Archaeology As Festival: Virtual Wanderings Through Festivalchat During Covid-19 (International)

What if academic conferences were reimagined? This book provides a sample of the papers given atfestivalCHAT, a conference qua festival convened in 2020 by the Contemporaryand Historical Archaeology in Theory group. Held at the height of the COVIDpandemic and hosted entirely online, festivalCHAT featured a global line up ofparticipants who embraced the unprecedented situation by probing the limits ofarchaeological thinking and experimenting with new ways to present and producearchaeological knowledge. The fourteen papers presented here consider thearchaeology of COVID, graffiti, the home, waysides, chain mail, and urbanstaircases. The coordinators of festivalCHAT frame these contributions byoffering archaeological insights into how they organized the event. Tworeflective chapters consider the sample presented in the volume with thecritical distance of two years and historical perspectiveson CHAT. The result is a book that is as different from aconference publication as festivalCHAT was from an academic conference. Thecontributors urge us to think about archaeology in broad, new ways as anantidote to the exacerbated sense of isolation brought about by the pandemicand our contemporary condition.

• | Author: Rachael Kiddey, William R. Caraher
• | Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd
• | Publication Date: Mar 17, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 148 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1407360531
• | ISBN-13: 9781407360539