The Institute of Archaeology Conference Competition

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011

This is one of those rare books poised from the outset to become a classic. In many ways it is what archaeology is at its best: a creative and scholarly exploration of everyday life. Yet After modernity also offers fascinating explorations of the possibilities of the past in the present, and the contributions archaeologies can make to a range of contemporary social issues. The authors' success derives from their deployment of the approaches of a discipline evolved to explore the distant past as a means to illuminate not only the recent and contemporary past but also the post-industrial and super-modern present, and in doing so to help us to better understand ourselves and change through time. The authors' starting-point was the challenge set by a leading theorist to develop a 'counter-modern' perspective to salvage the discipline for the new age (Julian Thomas, Archaeology and modernity, 2004). Hence, this book and the ideas it contains are a product of the twenty-first century, a time for reflection and reassessment, encouraging the reapplication of skills, methods, and instruments beyond traditional realms. The book is divided into two parts. Part I, 'Surveying the field', sketches out the development of this distinct research stream. A disciplinary (pre)history is provided which notes the crucial role of commercial archaeology, developer funding, and local authorities in its emergence. This is refreshing as the considerable impacts of such bodies often go unrecognized. Coverage is also given to the field methods involved in the archaeology of the contemporary past (ACP). The main conclusion is that there is an amplification of the degree to which our cultural backgrounds influence our practice on material which feels closely familiar. The theoretical imperative for cross-disciplinary working and the shared concerns of archaeology and numerous other disciplines, including Actor Network Theory, psychology, and cultural studies, are asserted. There is an outstanding section on the 'archaeological gaze' and its artistic resonances. The convergence of art and archaeology is bound up with core transdisciplinary debates: art as archaeological record; archaeological investigation as embodied performance; and art as interpretation. In part II, 'Archaeological approaches to late modern societies', detail is offered as to the 'doing' of relevant archaeological engagements, with reference to a series of case studies. There is a dual perspective to consideration of 'functioning' and 'non-functioning' artefacts, sites, landscapes, non-places, and virtual worlds. For instance, the Ford Transit van and the IKEA Billy Bookcase are used to elucidate super-modern relationships with the material world, linked to manufacturing histories, modularization, mass customization, and material meaning. Moreover, through cross-reference with oral testimony, studies of an abandoned peace camp and student halls of residence demonstrate the potency and fragility of memory. This facilitates some discussion of

INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE PROCEEDING POLITEKNIK NEGERI MALANG

TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, Special Issue (34): 1-12. ISSN 2380-7679, 2016

Forms and Models of Contact among Linguistics, Literature, and Philology Pescara (IT), January 18-19, 2024

"More than twenty years after the Cambridge school of contextual archaeology challenged processual archae- ology, one may ask where post-processual archaeology stands today. Where is archaeology situated in the aca- demic landscape of the 21st century? Material Culture and Other Things aims to broaden up the fields of inquiry in archaeology through a post- disciplinary approach to the study of material culture and other things. The contributors in this book lay em- phasis on the varying roles of materialities in the con- stitution of social life, offering new perspectives on both the present and the past, and hence, exploring what "archaeology" can be in the 21st century."

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"Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing — the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as well as structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day, and ranging in spatial context from the Americas to the Near East, the chapters in this volume bring a variety of perspectives which contribute to both specific and broader questions of writing materialities. The authors also aim to place past graphical systems in their social contexts so they can be understood in relation to the people who created and attributed meaning to writing and associated symbolic modes through a diverse array of individual and wider social practices."

UCD English Graduate Society: ‘Emerging Perspectives’ Interdisciplinary Symposium - Programme (Friday 19th May 2017 UCD Humanities Institute)

