McDONALD INSTITUTE for Archaeological Research

11th January 2010: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Redevelopment
The Museum hopes early in 2010 to begin a radical update with a new entrance, modernization and new archaeology displays. We want the displays to be up-to-date in their ideas and intellectual agenda.

All welcome to hear what we presently have in mind and respond! Seminar-discussion led by Museum Curators Christopher Chippindale and Robin Boast in the McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Monday 11th January at 4.30pm. (Contact Christopher Chippindale; direct line +44 (0) 1223 333 512) MAA home-page.
Event poster.pdf

19th January 2010: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
James Graham-Campbell (UCL): The Vikings in Northumbria (793-876)
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

19th January 2010: D Caucus Seminar Series
Philippa Walton (The British Museum): Rethinking Roman Britain using the Portable Antiquities Scheme Roman coin data
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site)
All Welcome

19th January 2010: Graduate Society
The Graduate Society Beer Hour is back though because it clashes with the VON HÜGEL LECTURE, we'd all heading off there.
5.00 coffee room to head off to Mill Lane for the Lecture and wine reception at 5:30. so come along! Consider it a chance to mingle, catch up and, afterwards, grab a glass of wine in the glorious surroundings of the MAA Gallery.
Contact: Mark Sapwell mas218@cam.ac.uk

19th January 2010: THE INAUGURAL VON HÜGEL LECTURE
Nicholas Thomas
VON HÜGEL'S CURIOSITY: Encounter and Experiment in the new museum
Chair: Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor

(5:30pm Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 3, Mill Lane, University of Cambridge)

Preceded by a tour at 4.00 pm of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, highlighting plans for an exciting redevelopment programme
Followed by a reception at the Maudslay Gallery, MAA

RVSP, inquiries to Liz Haslemere, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, University of Cambridge: eh268@cam.ac.uk / 01223 764956
More info…

22nd January 2010: Department of Social Anthropology Senior Research Seminars
Dr. Richard Baxstrom (University of Edinburgh:
Living on the Horizon of the Everlasting Present: The Function of the Plan and the Experience of Time in Urban Malaysia
(4.15pm, Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane)

26th January 2010: D Caucus Seminar Series
Professor Robin Cormack (Courtauld Institute of Art & Faculty of Classics, Cambridge): Perspectives from the outside: curating temporary loan exhibitions at the Royal Academy and elsewhere.
Part of themed series - Two worlds colliding?: the relationships between Classics and Museums organised by Dr Kate Cooper, Fitzwilliam Museum.
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site)

26th January 2010: Graduate Society
Get ready for the first Grad Society PUB QUIZ! Archaeology, Department Life and General Knowledge Questions galore. Entry is 50p per person in teams of 3 or under, with the winner getting the pot! Look out for posters and further emails for the Pub Quiz and come try your luck with our most marvelous questions.
Contact: Mark Sapwell mas218@cam.ac.uk

2nd February 2010: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Judith Herrin (KCL): At the cutting edge: the role of church councils in the growth of Christianity
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

2nd February 2010: D Caucus Seminar Series
Dr Susan Walker (Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum): Change and flow: the new Ashmolean
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site)

3rd February 2010: Personal-Histories screening
In honour of Professor Wylie’s visit today, we invite you to view our film of her appearance at the 2007 Personal-Histories event along with Professors Henrietta Moore, Meg Conkey and Ruth Tringham remembering how they pioneered gendered, structural and symbolic archaeology and anthropology in the early 1980s (see attached poster.pdf).
(12noon-4.15pm (Tea at 3.00pm) South Lecture Room (near the Museum) before Professor Wylie speaks at 4.30pm in the McDonald Seminar Room) Contact: Pamela Jane Smith, pjs1011@cam.ac.uk

3rd February 2010: Special Leverhulme Lecture
Professor Alison Wylie (Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Reading) will be giving a Special Leverhulme Lecture (in collaboration with the Garrod Seminar Series) when she will discuss: What Counts as Archaeological Evidence: Legacies of Collaboration All are invited to the talk and to the following wine reception to greet Professor Wylie.
(4:30pm in the McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Organizer: Sheila Kohring (sek34@cam.ac.uk)

