Content:
Archaeology has always used art and literature in several ways: as a source of information, ways of building, setting, and wide spreading narratives and representations. These narratives and representations change according to the development of archaeological knowledge and heritage. But they change in accordance with the space and time in which they are produced, becoming(re)constructed, destroyed, replaced, adapted, or confronted, depending on prevailing or emerging agendas, be they ideological, political, social, economic, cultural, ethnic, gender, or religious.
But are we, the ones engaged with different forms of archaeology fully aware of this reality?
To what extent do different literary and artistic contexts influence the construction of archaeological narratives and representations, throughout time? In what ways do these same narratives and representations contribute to underpin agendas (including scientific, personal, and institutional), while breaking paradigms and prejudices (namely sexual, gender, ethnic, class and age)? What is the nature and extent of this ongoing dialogue between archaeology, art, and literature? How does this constant interweaving (i)materialize? Who dictates, nurtures, and manages it? For what purpose(s)?
And what about the creative freedom of the author, whether artistic or literary? How are the discourses - written and iconographic - constructed from archaeology? How to make scientific knowledge reach different types of audiences? And what space do the new social realities – migratory, nomadic, etc. - occupy in this increasingly interwoven complex?
This is a vast set of questions to which we seek to answer during this session. We therefore invite archaeologists from different fields and geographies, illustrators, historians of archaeology, women and gender historians, art and audio-visual historians, anthropologists, and all those who are dedicated to the relationship between archaeology, art and literature embodied in different media, education, and instruction, from textbooks to museums, through social networks, to join us.
Keywords:
Heritage, Narrative, Representation, Identities, Agendas, Historiography