Sue Hamilton gives Stanford University Distinguished Lectures (March 2023)

The Stanford Archaeology Center invites prominent archaeologists from around the world to be in residence for a week as a Distinguished Lecturer. During their residency, the Distinguished Lecturer gives two lectures and meets with faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students. Distinguished Lecturers are nominated by Stanford Archaeology Center faculty and selected by the Director.

Sue Hamilton has been in residency in Stanford this week giving lectures entitled 'The Breaching of Sensory Archaeology: Senses in the Field' and also 'The Making of Rapa Nui: Materialising Island Worlds'.

Following her eight-year Directorship of the Institute, Sue is currently on sabbatical writing-up a decade of work on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and her new book, The Making of Rapa Nui. During her stay at Stanford, Sue has been discussing themes of interpretative archaeology relating to materiality and the senses, and how these concepts can be robustly explored via fieldwork. 

Images:

• Top: Moai statue lying on its back on Rapa Nui (Image: Aerial Cam Ltd) 
• Middle: Stanford University  Hoover Tower (Image: Sue Hamilton)
• Bottom: Stanford Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, created on-site at Stanford by artists from Papua New Guinea (Image Sue Hamilton)