Intersectionality in past populations: Examining frailty at the intersections of identities

Asst. Prof. Samantha Yaussy, James Madison University.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:30

“We were shaped by space”: An archaeological perspective of presence, identity and the materiality of Black life

Prof. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:30

Girls, girls, girls: The importance of (modern) bodies in envisaged Viking Age social experience

Dr. Marianne Moen, University of Oslo.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 16:00-17:30

Before, during and after gender: Towards a non-essentialist history of difference

Prof. John Robb, University of Cambridge & Prof. Oliver Harris, University of Leicester.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:30

Playing with things: The Moche sex pots

Prof. Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:30

Animals, ancestors and plants: Shaping genders in the more-than-human worlds of Bronze Age Northern Europe

Dr. Mark Haughton, Aarhus University.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 16:00-17:30

It’s biocultural all the way down: Understanding the Pleistocene hominin niche

Prof. Agustín Fuentes, Princeton University.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 16:00-17:30

Finding difference in kinship and gender in the European Neolithic: Posthumanist approaches to biomolecular data

Dr. Penny Bickle, University of York.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 16:00-17:30

Thinking evolutionary laws: technological trajectories and anthropological regularities

Valentine Roux, CNRS Director of Research, Paris.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Why be a monk?

Professor Ruth Mace, UCL.

Henry Welcome Building.

Monday 27 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Ancient DNA and cultural transmission

Professor Stephen Shennan, UCL.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution

Professor Alex Mesoudi - University of Exeter.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Operationalising archaeological taxonomies using cultural evolutionary approaches – and why it matters

Professor Felix Riede, Aarhus University.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Culture and Evolvability: A Brief Archaeological Perspective

Professor Michael O'Brien, Texas A&M University - San Antonio.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Shiny pebbles and Nordic aperitifs: case studies in multidisciplinary cultural evolution

Professor Fiona Jordan, University of Bristol.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 16:00-17:30

TERRANOVA from the last and current Interglacial periods into the Anthropocene: an Atlas database drawing lessons from ancient land use for future European landscape management

Dr Sjoerd Kluiving, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Zoom.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 16:00-17:30

Documenting land-Use legacies in the Pacific Northwest of North America: coupled archaeological and ecological signatures of indigenous forest gardens

Dr Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Simon Fraser University.

Zoom.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 16:00-17:30

Landscape history, archaeology and storytelling

Prof Anneli Ekblom, Uppsala Universitet and IHOPE.

Zoom.

Thursday 02 June 2022, 16:00-17:30

Historical ecology and changes in Jomon landscape practice: examples from northeastern Japan

Prof Junko Habu, University of California.

Zoom.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Modeling ‘The Dawn of Everything’: how simulating a complex yesterday might (or might not) help us with a complicated tomorrow

Dr John Murphy, Northern Illinois University and Argonne National Laboratory.

Zoom.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Low-density urbanism, risk and climate instability

Prof Roland Fletcher, University of Sydney.

Zoom.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 12:00-13:30

Toward an acknowledgement of the invisible social metabolism of prestige-goods exchange in the Prehispanic Andes

Prof Alf Hornborg, Lunds Universitet.

Zoom.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:00-17:30

Enduring Structures, Patterns of Change: ‘English’ Landscapes in the Northern Atlantic, 1000-1800CE

Matthew Johnson (Northwestern University).

Zoom.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:30

Dissonance and Convergence in the North Atlantic: Ireland and the Archaeology of European Expansion

Audrey Horning (College of William & Mary, Queens University Belfast).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 16:00-17:30

Living on Atlantic Time: Commerce and Daily Life on the Gambia River

Liza Gijanto (St Mary’s College of Maryland).

Zoom.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:00-16:30

Sociality of Merchant Capital and Archaeology of Early Modernity in Atlantic Africa

Akin Ogundiran (UNC Charlotte).

Zoom.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

The Presence of Absence: Interrogating and interpreting forced and free migration in the Atlantic Caribbean

Alissandra Cummins (Barbados Museum & Historical Society).

Zoom.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 16:00-17:30

No Dollar Too Dark: Free Trade, Piracy, Privateering and Illegal Slave Trading in the Northeast Caribbean, Early 19th Century

Ryan Espersen (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:00-17:30

Landscapes of freedom: Kinship-relations and Geographical Imagination of the Maroons of “la Sierra de la María” during the 17th-18th century, Colombia.

Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros (Universidad Surcolombiana).

Zoom.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 16:00-17:30

Afro-descendants on the Move: Archaeologies of Afro-Atlantic Secondary and Reverse Diasporas

Theresa A. Singleton (University of Cambridge, Syracuse University).

Zoom.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:30

Entangled histories: Archaeology, modern politics, and heritage in Vietnam

Nam Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zoom.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 16:00-17:30

From reindeer antlers to tea light candles: Multiple users at the Sámi offering places

Tiina Äikäs, University of Oulu.

Zoom.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 16:00-17:30

It might have been like this? Experimental archaeology: Making, understanding, storytelling

Aiden O'Sullivan, UC Dublin.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00-17:30

Do you know who knows what you don't?: Construction of negotiated archaeological narratives

Jimena Lobo Guerrero, MAA University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:30

Historical Landmarks and national history: The case of Kazakhstan

Arystanbek Muhamediuly, National Museum of Kazakhstan.

Zoom.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

Gold from the Great Steppe: new discoveries that changed the course of a regional museum

This seminar will be given in Russian, with live translation. The webinar format will be used to enable the translation function to be enabled.

Svetlana Nurgaziyeva, Director, East Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Local History.

Zoom.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

What the Archaeology of Decolonization Can Teach Us About the Decolonization of Archaeology

Prof Matthew Liebmann, Harvard University.

Zoom.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Colonialism and Meta-Narratives in the Philippines: Decolonizing History through Community Archaeology among the Ifugao

Dr Stephen Acabado, UCLA.

Zoom.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Decolonising Archaeological Practice Beyond Community Engagement: towards a theory of the future

Prof Innocent Pikirayi, University of Pretoria.

Zoom.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Indigenous & Archaeological Futures: Creating Equity through Community-Based Storytelling with Grand Ronde

Dr Sara Gonzalez, University of Washington.

Zoom.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:00-17:30

Ethics of archaeology: a post-Soviet (Central Asian) experience

Dr. Gai Jorayev, UCL.

Zoom.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Engaging custodians of coloniality in archaeology: an African experience

Dr Catherine Namono, Wits University.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Towards a Kuleana Anthropology: Responsibility and Relationality in Hawai‘i and Oceania

Dr Ty Tengan, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Zoom.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Galisonian logic devices as affordances for decolonizing archaeology

Dr Ben Marwick, University of Washington.

Zoom.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

On the Right of Refusal: Decolonizing Archaeology and Equitable Practices

Dr Uzma Rizvi, Pratt Institute.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Black Culinary Resistance in the French Caribbean during the Slavery Era

Dr Peggy Brunache, University of Glasgow.

Zoom.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

The Society of Black Archaeologists: Envisioning a Diverse and Inclusive Discipline

Dr Ayana Flewellen, UC Riverside.

Zoom.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:00-17:30

Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the Evolution of Technology

Dr Kathelijne Koops, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

New Neanderthal discoveries at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan

Dr Emma Pomeroy, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

Australopithecus from Sterkfontein Caves (South Africa): An evolutionary species?

Dr Amélie Beaudet, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - please register at https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYudemqqDwpHdHiKTCTs9UOwBMZJ0SFA2fg.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

Panel Discussion: Embedding Black History and Archaeology in British schools

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Zoom - please register at: https://forms.gle/vqdG8U8KJKRFz35ZA .

Thursday 29 October 2020, 16:00-17:30

Slavery, emancipation, and the quest for reparations in Antigua and Barbuda

Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:00-17:30

Africa and the discourse of inventiveness: Deep Historical and Archaeological Perspectives

Dr Abidemi Babatunde Babalola.

Zoom.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 16:00-17:30