ARCHON DAY 2025 – 11 April 2025

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ARCHON Day 2025

Date: 11 April 2025

Location: University of Utrecht, Science Park Library, Heidelberglaan 3, 3584 CS, Utrecht.

Credits: 1 or 2 EC

Every year Archon organizes the ARCHON Day. During this day, we want to bring students, researchers, and professional archaeologists from the commercial sector together to talk about current topics in archaeology. This year the Archon Day will take place on 11 April 2025 and the central topic will be: ‘New directions in archaeological theory’.

Definitive Program:

10:30 – 11:00 Welcome with coffee & tea and posters

11:00 – 11:10 Welcome by Dr. Philip Verhagen

11:10 – 12:00 Keynote lecture by Prof. Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)

12:00 – 13:30 Poster session with buffet lunch

13:30 – 14:15 Workshop Round 1

14:20 – 15:05 Workshop Round 2

15:10 – 15:55 Workshop Round 3

15:55 – 16:25 Coffee break

16:25 – 17:10 Panel discussion (chaired bij Prof. Astrid van Oyen)

17:10 – 17:15 Poster prize announcement

Followed by drinks

* a vegetarian lunch will be provided, other dietary restrictions can ben met. Please indicate them in the registration form below.

Rotating workshops:

Rotating workshops are organized by prof. Thomas Meier (University of Heidelberg), dr. Maikel Kuijpers (Leiden University) and dr. Dries Daems (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

Suggested reading:

Daems, D. (2021). Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology. Routledge., Chapter 3: pp. 63-116.

Kuijpers, M.H.G. (2018). A Sensory Update to the Chaîne Opératoire in Order to Study Skill: Perceptive Categories for Copper-Compositions in Archaeometallurgy. J Archaeol Method Theory, 25, 863–891. doi:10.1007/s10816-017-9356-9

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

Meier, T. (2016). Dingeleien. (Zu) kurze Anmerkungen zu phänomenologischen Ding-Theorien. In K. Hofmann, T. Meier, D. Mölders & S. Schreiber, Massendinghaltung in der Archäologie. Der material turn und die Ur- und Frühgeschichte (pp. 241-282). Leiden: Sidestone Press. doi:10.11588/propylaeumdok.00006122

Pitts, M., & Versluys, M. J. (2021). Objectscapes: a manifesto for investigating the impacts of object flows on past societies. Antiquity, 95(380), 367–381. doi:10.15184/aqy.2020.148

Poster session:

Also this year we invite students to present their research through a poster presentation! During the ARCHON Day the audience will vote for the best poster presentation. The prize will be a personal research subsidy for publication costs/open access costs/translation costs up to max. 500 euros.

Poster guidelines:

  • The maximum poster size is A0 format, which corresponds to 84 cm (width) x 118.8 cm (length). Your poster can have a smaller size, but keep an eye on the maximum length and width.
  • Use the portrait format.
  • You must print the poster yourself and bring it with you to the ARCHON Day. Poster boards to display the posters will be available on location.
  • E-mail your poster to secretary@archonline.nl by March 30th at the latest.
  • Be creative! 🙂

Credits:

1 EC for attending and handing in a standard report.

1 EC for giving a poster presentation.

2 EC for attending, handing in a standard report and giving a poster presentation.

Registration: Closed!