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Conferences and Seminars<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Conference & Workshop Papers<\/h5>\n

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2019 \u2013 \u2018Tales of the Unexpected. Creativity in Archaeological Interpretation\u2019, Keynote paper at the European Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Bern Switzerland, 7th<\/sup> September 2019.<\/p>\n

2019 \u2013 \u2018Global deeds and local needs. Markets and material culture in the North Atlantic\u2019. Keynote paper in the MERC session at the European Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Bern Switzerland, 5th<\/sup> September 2019<\/p>\n

2019 \u2013 Paper given at the Things adrift \u2013 Material Archives \/ Hlutir \u00e1 reki \u2013 s\u00f6fn efnismenningar<\/em> seminar, University of Iceland: \u2018Words and Things\u2019, March 22, 2019.<\/p>\n

2019 \u2013 University of Iceland History Department, Friday seminar series: \u2018Writing the Past\u2019, April 15, 2019.<\/p>\n

2019 \u2013 Dalrymple Lecture Series: \u2018Time\u2019. University of Glasgow, February 18-21, 2019.<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 \u2018Salient Objects. Or, do some things matter more than others?\u2019 Paper presented at the Garrod seminar series, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, October 18th<\/sup>, 2018.<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 \u2018Solido intra solidum<\/em>. The tension between solidity and fluidity in the archaeologixal record\u2019. Paper presented at the workshop Solid Fluids: New Approaches to Materials and Meanings<\/em>. University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 27-29th<\/sup> August.<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 Absent Present. Paper given at the Temporal Frontiers and the Excessivity of Time in Africa<\/em>: Workshop at the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 28th<\/sup> June-1st<\/sup> July.<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 \u2018Litlib\u00e6r. A fisherman\u00b4s cottage from the early 20th<\/sup> century in Seltjarnarnes\u2019. Paper presented in honour of Gu\u00f0mundur \u00d3lafsson\u00b4s 70th<\/sup> birthday, Afm\u00e6lism\u00e1l\u00feing til hei\u00f0urs Gu\u00f0mundi \u00d3lafssyni Fornleifafr\u00e6\u00f0ingi<\/em>, 7th<\/sup> April 2018, Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland.<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 \u2018Sand\u00e1rtunga revisited\u2019. Paper presented at the joint Archaeology departmental and society seminar series, 7th<\/sup> March 2018, Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland.<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 \u2018Persistent Presences. Conceptualizing the long-term in Archaeology\u2019. Paper presented at the Gold Medal Symposium<\/em> in honour of Ian Hodder, at the 119th<\/sup> annual Archaeological Institute of America conference, Boston, USA, January 4th<\/sup>-7th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 The Future of the Past. Antiquity Keynote Lecture at the TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) Conference, 18th<\/sup> December, Cardiff, Wales.<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 Discussant for Time and Temporality: Twenty Years on From Time, Material Culture and Being \u2013 Ways of Thinking About Narrative <\/em>session at the TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) Conference, 20th<\/sup> December, Cardiff, Wales.<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 A Potted History of Iceland. Paper presented in honour of Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Sveinbjarnad\u00f3ttir\u2019s 70th<\/sup> Birthday, Afm\u00e6lism\u00e1l\u00feing til hei\u00f0urs\u00a0Gu\u00f0r\u00fanu Sveinbjarnard\u00f3ttur fornleifafr\u00e6\u00f0ingi,<\/em> 25th<\/sup> November, Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland.<\/p>\n

2017 - Systems of Provisioning in Iceland during the Danish Trade Monopoly period. The Case of Sk\u00e1lholt. Paper presented at the interdisciplinary research seminar, Colonialism and Commerce in the North Atlantic (c. 1500 to 1800)<\/em>, 17-19th<\/sup> October, Bifr\u00f6st, Iceland.<\/p>\n

2016 - Organization and presentation of material at the 2nd<\/sup> Sk\u00e1lholt workshop, 12th<\/sup> November, 2016, Reykjavik.<\/p>\n

