A One-Day Conference supported by:

                    The Humanities Institute of Ireland

                    Department of Archaeology, UCD

                    Anthropological Association of Ireland

TALKING OBJECTS

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Material Culture Studies Thursday 31st March 2005 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Room 326, Engineering Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4

Material Culture is currently one of the most provocative interdisciplinary fields in the social sciences and humanities. Different disciplines are developing many ways of looking at human cultures and societies through objects and artefacts. This conference aims to promote cross-disciplinary material culture studies in Ireland by bringing together a number of invited international speakers from anthropology, archaeology and museum studies to talk about their current work. The day will comprise seven papers and a discussion session on interdisciplinary approaches, starting with coffee and registration at 9.30am. Speakers will include:

Victor Buchli, Department of Anthropology, University College London Chris Fowler, School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Inge Daniels, Royal College of Art, London Elizabeth Crooke, Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster Kevin Hetherington, The Open University

To register, please send your name, institutional affiliation and contact details to one of the organisers:

Adam Drazin, Trinity College Dublin Sociology (drazina@tcd.ie) Joanna Brück, University College Dublin Archaeology (joanna.bruck@ucd.ie) Pauline Garvey, NUI Maynooth Anthropology (pauline.a.garvey@nuim.ie)

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