Bjørnar Olsen - professor in archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromsø, Norway, on Tuesday, October 29nd, 2013 at 5.30 pm at the Collegium Historicum, ul. św. Marcin 78, 61-809 Poznań, room 118, will give a lecture: "In Defense of Things Soiled and Broken".
Organization: Ewa Domanska, email: ewa.domanska@amu.edu.pl
Lecture organized within the program "Master" (project "Rescue History" - Ewa Domanska) and sponsored by the Foundation for Polish Science.
In Defense of Things Soiled and Broken
Abstract:
In this talk I will briefly present the background to and main arguments of my book In defense of things. Archaeology and the ontology of objects, situating it within the wider discourses of the new materialism or “turn to things” of the last decades. The main part of my lecture, however, consists of a critical examination of the recent and predominantly theoretical and/or discursive attempts to turn to things favor. Here I argue that archaeology, the discipline of soiled and ruined things par excellence, constitutes a radical if largely ignored corrective to the new theoretical regime’s embracement of things.
Bjørnar Olsen
Bjørnar Olsen is professor in archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromsø, Norway. His research interests include Sámi culture, northern archaeology, the archaeology of the contemporary past, and material culture. His latest books are In Defense of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects (2010), Persistent Memories: Pyramiden – a Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic (2010, with E. Andreassen and H. Bjerck), Hybrid Spaces: Medieval Finnmark and the Archaeology of Multi-Room Houses (2011, edited with P. Urbanczyk and C. Amundsen); Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012, with M. Shanks, T. Webmoor and C. Witmore); Hunters in Transition: An Outline of Early Sámi History (2013, with L. I. Hansen); Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (in press, edited with Þóra Pétursdóttir).
Bjørnar Olsen's articles in Polish:
Bjørnar Olsen, W obronie rzeczy. Archeologia i ontologia przedmiotów, przeł. Bożena Shallcross. Warszawa: Instytut Badań Literackich, 2013 [spis treści i wprowadzenie]
Aleksandra Kołtun, "O rzeczach i materialności inaczej" (rec. książki Olsena W obronie rzecz). Annales UMCS. Sectio I, vol. 39, nr 1, 2014:101-108.
Bjørnar Olsen, "Kultura materialna po tekście: pamięć o rzeczach", przeł. Paweł Stachura, w: Teoria wiedzy o przeszłości na tle współczesnej humanistyki. Antologia , pod red. Ewy Domańskiej. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2010: 561-582.
Wykład połączony będzie z promocją książki W obronie rzeczy, którą będzie można nabyć w cenach promocyjnych.
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