Social power: between Amazonia and the Maya lowlands

UCL Institute of Archaeology Research Seminars Programme | Term I, 2019-20

The Term I seminar series highlights current Institute of Archaeology research and this term relates to the TAG 2019 conference theme of ‘Power Knowledge and the Past’.

Mondays, 4pm, Room 612 (some titles are still provisional)

• 30 September: Mark Roberts (Archaeological Sciences) - IoA students at work in deer parks, forests, hunting lodges and prehistoric field systems: the 2018 and 2019 UCL Field and Surveying Courses
• 7 October: Elizabeth Graham (Archaeological Sciences) - Cadaver-soil interaction and long-term impact on ecology
• 14 October: Manuel Arroyo-Kalin et al (World Archaeology) - Social power: between Amazonia and the Maya lowlands (roundtable)
• 21 October: Raffaella Cecilia (Heritage Studies) - Inclusive visions: the role of technology in the making of meaning for visually impaired museum visitors

• 28 October: Alice Stevenson & Heba Abd el Gawad (Heritage Studies) - Whose Ancient Egypt? Egypt and its dispersed heritage

  [4 November: Reading Week - no seminar]

• 11 November:  Ian Barnes, Thomas Booth, Brenna Hassett, Stephen Shennan, Ulrike Sommer and David Wengrow (World Archaeology) – Reconciling material culture and genetic data in prehistory: a panel debate
• 18 November: Andrew Gardner et al (World Archaeology) – Objects, humans and agency: a panel debate
• 25 November: Caitlin O’Grady (Heritage Studies) - Negotiating knowledge and expertise: heritage, disciplinary power and preservation of the past
• 2 December: Andrew Reid (World Archaeology) - Rethinking the role of livestock in the human career
• 9 December: Patrick Quinn (Archaeological Sciences) - Micro-geochemical Evidence for the Production and Logistics Management of Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Terracotta Army, China