3rd February 2010: LCHES Seminar in Human Evolution
Professor John Parkington (University of Cape Town): Innovative behaviour in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa - implications for modern human evolution.
(5.00pm, seminar room LCHES, Fitzwilliam St.)
All Welcome

5th February 2010:
Prof. Paul Sinclair (Professor of African Archaeology, Uppsala University) talking on “Towards an archaeology of Urban futures examples from Africa and West Asia”
(11-1.00 in the West Building Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology)

9th February 2010: CRASSH
Changing climates: a view from the planet, challenges on the ground: conversation with Professor Charles Kennel (Sustainability Solutions Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California San Diego)
2.30-4.00pm CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities)

9th February 2010: D Caucus Seminar Series
Dr Lucilla Burn (Keeper of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum): How do the Greek and Roman collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum and their display relate to the study of Classics?
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site)

12th February 2010: Ancient India and Iran Trust
Dr Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge): Lost rivers and life on the plains – human interaction with the environment in early Indian civilization
(5pm, Ancient India and Iran Trust, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge)

15th February 2010: Social Anthropology Research Associates Seminar
Charlotte Joy, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: The empty museum in Djenné: Reflections on UNESCO and World Heritage in Africa
(5.00-6.30pm, Department of Social Anthropology Seminar Room)
The seminars are followed by drinks and/or dinner at the Graduate Centre bar. All members of the university are welcome. Look forward to seeing you there! Jon Mair, Greg Delaplace & Liana Chua

16th February 2010: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Julia Smith (Glasgow: Leofric, Aethelstan and the Exeter Relic Collection
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

16th February 2010: D Caucus Seminar Series
Dr Andrew Burnett (Deputy Director, The British Museum): International issues and museums today
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site)

17th February 2010: LCHES SEMINAR IN HUMAN EVOLUTION
‘Exploring early hominin subsistence behaviour with agent-based modelling’
Professor Jeanne Sept, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University
(5pm, LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St)
All Welcome

19th February 2010: D Caucus seminar
Dr Elizabeth Fentress, Director of the American-Italian excavations on the Roman Imperial villa at Villamagna, Anagni, Italy, will give a presentation on “The Villa Magna project”
(4pm on Friday 19 February in Room G21*, Faculty of Classics
(*NB NOT 1.04)

23rd February 2010: D Caucus Seminar Series
Dr Roger Bland (Head of the Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, The British Museum): A license to loot or archaeological rescue? The Portable Antiquities Scheme in England and Wales
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site)

24th February 2010: BUSHNELL LECTURE Dr Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh (Denver Museum of Nature & Science)
PARKER’S PREDICAMENTS:LEGACIES OF THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST Drawing from his new book, Inheriting the Past: The Making of Arthur C. Parker and Indigenous Archaeology, Dr Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh will be speaking about the past and future relationship between archaeology and Indigenous peoples.

Dr Colwell-Chanthaphonh is a leading expert on archaeological ethics and Indigenous collaboration and museums. His work explores unique forms of multivocality, collaboration, and complex colonial histories that are largely unknown in Europe.
17.00 - 18.45 Mill Road Lecture Theatre 9 19.00 - 20.00 Drinks reception, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology RSVP Liz Haslemere, eh268@cam.ac.uk

2nd March 2010: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Petra Sijpesteijn (Leiden: Title TBC
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

2nd March 2010: D Caucus Seminar Series
Dr Timothy Potts (Director, The Fitzwilliam Museum): Museums and the preservation of archaeological heritage: past practice and future prospects
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site)

3rd March 2010: Peterhouse Theory Group 2009-2010
Dacia Viejo Rose: A loud silence: present absence in post-civil war Spain
(5.30pm, in the Music Room, Peterhouse)
Wine and light refreshments will be served during the discussion. Everyone is most welcome to attend.

