Theoretical Archaeology Group at Berkeley May 6-8th

Just a heads up on the next TAG meeting - it'll be at UC Berkeley over the weekend of the 6-8th May. The theme is 'Archaeology of and in the Contemporary World', a favorite topic of our bloggers here at Trace|work, who'll be out in force: - Check out the 'strata/palimpsest' poster session and 'Apocalyptic Imaginations: Disaster, Ruination, and Resilience'

There are many, many wonderful looking sessions over the course of the weekend - the difficulty will be choosing which ones to go to - Hope to see you there!

Theoretical Archaeology Group at Brown University #2

A somewhat belated review of the third US TAG held at Brown University at the end of May. The conference was a great success, with a real variety of papers and presentation formats. The opening plenary session, moderated by Nick Shepherd was particularly strong with the theme of the location of theory. Homi Bhabha was invited to comment on presentations by Alejandro F. Haber, Yannis Hamilakis, and Uzma Z. Rizvi. Papers can be found on the plenary session page of the TAG website.

There were also a number of wonderful artistic interventions during the conference which did a great deal to promote the creative and innovative attitude of the conference; the organizers also made some interesting experiments with session format and organization that will hopefully be picked up on in future years.

Of course, with any TAG conference, the key question is always 'How was the party?' and we are happy to report that TAG Brown lived up to the high standard that has been set by 30 years of British TAGs. Do you have any photos? Please submit them for posting for here if so...

Next year Berkeley! But before then, don't forget the Old World British original, in Bristol, UK this December.

Theoretical Archaeology Group at Brown University

The Center for Archaeology is off to the third annual Theoretical Archaeology Group meetings this weekend. TAG came to the US in 2008 when we hosted the first annual meeting at Columbia. Since then it has gone from strength to strength. Find out more about it at TAG-USA.org

Full report on this year's conference when we get back!