Field Notes: Histories of Archaeology and Anthropology

Having said that, we have a large collection of audio files of the seminars available to download - please make use of them!

http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1329390

Field Notes: Histories of Archaeology and Anthropology CRASSH seminar that took place from 2012 to 2014.

NB. Our final seminar took place in 2014; this page is no longer being updated. But thanks for your interest!

Get ready for our 1st seminar of term -- a joint session with the Cambridge Performance Network!! "Movements between Art and Anthropology: Conceptual Art and Ethnographic Inquiry", with:

Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (Art History, Berlin/Cambridge)
Adrien Sina (Curator & Art Historian, London)
Dr Michal Murawski (Social Anthropology, Cambridge)

& Chair: Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Social Anthropology, Cambridge)

Details of our Easter Term 2014 seminars are now available via our blog at http://crasshfieldnotes.wordpress.com . All welcome!

Field Notes Histories of Archaeology and Anthropology

Our last seminar of the term is today from 5-7 at CRASSH! Stephen Quirke (UCL) discusses "Disciplinary Formation, Imperialist Gender, Nationalist Class: Egyptian Archaeology under British Military Occupation (1882-1956)". All welcome!

Next Field Notes seminar: Christina Riggs on "Beautiful Burials, Beautiful Skulls: The Aesthetics (and Ethics) of the Egyptian Mummy" (Monday 17 February, from 5-7 at CRASSH).

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25386

Beautiful Burials, Beautiful Skulls: The Aesthetics (and Ethics) of the Egyptian Mummy – CRASSH Established at the University of Cambridge in 2001, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) works actively with the Schools and Faculties across the University undertaking collaborations that cross faculties and disciplines in order to stimulate fresh thinking an...

Our second seminar of the term is today at 5! Alice Stevenson (Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology) and Ruth Horry (University of Cambridge) on "Archaeological Context in Motion: Egyptian Field Sites and the World's Museums, 1880-1930". All welcome!

Be sure to drop by CRASSH at 5pm today for what promises to be an amazing seminar, featuring Richard Staley (Cambridge), "Physics, Anthropology and the Cultural History of Mechanics, 1870s-1930s" with Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) as discussant - followed by wine & canapés in the lobby from 6:30pm!

Our seminar list for Lent Term 2014 is now available at:

htpp://crasshfieldnotes.wordpress.com

Please join us!

Please join us for our next seminar on Monday, November 25th! Debbie Challis (UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology) will give a paper entitled: "Skull Triangles: Flinders Petrie, Craniometry and Race". Discussion will be started by Kate Nichols of CRASSH's Bible and Antiquity project.

The seminar will take place from 5-7 PM in room SG1 at CRASSH (Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge).

Further details are available at either:

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/field-notes or:

http://crasshfieldnotes.wordpress.com

Skull Triangles: Flinders Petrie, Craniometry and Race:

Field Notes – CRASSH The group aims to encourage interdisciplinary discussion about the histories of archaeology and anthropology. Specifically, it seeks to harness the increasing internal discussion about the past of these two related disciplines and couple it with enquiries conducted within the history of science

Our next seminar takes place on Monday, November 11th, from 5-7 in room SG1 at CRASSH (Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge). Helen Roche (University of Cambridge) will speak on "Narrating the Fall of Empires in Weimar and National Socialist Racial Ideology". Joachim Whaley (University of Cambridge) will start discussion. We look forward to seeing you there!

Don't forget to drop by CRASSH (Room SG1) from 5-7 pm today for the 1st Field Notes seminar of the year! Astrid Swenson (Brunel) will be presenting a fascinating paper on “Of Cats, Cathedrals and Crusaders: rethinking approaches to ‘heritage’ through representations of restoration in Cyprus”, with the ensuing discussion chaired by Professor David Abulafia (Gonville & Caius). Note our NEW day + time slot!