CHAT 2007 - Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory
Places still available - registrations are still being accepted, and tickets will be available on the door.
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‘The Last of England’ by Ford Madox Brown. Courtesy of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
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Faith, Hope, and Charity: Finding Belief, Desire, and Benevolence in Archaeologies of the Recent and Contemporary Past
Friday 23rd November - Sunday 25th November 2007
Hosted by ARCUS
@The Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX UK
Organized by: CHAT Conference Group - Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory.
Human lives are guided by faith; faith in families and friends, faith in those that work with us or on our behalf, faith in the religious doctrines that shape our beliefs and morals, faith in the secular institutions that govern our day-to-day actions, and faith in the technologies that sustain us and the material world. We keep faith, lose faith, and often doggedly adhere to faith; faith is a belief that is held without evidence and cannot be disproved. When faith is lost or contested we hope for change.
Hope is more than a wish, it is desire tied to expectation. Hope reveals itself in the trivial, the everyday, the present and the momentary, it looks to the future, but is grounded in the inheritance of the past. Hope is also found in the most severe and seemingly hopeless circumstances, amid poverty or violence; it is an expression of defiance, a rejection of rationality, a rebuttal of the taken-for-granted. In some situations hope is lost, while in others hope can be a way of thinking, a form of intelligence, or a kind of knowledge.
Charity draws upon altruism to extend compassion to individuals beyond our immediate kith and kin. It strives to create social cohesion, yet often sets individuals and groups apart. Charity creates institutions, buildings and landscapes. By its very performance charity segregates the needy and draws a dividing line between donors and recipients, or the haves and have-nots.
CHAT 2007 in Sheffield will explore some of the different meanings of faith, hope, and charity in contemporary and historical archaeology (c. AD1500-present).
CHAT 2007 runs from 9.30a.m. on Friday 23rd November 2007 until 1.00pm on Sunday 25th November 2007. All sessions are plenary. The outline timetable with links to paper titles and abstracts is provided below. The Session Chairs and Discussants will be Dr John Moreland (University of Sheffield) Dr Harold Mytum (University of York) Professor Mary Beaudry (Boston University) Dr Dan Hicks (Oxford University) and Dr Eleanor Conlin Casella (University of Manchester).
We are delighted to announce that the Keynote Speaker at CHAT 2007 will be Professor Henry Glassie (Department of Folklore, University of Indiana).
CHAT07 is sponsored by
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Outokumpu a leading supplier of stainless steel.
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Springer UK - Academic Journals, Books and Online Media
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The following organisations who will be represented in the book hall:
- Berg
- IFA
- Maney
- O.N. Books
- Routledge
- Windgather Press
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Organisations in the book hall
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