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ReTheory Session #9

Johannes Jungfleisch — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:37:18 +0000

ReTheory Session #9

Date: December 15, 2023, 14:00 Uhr c.t.

Location: Zentrum für Mittelmeerstudien, Haus der Archäologien, 4th floor, am Bergbaumuseum 31, 44791 Bochum

This winter semester, Timothy James LeCain, Professor of History at Montana State University, is joining us as a guest at the Leibniz ScienceCampus “ReForm.”

During his visit, Professor LeCain will deliver a lecture as part of the ReForm colloquium/house colloquium of the Institute of Archaeological Studies. Moreover, early career researchers interested in delving deeper into LeCain’s research will have the opportunity to participate in an early career workshop. Scheduled for December 19, 2023, at 16:00 (s.t.), the workshop will be organized by ReForm-PI Jun. Prof. Dr. Tina Asmussen. Tina Asmussen will orchestrate a discussion round with Timothy LeCain in the conference room of the German Mining Museum. Two texts by LeCain will serve as the foundation for exchanging ideas.

To make the most of this occasion, we will offer a collaborative preparation for the workshop in the next ReTheory meeting. Set for December 15, 2023, at 14:00 (c.t.), this session will revolve around a discussion of two texts selected by Tina Asmussen. As always, we invite everyone interested to join us in this session!

The reading for the ReTheory session is the following texts:

LeCain, T. J. (2017). “Fellow Travelers: The Nonhuman Things That Make Us Human.” In The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past (pp. 1–22). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316460252.001

———. 2019. “Environmental History and Global Mining: Towards a Neo-Materialist Approach.” In Making Sense of Mining History, edited by Stefan Berger and Peter Alexander. London: Routledge. Download

———. 2022. “Deep Culture: A Very Brief Brief of the New Materialism.” Agricultural History 96 (1–2): 225–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9619858.

If you do not have access, please let us know via email, and we will provide you with a download link.

We will arrange a hybrid setup if you want to join virtually.

Andreas Angourakis and Johannes Jungfleisch

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ReTheory Session #7

Johannes Jungfleisch — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:25:33 +0000

ReTheory Session #7

Date: May 12, 2023, 16:00 c.t.

Location: Seminarraum 1, Haus der Archäologien, am Bergbaumuseum 31, 44791 Bochum

In the summer of 2023, we will dedicate the first two ReTheory sessions to prepare for the ReForm conference ‘Resource – Event – Practice‘ (22.06.–24.06.23) at the FernUniversität in Hagen, especially for the ‘Hands-on-Session’ with Ian Hodder (22.06.23). We will delve into Ian Hodder’s entanglement concept during two discussion sessions on May 12 and June 12.

For the first time, we will meet from 16:00 to 18:00 on Friday, May 12. All persons, who are interested in the conference, the introductory event, or Hodder’s theoretical reflections, are invited to discuss selected parts of Hodder’s book, ‘Entangled’, during the seventh ReTheory session. The meeting will take place in seminar room 1 of the Haus der Archäologien in Bochum.

The readings for the first session are the following texts:

Ian Hodder. 2014. The Entanglements of Humans and Things: A Long-term View. New Literary History 45(1): 19–36. Download

Ian Hodder. 2012. Entangled: An Archaeology of Relationships between Humans and Things, pp. 15–63. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

If you do not have access to the article or the book, please let us know via email , and we will provide you with a download link.

We will arrange a hybrid setup if you want to join virtually.

Until then, good reading!

Andreas Angourakis and Johannes Jungfleisch

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ReSkill #2 – Agent-based modelling

Andreas Angourakis — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:27:01 +0000

ReSkill #2: Agent-based modelling - Sitzung 2

Date: 17/02/2023, 1-4 p.m. c.t.

Place: Computerlabor, Hause of Archaeologies, am Bergbaumuseum 31, 44791 Bochum

A personal session (3 hours) in which we go further through the contents of the tutorial introducing agent-based modeling in archeology by A. Angourakis (https://github.com/Andros-Spica/ABM-tutorial-koeln-2022), under his guidance and supervision. For a smoother second session, we encourage participants to read or refresh the Introduction and the contents of Block A, including the hands-on steps of the “Test Drive: Creating a “Pond” Terrain” section. The session will then start with an overview of the first practical steps and the clarification of any doubts related to these.

