How do borders shape societies? Imperial borderlands from Roman Britain to New Spain

This term's seminar series showcases current research by Institute of Archaeology staff tackling critical questions in Archaeology and Heritage.

Andrew Gardner will give the next presentation in the series entitled How do borders shape societies? Imperial borderlands from Roman Britain to New Spain.

Open to all UCL staff, students and alumni!

Andrew is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire undertaking research on the dynamics of imperialism; frontiers and borderlands; social theory in archaeology; uses of texts and material culture in historical archaeologies; cultural change and the ‘collapse’ of states and ‘civilizations’; approaches to violence and warfare in past societies; and the use of the past in contemporary politics and media.

Programme

• 8 October: Corisande Fenwick - Reframing the early Islamic Mediterranean: archaeology, empire and economy in the not very “Dark Ages.”
• 15 October: Louise Martin - Desert hunting ‘kites’ in the Middle East: challenging concepts of marginality
• 22 October: Johanna Zetterstrom Sharp and J.C. Niala (Oxford) - In a fractured world, what can milk, our first food, tell us about shared loss?
• 29 October: Mike Parker Pearson - Stonehenge: the last two decades of conflict

[Reading Week - No seminar]

• 12 November: Jeremy Tanner - Authoring empire, inscribing power: monumental writing of the first emperors of Rome and China
• 19 November: Andrew Gardner - How do borders shape societies? Imperial borderlands from Roman Britain to New Spain
• 26 November: Yijie Zhuang - Rice fields and the ‘domestication’ of water in prehistoric China
• 3 December: Rachel King - What's preservation by record for? Doing more with data from development-led archaeology