3rd March 2010: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Paul Spoerry: Medieval building and settlement plans from excavations in Cambridgeshire
(7.30pm McDonald Institute seminar room)
All Welcome
Contact: Michael Coles, 01223-871403; Susan May 01223-843121 for more details)

9th March 2010: D Caucus seminar
Professor Filippo Coarelli: I Flavi e la nuova Urbs.
Filippo will speak in Italian, but make sure that there are enough prompts on the powerpoint in English for non-Italian speakers to follow the gist.
(4.30pm, Faculty of Classics, Room 1.04)

10th March 2010: LCHES SEMINAR IN HUMAN EVOLUTION
Professor William McGrew (Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge): Fifty years of wild chimpanzee tool use: where do we stand?
(5pm LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St.)
All Welcome

16th March 2010: World Oral Literature Occasional Lecture series
Hugh Brody: Land, Truth, Water: Finding the =Khomani Bushmen of the Southern Kalahari
(1pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact: Imogen Gunn, email ilg22@cam.ac.uk

16th March 2010: Meet the Curator, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
A special evening opening of the Assembling Bodies exhibition.
Dr Mark Elliott, one of the curators, will give a tour from 5pm.

12th-14th April 2010: Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh Conference at St John’s College, Cambridge
“Decoding Gilgamesh: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Babylonian Epic”
Speakers at the conference will include specialists in many different world literatures, from Babylonian to Medieval French, and from to Ancient Greek to Modern Korean.
There is no conference fee.
For details of the event and booking instructions
Contact: Martin Worthington, email mjw65@cam.ac.uk

12th-16th April 2010: The 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (7ICAANE)
The website is now online with details of congress themes, the call for papers, and workshop proposals. Please note that the deadline for the latter is December 2008.
Contact: Miss Helen Taylor, 7ICAANE Administrator,7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, London, 12th-16th April 2010
e-mail: admin@7icaane.org
website: www.7icaane.org

14th April 2010: CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD GROUP
Following the AGM
Dr John Alexander (CAFG President) will speak on “Heritage and Rescue Archaeology - an unauthorised view”
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute seminar room Downing Site (opposite the Archaeology & Anthropology Museum), Downing Street, Cambridge)
OPEN MEETING - ALL WELCOME

17th April 2010: Cambridge Antiquarian Society
Conference: PAST RELATIONS - different approaches to the dead over time
(Law Faculty, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge)
More info…

27th April 2010: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
John Blair (Queen's College, Oxford): Can we know anything about the beliefs of the laity in pre-Christian and early Christian England?
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

5th May 2010: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Angus Wainwright: Sutton Hoo - burial ground of the kings of East Anglia
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute seminar room, Downing Site)
Contact Michael Coles (C. 871403) or Susan May (C. 843121) for more detail
All Welcome

6th May 2010:Nautical Archaeology Society
This presentation will introduce the world of nautical archaeology: training; surveys of wrecks underwater and in the inter-tidal zone; unsolved questions relating to our maritime heritage; work of the Nautical Archaeology Society and how to get involved.

Speakers: Viv Hamilton & Simon Draper (Members of the Nautical Archaeology Board) hosted by CUUEG (Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group). It is aimed at scuba divers, but should be of interest to non-divers too; if you would be interested in learning to dive, you can talk to our committee members about joining next year's training group.

We will provide some refreshments for a small donation - please notify the chairman@cuueg.org.uk or RSVP on the facebook event page.
(7:30pm at the Graduate Union Lounge (off Silver Street)

7th-12th May 2010:Exhibition in honour of Sir David's Visit
EVERYONE IS INVITED to view the 'Exhibition in Honour of Sir David's Visit' which is on display in the foyer of the McDonald Institute until 12th May. We thank Alex Pryor, Steve Homent and Jocelyne Dudding for the photos. There are loads of stills available as souvenirs.
Transcription of Sir David's discussion

7th May 2010: World Oral Literature Project
Dr Nicholas Thieberger (University of Melbourne & University of Hawai'i at Manoa): Citing the Spoken Word: Adventures in Language and Cultural Documentation.
(1pm - 2.15pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street)
Contact: Imogen Gunn.
More info…

8th May 2010: British Rock Art Group Meeting
A series of short papers on the rock art of Britain, Europe, and beyond
(9.30am-5.30pm (tbc) McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact Jamie Hampson or Mark Sapwell.
Event poster (.pdf)

