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Theoretical Archaeology Group: Columbia University will be hosting the inaugural TAG conference in the US on May 23-25, 2008. Former and existing members of the Thing Theory seminar are organizing a session at the conference to expand upon issues within material culture studies, broadly conceived. In the spirit of interdisciplinarity, the Thing Theory seminar invites contributed papers not only from anthropologists but from scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences. For more information on submissions, see the conference website.

Thing Theory in Facebook: The seminar now has a facebook group. While I'm not quite sure what this entails, informal discussion about things will presumably resume there. See Thing Theory (Global).

2006 Thing Theory Seminar: An attempt was made as part of the 2006 seminar to establish a website on which student work was presented. Regrettably, the site was never completed, but the syllabus and a number of student essays are available at the seminar's website.

Graduate Program in Archaeology at Columbia University: Columbia's archaeology program is rapidly growing and now includes a core group of six archaeologists teaching within the anthropology department on matters of archaeological theory as well as the archaeology of regions in both the Old and New Worlds. Faculty in anthropology include:

PhD and MA students in the anthropology program also benefit from close engagement and collaboration with archaeologists in Columbia's Dept of Art History and Archaeology, at the American Museum of Natural History (affiliated with CU), as well as at NYU and CUNY (courses at both the latter institutions are available to Columbia studennts through the New York graduate consortium). See the Columbia Center for Archaeology (CCA) for additional information on archaeology at Columbia and in the greater New York metropolitan area.

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