2014 \u2013 Identity and Mobility in the North Atlantic 1600-1900. Paper given at the workshop Entangled Colonialism: Scandinavian Trade in the Atlantic and Asia<\/em>. November 13th<\/sup>-14th<\/sup>, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<\/p>\n

2014 \u2013 The Fragment and the Relic. Paper given at the roundtbable The contrived Past: Contemporary remains as a challenge to Archaeology<\/em>, Metz, France, October 29th-31st 2014.<\/p>\n

2014 \u2013 Theory Building, Theory Borrowing. Keynote speech at the XIVth Nordic TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) Conference, April 22nd<\/sup>-25th<\/sup>, 2014.<\/p>\n

2014 \u2013 State Formation in Iceland in the 17th<\/sup> and 18th<\/sup> century. Paper given at the annual Society of Historical Archaeology Conference, Quebec, Canada January 8th-12th, 2014.<\/p>\n

2014 \u2013 Organization and presentation of material at the 1st<\/sup> Sk\u00e1lholt workshop, 29th<\/sup> September, 2014, Reykjavik.<\/p>\n

2013 \u2013 The problem of contemporaneity in archaeology. Paper given at a Mellon colloquium on Archaeology, Heritage and the Mediation of Time<\/em>, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York, April 12-13th<\/sup> 2013.<\/p>\n

2013 \u2013 Iceland and the Colonial project. Paper given at the joint SHA\/SPMA conference in Leicester, January\u00a0 9-12th<\/sup> 2013.<\/p>\n

2013 \u2013 Conduits of Dispersal. Paper given at the joint SHA\/SPMA conference in Leicester, January\u00a0 9-12th<\/sup> 2013.<\/p>\n

2012 \u2013 The Witness and the Archive. Paper give at a workshop on An Archaeology of Archaeological Archives<\/em> at Birkbeck College, UCL, London, April 14, 2012.<\/p>\n

2012 \u2013 2012: A Ruin Odyssey. Paper presented at the Ruin Memories<\/em> Workshop, Svanhovd, Norway, 27-30th September 2012.<\/p>\n

2012 \u2013 The role of archaeological societies in the contemporary world. Paper given at the Icelandic Archaeological Society one day conference, 6th october 2012<\/p>\n

2011 - Ruin-nation: reflections on the Icelandic ruin. Paper given at the annual Humanities Conference (Hugv\u00edsinda\u00feing<\/em>), University of Iceland, 26th<\/sup> March 2011<\/p>\n

2011 - Mobile Homes. Ruination and the Mobility of Things. Paper presented at the Ruin Memories<\/em> Workshop, Falmouth, England, 18th<\/sup> November 2011.<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 (with Philippa Ascough & Tom McGovern) Ritual sacrifice and isotopic analysis at Hofstadir, North Iceland\u00a0 Paper presented at the Association for Environmental Archaeology<\/em> Conference 30th<\/sup> March-1st<\/sup> April, 2010<\/p>\n

2010 - Excavations of the Viking Age settlement of Hofsta\u00f0ir in NE Iceland. Paper presented at a Hofsta\u00f0ir m\u00e1l\u00feing<\/em> 24. Apr\u00edl 2010, Narfasta\u00f0ir.<\/p>\n

2010 - Personal Reflections on Rescue Archaeology. Paper presented at a one day conference Rescue and Development Excavations<\/em> 8th<\/sup> May 2010, F\u00e9lags \u00edslenskra fornleifafr\u00e6\u00f0inga<\/p>\n

2010 - Fast Ruins. Nature and Modernity in Iceland. Paper presented at the Ruin Memories<\/em> workshop, 19-20 Nov 2010, Reykjavik<\/p>\n

2009 - Pyramids and Palimpsests. Object, Event and Assemblage on the Archaeoliogical Record. Paper presented at the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG), Stanford University, 3rd<\/sup> May 2009<\/p>\n

