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Written in Stone: <\/b><\/b>The Material Culture of Deep Time Communication<\/b><\/em><\/div>\n
a presentation by Marko Marila<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
3:30 PM
\nIMRC Center 104<\/div>\n
Fernald Adaptive Presentation and Performance Environment
\nUniversity of Maine, Orono, ME<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Marko Marila\u00a0<\/strong>is an Associate Professor of Museology at the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 and an Adjunct Professor of Heritage Archaeology at the University of Turku in Finland. With a PhD in history and philosophy or archaeology from the University of Helsinki (2020), Marila\u2019s research explores themes ranging from archaeological speculation to creative methods in critical heritage studies, bringing together historical and archaeological perspectives with contemporary art practice.<\/p>\n

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Human attempts to communicate with the distant future date back millennia. From efforts to preserve the teachings of the Buddha to attempts to convey the risks of high-level nuclear waste \u2013 intended to last 100,000 years \u2013 deep-time communication has employed a range of semiotic strategies, highlighting the difficulty of anticipating the nature of the message\u2019s recipient. All such future communication challenges involve questions concerning both the preservation of the medium and the intelligibility of the message.<\/p>\n

In this talk, Marila reflects on historical examples of deep-time communication, focusing on his research into future communication strategies in anti-nuclear and anti-uranium mining activist art. Drawing on cases from Finland, Sweden, and the United States, Marila demonstrates how efforts to communicate contemporary energy politics and environmental concerns to the distant future have made use of stone and rock. Marila argues that rock was chosen not only for its durability but also for its cosmological significance across millennia.<\/p>\n

For more details, email mhc@maine.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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