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SUMMARY:Humans think through and with materials. So what? - Maikel Kuijper
 s\, Leiden University
DTSTART:20211103T131500Z
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CONTACT:Ruairidh Macleod
DESCRIPTION:There is no shortage of highly stimulating writings that argue
  for the profound place of material culture in the constitution of humanit
 y. From entanglement to material engagement theory\, material agency to pr
 ocess archaeology\, the idea at the forefront of these frameworks is that 
 human cultures are embedded in and derived from the material world.\nIntel
 lectually stimulating as these New Materialisms may be\, they are lacking 
 in methodological clarity. What on earth does it mean “to follow stuff w
 herever it may lead?” (Witmore 2014\, 205). Moreover\, if these approach
 es make of archaeology “a discipline of things” (ibid.\, 223) than wha
 t can we bring to the sustainability debate\, which is essentially about h
 uman-material relationships? My aim is to link these two issues. To do so 
 we will move from Bronze Age metalworking skills to making fruit-leather\,
  all within the space of a 30-minute presentation. Buckle up!
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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