Appel à communication colloque "The Experience of Technology" les 22-23 October 2011 à l'University of Glasgow

Please find below a call for papers for the Scottish Archaeological Forum's forthcoming conference on 'The Experience of Technology' arranged for 22-23 October 2011 at the University of Glasgow.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Scottish Archaeological Forum Conference: 22nd/23rd October 2011, University of Glasgow.

Conference Title: The Experience of Technology

The year 2011 is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the Scottish Archaeological Forum’s Early Technology in Northern Britain (Kenworthy 1981), the proceedings of the 1979 conference entitled ‘Archaeology and Early Technology in Scotland’. The papers within the volume generally focused on the production and manufacture of material culture within economic frameworks. In keeping with the zeitgeist of the 1970s, technology was considered as a separate object for research divorced from the social dimensions in which things were made and given meaning.
In the intervening period technology has retained a focus for study in archaeology, history, anthropology, philosophy and the social sciences. As we embrace the second decade of the 21st century there appears to be considerable scope for developing further the theme of technology as a sensuous and somatic experience within the social dimension as opposed to an extra-somatic object of study.

This conference seeks to explore how technology, as a sensuous embodiment, interfaces with the auditory, haptic and olfactory experiences, which may incorporate aspects of phenomenology, behaviour, practice and agency, identity, materiality, deterritorialisation, landscape studies and other concepts.

Suggested Themes:
·         Landscape and phenomenology
·         Sensory experiences – auditory, haptic and olfactory
·         Social dimension, agency, practice and behaviour
·         Materiality – how objects can give meaning to the concept of somatic technology
·         The philosophy of deterritorialisation – technology as an interface where object and subject are indivisible.

Papers are invited from people across the academic disciplines who are undertaking current research where aspects of technology are a principal focus. Your research need not necessarily be within Scottish contexts. Please provide an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers will be restricted to 20 minutes.

More information on the Scottish Archaeological Forum (SAF) can be found at:
http://www.scottisharchaeologicalforum.org.uk/html/main.asp

Abstracts should be forwarded before the deadline of 30th April 2011 to:
Dene Wright: a.wright.3@research.gla.ac.uk<mailto:a.wright.3@research.gla.ac.uk> or
Louisa Campbell: l.campbell.3@research.gla.ac.uk<mailto:l.campbell.3@research.gla.ac.uk

Many thanks and kind regards
Louisa Campbell
MA (Hons)
PhD Candidate

Telephone: +44 (0)141 330 3925
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/research/students/lhammersley/

School of Humanities, Archaeology
University of Glasgow