Journal of Academic Writing, 2018

The 9th conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) was held in subtropical conditions from 19th-21st June 2017 in Egham, UK. More than 400 participants from over 40 countries gathered at Royal Holloway, University of London to deliberate 'what teachers of academic writing can offer the global academy in terms of imaginative, creative and principled responses to the increasingly international, diverse and marketised reality of higher education' (EATAW 2017). As two of the co-organisers of the conference, and guest editors of this special issue, we want to thank our colleagues in the Centre for the Development of Academic Skills and other supporting departments at Royal Holloway for the assistance and hard work that a conference of this scale required. We are also grateful for the guidance of the EATAW board and the planning committee of the 2015 conference. Lisa Ganobscik-Williams and George Ttoouli are due our deep gratitude for their expert guidance, patient understanding and timely responses, despite the competing pressures and multiple responsibilities that both they and we have experienced. Many thanks go to all those who acted as reviewers, and of course to the contributors, who offered so many compelling and thought-provoking contributions and were responsive and timely throughout the review, revision and proofreading process. The conference theme, 'Academic Writing Now: Pedagogy, Policy and Practice', was intended to generate contributions articulating a response to the shifting realities of Higher Education at the levels of policy, pedagogy and practice. The call for proposals was enthusiastically received, and the conference included 168 contributions in the form of 116 paper presentations, 8 symposia, 15 workshops, 20 poster presentations and 9 Lightning Talks. Perhaps not unsurprisingly, the themes most represented were pedagogy and practice, with some very insightful contributions on policy. Our three keynote speakers offered challenging perspectives on each of these three themes; their talks will be available on the EATAW 2017 website until autumn 2019, for those who wish to revisit them. 1 EATAW 2017 Keynote Speeches Prof. Rowena Murray launched the conference with the recognition of the expertise that our profession offers to the academy, and acknowledged the difficulties inherent in having a voice in policy. She posited the 'retreat' model that she and others have developed for academic writing as a possible means of disengaging from everyday activities to create space for policywriting. However, her problematisation of the various modes of disengagement that writers seek in order to prioritise writing not only articulated the scope of the challenge, but also identified a accessed here.

Linguistics and Literature Review, 2019

This book examines the materiality of writing. It adopts a multimodal approach to argue that writing as we know it is only a small part of the myriad gestures we make, practices we engage in, and media we use in the process of trace-making. Taking a broad view of the act of writing, the volume features contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars from around the world and incorporates a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives, from fields such as linguistics, philosophy, psychology of perception, design and semiotics. This interdisciplinary framework allows readers to see the relationships between writing and other forms of 'trace-making', including architectural drawings, graphic shapes and commercial logos, and between writing and reading, with a number of illustrations highlighting the visual data used in the forms and studies discussed. The book also looks forward to the future, discussing digital media and new technology and their implications for trace-making. This pioneering volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers in multimodality, literacy, cognitive neuroscience, design theory, discourse analysis and applied linguistics.

This chapter explores how to identify research lines and paradigms in writing research by focusing on the issue of how to understand writing as an object of inquiry and how then to map writing research through multidimensional profiling. While noting the quite diverse lines of contemporary research on writing and text production, it suggests that a full theory of writing constructs writing as situated and mediated activity distributed across temporal, cognitive, social, and material environments. Finally, it argues that semiotic and transdisciplinary frameworks offer a particularly rich framework for writing research that is both theoretically-grounded and practically-oriented.

In: Piquette, K. E. and Whitehouse, R. D. (eds), Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium, 1-13. London: Ubiquity Press. , 2013

In this chapter we introduce the topic of the materiality of writing and the approaches and methods needed to study writing from a material perspective. Within this interpretive theme analysis concentrates not on the linguistic and semantic meanings of ‘texts’ but on their physicality and how this relates to creators and users. We also introduce the individual chapters of the book, which cover a chronological span from c.3200 bce to the present day and a geographical range from the Americas to the Near East and Europe. We end with a brief survey of research on writing as material practice and set out the role that we hope the present volume will play in developing this exciting new research theme.

This article is a report on the 2006 WAC Conference at Clemson University, written from the perspective of two international "critical friends." We use our reflections on the conference as a springboard for exploring the current state of play of the WAC movement, and for suggesting future areas for development. We noted three common sets of metaphors at play throughout the conference: spatial/architectural; mechanical; and aging. We suggest that these metaphors are triply revealing. They help reveal the healthy and vibrant range of WAC activities; they point towards common problems and shared difficulties; and they illuminate some of our current blind spots about our own practice and our critical understanding thereof. We end with some suggestions relating to the future work we consider significant for the continuing flourishing of WAC, and look forward to WAC 2008. Starting Points We are very pleased to have been invited to share some reflections about the excellent event...