The Future of TRAC
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21251266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Gardner (0000-0002-5769-677X, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 0 |
| Issue | 2005 |
| Pages | 128 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2515-2289 • E-ISSN: 2515-2289 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/trac2005_128_137 |
| OpenAlex | W2175214486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
After 15 years, the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference has become something of a venerable institution in Roman archaeology in Britain. A regular publication series, a consistent audience, and a Standing Committee to provide organisational continuity all indicate that the conference is still healthy too. However, with seemingly ever-increasing demands on the time of everyone involved, rising costs of hosting conferences, and a variety of other events on the calendar, no conference can take its existence for granted. This is even more true for TRAC, a gathering which was founded with a specific agenda, and which has always had something of a mission beyond self-perpetuation. The problem we need to address at the outset, then, is whether TRAC has a future at all. There have been arguments in the recent past that the conferences, or at least the publications coming from it, have not been theoretical enough. In a review of a selection of four volumes of proceedings, Ray Laurence suggested that TRAC was failing in its mission to deliver well-argued theoretical papers in the majority of cases, partly because of a self-imposed insulation from theoretical discourse in other subdisciplines Fincham et al. 2000: vii-viii; Woolf 2004: 420). Further consideration will be given to the latter issue below, but Laurence's comments certainly raise questions about the future of the conference in its present form, which has nonetheless remained largely unchanged since they were published
Programming language · TRAC · Computer Science · Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |