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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 …
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 …
In dominant modern conceptions things often become little but things-for-us, reduced to resources or what Heidegger termed Bestand. Even as heritage, monuments and things mostly receive their value from being useful to us; as cultural, scientific or economic resources, serving as vehicles for identity and securing human well-being. This workshop will explore possible alternatives to this understanding. That is, to …
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 …