ASHA Reading Group: '50 years young: reflecting back, moving forward'

ASHA Reading Group begins with '50 years young: reflecting back, moving forward'

ASHA will be hosting a reading group for any interested members to attend online. For the rest of 2025 and looking forward into 2026, these will be an informal time and friendly space to reflect on current practice or research, by sharing your thoughts about current publications or other readings. Each meeting will be themed with set readings.

The first reading group will be held online from 6:30pm-7:30pm AEST on Monday 17 November via Zoom.

Since Volume 40 of Australasian Historical Archaeology has recently been published, we offer the journal as a starting point for the first reading group. Participants may like to read and bring comments on any of the articles, but we will focus our attention in the reading group on the last article - Jones, Lawrence and Roe's 21st-century philately? Connah's dilemma, the curation crisis and thinking about the future of archaeological collections. We therefore also suggest Connah's 1983 AHA article, Stamp-collecting or Increasing Understanding? The Dilemma of Historical Archaeology as a supporting article, which is available to ASHA members via the website here. 

We look forward to seeing you there!