Call for Applications: The Impact of the Political on Archaeological Research

A Spring School in the framework of the international research programme
The Construction of Knowledge in Archaeology and Art History in Southeastern Europe

Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia. 6-11 April 2020

Deadline: 15 December 2019

"How does politics affect archaeological research? Is archaeological thinking political? Should it be? If archaeological discourse was indeed conceived as part of the nationalist project, is there a way to think and practice archaeology outside its ethnic framework? Should archaeology be part of current affairs? Can it really maintain a strictly academic façade in a world where heritage, and the past at large, are fast becoming a political commodity?
This Spring School, scheduled to run for six days, will envisage to tackle these questions (and some more); bringing together senior and junior scholars, from different countries and disciplines, the School will aim to discuss archaeology in the 21st century, under the light of recent theoretical, social and political developments in Southeastern Europe."

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