In a fractured world, what can milk, our first food, tell us about shared loss?

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

Johanna Zetterstrom Sharp and J.C. Niala (Oxford) will give the next presentation entitled In a fractured world, what can milk, our first food, tell us about shared loss?

Open to all UCL staff, students and alumni!

Johanna is Associate Professor in Heritage Studies and has developed and led on a number of collaborative projects that placed community research and partnership at their core and has developed and led on a number of collaborative projects that placed community research and partnership at their core. 

She is currently co-lead on the AHRC-funded project ‘Milking it: colonialism, heritage and everyday engagement with dairy’ as well as the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Collections, Conviviality, Culture Wars: UK postcolonial redress, 1997-present.’ 

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