The following is a list of sessions accepted for TAG 2010. Full descriptions, including abstracts, can be found by clicking on the titles of each session. We will continue to update this page on a regular basis as we receive additional information on sessions and participants.

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Africa in Theory: Theory in Africa
     Session Organizers: Stephanie Wynne-Jones (University of Bristol) and Jeffrey Fleisher (Rice University)

Analogy and Comparison: Reconsidering Key Techniques in Cultural Analysis
     Session Organizers: Chris Fowler (Newcastle University) and Oliver Harris (Cambridge University)

Archaeological Ambulations: Integrative Approaches to Movement
     Session Organizers: Oscar Aldred (University of Iceland) and Bradley M. Sekedat (Brown University)

An Archaeology of the Live
     Session Organizers: Rebecca Schneider, Shayoni Mitra, Daniel Peltz, James Dennen (Brown University)

Archaeology and the New Pragmatism
      Session Organizers: Bob Preucel and Steve Mrozowski

Archaeology as Political Action and the False Consciousness of Objectivity
     Session Organizers: Timothy Sandiford and Alexander Smith (Brown University)

Archaeology without Borders: Disparate Traditions, Convergent Archaeologies, Unscripted Conversations
     Session Organizers: Elissa Z. Faro (Dartmouth College) and Krysta Ryzewski (Brown University)

Locality of Sacrality: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion
     Session Organizers: Claudia Moser and Cecelia Feldman Weiss (Brown University)

Locality of Sacrality II: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion
      Session Organizers: Claudia Moser and Cecelia Feldman Weiss (Brown University)

The Location of Chinese Archaeological Theory
     Session Organizers: Roderick Campbell (Brown University) and Rowan Flad (Harvard University)

Location of Theory Subplenary Session I: Locating Theories
     Session Organizers: Omur Harmansah (Brown University) and Nicholas Shepherd (University of Capetown)

Location of Theory Subplenary Session II: Territories of Difference
      Session Organizers: Omur Harmansah (Brown University) and Nicholas Shepherd (University of Capetown)

Materiality and Memory Practice I: Tools of Collaborative Decolonization - Beginning with the Community
     Session Organizers: Diana D. Loren and Christina J. Hodge (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)

Materiality and Memory Practice II: Tools of Collaborative Decolonization - Starting from Material Understandings
     Session Organizers: Diana D. Loren and Christina J. Hodge (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)

Production Portraits: Confronting Convention, Craft, and (Re)Creativity in Material Representation
     Exhibitors: Elizabeth Murphy and Krysta Ryzewski (Brown University)

Time Warps I: Time Machines and Other Things
     Session Organizers: Sarah Kautz and Shannon Lee Dawdy (University of Chicago)

Time Warps II: Wormholes and Other Events in Space-Time
      Session Organizers: Sarah Kautz and Shannon Lee Dawdy (University of Chicago)

Trowel Theologies: Archaeology and the Secular Project
     Session Organizer: Ian Straughn (Brown University)

What is Archaeological Ethnography? Locating Theory in the Practice of Archaeological Ethnographies
     Session Organizer: Morag M. Kersel (Brown University)

Where’s the Theory in Archaeological Science? Materiality and Material Sciences in Concert
     Session Organizers: Nicholas Wolff (Boston University) and Alex Knodell (Brown University)

Worlds of Immateriality
     Session Organizers: Dianne Scullin and Brian Boyd (Columbia University)

"Worlds Otherwise": Archaeology, Theory, and Ontological Difference
     Session Organizers: Benjamin Alberti (Framingham State College) and Yvonne Marshall (University of Southampton)

TAG Arts Program