After Discourse published on Routledge

The edited volume After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics was recently published in the series Routledge Archaeologies of the Contemporary World. Editors are Bjørnar Olsen, Caitlin DeSilvey, Mats Burström and Þóra Pétursdóttir and the book features contributions by scholars who were part of the research project After Discourse: Things, Archaeology, and Heritage in the 21st Century at Centre for Advanced Study …

ARV. Exhibition at Tromsø Museum. Illustration: Bjørn Hatteng/Þóra Pétursdóttir, UiT.

ARV Exhibition opening in Tromsø on March 22

The work of archaeologists Bjørnar Olsen og Þóra Pétursdóttir at the Arctic University of Norway  has resulted in an exhibition called ARV at Tromsø Museum which opens at 6pm on March 22. The exhibition is based on the ongoing research project Unruly Heritage at UiT and invites us to rethink our notion of heritage: “Cultural heritage is associated with old and …

Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Archaeology/Critical Heritage Studies at UiT

UiT – the Arctic University of Norway has a full-time postdoctoral fellow position vacant. The position is attached to the research project Unruly Heritage: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene. The appointment is a fixed term position for a period of three years starting January 1, 2018. The postdoctoral fellow will be affiliated with the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Sciences …

Life among Soviet Ruins. Interview with Bjørnar Olsen

Bjørnar Olsen (UiT), director of Object Matters: Archaeology and Heritage in the 21st century, presents the CAS project After Discourse: Things, Archaeology, and Heritage in the 21st Century in this interview conducted by Karoline Kvellestad Isaksen at Centre for Advanced Studies in Oslo. Several issues of importance to the research project are introduced in the feature including overarching themes like …