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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 8h

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?

You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...

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Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 11h

We are accepting donations to the Tag bursary fund!
Donate here:
store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...

TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 2d

**DONATIONS FOR BURSARIES**

TAG over the last few years has been trying to increase the accessibility of the conference by offering bursaries. We are now welcoming donations support these via our website.

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 14d

@antiquity.ac.uk could you repost? Perhaps with a note about the all important Antiquity Quiz ;-)

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 15d

📢 Registration is now open! 📢

Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.

Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40

More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 22d

Good News! The bursary applications for TAG 2025 are open! Deadline 15th October. Apply via our website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/bursaries/

Bursaries - TAG 2025

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Aug 29

To support those who qualify for the unwaged registration fee. Includes:
Free registration +
£200 to help cover UK travel, accommodation costs, or support caring responsibilities.

Open: early September

Deadline: early October

If you have any questions email [email protected]

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Call for participants! @apolitopoulos.bsky.social, @kjkillackey.bsky.social, Stu Eve and I are holding an Archaeology & Worldbuilding playtesting and discussion workshop at @tag2025york.bsky.social!

We have limited spaces, please sign up:

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TAG 2025 Worldbuilding Sign Up

This form is for you to sign up to participate in the TAG2025 Worldbuilding session. The session requires a 3 hour commitment and the slots are limited to 30 people. We will be playing an archaeology-...

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Aug 5

⚠️DEADLINE EXTENSION⚠️

Did you miss the deadline for submitting your abstract to TAG? Not a worry! Due to popular demand we've extended our submission deadline another two weeks! The final deadline is now the 18th of August.

Check the website for more info: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Jun 17

Currently working on the exhibitors packs for TAG York 2025. Anyone keen to have stand, or usually have a stand, and prepared to chat to us about what you need, etc.?

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Jun 9

In this brief paper I propose that delving into the darker and dirtier elements of disciplinary history can be an intellectually generative practice that offers critical insights into contemporary crises whether economic, political, or moral.

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Jun 9

Presenting: Fail better: crises, critiques, and disciplinary histories

The history of archaeology has played various roles in the forward march of archaeological theory, from teleological crutch and ideological bludgeon to the proverbial drunkard’s lamp-post.

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our final keynote speaker is Prof Gabe Moshenska!

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Jun 2

Call for papers is OPEN!!
For further information check out our website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Call for Papers - TAG 2025

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · May 29

Get ready - the call for papers is coming next week!

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · May 12

Thinking of coming to TAG in York? While you wait for the call for papers (we're hoping for these to go live 1st June or thereabout) why not check out our plans for the annual party and the amazing community venue The Crescent: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/events/

Events - TAG 2025

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thank you to everyone submitting session ideas! We have a fantastic range of topics and a few more than we were expecting (!), so the call for sessions in now closed. We will now review the sessions and hope to get back to session organisers as soon as possible.

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Apr 16

One more day to go till session proposals close! Thinking of submitting? Time to get your theoretical skates on...

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Apr 4

What's this? An announcement of a second keynote speaker for TAG 2025? That's right!

Dr Sadie Watson will be talking about what archaeological theory can mean for commercial archaeology, and how the two can be better integrated! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/keynote-spea...

Title of talk: Just Do Something: Fieldwork as Action against a Backdrop of Inaction

Sadie Watson FSA MCIfA is a leading proponent of embedding social value in developer funded archaeology. She is Site Director at Museum of London Archaeology, a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leader Fellowship holder, an Honorary Research Associate at the University of York and has played leading roles in the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA). Sadie is not only noted for her work on social value in archaeology, but also in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in archaeology, and Roman London.

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Apr 4

Two weeks to the session deadline! Get those sessions in! #Archaeology #ArchaeologyConference #SessionDeadlines #TAGYork2025

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Mar 20

It's time to announce our first keynote speaker for this year's TAG: Dr Mazen Iwaisi!

He will be speaking on how local Palestinian communities in the West Bank embody theory in action through family-based museums! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/keynote-spea...

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Keynote speaker Mazen Iwaisi, Queen's University Belfast.

Paper title: Theory from below: Family Museums as Spaces of Knowledge Production and Epistemological Resistance in Palestine

Bio: Mazen Iwaisi is a Palestinian archaeologist whose work is focused on the geopolitics of Palestinian archaeology practice and theory. He has obtained his PhD from Queen's University Belfast on the concept of archaeo-politics in the making of the Palestinian National Spatial Plan —his research centres on archaeology and cultural heritage and how they relate to spatial and urban planning.

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Mar 18

It's one month to go till the deadline for sessions for this year's TAG and we've already seen some fab proposals. Deadline 17th April 2025 - submission is via the website tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk Get in touch with us via the email address on the website if you have any questions.

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk - TAG 2025

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Mar 4

This year's Theoretical Archaeology Group conference @tag2025york.bsky.social is on the theme 'Theory in Action'!
The call for sessions is now open, so head over to the new website to find out how you can submit a proposal: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

Megaphone over a river map with the text 'Theory in Action, TAG York 2025'.

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Feb 27

And keep checking back as we release more information and reveal our three brilliant keynote speakers.

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Feb 27

The TAG 2025 website is up and running, which means we are open for session proposals! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk - Washington, DC

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