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SUMMARY:Bearing Witness: Collaborative Archaeology in a Settler Colonial C
 ontext - Prof. Alison Wylie (University of British Columbia)
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CONTACT:Lydia Clough
DESCRIPTION:There has been a powerful and insistent move to “decolonize
 ” archaeology since the early 1990s. Bearing in mind the challenge posed
  by Tuck and Yang\, that “decolonization is not a metaphor\,” I explor
 e the question of what’s required in practice to realize decolonizing am
 bitions in a settler-colonial context: do various forms of practice that f
 all along the “collaborative continuum” meet the challenges posed by a
  succession critics who insist that these models of practice either fail a
 s archaeology\, or fall short of realizing any significant transformation 
 of the field? To make concrete the promise and the pitfalls of building co
 llaborative partnerships that address these concerns I consider emergent a
 nd longstanding projects with Coast Salish communities\, focusing on appro
 aches to inquiry that conceive of it as a practice of “bearing witness.
 ”\n\nZoom webinar registration link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/r
 egister/WN_FW9O-PIwTJOCb2RkL0RAXg\n\nBIOGRAPHY\nAlison Wylie holds a Canad
 a Research Chair in Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences at th
 e University of British Columbia where she is a Professor of Philosophy. S
 he has a long-standing interest in philosophical questions raised by archa
 eology and feminist social science\, for example: How do we know what (we 
 think) we know about the past? In what sense are knowers and knowledge cla
 ims ‘objective’\, given the ineliminable role of values and interests 
 in all aspects of inquiry? And\, how can research be held accountable\, in
  its aims and practice\, to the diverse communities it affects?\nRecent pu
 blications include “Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology: Triangulation and
  Traceability” (Data Journeys in the Sciences 2020)\; Material Evidence 
 (2015) and Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology (2016)\, with Bob Chapman\;
  “Why Standpoint Matters” (2012 APA Presidential Address) and “What 
 Knowers Know Well: Standpoint Theory and the Formation of Gender Archaeolo
 gy” (Scientiae Studia 2017)\; “A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborativ
 e Practice in Archaeology” (in Objectivity in Science 2015) and “Colla
 borative Archaeology in Global Dialogue” (Archaeologies 2019). Since joi
 ning UBC in 2017 she has worked with the Indigenous/Science research clust
 er\, and in that connection recently co-authored “Bearing Witness: What 
 can Archaeology Contribute in an Indian Residential School Context” with
  Eric Simons and Andrew Martindale (Working With and For the Ancestors 202
 1). \n\nWylie is past President of the American Philosophical Association 
 (2011-2012)\, and of the Philosophy of Science Association (2019-2020)\, a
 nd was recently elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities and th
 e Royal Society of Canada. She has a longstanding commitment to equity\, d
 iversity\, and inclusiveness research and activism in the academy and beyo
 nd\; she is currently working with a UBC-based philosophy collective on th
 e “Philosophy Exception” website project.
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