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Towards integrated archeology as a model for the future: Reflections from Andalusia
January 23, 20187:30 p.m.
CóRDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
7:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
Conference/colloquium with professor Desiderio Vaquerizo Gil, on the
occasion of the publishing of his latest book about this topic.
With the title “When Stones (Do Not Always) Speak: Towards comprehensive archeology as a model for the future. Reflections from Andalusia,” the work was published by JAS ArqueologíA (Madrid).
Desiderio Vaquerizo Gil, an educator with a strong calling for his profession and a remarkable academic background, is greatly committed to the goal of making archeology a true social science. In this book, he reflects in a clear, passionate, critical, courageous and committed way on archeology over the last 35 years in Spain, with a special emphasis on Andalusia and, more specifically, Cordoba, but without losing sight of the broader references in this discipline, using his field of study as a watchtower to look much further beyond, brimming with sincerity and good intentions in equal measure.
Desiderio Vaquerizo Gil (Herrera del Duque, Badajoz, 1959) has been a professor and the Department Chair of Archeology at the University of Cordoba since the year of 2002. He heads the Sísifo Research Group (PAIDI Hum-236) and has been a Main Researcher on many research, development and innovation projects; he has taken part in countless domestic and foreign congresses, published many works in various languages in a long list of high-impact journals both in and out of Spain, and is the co-author and editor of a large number of monographs, in addition to having been a doctoral thesis director on approximately twenty occasions, some having become award recipients. He is the director of several scientific journals of a periodical nature (including Anales de Arqueología Cordobesa, which he also founded), an article author in the daily press, a Corresponding Academy Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Noble Arts of Cordoba, a Numerary Member of the Andalusian Academy of History and a Corresponding Member of the German Archeology Institute. In recent years, he has received over a dozen awards and acknowledgments for his full dedication to archeology and his important role in passing on knowledge, which he has performed at the helm of the scientific culture project “Arqueología somos todos” (“We Are All Archeology”). This monograph is a reflection of all his work, offering readers a privileged perspective on the status of archeology in Spain after the brutal impact of the economic crisis.
Photograph: Beginning of Operation Walkiria, which, in the mid-1980’s, would end up covering the archeological remains excavated on Bulevar Gran Capitán after the failed attempt to construct an underground parking lot there (photograph courtesy of Francisco González, Diario Córdoba).
Desiderio Vaquerizo Gil, an educator with a strong calling for his profession and a remarkable academic background, is greatly committed to the goal of making archeology a true social science. In this book, he reflects in a clear, passionate, critical, courageous and committed way on archeology over the last 35 years in Spain, with a special emphasis on Andalusia and, more specifically, Cordoba, but without losing sight of the broader references in this discipline, using his field of study as a watchtower to look much further beyond, brimming with sincerity and good intentions in equal measure.
Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero
Prehistoric Era Department Chair at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Prehistoric Era Department Chair at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Desiderio Vaquerizo Gil (Herrera del Duque, Badajoz, 1959) has been a professor and the Department Chair of Archeology at the University of Cordoba since the year of 2002. He heads the Sísifo Research Group (PAIDI Hum-236) and has been a Main Researcher on many research, development and innovation projects; he has taken part in countless domestic and foreign congresses, published many works in various languages in a long list of high-impact journals both in and out of Spain, and is the co-author and editor of a large number of monographs, in addition to having been a doctoral thesis director on approximately twenty occasions, some having become award recipients. He is the director of several scientific journals of a periodical nature (including Anales de Arqueología Cordobesa, which he also founded), an article author in the daily press, a Corresponding Academy Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Noble Arts of Cordoba, a Numerary Member of the Andalusian Academy of History and a Corresponding Member of the German Archeology Institute. In recent years, he has received over a dozen awards and acknowledgments for his full dedication to archeology and his important role in passing on knowledge, which he has performed at the helm of the scientific culture project “Arqueología somos todos” (“We Are All Archeology”). This monograph is a reflection of all his work, offering readers a privileged perspective on the status of archeology in Spain after the brutal impact of the economic crisis.
Photograph: Beginning of Operation Walkiria, which, in the mid-1980’s, would end up covering the archeological remains excavated on Bulevar Gran Capitán after the failed attempt to construct an underground parking lot there (photograph courtesy of Francisco González, Diario Córdoba).
