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UCL Institute of Archaeology Gordon Childe Advanced Seminar 2025

15 May 2025, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm

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This year's UCL Institute of Archaeology Gordon Childe Advanced Seminar will take place on 15 May 2025.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Prof Andrew Reynolds

Location

Room 209
UCL Institute of Archaeology
31-34 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PY
United Kingdom

Following the Gordon Childe Lecture, this year entitled 'Piecing Together Past Human Encounters with Death: a theory and practice of the archaeology of death,' the accompanying seminar offers an opportunity for extended discussion on the themes raised in the lecture.

The panel discussion with the speaker, Professor Liv Nilsson Stutz, will be chaired by Andrew Reynolds (Professor of Medieval Archaeology, UCL Institute of Archaeology) and will involve Carolyn Rando (Associate Professor in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology, UCL Institute of Archaeology), David Wengrow (Professor of Comparative Archaeology, UCL Institute of Archaeology), John Robb (Professor of European Prehistory, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

This in-person event is ticketed, with pre-booking essential, via the link above.

Read more about the Gordon Childe Lectures

About the Speaker

Liv Nilsson Stutz

Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University, Sweden

Professor Liv Nilsson Stutz is a bioarchaeologist and archaeologist (PhD, Lund University 2004). She has worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at Emory University (USA) and is currently a Professor in Archaeology at LNU. Her research interests are broad and interdisciplinary including Death, Rituals and the Handling of the dead body, Research on Research Ethics with regards to human remains, Politics, Repatriation and Claims to Culture as well as Material Culture, Memory and Affect.

 

More about Liv Nilsson Stutz