10th May 2010: Faculty of Classics
Tanja Seegler (Cologne): What's the use of a Greek sanctuary? The case of the sanctuary of Hera at Perachora
(5.15pm, Room G.21, Faculty of Classics)
All welcome

11th May 2010: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Gillian Clark (Bristol): Body and soul: asceticism and gender roles in late antiquity
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

19th May 2010: Fitzwilliam Museum
Objects of History: Special Evening Lecture with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, to be followed by a glass and wine and a chance to view the newly re-opened Greek and Roman gallery.
(18:00 to 20:00, Gallery 3)
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions, including Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum).
Please note that 30 free places are available for students on a first-come, first-served basis
More info

25th May 2010: Fitzwilliam Museum
Treasures from the Hermitage in St Petersburg
Meet the Hermitage's Curator of Antiquities, Dr Anna Trofimova, and enjoy a glass of wine in the Antiquities galleries: please see the link below for details and contact Anna Lloyd Griffiths, if you would like a FREE ticket
More info…

26th May 2010: Launch of Archaeological Review 25.2
The editorial team of the Archaeological Review from Cambridge cordially invite you to join them for the launch of the latest issue 25.2: "Violence and Conflict in the Material Record" (eds Skylar Neil and Belinda Crerar)
(4.30 on the lawn outside the archaeology department)
Contact: Russell O'Riagain (rmo31@cam.ac.uk)

7th June 2010: Cambridge Antiquarian Society
Richard Mortimer and Alex Pickstone: 'Further Excavations at the War Ditches, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge' (in association with the Prehistoric Society)
(6pm, Law Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site)
All Welcome

10th June 2010:
Prof. Luis Raposo (Director of the National Archaeology Museum of Portugal): " Innovation and tradition in the activity of the Portuguese National Museum of Archaeology, Lisbon, Portugal "

The National Museum holds the most important Portuguese archaeological collection, covering every historical period, from virtually all regions of the country. . As an archaeologist Luis Raposo's main area of interest is the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Iberia. He has published a number of books and many articles and texts. He is also the Director of "O Arqueólogo Português" the most important archaeological magazine of Portugal. For many years he wrote a column in one of Portugal's national newspapers the "Diário de Notícias" which was subsequently published as a book. He teaches at Universidade de Lisboa. (4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar room, followed by a reception with Portuguese Douro and Porto wines and cheese - the 10th of June is Portugal National day.)
Contact: Mila Simões de Abreu (mepsda2@cam.ac.uk).
Event poster (.pdf)

11th June 2010: The Entangled Ethnographer: Fortuitous Blunders and Other Unexpected Outcomes of Participant Observation
A workshop organised by the Modern China Group
Ethnograpic research is increasingly valued across the social sciences. Its growing cachet goes hand-in-hand with a movement towards reflexivity, as researchers cultivate an awareness of their role in creating rather than simply discovering evidence. But what of blunders, accidents, and other forms of personal involvement that are not always in the researcher's control -- how do these shape our findings? This workshop considers the “entanglements” at the heart of participant observation in the People's Republic of China, exploring the cultural and political conditions of ethnography in a state socialist setting.
(14:00-17:00 CRASSH)
There is not a fee for attendance but registration is necessary.

17th June 2010: Semisi Fetokai Potauaine Commonwealth Connections International Artist in Residence 2010
Introductory talk for TATAU: Symmetry, Harmony and Beauty
Semisi is a multi-media artist from Tonga. His background is in architecture. Now his work ranges from sculpture through graphic design to weaving and tattooing. In Tonga, the term Tatau has lots of meanings. It includes saying hello or goodbye; being an argument and a handshake; and tattooing. Semisi view these as intersected lines, and works with these concepts as lines that define their surrounding space or lines intersecting space to create harmony and beauty. Semisiís work responds through a range of media to this concept and practice and its reflection on the physical, mental, and social realms. Through exploring MAA's Tongan collections, Semisi will create multi-dimensional forms that will be displayed in the Maudslay Gallery over the summer months.
(13.30-14.30, Thursday 17 June 2010, Maudslay Gallery, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ)
More info…

