pubCHAT Europe + Africa

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Rachael Kiddey and Hilary Orange are hosting PubCHAT on 20:00 BST (21:00 SAST) Friday 23 October

Hilary Orange and Emma Dwyer are hosting PubCHAT on 19:00 GMT (21:00 SAST) Friday 30 October

Join these social events and link up with people in Europe and Africa.

Come CHAT with us! PubCHATs are designed to be an informal way to meet other contemporary and historical archaeologists and to talk about life, research, and interests! There is no formal programme, so just show up with your favorite evening beverage or meal and be prepared to socialise. These PubCHATs are timed to be accessible for those located in Europe and Africa, but everybody is welcome! This is part of a series of three events being held in association with the Festival in different timezones (including the Americas and Asia/Oceania).

We will send out the Zoom link via the CHAT JiscMail (CONTEMP-HIST-ARCH@jiscmail.ac.uk) a few days before the event. You can sign up to join this mailing list HERE by clicking the ‘subscribe’ button.

Note: There is no official language for pubCHATs and while it is likely that many of those who come along speak English, we welcome speakers of all languages.

33 Days of Utopia

Attila Dézsi and Roswitha Ziegler (Germany)

Live Q&A event on Tuesday 27 October 19:00-20:00 CET (18:00-19:00 GMT).

During an archaeological research project on an anti-nuclear protest camp, a team of filmmakers, archaeologists and contemporary witnesses documented their perspectives on archaeology of the recent past as well as their own heritage. In 1980, activists at a former protest camp near Gorleben in Germany blocked the test drilling ground for a nuclear waste storage facility. At the same time, the so-called “Free Republic of Wendland,” as the protest camp was known, became the location for a range of social experiments in how to live an alternative lifestyle. The collective experience of a ‘lived utopia’ and the use of alternative energy technologies changed the lives of the protesters and the green movement in general.

The filmmakers interviewed witnesses about their memories and emotions connected to the site, while the archaeologists tapped into the materiality of the formation of utopia. During this collaborative project, the thread of the nuclear waste facility lingered; Germany has not yet decided where to put its nuclear waste.

We will air the trailer of the film, followed by a live Q&A event with the filmmakers and archaeologists.

 

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