Program

Wednesday 18th of May 2022

  • 9:30 Coffee & Registration

  • 10:00 Quentin Letesson (UCLouvain) & Lionel Simon (UCLouvain) - Introduction - Wading through a Flood of Information

  • 10:20 Christopher Witmore (Texas Tech University) - The Anthropocene is not deep; it is shallow!

  • 10:50 Laurent Olivier (Musée d’archéologie nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye) - Archaeology in the Anthropocenic Age. The Discipline of Things that Create Memory

  • 11:20 Discussion

  • 11:50 Lunch

  • 13:30 Ludovic Coupaye (University College London) - Agency as Reticulations: Yams and Printers as Autonomous Objects, and their Functioning as Modes of Existence

  • 14:00 Séverine Lagneaux (UCLouvain) & Romane Vanhakendover (Centre wallon de Recherches agronomiques) - Coding and Deciphering Grass. Pasture Management and Policies in Wallonia and Bucovina

  • 14:30 Discussion

  • 15:00 Coffee

  • 15:20 Christopher Watts (University of Waterloo) - Odd Deposits and Ancestral Wendat Assemblage Logics

  • 15:50 Marie-Charlotte Franco (Université du Québec à Montréal) - Tracing Nineteenth-century North American Intellectual Networks through Native Objects

  • 16:20 Discussion

  • 16:50 General discussion & closing remarks

  • 17:30 Self-guided tour of the Musée L

Thursday 19th of May 2022

  • 9:30 Coffee & Registration

  • 10:00 Laura Rival (University of Oxford) - Ecofeminisms in the Making: What Implications for Anthropological and Archaeological Research

  • 10:40 Carl Knappett (University of Toronto) - Being Urban: Entangled or Imaginary?

  • 11:20 Discussion

  • 12:00 Lunch

  • 13:30 Andrew Shapland (Ashmolean Museum) - Tentacular Thinking in Bronze Age Crete

  • 14:10 Thibaut Fontanari (UCLouvain) - The Social Life of Roads: Connectivity and Material Connections in the Karakoram, Pakistan

  • 14:50 Discussion

  • 15:30 Coffee

  • 16:00 Martin Holbraad (University College London) - Afterword [remote intervention]

  • 16:45 Closing remarks