HRG Weekly Seminars

The Heritage Research Group (HRG) meets once a week in term-time for discussions on the theme of heritage. The program includes talks by invited speakers as well as members of the group (students and researchers from the fields of Archaeology, Social Anthropology, Classics, etc.)

For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2012, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Meghan Bowe.

Current program: Easter 2012

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Venue: McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site, Thursdays 1—2:30pm (unless otherwise stated)

3 May: Loyd Grossman, Chairman of The Heritage Alliance
"In the New Framework: What Next for Heritage?"

10 May: Vicky Smith and Sarah Bayliss, Stride Design
"800 years of Death and Disease in Cambridge"

17 May: Effrosyni Nomikou, PhD Candidate, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
"Approaching Museum and Heritage Studies through Ethnography. The Ashmolean Museum Case Study"

24 May: Tony Brooks, PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
"Angry States: Chinese Views of Japan as Seen Through Unit 731 War Museum (1949-2012)"

31 May: Robert Parkinson, Historic Building Conservation Course Director, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education
"Conservation and the creation of the national myth"

Past HRG Weekly Seminars: