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Mary Beaudry og Ewa Domanska í Norræna húsinu frá kl. 13:00 – 15:00 fimmtudaginn 29. ágúst

Mary Beaudry og Ewa Domanska í Norræna húsinu frá kl. 13:00 – 15:00 fimmtudaginn 29. ágúst - á vefsíðu Háskóla Íslands
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29. ágúst 2019 13:00 til 15:00
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Norræna húsið

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Öndvegisverkefnið Heimsins hnoss býður til fyrirlestrar með Mary Beaudry og Ewu Domanska í Norræna húsinu frá kl. 13:00 – 15:00 fimmtudaginn 29. ágúst

Dr. Ewa Domanska er prófessor í mannvísindum við Adam Mickiewicz háskólann í Pozna, Póllandi. Auk þess hefur hún gengt stöðu gestaprófessors við deild menningar- og félagfræðilegrar mannfræði við Stanford háskóla í Bandaríkjunum síðan 2002.

Ewa Domanska hefur m.a. stundað rannsóknir á kenningum og sögu sagnfræðiritunar, samanburðar rannsóknir á kenningum hugvísinda og félagsvísinda og síð-mannhverfum rannsóknum á fortíðinni.

Domanska er afkastamikill fræðimaður og hefur skrifað og ritstýrt fjölda bóka, tímarita og greinasafna. Meðal þeirra verka sem hún hefur komið að eru Necros: An Introduction to the Ontology of Human Dead Body and Remains (in Polish, 2017); Existential History. Critical Approach to Narrativism and Emancipatory Humanities (á pólsku, 2012); Microhistories: Encounters in-between-worlds (in Polish, 1999); “Animal History”, in History and Theory 56(2) (2017); “The Eco-Ecumene and Multispecies History: The Case of Abandoned Protestant Cemeteries in Poland,” in Multispecies Archaeology, ritst. af Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch (2018); “Posthumanist History”, in Debating New Approaches to History, ritst. af Marek Tamm and Peter Burke (2018).

 

 

Dr. Mary Beaudry er prófessor í fornleifafræði, mannfræði og mannfræði matargerðarmenningar við Boston háskólann í Bandaríkjunum.

Mary Beaudry hefur m.a. lagt stund á rannsóknir í sögulegri og iðnaðar fornleifafræði innan Bandaríkjanna og á Bretlandseyjum, samanburðar nýlendufræðum, snertiflötum menningaheima, kyngervi og sanngirni, matarmenningu og matreiðsluhefðum og fornleifafræði heimilishalds svo eitthvað sé nefnt.

Beaudry hefur gefið og ritstýrt út fjölda greina og bóka m.a. The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia (2015), Beyond the Walls: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies (2010), Findings: The Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing (2006).

 

Ewa Domanska – Útdráttur 

Vestige

In my presentation I will explore the status of the remains of the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. I discuss the consequences of the detonation of the bomb that resulted in the bodies of those at the epicentre “evaporating”, leaving behind a shadow or stain. I will analyze the fragment of the steps at the entrance to Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima with the imprinted human spot. Right now it is a part of the collection exhibited in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The object is named “Human Shadow Etched in Stone” (人影の石). My findings show that to leave it within the realm of humanities-based interpretations that reify the metaphor of the shadow limits the scope of analysis. I thus supplement my analysis with expert reports by specialists in biochemistry and biophysics pertaining to this site. These reports verify interpretations that refer to the phenomenon as a ‘shadow’ by pointing to the materiality of the traces and the permanent presence of atomized traces of remains. These findings prove the legitimacy of dialogue between the humanities and natural sciences, furthering the mutual verification of findings. One outcome of these investigations are my attempts at conceptualizing the specific form of trace left by the humans and the condition of remains. I define it as a vestige (vestigium), i.e. an imprint left on the surface of a material base that replicates the outline of a human body, or part of it, while retaining atomized organic traces of it.

 

Mary Beaudry – Útdráttur

It’s a Woman Thing: Women’s Body-worn Implements and the Construction of Feminine Identity in Early America

In this paper I explore the significance of body-worn “tools” such as chatelaines, sewing scissors, and bodkins as emblems of women’s dominion over their households, pride in their sewing and embroidery skills, and of feminine identity. Such objects may or may not have been any given woman’s “favorite things.” They do, however, provide ways for us to understand aspects of personhood and the presentation of self, archaeological biographies and individual life courses, embodiment and corporeality, and the materiality of women’s experiences and interactions with seemingly everyday things.