The microarchaeological seminars were initiated in 2002 by Per Cornell and Fredrik Fahlander as a platform for local and international researchers where they can present and discuss ongoing projects in friendly a non-hierarchical milieu. The themes are not restricted to archaeological studies, but to a wider range of subjects within the humanist and social sciences that in some way or another share aspects and interests of the microarchaeological project. The seminars occur on irregular basis, but usually once or twice a month, normally on Thursdays between 18-21. The seminars are normally held in Swedish and are frequented by students and researchers of e.g., Historical studies, Anthropology and Archaeology. Ten to fifteen people normally visit the seminars.

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Under våren 2011 kommer vi inom det mikroarkeologiska seminariet att presentera en bok skriven av Per Cornell och Charlotte Nilsson, en bok som är klar i manus och nu på språkgranskning, kallad Tracing Archaeology. Time and Other. I tre seminarier behandlar vi olika aspekter av bokens tema, som mycket handlar om tid och ”andre”, med utgångspunkt i en (inte alltför respektfull) läsning av ett antal arbeten av den franske filosofen Jacques Derrida.

24/3 Per Cornelll, Spår och tid – om Derrida’s kritik av presentism och arkhé

14/4  Charlotte Nilsson, När det möjliga blir omöjligt - hemmet, kryptan och den ogästvänliga gästvänligheten

12/5  Per Cornell, Gauguin, van Gogh och tinget


 

Over the years we have had many exciting guests, among the international guests are the sociologist Ricardo Kaliman (Sem IX) and Prof. María Eugenia Bestani (Sem XXV) from Tucuman, Argentine, Peter van Dommelen, Glasgow (Sem LI), 'museologist' Prof. Peter Davis, Newcastle (Sem LIX) and William Rathje, USA (Sem XXII).
     Among all of our Scandinavian guests are Jeanette Varberg from Århus (Sem XVIII, XLV), Emma Bentz (Sem XIX) and Liv Nilsson Stutz (Sem XX) from Lund, multimedia-man Stefan Gustavsson from Linköping (Sem XXXIV), Sofie Bergerbrant, Stockholm (Sem XLVI), Mats Rosengren, HDK (Sem LXIX), Lars Ersgård (Sem LXX) and Staffan Appelgren from School of Global Studies (Sem LXXVIII).
     We also had many interesting guests from other departments of Gothenburg university (History, anthropology, History of science etc), The social anthropologist Prof emeritus Göran Aijmer is a particularly 'frequent flyer' who have taken us the China several times over the years (sem V, XVI, XLIII, LII, LXVI).

Oh, we also had Michel Foucault as a special digital guest (Sem VI): "Nonono, I've never stopped doing archaeology, and I've never stopped doing genealogy!" :)

Browse among our previous seminars here!