Please have all tutorial files downloaded and NetLogo installed on your laptop or available on a USB stick, especially if you do not have access to RUB-WLAN or eduroam.

Due to the limited space in the room, we ask all participants to confirm participation by email.

About the tutorial

This tutorial starts with the drafting of a conceptual model and the basics of programming using the NetLogo software and reaches a high level of model depth and complexity, giving some hands-on examples of problems and solutions when using ABM to address research questions in archaeology and history.

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In the spirit of ReSkill, the goal of this session is not to replace longer courses on ABM but to serve as a safe place where participants can become more familiarised with the technique and, more generally, programming and computer simulation. We will follow together the tutorial steps, as far as we can, but the emphasis will be on solidifying the fundaments for a longer individual learning process.

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ReTheory Session #6

Johannes Jungfleisch — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:22:47 +0000

ReTheory Session #6

Date: January 25, 2023, 16:00 c.t.

Location: Seminarraum 2, Haus der Archäologien, am Bergbaumuseum 31, 44791 Bochum

On January 25, 2023, from 16:00 bis 18:00, we welcome everyone to the first ReTheory session of the new year! We will meet in seminar room 2 in the Haus der Archäologien in Bochum.

In the sixth session, we will discuss what is meant by the term resources and how we can conceptualise them on a theoretical level. For this purpose, we address the debate conducted in the ‘SFB 1070 Ressourcen Kulturen’ in Tübingen.

The three articles selected are as follows:

Hardenberg, Roland, Martin Bartelheim and Jörn Staecker. 2017. The ‘Resource Turn’. A Sociocultural Perspective on Resources. In Anke K. Scholz, Martin Bartelheim, Roland Hardenberg and Jörn Staecker, ed.: ResourceCultures. Sociocultural Dynamics and the Use of Resources – Theories, Methods, Perspectives, pp. 13–23. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press. Download

Teuber, Sandra and Beat Schweizer. 2020. Resources Redefined. Resources and ResourceComplexes. In Sandra Teuber, Anke K. Scholz, Thomas Scholten and Martin Bartelheim, ed.: Waters. Conference Proceedings for ‘Waters as a Resource’ of the SFB 1008 ResourceCultures and DEGUWA (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Unterwasserarchäologie e.V.), pp. 9–19. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press. Download

Hardenberg, Roland, Martin Bartelheim and Jörn Staecker. 2021. Ressourcen – RessourcenKomplexe – RessourcenGefüge – RessourcenKulturen. In Tobias Schade, Beat Schweizer, Sandra Teuber, Raffaella Da Vela, Wulf Frauen, Mohammad Karami, Deepak Kumar Ojha, Karsten Schmidt, Roman Sieler and Matthias Simon Toplak, ed.: Exploring Resources. On Cultural, Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of ResourceCultures, pp. 9–21. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press. Download

We will arrange a hybrid setup if you want to join virtually (email).

Until then, good reading!

Andreas Angourakis and Johannes Jungfleisch

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ReTheory Session #5

Johannes Jungfleisch — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:59:34 +0000

Fifth ReTheory Session

Date: December 14, 2022, 16:00 c.t.

Location: Seminarraum 2, Haus der Archäologien, am Bergbaumuseum 31, 44791 Bochum

On December 14, 2022, we invite all interested persons to the next ReTheory meeting from 16:00 to 18:00 in Seminar Room 2 at the Haus der Archäologien in Bochum.

The fifth session will be about the age of anthropogenic transformation of the earth, which has been much discussed recently: the Anthropocene. As readings, we will discuss a recently published introductory text from the history of science and a contribution by the Indian historian Dipesh Chakrabarty.

The two readings are as follows:

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2021. Introduction. Intimations of the Planetary. In Dipesh Chakrabarty: The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, pp. 1–20. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Verburgt, Lukas M. und Elske de Waal. 2022. Introduction. Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene. ISIS. A Journal of the History of Science Society 113(2): 366–376. DOI: 10.1086/719629.

If you do not have access to the readings, please let us know by email, and we will provide you with a download link. We will also arrange a hybrid setup if you want to join virtually.

Until then, good reading!

Andreas Angourakis and Johannes Jungfleisch

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