Trafficking Culture goes to TAG

19 Nov 2012

The Theoretical Archaeology Group, an annual conference, takes place this December at the University of Liverpool. Trafficking Culture researchers Donna Yates and Suzie Thomas are both involved in sessions at TAG, which runs from Monday 17th to Wednesday 19th December 2012.

Donna is in action on Monday the 17th,  taking an interdisciplinary stance with her paper ‘Disciplinary identification, archaeological identity, and the ethics of doing the same stuff, only as a Criminologist’, in the session ‘Decentering the Discipline? Archaeology and Extra-Archaeological Communities‘.

Suzie, meanwhile, speaks twice on Tuesday the 18th; once in her own session ‘Heritage and Crime: Recent research and new initiatives‘ on ‘Trafficking Culture: Interdisciplinary research into the global trade in looted cultural objects’, and then later the same day on ‘When Community Archaeology isn’t: Misuses of the term and the consequences’ in the session ‘New approaches to archaeological outreach, engagement and ownership‘. The Heritage and Crime session will also feature papers from project Friends Mark Harrison and Stuart Campbell.

If you are also attending, do feel free to have a chat to Donna and Suzie about any aspects of the project. Given the traditional focus of many TAG conferences on new researchers and postgraduate students, they are especially keen to talk to anyone that may be interested in studying or researching with the Trafficking Culture team.