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The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships

Start: May 10, 2013 10:00:00 AM
End: May 1, 2014 5:00:00 PM

The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships
The Institute of Archaeology’s new student exhibition, The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships, opens to the public from 10 May 2013.

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Knossos: tracking urban dynamics over eight millennia at Europe's oldest city

Start: Dec 9, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Knossos: tracking regional dynamics over eight millennia at Europe's oldest city
Todd Whitelaw will give the final seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 9 December.

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Seminar: 'Between Attacks - Canadian Counter-Terrorism in the 1970s and 80s & Its Relevance to the 9/11 Era'

Start: Dec 9, 2013 6:00:00 PM
End: Dec 9, 2013 7:30:00 PM

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In 'Between Attacks...' Steve Hewitt (Birmingham) examines the evolution of Canadian counter-terrorism between 1971 and 1985, a period of two major terrorism incidents that received worldwide attention.

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Archaeology and Bar Kokhba since 1840: A non-Archaeologist’s Impression

Start: Dec 9, 2013 6:00:00 PM

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The Institute of Archaeology and Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society will jointly host a lecture by William Horbury (University of Cambridge) at the Institute on 9 December.

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Roundtable discussion: 'Democracy in Argentina: Thirty Years After the Transition'

Start: Dec 10, 2013 4:00:00 PM
End: Dec 10, 2013 6:00:00 PM

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UCL Institute of the Americas proudly co-sponsors this event organised by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the University of Notre-Dame (London Centre), to mark International Human Rights Day. The workshop has the twofold goal to celebrate Argentina’s thirty years of uninterrupted democratic rule and to debate its achievements and still pending tasks in relation to the quality of political institutions and human development.

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Yale-UCL Americas Annual Lecture: Jay Gitlin on: American Manifest Destiny revisited: French traders and the transcolonial bourgeois frontier, 1763-1847

Start: Dec 10, 2013 6:30:00 PM
End: Dec 10, 2013 8:30:00 PM

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In this inaugural Yale-UCL Americas Lecture Professor Jay Gitlin, a member of the History Department at Yale University, challenges traditional notions of American Manifest Destiny by examining what he calls the “transcolonial bourgeois frontier” and the interrelationship of French traders, American expansion and the porous borders of the Spanish and British Empires between 1763 and 1847.

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Exploring Constitute: A New Tool for Searching National Constitutions

Start: Dec 11, 2013 1:00:00 PM
End: Dec 11, 2013 2:00:00 PM

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Talk synopsis to be confirmed soon.

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Talk: 'The Metamuseum and the World'

Start: Dec 11, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End: Dec 11, 2013 7:30:00 PM

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What is the point of a museum of the world if the world itself has become a museum? In this talk Prof Mark Thurner (Visiting Fellow at UCL Institute of the Americas, 2013-14, and Professor of History at the University of Florida) will offer a conceptual 'Grand Tour' of this haunting question, taking us to Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Italy, and back to London.

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Landscape and Interaction: The Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus

Start: Dec 11, 2013 6:30:00 PM

Landscape and Interaction: The Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus
Michael Given (University of Glasgow) will give the Council for British Research in the Levant AGM Lecture at the Institute on 11 December.

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'The lessons from New Labour’s pension reforms for the UK & internationally' (Policy and Practice)

Start: Dec 12, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End: Dec 12, 2013 7:00:00 PM

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Professor Robert Laslett

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Urbanisation and Cultural Heritage Management: Challenges and Opportunities in China

Start: Dec 12, 2013 5:30:00 PM

Urbanisation and Cultural Heritage Management in China
Zhang Bo (Northwest University, China) will give the next International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA) China Night Lecture of 2013-14 at the Institute on 12 December.

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Dynamics of Civilisation along the Qara Dagh Range

Start: Dec 16, 2013 2:00:00 PM
End: Dec 16, 2013 7:00:00 PM

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A half-day conference on the archaeology, history and palaeoenvironment of Iraqi Kurdistan will be held at the Institute on 16 December.

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IHR Latin American History Seminars: Hegel and America: Space, Knowledge and Identity in Twentieth-century Argentina

Start: Dec 17, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End: Dec 17, 2013 7:00:00 PM

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The Institute of Historical Research (IHR - University of London), with the support of UCL-Institute of the Americas, hosts Michela Coletta (UCL-Institute of the Americas), to deliver this seminar, part of its series on Latin American History. For further details, please contact the IHR directly.