2009 - The Great Pyramid at Goza and Other Archaeological Objects. Materializarion and History. Paper presented at Hugv\u00edsinda\u00feing, 14th<\/sup> March 2009.<\/p>\n

2009 - Excavations at Hofsta\u00f0ir. Paper presented at the 16th<\/sup> Viking Congress, Iceland. 5th<\/sup> August 2009.<\/p>\n

2009 - Materiality and the Paradox of Material Culture. Paper presented at \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0arspeglinum X 2009\u00a0 (annual research conference of the Social Sciences School at the University of Iceland), 30th<\/sup> October 2009.<\/p>\n

2008 \u2013 (with Oscar Aldred) \u2018Events, temporalities and landscapes in Iceland\u2019. Paper presented at Toward an Eventful Archaeology: Approaches to Structural Change in the Archaeological Record, a conference held at the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Buffalo, NY, USA, 3-5th<\/sup> April 2008.<\/p>\n

2007 - \u2018Time and the Archaeological Record\u2019 Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 72nd<\/sup> Annual Meeting, April 25-29 2007, Austin Texas.<\/p>\n

2006 - \u2018Aspects of Method and Practice in Historical Archaeology\u2019 Keynote speaker, Contemporary and Historical Archaeological Theory (CHAT) 4th annual conference, University of Bristol, 10-12 November 2006<\/p>\n

2006 \u2013 \u2018The Viking Settlement at Hofsta\u00f0ir in M\u00fdvatnssveit\u2019 in the Valdami\u00f0st\u00f6\u00f0var \u00e1 mi\u00f0\u00f6ldum session of the \u00cdslenska s\u00f6gu\u00fein, 18-21 mai 2006<\/p>\n

2006 \u2013 \u2018The ceramic revolution in Iceland, 1850-1950\u2019, in the Efnismenning-neyslumenning session of the \u00cdslenska s\u00f6gu\u00fein, 18-21 mai 2006<\/p>\n

2005 \u2013 \u2018Archaeology and Anonymity. Reflections on J\u00f3n Steffensen\u00b4s \u2018osteonymy\u2019\u2019 at the Menning og meinsemdir<\/em> conference in honour of J\u00f3n Steffensen at the National Library of Iceland.<\/p>\n

2005 - \u2018Process and Identity. Freedom and Respectability in a Mission Station in the Western Cape, South Africa\u2019 in Re-constructing Identity<\/em> session at Society of Historical Archaeology (SHA)\u00a0 at the University of York<\/p>\n

2004 \u2013 \u2018Architectures of Power: the Viking settlement of Hofsta\u00f0ir\u2019 at the SILA\/NABO conference at Copenhagen<\/p>\n

2004 \u2013 \u2018Ceramics, Trade and Consumption in Iceland 1640-1940\u2019 at the SILA\/NABO conference at Copenhagen<\/p>\n

2002 \u2013 \u2018Archaeologia Islandica\u2019 in the conference Whither Icelandic Archaeology?<\/em> at H\u00e1sk\u00f3li \u00cdslands.<\/p>\n

2000 - \u2018Speaking with the subaltern?\u2019 Archaeology in a post-colonial context\u2019 delivered at Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) at Oxford Univerity<\/p>\n

1999 \u2013 \u2018Landscapes of alienation\u2019 at the Landscapes of Conflict<\/em> session at the World Archaeology Congress 4 (WAC) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n

1998 - 'The Construction Site: The Temporality of Excavation' in Reconceptualising the Field<\/em> session at Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) at Birmingham University<\/p>\n

1998 - 'Archaeology and the Economics of Destruction' at Landscapes in Transition<\/em>, Hunter College, CUNY<\/p>\n

1996 - 'The Archaeology of the Workhouse' in The Familiar Past<\/em> session at Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) at the University of Liverpool.<\/p>\n

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In addition I have co-organized several sessions at conferences:<\/p>\n