17th June 2010: OPENING EVENTS

15.00-16.30 SAMOAN TATAU / GLOBAL CULTURE - a conversation with Mark Adams (Auckland), Michel Thieme (Amsterdam) and Nicholas Thomas (Cambridge)
16.30-17.00 TATAU: A JOURNEY 2005 film by Lisa Taouma, Auckland.
Venue: Lecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane, Cambridge
17.30-20.00 Opening of the TATAU exhibition and launch of TATAU: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK ADAMS. Introduced by Professor Elizabeth Edwards, University of the Arts, London.
Venue: MAA, Downing Street, Cambridge
More info…

15th July 2010: Invitation to Ceremony and Performance at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Tatau: Fenapasi `o e Fepaki
Symmetry: Mediation of Intersection
(5.30-7.00pm, Maudslay Gallery)

Semisi is a Tongan multi-media artist with a background in architecture. His work ranges from sculpture through weaving and tattooing to graphic design. Tongan Tatau - meaning symmetry - is the conflict and mediation of line and space intersection to create harmony and beauty. Semisi’s work responds through a range of media to this concept and practice and its reflection on the physical, mental, and social realms.
Through exploring MAA’s Tongan collections, Semisi has created multi-dimensional forms that will be displayed in the Maudslay Gallery over the summer months.
Semisi invite (.pdf)

16th July 2010: Magic Circle (postponed from 2 July)
Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, Cambridge
Monosi Raika (Sora elder, tribal India): How I led my people into Christianity sixty years ago and now have mixed feelings
(Interpreter: Piers Vitebsky .pdf)
(11.00-1.00, followed by pub lunch)

15th September to 31st October 2010: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Alana Jelinek
Tall Stories: Cannibal Forks
The Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology is pleased to present the second in a series of art exhibitions and interventions by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Creative Fellow, Alana Jelinek. The display explores ideas of story-telling and knowledge; the facts we choose to learn and recount about others.
Contact: Alana Jelinek, email aj374@cam.ac.uk
More info… (.pdf)

16th-17th September 2010: Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe – Two Decades On
A Symposium in Honour of Peter Spufford
Queens' College, Cambridge
More info… (.pdf)

17th-19th September 2010: British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO)
British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) at LCHES There will be sessions on ancient DNA, paleopathology, evolutionary anthropology, and an open session for other topics. If anyone is interested in presenting a paper or just coming along to listen, please see the conference details.

24th September 2010: Book Launch
Please join us for the launch of Viking Coinage and Currency in the British Isles by Mark Blackburn which is published by Spink as a Special Publication of the British Numismatic Society.

Mark Blackburn is Head of the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum and for more than three decades has been one of the leading authorities on the monetary history of Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia in the early Middle Ages. This volume brings together fourteen of his papers on the theme of Vikings and their currency in the British Isles, from the dual monetary and bullion economy that emerged after the Scandinavian raids and conquests of the ninth century, to the establishment of dynamic new coinages by Viking rulers.

The launch party is scheduled for 5.30 in rooms GR-04/5 on the ground floor of the English Faculty building on the Sidgwick site. To help with numbers for catering, please contact Dr Rory Naismith if you'd like to attend (email rn242@cam.ac.uk).

25th September 2010:
Chris Evans (Director, CAU): 'Girton's Cemetery in Context: The results of the Northwest Cambridge Archaeological Survey'
(2-3.00pm Fellows' Drawing Room, Girton College)
This will be the Friends of the Lawrence Room Inaugural Lecture. If you would like to attend please send a note to v.armstrong@girton.cam.ac.uk

3rd October 2010: CAU Archaeology Open Day
Trumpington Meadows Excavation
Site tours and display of finds
Access from Trumpington Park and Ride
Site Open 11am-4pm
Sensible footwear advised!

