[Archport] Dublin - conference on the materiality of stone.

["Marta Diaz-Guardamino" <marta_diaz_guardamino@hotmail.com>]

Les reenvio esta información sobre unas interesantes jornadas en Dublin. 
saludos, martadg

> From: "gipri gipricolombia" <gipricolombia@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: arte_y_rupestre@yahoogroups.com
> To: arte_y_rupestre@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [arte_y_rupestre] Provisional Programme
> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:37:35 -0500

Provisional Programme
> The UCD School of Archaeology and Humanities Institute of Ireland, 
> University College Dublin present a conference on the materiality of stone.
>
> Friday 9th March
> 6:00pm onwards: Registration Desk open
> 7:00pm: Keynote Address by Prof. Richard Bradley,
> followed by Wine Reception
>
> Saturday 10th March
> 8:30am onwards: Registration Desk open
> 9am-5:30pm: Conference papers..
>
> Confirmed speakers include Lara Bacelar Alves, Stefan Bergh, Gabriel 
> Cooney, Mark Edmonds, Andy Jones, Katina Lillios, Blaze O?Connor, Muiris 
> O?Sullivan, Yvan Pailler, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Chris Scarre, 
> Annelou Van Gijn, Aaron Watson, and Chris Gosden (Discussant).
>
> Further details of the programme and venue directions will be made 
> available here soon.
>
> REGISTRATION DETAILS >>
>
> Abstract
>
> Stone monuments and objects represent material that is both highly 
> accessible to archaeologists today, and formed a focus for engagement, 
> transformation and re-use in the past, because of its paradoxically 
> enduring yet malleable quality. This enduring character means that stone is 
> inextricably linked to notions of monumentality and remembrance, and formed 
> an active medium in the creation of identities and memory life in a range 
> of social contexts and practices. It can be argued that the material 
> presence and physical character of stone objects and monuments are not only 
> actively harnessed in these encounters, but are also the very stuff from 
> which social relations are derived, perceived and thought through. As well 
> as highly visible statements in the form of finished objects and monuments, 
> stone was encountered in the embodied, performative, and incorporated 
> practices of daily
> activities and remembrance traditions. We have recently, and increasingly, 
> seen exciting evidence a rise for the active use and re-use of quarrying 
> and carving locations, natural, worked and carved stone surfaces, and 
> quarried and fragmented stone objects and blocks. This area is therefore a 
> rich arena within which to develop our narratives and interpretations, and 
> one that recognises the agency and effect of material forms in the creation 
> of social relationships. Rather than thinking of stone simply as a blank 
> and passive slate onto which meanings were inscribed, we can explore its 
> power and effect in terms of the ways meanings emerged out of people?s 
> engagement and encounters with its physical properties. This conference 
> will bring together speakers working on the materiality (materialitas) of 
> stone via different forms of stone objects, rock art and monuments.
>
> Further Information
>
> Please download the relevant documents for further information on getting 
> to UCD, maps, eating out, and accommodation. Participants will need to 
> organise their own travel accommodation and some suggested options are 
> provided. We look forward to seeing you in Dublin for what promises to be a 
> stimulating and productive conference. Conference organisers:
>
> Gabriel Cooney and Blaze O?Connor (blaze.oconnor@ucd.ie)
>
>
>
> Esta es la firma de los correos que envia el director del Grupo GIPRI
>
> Guillermo Muñoz
>
> www.gipri.org

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