FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES

Chris Stringer (Natural History Museum) will give the Institute of Archaeology Annual Lecture 2013 on 1 May.

Congratulations to UCL-IA's Dr Graham Woodgate who has been appointed 'International Expert in Environmental Sociology' to the 'Feeding Knowledge Programme' that is being developed in preparation for the Expo 2015 'Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life' in Milan.

The Eco-Aesthetics conference marks the release of Third Text no. 120 (January 2013), dedicated to the subject of “Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology,” guest-edited by TJ Demos.

Congratulations to Dorian Fuller who has received a major new NERC award for the continuation of his ground-breaking research on early rice agriculture.

Mark Lake will present the keynote address at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology UK Chapter meeting being hosted by L-P Archaeology on 22-23 February.

Essex County Council is proposing to transfer the services of its Field Archaeology Unit (FAU) to Archaeology South-East, becoming part of the wider provision of the Applied Archaeology services offered by UCL.

Nigerian MSc Public Policy student Chibundu Onuzo is the youngest female author to win a two-book deal with Faber.

Venue

School of Public Policy, Department of Political Science,
29/30 Tavistock Square
University College London
13 February, 2013

Institute students undertaking the course on 'Issues in Conservation: Context of Conservation' have designed and produced posters communicating specific aspects of conservation.

This symposium focuses on Eva Hesse’s reliefs and drawings made during the year she spent in Germany in 1965. It looks in depth at the role of drawing in Hesse’s work and at the pivotal position of her colored reliefs for her later sculpture.