The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) is pleased to announce that the 2024 meeting will convene from May 21-23 in Santa Fe, NM. For the first time, the meeting will be hosted by an Indigenous nation, Picuris Pueblo, at a 100%-tribally-owned venue: Hotel Santa Fe. Taking up a conference theme of “place,” TAG extends a special invitation to sessions, papers, and workshops that pose new questions about the archaeology of placemaking, native science, ecology, landscape, situated knowledge, multispecies analytics, critical cartographies, and anti-colonial localism. For more information about scheduling and logistics, visit the conference portal.
Paper submissions are due by April 22, 2024. More information on how to submit a paper to a session may be found on the conference portal; to join a session, directly email the session organizers. A list of current sessions may be found below:
- “Sanctity in Motion,” chaired by Robert Weiner (Robert.S.Weiner@dartmouth.edu
) and Darryl Wilkinson (Darryl.A.Wilkinson@dartmouth. edu) - “Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism,”
chaired by Severin Fowles (sfowles@barnard.edu) and El Morris (emorris@barnard.edu) - “Moving Place: Archaeologies of Mobility, Transit, and Emplacement,” chaired by Rosemary A. Joyce (rajoyce@berkeley.edu)
- “Artiplaces: From the Phenomenal to the Hyperreal,” chaired by Benjamin Alberti (balberti@framingham.edu) and Christopher Watts (c3watts@uwaterloo.ca)
- “Debating the Aesthetics and Poetics of Infrastructures,” chaired by Ed Swenson (edward.swenson@utoronto.ca)
- “TAG Takeover: Theorizing Indigenous Emergent Geographies,” chaired by Lindsay Montgomery (lindsay.montgomery@utoronto.
ca) and Nate Acebo (nathan.acebo@uconn.edu) - “Bioarchaeological Ethics in Practice: Returning and Emplacing,” chaired by Sabrina C. Agarwal (agarwal@berkeley.edu) and Alanna Warner
- “New Theoretical Perspectives on Relationships with the More-than-Human World,” chaired by Katelyn J. Bishop (kjbishop@illinois.edu), Ripan S. Malhi, Jenny L. Davis, and Sarah E. Oas
- “Situated Knowledge in a World of Archaeological Orthodoxy,” chaired by Jenny Ni (jn2512@columbia.edu), Brendon Connor Murray (bcm2153@columbia.edu), and Amanda Althoff (eaa2167@columbia.edu)
- “Community-based Archaeology: Uniting Community Priorities with Archaeological Practice,” chaired by Michael Graves (mwgraves@unm.edu)
- “Holding Uncertainty: Sketching the Unreliable Past,” chaired by Zoë Crossland (zc2149@columbia.edu), Andrew Roddick (roddick@mcmaster.ca), and Kathryn Killackey (kjkillackey@gmail.com)
The TAG 2024 meeting is still open to session proposals. To propose a session for the conference, submit a title and abstract on the conference portal or contact a member of the 2024 TAG Organizing Committee. Please note: unlike most conferences, session organizers do not need to solicit all or even most session participants. Once proposed, sessions will be advertised as a part of the wider call for papers. The 2024 TAG Organizing Committee and their contact information may be found below:
- Darryl Wilkinson (Dartmouth College): Darryl.A.Wilkinson@
dartmouth.edu - Rob Weiner (Dartmouth College): Robert.S.Weiner@
dartmouth.edu - Lindsay Montgomery (U of Toronto): lindsay.montgomery@
utoronto.ca - Severin Fowles (Barnard College): sfowles@barnard.edu
- Tamara Bray (Wayne State U): t.bray@wayne.edu
- Benjamin Alberti (Framingham State U): balberti@framingham.edu
- Woody Aguilar (San Ildefonso Pueblo): aguilarj@sanipueblo.
org - Michael Adler (Southern Methodist U): madler@smu.edu
