Monthly Events
Rethinking gender and female bodies in archaeological praxis
When
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Event location
McDonald Institute, Seminar room, CB2 3ER; and via Zoom (register above)
Event speaker
Beatriz Marin-Aguilera (Liverpool); Francisca Moya (Barcelona)
Human-wildlife cooperation: Honeyguides et al.
When
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Event location
Henry Wellcome Building Seminar Room
Event speaker
Dr Dominic Cram
The Personality and Legacy of Cyril Fox (1923-2023)
When
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Event location
Magdalene College & The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Event series
Quantitative approaches to the Middle and Later Stone Age records of Eastern Africa
When
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Event location
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room
Event speaker
Dr James Blinkhorn, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
The Personality and Legacy of Cyril Fox (1923-2023)
When
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Event location
McDonald Seminar Room
Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit
When
Event location
Online Only
Event series
Event speaker
Angel Naydenov (MIASU, University of Cambridge) ONLINE ONLY
Classical Archaeology Seminars, Michaelmas 2023
When
Event location
Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site
Event series
Event speaker
Verity Platt (Cornell/Cambridge)
An early Iron Age Sarmatian female elite burial at Taksay-1, western Kazakhstan
When
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Event location
Online only, via Zoom.
Event speaker
Dr.Yana Lukpanova, Senior Archaeologist, Western Kazakhstan Local History Museum, Uralsk, Kazakhstan
The myth of archaic introgression into humans: 3 more telling vignettes!
When
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Event location
Henry Wellcome Building Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam Street
Event speaker
Prof William Amos
Social Interactions in the Funerary Space: Tomb and Remembrance in Egypt in the 3rd millennium BCE
When
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Event location
McDonald Institute Seminar Room
Event speaker
Inês Torres
King's Silk Roads, Michaelmas 2023
When
Event location
Online Only
Event series
Event speaker
Kenneth Harl (Tulane University)
New insights on the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa
When
Event location
McDonald Seminar Room
Event speaker
Dr. Lucy Timbrell, University of Liverpool
South Asia Women in the Field Network
When
Event location
McDonald Seminar Room, Courtyard Building
Event series
Event speaker
Screening of 'This Stained Dawn.'
South Asia Women in the Field Network
When
Event location
McDonald Seminar Room, Courtyard Building
Event series
Event speaker
Anam Abbas Q&A Session
CANCELLED: When arts meet science: A conversation with Dr Abbas Akbari
When
Event series
Indigenous and African-descended Women, Alcohol, and the Material Culture of Political Power in the early modern Leeward Islands
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Event location
McDonald Institute, Seminar room, CB2 3ER; and via Zoom (register above)
Event speaker
Lila O’Leary Chambers (University of Cambridge)
Scribbles and archaeological pareidolia, or technaesthetic explorations? Considering Neanderthal material engagements
When
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Event location
Henry Wellcome Building Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam Street
Event speaker
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Rediscovering Old Babylonian societies: The excavation project at Tell Muhammad (Baghdad)
When
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Event location
Henry Wellcome Building Seminar Room (& online)
Event speaker
Professor Nicola Laneri (University of Catania)
King's Silk Roads Michaelmas 2023
When
Event location
Audit Room, King's College
Event series
Event speaker
Dr Rocco Rante (Louvre Museum)
Standardisation in backed artefact technology: a view from Australia and Africa
When
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Event location
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room; Speaker will be online
Event speaker
Dr Amy Way, Australian Museum Research Institute
Classical Archaeology Seminars, Michaelmas 2023
When
Event location
Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site
Event series
Event speaker
Emily Egan (Maryland)
Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit
When
Event location
Online Only
Event series
Event speaker
Morris Rossabi (Colombia University & Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge)
The Sabines of the Apennines before the Roman conquest: settlement patterns, culture and society of a mountain community
When
Event location
McDonald Seminar Room and on Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/95718531252?pwd=Nkx1WEI2aEFrdE1oRTRqaG1iRlVGQT09
Event speaker
Dario Monti, UCLouvain
Elite Saka sites of East Kazakhstan
When
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Event location
Online via Zoom
Event speaker
Samat Shakenov, Senior Archaeologist, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
King's Silk Roads, Michaelmas 2023
When
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Event location
Audit Room, King's College
Event series
Event speaker
Workshop: Rivers, Climate, and Human Settlement in the Countries of the Silk Roads
King's Silk Roads, Michaelmas 2023
When
Event location
Audit Room, King's College
Event series
Event speaker
Prof Vakhtang Licheli (Tbilisi State University)
Understanding the knapper: what can the biface manufacturing process tell us about hominin behaviour
When
Event location
McDonald Seminar Room
Event speaker
Kate Anderson, University of Southampton
Why be a monk?
When
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Event location
Henry Wellcome Building
Event speaker
Prof Ruth Mace, University College London
South Asia Women in the Field Network
When
Event location
McDonald Seminar Room, Courtyard Building
Event series
Event speaker
Film Screening of 'Amid the Villus' and Q&A with Director Sumathy Sivamohan
Classical Archaeology Seminars, Michaelmas 2023
When
Event location
Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site
Event series
Event speaker
Jessica Plant (Cambridge)
Cultural variation and consensus in daimonic clay figures of the Neo-Assyrian period
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Event location
McDonald Seminar Room (& online)
Event speaker
Glynnis Maynard (University of Cambridge)
Patrimonialising the ‘mestizo gaze’: cultural heritage (patrimonio cultural), ‘race’, and gender in Mexico
When
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Event location
Online only (Zoom)
Event speaker
Abeyami Ortega (University of Manchester)
PhD and post-doc speed talks
When
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Event location
Henry Wellcome Building Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam Street
Event speaker
Various
The Department of Archaeology runs a diverse and lively events programme that reflects the many-faceted subject. Termly Seminar Series and Discussion Groups (link to Seminar Series) see visiting and local scholars delivering thought-provoking lectures on a daily basis. Enhancing these, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research aims to provide a shared intellectual home for archaeologists at Cambridge with eminent, international speakers delivering the McDonald Annual Lecture as well as hosting multiple conferences and workshops throughout the year.
