Minningarfyrirlestur Jóns Sigurðssonar 2018

Every year, the Institute of History invites a distinguished foreign scholar to come to the University of Iceland and give the Jón Sigurðsson Memorial Lecture. This time Ian Hodder, professor of archaeology at Stanford University, have been chosen to give the Jón Sigurðsson Memorial Lecture in 2018. In his lecture, Hodder will talk about his latest book; Where are we heading? The entanglements of humans and things, published by Yale University Press 2018.

During the last decades, professor Ian Hodder has been the leading scholar of theoretical archaeology world-widely. His best-known publications are Reading the Past (1994), The Archaeological Process (1999) and Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (2012). Hodder did also lead the archaeological excavation at Catalhoyuk in Turkey for years and his research there marked a turning point in the history of theoretical archaeology.