Description
Interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity, have been buzzwords for so long that they seem to have lost some of their meaning. Within archaeology, interdisciplinarity is arguably related, but not synonymous, to multiproxy analyses. Multiproxy analyses are generally associated with (sciency) analyses of artefacts and ecofacts, sometimes carried out by specialists from various disciplines. Interdisciplinarity should ideally reach beyond materiality, generating conceptual and theoretical perspectives from scholars with various backgrounds. In many, although clearly not all cases, this still generally includes people directly or indirectly intensively involved in archaeology. This facilitates a certain basic degree of mutual understanding.The societal challenges we are currently facing, however, sometimes demand an even broader perspective. At the University of Groningen, we have recently initiated the Future-fit villages research group, as part of the Rudolf Agricola school for Sustainable Development. The group, currently still small, includes historians, geographers, and archaeologists, working on very diverse time periods (including ‘now’ and the ‘future’) and regions. This generates diverse perspectives in itself, which is further strengthened by the diverse research themes addressed, ranging from Roman agricultural landscapes, the impact of European countries on the countryside in their (former) colonies, both domestic and abroad, to the development of digital entrepreneurship in the ‘remote’ Scottish Highlands and Islands.
In our paper, we will not address any of these studies in great detail, but rather highlight some of the more overarching observations made in our group so far, ranging from very concrete and applicable cases of inter-scholarly inspiration to examples in which we were seemingly speaking different languages. We are curious to learn about similar initiatives from other research institutes, but are also most interested in extending our group beyond the University of Groningen.
| Periode | 31-aug.-2024 |
|---|---|
| Evenementstitel | Annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Persisting with Change |
| Evenementstype | Conference |
| Conferentienummer | 30 |
| Locatie | Rome, ItalyToon op kaart |
| Mate van erkenning | International |