New publication
Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates (2024) edited by Uroš Matić, Bisserka Gaydarska, Laura Coltofean and Marta Diaz-Guardamino is a new volume in Themes in Contemporary Archaeology Series (Springer) by European Association of Archaeologists. The chapters are written by AGE members and tackle the current topics in world archaeology (third science revolution, New Materialism and posthumanism, digital archaeology, mobility, violence, inequality, education and museology) from a critical perspective based on gender. The Coda of the volume was written by one of the pioneers in gender archaeology, Margaret W. Conkey.
EAA Annual Meeting 2024
The 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists was held from 28th to 31st August 2024 in Rome, Italy. The EAA Annual Meeting was again organized as a hybrid conference: Participation was possible for all sessions on site in Rome as well as digitally. The conference program as well as the abstract book can still be found as PDF at the conference website (go to programme -> scientific programme).
AGE members organized several sessions and round tables:
- Session #247: Essential or Essentialist: Sex and Gender Categories in Archaeological Interpretation (Friday, 30th August, 16:30 - 18:30)
- Session #738: Reclaiming Herstory: Women in Mediterranean Archaeology from the 18th Century to Today (Friday, 30th August, 14:00 - 18:30)
- Session #1060: Feminist Perspectives on Social Archaeology. AGE Session In Memoriam Liv Helga Dommasnes (Friday, 30th August, 8:30 - 13:00)
- Session #1078: Women at Archeological Conferences from the 19th Century to the Late 1990s: Presence, Representation and Experiences (Saturday, 31st August, 8:30 - 13:00)
- Session #1138: The Anti-HABI Toolkit: 2nd Workshop on Solutions and Measures for Preventing and Addressing Harassment, Assault, Bullying and Intimidation in Archaeology (Saturday, 31st August, 14:00 - 18:30)
- Session #1168: “Not All Men”? Approaching Masculinities as Gendered Identities within Their Social Contexts and Practices in Prehistoric Europe (Thursday, 29th August, 8:30 - 10:30)
- Session #1173: Gender and Economies in Transition in the 1st Millennium BC Mediterranean (Saturday 31st August, 8:30 - 13:00)
We thank all AGE members for their contributions to the EAA Annual Meeting!
AGE Community Meeting
The AGE community meeting 2024 took place online on 21 August 2024 at 16:00 CET via Zooom. A link has been sent to all AGE members.
New Publication
Nona Palincaş and Ana Cristina Martins (eds.), Gender and Change in Archaeology: European Studies on the Impact of Gender Research on Archaeology and Wider Society. Springer, 2024, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52155-3
In Memoriam Liv Helga Dommasnes
Alas, we have to share sad news:
Liv Helga Dommasnes, professor emerita from University of Bergen, Norway, founding member of “Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE)” and AGE co-chair 2008-2014, died on September 13th 2023. An Obituary in commemoration of Liv Helga can be found in The European Archaeologist – Issue 79 winter 2024.
May she rest in peace. Out thoughts are with her family and friends.
EAA Annual Meeting 2023
The 29th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists took place from 30th August to 2nd September 2023 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. AGE was hosting a round table discussion at this conference: Session #354 AGE for a Slow Archaeology, or How to Survive in the Neo-liberal Fast Academia. The annual AGE community meeting was also held at the EAA Annual Meeting in Belfast on Wednesday the 30th August 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00.
Furthermore, there were other AGE sponsored regular sessions as well as gender-related sessions, organized by AGE members:
- Session #255: “Warriors” and “Weavers”: Challenging gender stereotypes in Antiquity
- Session #334: (In)visible Women in History of Archaeology
- Session #601: Weaving Archaeology, Art and Literature: Narratives & Representations
The next annual AGE community meeting will be held as hybrid event at the 30th EAA Annual Meeting, 28th - 31st August 2024, Rome, Italy. The community meetings are usually scheduled at the first day in the morning or afternoon, before the Opening Ceremony. Please keep that in mind when planing your trip to the conference.
The EAA 2020 statement on Archaeology and Gender
AGE members were writing the EAA 2020 statement on Archaeology and Gender, which was adopted by the EAA and presented to the EAA members during the Annual Membership Business Meeting for the 26th Virtual Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. The full statement can be found at the EAA website, and can be downloaded from there as PDF.