Note: Each session consists of two papers, a short comment by a discussant, and time for a brief Q&A. Paper abstracts can now be viewed online.
Friday, Nov 3, 2023
4:00-4:30pm
Introductory Remarks
Andrew Scherer (Brown University)
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Amanda Gaggioli (University of Memphis) and R. Alexander Hunter (Brown University):
Material Histories and Environmental Politics: Archaeology and the Anthropocene
4:30-6:00pm
Session 1:
Challenging Climate Abstractions: What Kind of Problem is the “Climate”? For Who?
Catherine Kearns (University of Chicago):
Climate the Antagonist: Material Histories Beyond Reification
Kristen Barnett (University of British Columbia):
Utengqaukut
Discussant: Shanti Morell-Hart (Brown University)
6:00-7:00pm
Reception
Saturday, Nov 4, 2023
9:00-10:30am
Session 2:
Place-Based Approaches and Problems of Scale
Emma Gilheany (University of Chicago):
Archaeology as Hyperlocal Practice: A Case Study in the Material Afterlives of the Cold War in the Circumpolar North
Mariana Cabral (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais):
Against Natural Resources: Engaging Indigenous Knowledge to Imagine the Past and the Future of the Amazon
Discussant: Haeden Stewart (U. Massachusetts Amherst)
Break
11:00-12:30pm
Session 3:
Theory and Method for Environmental Politics Today
Jada Ko (Brown University):
Archaeological Contributions to Biodiversity Conservation Efforts in China – Challenges and Prospects
Andrew Bauer (Stanford University):
Toward a Critical Geoarchaeology—From Depositional Processes to the Socio-Politics of Earthen Life on the Deccan Plateau, Southern India
Discussant: Mac Marston (Boston University)
Break for Lunch
1:30-3:00pm
Session 4:
Archaeological Practice, Environmental Politics, and the “Present Past”
Wade Campbell (Boston University):
Land, Water, Rights, & Indigenous Archaeology at Play in the US Southwest
Kathryn Catlin (Jacksonville State University):
Sustainable Pasts & Futures in the Archaeological Imagination
Discussant: Parker VanValkenburgh (Brown University)
Break
3:30-4:30 pm
Closing Remarks
R. Alexander Hunter and Amanda Gaggioli
Archaeology and the Anthropocene: Reprise