EVENTS & NEWS
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Visitor emotion, affect and registers of engagement at museums and heritage sites
Laurajane Smith (School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University),
6pm, 21st May 2013, Room 209, Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, University College London
RECENT EVENTS:
The
In-Betweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between
Worlds symposium
The British Museum and University College London,
22-23 March 2013
World
Heritage for Tomorrow
An international conference marking the 40th anniversary of the World
Heritage Convention
jointly organised by ICOMOS-UK, The Open University and UCL Centre for
Museums,
Heritage and Material Culture Studies and the Institute of Archaeology,
University College London
Term
1 2012 Joint UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies
and Institute of Archaeology Heritage Section Seminar Series,
New Approaches to the Past: Innovation in Heritage Research
3 October - 5 December 2012, UCL, London
Museums,
Heritage and International Development
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
21-23 September 2011
Mimesis,
transmission, power
Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW
3rd of June, 2011
Heritage,
Health and Wellbeing: Mapping future priorities and potential
18th May, 2011 UCL, London
Voices in (and around) the Museum Series
Voicing
the Museum Artefact
4 May 2011, 2011 Haldane Room, UCL, London, 6pm – 8.30pm
CMHMCS
Seminar Series Term 2 Programme
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 13 January 2011, 5.00-7.00pm The commodification of authenticity: performing and displaying Dogon material identity Laurence Douny (UCL / British Museum) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 20 January 2011, 5.00-7.00pm Religious versus secular? The crisis of the object in conservation debates at the V&A Titika Malkogeorgou (UCL) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 27 January 2011, 5.00-7.00pm Archaeology, global cultural heritage and Iraq Zainab al Bahrani (Columbia University) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 3 February 2011, 5.00-7.00pm Mimesis / mimicry: Colonialism and imitation in Roman Spain Alicia Jiménez (Autonoma University Madrid / UCL) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 10 February 2011, 5.00-7.00pm What is the heritage of “Old Beijing”? Harriet Evans (University of Westminster) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
CMHMCS Seminar Series 17 February 2011, 5.00-7.00pm READING WEEK – no seminar |
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 23 February 2011, 5.00-7.00pm Working at archaeology: Manual and intellectual labour in the study of the past, 19th-21st centuries Nathan Schlanger (University of Paris 1) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 3 March 2011, 5.00-7.00pm The materiality of cultural encounters in colonial South America Clarissa Rahmeier (UCL) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 10 March 2011, 5.00-7.00pm The museum as field site Dan Hicks (University of Oxford) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 17 March 2011, 5.00-7.00pm Beyond iconoclasm: Museum labels and the London Missionary Society collection Chris Wingfield (Pitt Rivers Museum) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
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CMHMCS Seminar Series 24 March 2011, 5.00-7.00pm (Re)Turning to things: Universal values, intangible heritage and the ontological turn Rodney Harrison (Open University) Room 410, Institute of Archaeology |
INK:
An exhibition exploring the rich and curious history of ink.
3 November to 11 December,
12pm-6pm Weds to Sat,
UCL North Lodge, Main Quad,
Gower Street
Study Workshop
– Engaging with Pacific collections
2nd July 2010, 1.30 – 4.30pm
Material Culture Room, Department of Anthropology
Traces...
04 June 2010
UCL, Department of Anthropology
Vacancy for a work experience placement over the summer months
Closing date: Tuesday 25th May 2010
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Wrapping and Unwrapping
the Body - Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
20th - 21st May 2010
Institute of Archaeology, UCL
31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY
Museum+Film - A new series of documentary
films on museums and heritage
23 February - 23 March 2010
Institute of Archaeology Lecture Theatre
31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
New Material Culture seminar series in Department of Anthropology
announced: Spring 2010
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more...
There is a rare chance to see the Galton material on public display
at the moment at the Wellcome Collection's Identity exhibition
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more...
Aglow - Critical Material Encounters at UCL
November 3rd, 2-4pm
Slade Research Centre
Woburn Square, WC1H 0AB
AHRC Community Archives research report launch
Community Archives and Identities:
Documenting and Sustaining Community Heritage
Thursday 17 September 2009, 4.30pm
Wilkins Old Refectory, UCL
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Heritage in Hospitals
Workshop
14th September 2009, 2-5pm
at SSEES on Taviton Street
Life cycle of a digital object. Hands-on experience
from laser scanning to visualization and 3D printing.
3-4 September 2009
MA IN DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Starting September 2009,
Department of Anthropology, UCL
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more...
Perspectives on Critical
Heritage: Constructing and performing Authenticity in Touristic and Material
Displays
16th June 2009
Gordon House 106
Re-thinking Ethnology
5th and 6th of June 2009
Hosted by the Department of Anthropology / Centre for Museums, Heritage
and Material Culture
Sponsored by the Journal of Material Culture
Darwin's Influence in Archaeology & Anthropology
Research Seminar Series, Spring 2009
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more...
Spring 2009 Social Anthropology / Material Culture Seminar Series
announced
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more...
Centre for Museums, Heritage & Material Culture Studies announces
Occasional Research Seminar Series in 2008/9
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Ngarrindjeri delegation from south Australia
present workshop on repatriation at UCL
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2nd Heritage and Wellbeing Workshop
December 10, 2008
Centre for Museums, Heritage & Material Culture, UCL
CHAT
2008 Conference: 'Heritage Chat'
November 14-16, 2008
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, South Cloisters, UCL
(Download Poster)
Heritage and Wellbeing
Workshop
June 25, 2008
Centre for Museums, Heritage & Material Culture, UCL
Cultures of Commodity Branding
May 10-11, 2008
Institute of Archaeology, UCL
(See
Poster)
Towards a Sustainable Archaeology in Israel and Palestine
March 31, 2008
Institute of Archaeology, UCL
Supported by UCL Futures, and the Universities of Bergen and Tel Aviv