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Wild Archaeologies: Historical inquiry and assembling the contemporary

01 November 2024, 2:30 pm–5:30 pm

Wild Archaeologies

This interdisciplinary event will take the form of a workshop and conversation with JR Carpenter (a poet and artist), Ido Govrin (a theorist and artist) and Knut Ebeling (a philosopher of the contemporary).

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Nastassja Simensky

Location

IAS Forum
G17, ground floor, South Wing
UCL, Gower St, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

Archaeology in this wider and ‘wilder’ use is related to gaps in the archive, subaltern and invisibilised histories which are unrecorded or suppressed. Elsewhere, it is deployed as a form of transhistorical intimacy, a form of criticism, a critical practice, and a material approach to the past to counter a concept of history as a merely documentary approach to the past. Provocatively, this wider proposition of wild archaeology makes use of archaeology broadly, as a disciplinary field, a philosophical intensity, an artistic form, and a historical method.

Rather than hosting a formal symposium on the subject of wild archaeologies, we are keen to create a space together for exchange that is generative and open, where participants bring their reflections (poetic, theoretical, personal, critical, wild and challenging) to the space in an equitable way. This interdisciplinary event has arranged for JR Carpenter (a poet and artist), Ido Govrin (a theorist and artist) and Knut Ebeling (a philosopher of the contemporary) to visit UCL for an afternoon of introductions to, and conversation with their work. A workshop lead by JR Carpenter on writing and time will follow. Think of the event as a jam session; bring your research ideas!
 
Refreshments will be provided, and the room has level access. This event is open to all. Feel free to advertise to colleagues, students and your networks.

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Numbers for this are limited so please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1046809333897
 
Wild Archaeologies is hosted by Jason Katz (Bartlett School of Planning) and the Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network.

The event is kindly supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies Octagon Grant Fund