TAG 2025 @ York

ACCOMODATION OFFER:
Dear TAG-ies, a TAG delegate has non-refundable accommodation in York available that they are looking to pass on. Get in touch with us and we’ll connect you!!

Note: This is not coordinated by the TAG organization team, we are strictly communication facilitators in this instance.

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-...

Re-opening our sign-ups for the @tag2025york.bsky.social Archaeology as Worldbuilding game-playing session. It's on 15 December from 9-12, so it doesn't conflict with other sessions. Hope to see you there:

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

Just under a month until the Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting
@tag2025york.bsky.social!
This year's theme is 'Theory in Action', so come along from the 15th-17th December to explore how archaeological theory can make an impact on the world.

Learn more: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/

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The Theoretical Archaeology Group 2025 conference logo and a 1 week to go for early bird registration message.

🚨 1 Week To Go! 🚨

Early Bird prices to register for TAG 2025 in York will end on 31 October.

Find links to register on the website at:
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

The Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture - Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Geoff Egan, a former President of SPMA and serving Vice-President, died in 2010. To honour his work we hold the Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture each year. Geoff's influence on medieval and post-medieval a...

The Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture 2025

Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera: An Archaeology of Radical Tenderness

Tue, 16 December, York Medical Society following the TAG sessions.

The lecture will be free to attend and more details, including how to book, will be publicised soon: spma.org.uk/geoff-egan-m...

TAG 2025 Bursary Application Thank you for your interest in applying for a bursary to present at TAG 2025 in York. Please complete the form below to help us assess your eligibility and better understand the context of your applic...

Today is the deadline for bursary applications! Click the link to apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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...

@royalarchinst.bsky.social

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

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**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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📢 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...

Bursaries - TAG 2025

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

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 tag2025.york@gmail.com

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-...

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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⚠️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-...

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.?

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.

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.

Our final keynote speaker is Prof Gabe Moshenska!

Call for Papers - TAG 2025

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

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

Events - TAG 2025

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/

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.

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

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.

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...

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

Text on image: 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.

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...

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.

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

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

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