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Experimental Archaeology Conference 2014

Start: Jan 10, 2014 12:00:00 AM
End: Jan 11, 2014 12:00:00 AM

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This 8th experimental archaeology conference is sure to attract a number of papers which may be of interest to our readers. It will be jointly held by Merton College and the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art.

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Accordia Lecture: Writing on Etruscan Walls

Start: Jan 14, 2014 5:30:00 PM

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Charlotte Potts (University of Oxford) will give the fourth Accordia Lecture of the 2013-14 series at Senate House on 14 January.

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'The fusion of military and political activity in 21st Century combat' (Policy and Practice)

Start: Jan 16, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Jan 16, 2014 7:00:00 PM

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Emile Simpson

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Anglo-Saxon graves and grave-goods of the 6th and 7th centuries

Start: Jan 21, 2014 6:00:00 PM

Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar series 2013-14
The fourth seminar in the 2013-14 Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series (Autumn Term) will be given by Alex Bayliss, John Hines and Chris Scull (EH/Cardiff University).

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'The European Union - How Europe's leaders can hang together-or separately' (Policy and Practice)

Start: Jan 23, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Jan 23, 2014 7:00:00 PM

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Sir Stephen Wall and Pierre de Boissieu

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UCL Americas Research Network Seminar: 'Environment and Urbanism'

Start: Jan 28, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Jan 28, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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The UCL Americas Research Network is pleased to present its third research seminar, as part of an ongoing series of seminars, taking place regularly throughout the academic year. The seminar series will provide research students at UCL working on the Americas with the opportunity to present, within an informal, interdisciplinary, and enjoyable environment, their projects to the academic community of UCL and beyond.

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'Making Capitalism Fit for Society - Discussion with Colin Crouch' (Policy and Practice)

Start: Jan 30, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Jan 30, 2014 7:00:00 PM

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Colin Crouch

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***CHANGE OF DATE*** Lecture: 'New Identities and New Border Crossings in the Southern Mexican Frontier'

Start: Jan 31, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Jan 31, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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This event has been re-scheduled for January 31 2014 - In this paper, Aida Hernandez (CIESAS, Mexico; Simon Bolivar Chair, Cambridge) will analyze the experience of migration and the configuration of new collective identities among a Maya people in the Mexican border with Guatemala.  She will deal with the existing tensions in a double dynamic: on one side are the economic forces that lead thousands of Maya-Mam peasants to abandon their land and communities to again cross a political border to the North, while on the other side are the cultural and identity forces that are leading them to maintain the Mam identity as an anchor for confronting the homogenizing tendencies of globalization and reestablishing solidarity networks in the new transnational space.

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Carolingian brooch fashions and the construction of social identities in late Anglo-Saxon England

Start: Feb 4, 2014 6:00:00 PM

Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar series 2013-14
The fifth seminar in the 2013-14 Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series (Autumn Term) will be given by Rosie Weetch (University of Reading).

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Book Launch: 'Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America'

Start: Feb 6, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Feb 6, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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Mark Ledwidge (Canterbury Christ Church University) and Kevern Verney (Edge Hill University) will speak on the book they have co-edited with Inderjeet Parmar (City University), Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America (Routledge 2014)

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Tackling "the problems of an isolated, overseas museum": professional networks and curatorial challenges in the Zanzibar Museum, 1935-1942

Start: Feb 12, 2014 5:15:00 PM
End: Feb 12, 2014 6:15:00 PM

The Peace Memorial Museum, Zanzibar
Sarah Longair (The British Museum) will give a seminar organised by the Institute's History of Archaeology Research Network at the UCL Petrie Museum on 12 February.

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Lecture: 'Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival and Fall'

Start: Feb 12, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Feb 12, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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This talk, by Scott Mainwaring, is based on his very recently published book, coauthored by Aníbal Perez-Liñán. The book examines the emergence and the subsequent propensity of democracies and dictatorships to survive or break down in Latin America from 1900 until 2010. Because of their conviction that existing theories did not adequately explain regime change or stability for Latin America, the authors developed a new theory to explain regime change and stability. Their approach is situated between long term structural or macrocultural theories and analyses that focus on the swiftly changing coalitions at moments of regime change or the decisions of specific leaders. They emphasize the politically constructed preferences of specific political actors--especially their policy moderation or radicalism and their normative orientation toward democracy. The book offers the first extended analysis of regime emergence, survival, and breakdown of all twenty Latin American countries over an extended time.

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Accordia Lecture: Massive buildings, intangible practices

Start: Feb 18, 2014 5:30:00 PM

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Giulia Recchia (University of Foggia) will give the fifth Accordia Lecture of the 2013-14 series at the Institute on 18 February.

