21/05/2025
The call for sessions (including regular sessions, workshops, and panel discussions) for Nordic TAG 2026 at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden is now open and the deadline of May 31 is approaching! The theme of the Conference is Activate Archaeology for Just Futures! We are looking for papers and discussions that explore and discuss if and how archaeology can be an active and engaged partner for positive change in the world around us – a theme that, unfortunately, seems more pressing than ever.
As an interdisciplinary field, archaeology offers unique perspectives on humanity’s deep history, entanglement with the environment, and unique capacity for culture, communication, technology, and change. How can this perspective be mobilized to affect how we handle the contemporary and future challenges of climate emergency, social inequality, political polarization, and human suffering caused by conflict, food insecurity, forced displacement, and health disparities that follow in their wake? This conference explores the interface between research and activism and the potential for archaeology as a practice - from the contract archaeology trenches to the university lecture halls - to be an active and engaged partner in building just futures. We also seek to problematize the boundaries between scholarship and activism and discuss what our roles as archaeologists can be. We hope you will find these themes interesting and suggest sessions, workshops and panel discussions that explore these themes. Of course we welcome sessions on other topics as well.
Please submit an abstract of max 300 words of your proposed session to [email protected] by May 31, 2025.
For more information about the conference, please visit our website. We will update it continuously!
https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/conferences/tag-2026/
If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact us: [email protected]