4th October 2010: World Oral Literature Project
The Digital Museum Project for the Languages and Cultures of Ryukyu:
The Case of Ikema Ryukyuan by Professor Yukinori Takubo, Kyoto University
(4pm - 5:15pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research)
All are welcome!
Contact Imogen Gunn (imogen.gunn@maa.cam.ac.uk)
More info…

6th October 2010: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Tom White: The lower and Upper Palaeolithic record of the east midland and fen basin
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute seminar room, Downing Site (opposite the Archaeology & Anthropology Museum), Downing Street, Cambridge

16th October 2010: 7th AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH DAY
Programme
(LCHES from 9.00am )
Those wishing to attend must register, and pay the registration fee online, or at the desk on the day (£6 for students; £12 others).
Registration is for attendance to the day's talks, and includes lunch and drinks.
REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 10:00 am, THURSDAY 14th OCTOBER

18th October 2010: World Oral Literature Project
Prof. Molly Andrews: Journeys into 'the heart of interpretation': Narrative, culture and meaning.
What are the implications of doing narrative research in communities of which one is not a member? Does this necessarily limit the quality of the data to be collected, or might there be some advantages in being considered an outsider, that is, one to whom entire stories must be explained, as nothing can be taken as obvious? This talk will consider how our cultural positioning, as it is perceived by ourselves and by those who we include in our research, feeds into the very heart of the projects we undertake. Molly Andrews is Professor of Sociology, and Co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, in London, England. Her research interests include the psychological basis of political commitment, psychological challenges posed by societies in transition to democracy, patriotism, conversations between generations, gender and aging, and counter-narratives.
(1.00-2.00pm, McDonald Institute seminar room) Contact: Imogen Gunn

19th October 2010: Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis
In the Wake of War workshop 4: "Places: Land, Landscapes, and Memoryscapes"
(13:00-17:30 McDonald Seminar Room )

Speakers:
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge and CRIC project); Wendy Pullan (Department of Architecture, Cambridge and Cities in Conflict project); Lisa Smirl (International Relations, School of Global Studies, Sussex); Roger O’Keefe (Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge), and with Paola Filippucci (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) as respondent.
The event is free and open to all but please register in advance with the conveners.
The conveners of the workshop series are:
Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose (dv230@cam.ac.uk) and Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney (nm277@cam.ac.uk).
Schedule (.pdf)
Event poster (.pdf)

19th October 2010: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Prof. Sir John Boardman (Oxford): Greeks going East
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
Contact: Sarah Sheldrick

20th October 2010: LCHES Seminar in Human Evolution
Talk by Michael Dunn (Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) entitled 'Language diversification under contact'
(5pm, LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge )
Michael Dunn is an evolutionary linguist,with a background in language description, linguistic typology, and phylogenetics.

21st October 2010: Medieval Encounters
Dr Edward Wickham (Cambridge) and singers: The Secret Life of a Medieval Singer Performance and lecture
(1.00-2.00pm, Ramsden Room, St Catherine's College)

23nd October 2010: FESTIVAL OF IDEAS
Archaeology events take place at CAU on Storey's Way this Saturday 23rd October and at Girton focussing on the Lawrence Room collections and the archaeological history of Girton.
These are suitable for all ages from 5 upwards.
More info…

26th October 2010: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Dr Gill Shepherd (Birmingham): Hybridity and Hierarchy: Greeks and Sikels in Archaic Sicily
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
Contact: Sarah Sheldrick

27th October 2010: Egyptian World Seminar
Prof. Izumi Takamiya (Kinki University, Japan; Visiting Scholar at the McDonald Institute): Heating Installations at Predynastic Hierakonpolis: Breweries?
(5.00-6.00pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)

27th October 2010: LCHES seminar series
Alwyn Scally
Sanger Institute, Hinxton
The Gorilla Genome Project and some insights into the speciation of the great apes
(5.00pm LCHES Seminar room)
All Welcome

2nd November 2010: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Dr Alan Greaves (Liverpool): Ionian Art and Identity
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
Contact: Sarah Sheldrick

3rd November 2010: Indo-European Seminar
Dr Phillipa Steele: Writing in Bronze Age Cyprus
(4.30pm, Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics) Tea served from 4.15pm
Contact James Clackson, T. Meissner.