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The 2nd Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture - Tony Badger on: Eleanor and Franklin: Women and the New Deal

Start: Feb 20, 2014 6:00:00 PM
End: Feb 20, 2014 8:00:00 PM

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Eleanor Roosevelt had very significant influence in shaping Franklin D. Roosevelt's willingness to appoint women to important positions in New Deal programmes.  As a consequence a network of women New Dealers became influential in Washington DC.  Its roots lay in the Progressive movement and the suffragette movement.  Its key figures included Molly Dewson, Frances Perkins, and Ellen Sullivan Woodward.  However, its foremost member was the First Lady - even though she never held an administrative post.  More than anyone else, Eleanor Roosevelt helped to make the 1930s a unique era for women in American government.

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Accordia Lecture: Indigenous cults in Roman North Italy

Start: Mar 4, 2014 5:30:00 PM

Accordia
Ralph Häussler (University of Wales, Trinity Saint David) will give the penultimate Accordia Lecture of the 2013-14 series at Senate House on 4 March.

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Aqueducts and water supply in the post-Roman towns of Spain

Start: Mar 4, 2014 6:00:00 PM

Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar series 2013-14
The sixth seminar in the 2013-14 Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series (Autumn Term) will be given by Javier Martinez Jimenez (University of Oxford).

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Lecture: 'Labour Movements and Democratization in Latin America: Mexico in Comparative Perspective'

Start: Mar 5, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Mar 5, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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Kevin J. Middlebrook analyzes how, in contrast to the recent experiences of many Latin American countries, the organized labour movement in Mexico has not been a force for democratization. This seminar presentation will examine the reasons for Mexican ‘exceptionalism’ and the impact of political democratization on unions and state-labour relations in Mexico since the 1990s.

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UCL Research Network Seminar: 'Neoliberalism (part one) and Argentine History (part two)'

Start: Mar 11, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Mar 11, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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The UCL Americas Research Network is pleased to present its fourth research seminar, as part of an ongoing series of seminars, taking place regularly throughout the academic year. The seminar series will provide research students at UCL working on the Americas with the opportunity to present, within an informal, interdisciplinary, and enjoyable environment, their projects to the academic community of UCL and beyond. The first part of today's seminar will focus on Neoliberalism whilst the second half will have Argentine history as its main topic; the following research projects will be presented:

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Accordia Lecture: Perceptions of Prophecy

Start: May 6, 2014 5:30:00 PM

Accordia
Nancy De Grummond (Florida State University) will give the final Accordia Lecture of the 2013-14 series at the Institute on 6 May.

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Runestone images and visual communication in Viking Age Scandinavia

Start: May 6, 2014 6:00:00 PM

Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar series 2013-14
The penultimate seminar in the 2013-14 Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series (Autumn Term) will be given by Marjolein Stern (University of Nottingham).

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Lecture: The Politics of Coalitional Presidentialism in Latin America

Start: May 7, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: May 7, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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Tim Power (Oxford) - Elections in Latin America frequently produce presidents whose parties do not command a majority in the legislature, thus forcing these executive to fashion multiparty coalitions in order to govern. This presentation examines the tools which presidents use to form and maintain interparty coalitions in Brazil, Chile and Ecuador, while assessing the impact of these same tools on governance and on democratic quality.

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Medieval Copper, Bronze, and Brass Conference 2014

Start: May 15, 2014 12:00:00 AM
End: May 17, 2014 12:00:00 AM

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This international conference, to be held in Dinant in Belgium, celebrates the rise of the copper alloy industry of Wallonia between the 12th-16th centuries and the impact it had on Medieval Europe. It is sure to be of great interest to any medieval and historical archaeologists and metallurgists.

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Archaeometry 2014

Start: May 19, 2014 12:00:00 AM
End: May 23, 2014 12:00:00 AM

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The largest gathering of archaeological scientists will be next be hosted by the Getty Conservation Institute and UCLA in Los Angeles. It promises a packed program which will most certainly include a large section on metallurgy and related pyrotechnologies.

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Book Launch: 'Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nature and Science in Latin America'

Start: May 28, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: May 28, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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Introduced by co-author Peter Wade (Manchester). In genetics laboratories in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, scientists have been mapping the genomes of local populations, seeking to locate the genetic basis of complex diseases and trace population histories. As part of their work, geneticists often calculate the European, African and Amerindian genetic ancestry of populations and some scientists link their findings explicitly to questions of national identity, racial-ethnic difference and (anti-)racism, bringing their science to bear on issues of politics and identity.

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