaMedia in contemporary archaeology
• Fiona Campbell and Jonna Hansson-Ulin, Reconstructing Archaeological Sites – in Uppsala in Bristol
Sunday 23rd November
9.30-11am: Archaeology as Political Action 1 (Session Chair: Dr Josh Pollard (Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol)
• John Carman and Patricia Carman, From Rhetoric to Research: The Bloody Meadows Project As A Pacifist Response To War
• Laura McAtackney, Presenting heritage: the case of Northern Ireland
• Paul Page, Controlling Social Space at Baitings Mill, Northern Rochdale
• Richard Paul Benjamin, Black British identity and social inclusion through archaeology
• Hanneke Ronnes, Building around William of Orange. On Architecture, Power and Friendship
• Eleanor Conlin Casella and Darren Griffin, Life Beyond the Anorack? Revivification of our Industrial Past
Discussant (Archaeology as Political Action 1): Dr Tadhg O’Keeffe (Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin)
11am-11.30am: COFFEE
11.30am-1.30pm: Archaeology as Political Action 2 (Session Chair: Dr Mark Horton (Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol)
• Simon Rutherford, When Past & Politics Collide – The Newport SOS Campaign – Victory ?
• Christopher Matthews and Matthew Palus, Significance, Value, and Property in the Public Face of Archaeology
• Antoon C. Mientjes, An Archaeological Perspective of the Historic Countryside in Central Sicily
• John Schofield, Colleen Beck and Harold Drollinger, Cold War heritage: peace camps at Greenham and Nevada
• Kate Giles, English public buildings: the power of place?
• Sian Jones, Between past and present: monuments, memory and resistance in the Scottish Highlands.
Discussant (Archaeology as Political Action 2): Dr Tadhg O’Keeffe (Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin)
1.30pm-1.35pm: Concluding Remarks: Dr Dan Hicks and Dr Angela Piccini (Departments of Archaeology and Drama, Bristol University)