3rd November 2010: Special Evening Opening at MAA
Last chance to see Assembling Bodies exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Special evening opening 4.30-9.00pm
Event postger (.pdf)

3rd November 2010: LCHES seminar series
Mary Stiner and Steve Kuhn
University of Arizona, Tucson
Hearth-side socioeconomics, hunting and paleoecology during the late Lower Paleolithic at Qesem Cave, Israel and Mode 2.5? Technological diversity in the eastern Mediterranean from MIS 7-11
(5.00pm LCHES Seminar room)
All Welcome

3rd November 2010: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Dr Kenneth McNamara: The Star-crossed Stone: the Archaeology and Mythology of Fossil Sea Urchins
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
All Welcome

8th November 2010: Medieval Encounters
Prof. John Arnold (history, Birkbeck College London) and Dr Caroline Goodson (archaeology, Birkbeck College London): Resounding community: the history and meanings of medieval church bells
(1.00-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street)

9th November 2010: THE BOOK PEOPLE
The Book People are making their annual visit to the McDonald on Tuesday 9th November from 10.00am-3.00pm. A great opportunity to buy top quality, popular children's and adults books at huge discounts of between 50-75% off normal prices!
(10am-3pm McDonald Seminar Room)

9th November 2010: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Dr Corinna Riva (London): Exchange networks beyond urban centres across Central Italy
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
Contact: Sarah Sheldrick

16th November 2010: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Dr Mark Bradley (Nottingham): Obesity, corpulence and emaciation in Roman Art
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
Contact: Sarah Sheldrick

17th November 2010: Indo-European Seminar
Speaker tbc: The IE Influence on Modern Semitic Languages
(4.30pm, Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics) Tea served from 4.15pm
Contact James Clackson, T. Meissner.

17th November 2010: LCHES seminar series
Richard Wrangham
Harvard University
War in chimpanzees, hunter-gatherers and complex societies
(5.00pm LCHES Seminar room)
All Welcome

18th November 2010: Archaeological Field Club
BAKE SALE FOR CHILDREN IN NEED
In the McDonald coffee room from 1pm.
Baking is a great way to raise money for BBC Children in Need and if you'd like to donate something to the bake sale you would be very welcome.
Contact Emily Dixon if you'd like to make a contribution

22nd November 2010: Private View
An exhibition of portraits in oil on canvas, watercolours and drawings
(Private view 5.30pm-7.00pm, McDonald Institute lobby and coffee room; wine and nibbles, all welcome)
Tonko Rajkovaca: SOME PEOPLE AND THE REST
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23rd November 2010: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Prof. Andrea Carandini (Rome): the house of Augustus on the Palatine and Roman power houses
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
Contact: Sarah Sheldrick

24th November 2010: LCHES seminar series
Marta Mirazón Lahr
LCHES, University of Cambridge
Later human evolution in eastern Africa: recent research at Lake Turkana, Kenya
(5.00pm LCHES Seminar room)
All Welcome

30th November 2010: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Dr Marion Boos (Darmstadt): The role of tutelary deities in the Roman Republic
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
Contact: Sarah Sheldrick

1st December 2010: Indo-European Seminar
Georg Gerleigner: Images and letters: the colourful world of painted Greek vase-inscriptions
(4.30pm, Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics) Tea served from 4.15pm
Contact James Clackson, T. Meissner.

1st December 2010: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Dr Paul Spoerry: Langley Abbey and Medieval Broadland
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)
Open meeting - all welcome!
Contact Michael Coles (C. 871403) or Susan May (C. 843121) for more details

13th December 2010: Cambridge Americas Group
The lithics of Lagoa Santa: a study on the technological organization of hunter-gatherers from Central Brazil: Francisco Antonio Pugliese Junior University of Sao Paulo/National Institute of Historical and Artistic Patrimony
(4.30 pm McDonald Institute seminar room, reception to follow)

14th December 2010: Archaeological Review from Cambridge
Launch to celebrate the latest edition, "Boundaries and Archaeology: Connective Physical and Social Frontiers", edited by Mark Sapwell and Victoria Pía Spry-Marqués.
(6.00pm in the McDonald coffee room)
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