CONFERENCE REMINDER


ENVISIONING THE PAST:  CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH
PICTORIAL TRADITIONS OF REPRESENTATIONS

University of Southampton

10-12 November 2000


Envisioning the Past is a groundbreaking international,
interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers from
across the globe to discuss the latest insights into the visual
representation of anthropological, archaeological and scientific
knowledge.   The representation of the past is a new and developing
field of research, which addresses the construction of knowledge
through visual media, including fine arts, illustrations, museum
displays, multimedia and popular culture.

Key Note Speaker:  ALAIN SCHNAPP (Universite de Paris 1, Sorbonne)
"Between Primitivism and Evolutionism:   The exploration of the dark
abyss of time (15th to 18th Centuries)"

Other speakers include:
FREDERICK BOHRER (Hood College)  "Photography and Archaeology:  The
image as object"
JONATHAN BATEMAN (University of Sheffield)
"Juninho's shirt:  record and negotiation in excavation
photographs"
MARK GILLINGS (University of Leicester)  "The Real, the
Virtually Real and the Hyperreal - The role of VR in
archaeology"
DIANE GIFFORD-GONZALEZ (University of California, Santa
Cruz)  "Neanderthals and Homo sapiens:  What the blank spaces on the
canvas reveal"
PAUL PRIVATEER (Arizona State University)  "Romancing
the Human:  Popular culture constructions of human origins"
THOMAS
DOWSON (University of Southampton)  "Modelling the prehistoric
family, constructing the contemporary family:  Envisioning the past
and the heterosexual hegemony"
NENA GALANIDOU (University of Crete)
"In a Child's Eyes:  Early prehistoric life in illustrated children's
books"
DOMINIC MONTSERRAT (The Open University)  "Excavations of
Ancient Egyptian Sites as Reported in the "Illustrated London News"
1888-1936"
MARIA WYKE (University of Reading)  "Visualising Ancient
Rome in Fascist Italy:  Mussolini and Julius Caesar" MARJORIE DE
GROOTH (Bonnefantenmuseum)  "Archaeology at Maastricht:  Interfacing
the past and the present"
IRINA PODGORNY (Universidad Nacional de La
Plata) & Fernando Ramirez-Rozzi (CNRS)  "The Behemoth of the Pampas:
the representations of the Megatherium and other extinct mammals in
early XIX century anatomy and museum displays"
JOHN KOEPKE
(University of Minnesota) "Beyond the Generic Landscape View:  The
visual presentation and interpretation of ancient Native American
settlements"
STEPHANIE PRATT (University of Plymouth)  "The American
Time Machine:  Indians and the visualization of ancient Europe"

Preliminary programme, abstracts of papers and a downloadable
registration form are available on the Conference Website at:

http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/DeptStuff/representation.htm

Susan Ballard, Conference Co-ordinator
Envisioning the Past Conference
Dept. of Archaeology, University of Southampton,
Highfield, Southampton.  SO17 1BJ    United Kingdom
tel:.  (+44)  023  80  592930   email:  [log in to unmask]

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