McDONALD INSTITUTE for Archaeological Research

6th January 2012: World Oral Literature Project Seminar
by Stephen Pax Leonard (Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Scott Polar Research Institute)
The Oral Traditions of the Inugguit of North-West Greenland
Dr Stephen Pax Leonard is a research fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and research associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute. He has carried out both linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in Iceland and the Faroe Islands and has become particularly interested in aspects of dialect formation, the role of identity in small language communities as well as language revitalisation and more generally endangered languages and cultures in the Arctic and elsewhere. He has recently started a new project, documenting and researching the endangered oral traditions, verbal behaviour and communicative practices of the Inughuit people in north-west Greenland.
(4.00pm, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site, Cambridge)
Contact Claire Wheeler or Mark Turin

11th January 2012: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Michael Coles (CAFG Field Officer): Excavation at Wimpole Hall and Field Work in 2011
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Open Meeting - All Welcome
Contact Michael Coles (C. 871403) or Susan May (C. 843121) for more details on other group activities

23rd January 2012: ASNC Graduate Seminars
Juan Luís Garcia Alonso (Salamanca): Celtic in Spain
(5-6 pm, G-R06/07 Faculty of English, 9 West Road)

24th January 2012: The Phillipe Wiener Lecture
The Fondation Wiener Anspach, St John's College and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research have the pleasure of inviting you to the Philippe Wiener lecture which will be delivered by Professor Didier Viviers, Professor of Ancient Greek History and Rector of the Université libre de Bruxelles (see poster .pdf): Mind the Gap! Funerary practices in Ancient Crete: New Archaeological Evidence from Itanos.
(4:30pm McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street, Cambridge)

24th January 2012: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar (CRASSH)
Dr Charles West (Sheffield): Kings, Franks and Pseudo-Isidore: Problems of Lordship in Late Ninth-Century Frankia
(5-7 pm, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road)

28th January 2012: Book Sale
Anne Taylor, formerly Curatorial Assistant for Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, is holding a sale of books on Archaeology and Anthropology. Prices from 10p to £95 (for rare antiquarian books), with most in the region of £1 to £5.
(10.00 to 1.00pm, Division of Archaeology Common Room )

31st January 2012: D Caucus Seminar
Dr Olivia Kelley (Sidney): Communal versus Individual: the role of Identity in the burials of Peucetia (central Puglia)
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics )
All Welcome

1st February 2012: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Robert Harding: Spiceworld: A Medieval Port of Trade on the Malabar Coast
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)
All welcome
Contact Michael Coles (C. 871403) or Susan May (843121) for more detail

7th February 2012: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar (CRASSH)
Dr Luke Lavan (Kent): The Late Antique City: Models of Change
(5-7 pm, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road)

14th February 2012: D Caucus Seminar
Nick Soderberg (Faculty of Classics): Cretan Palaces: Innovation or Emulation
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics )
All Welcome

21st February 2012: D Caucus Seminar
Letizia Ceccarelli (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology): The sacra of nomen Latinum: new discoveries from the sanctuaries of Ardea
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics )
All Welcome

21st February 2012: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar (CRASSH)
Dr Roger Collins (Edinburgh): Oh, Let us never, never doubt: The Churches of Early Medieval Spain before, during and after the Arab Conquest
(5-7 pm, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road)

22nd February 2012: Art Fund in Cambridgeshire Open Lecture
Sally-Ann Ashton (Senior Assistant Keeper, Department of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum): A Captive Audience? The impact of accessing Egyptian art and material culture in prisons
7.30pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre off Bene't Street, Cambridge (through the yard of the Eagle pub), wine reception to follow
Tickets: £12 (Students £6)
Tickets on the door or contact 01223-300887
The lecture is open to anyone who would like to come whether or not they are Art Fund members and we are happy to let students come for half price.
More info see attached poster

24th February 2012: ASNC Seminars
Dr Levi Roach (St John's College, Cambridge): 'Penitential kingship: a millennial phenomenon?'
(5-6 pm, G-R06, Faculty of English, 9 West Road)

25th February 2012: The Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic
Event details.

27th February 2012: ASNC Graduate Seminars
Dr Alban Gautier (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale) 'Seneschals and butlers in Anglo-Saxon royal courts'
(5-6 pm, G-R06,Faculty of English, 9 West Road)

28th February 2012: D Caucus Seminar
Simon Keay (Southampton): The Portus Navalia
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics )
All Welcome

1st March 2012: Magdalene Festival of the Image
Conversation IX: The Forgotten Images of Europe Classical images of Europe abound in museums and throughout western art. But what of Europe before or beyond Greek and Roman influence? In this conversation, we bring together a unique group of scholars to examine what images meant to other European cultures, such as the Etruscans, the Alpine Iron Age and the peoples of pre-historic Malta. Dr Reuben Grima (University of Malta), Dr Vedia Izzet (University of Southampton) and Katharina Rebay (University of Leicester) will speak .
(5.00 pm Cripps Theatre, Magdalene College)

5th March 2012: World Oral Literature Project
Professor Ursula Baumgardt and Marie Lorin: The Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages
The Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages (ELLAF) project focuses on oral and written literature in African languages. The ELLAF project proposes the creation of a website presenting and analysing literary texts in African languages, in order to make a wide range of these written or oral texts, in Sub-Saharan African and Malagasy languages, available to enthusiasts, students and specialists from around the world. The project aims to build up a research database based on literary works produced in their original languages, translated into French and/or English and presented in their linguistic, social and cultural contexts.The website signifies the creation of new tools for presenting and analysing textual data, centred on written/oral African literature in African languages regardless of their sociolinguistic status. This presentation favours research through various fields (language, author, literary genre, predefined keyword and/or full text keyword) using a cross-disciplinary and comparative method. It provides access to, for example: every text from a particular literature, the same genre found in several literatures, one theme in several literatures, a figurative element in several genres, notional degrees not necessarily made explicit by lexical occurrences. The material available here is ready for teaching straight away in regards to the transmission of factual knowledge: presentation of a language, overview of literature, contextualisation of literary production, bibliographic data. Furthermore, the bringing together of oral and written literary texts is not only of interest in a practical and documentary sense, but equally from a theoretical point of view.
(5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

15th March 2012: (NB: 5.30pm START) D Caucus Seminar
SPECIAL LECTURE TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF THE MUNICH EXCHANGE
Rolf Schneider (Munich):The Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria: classical ideals and Afrikaner ideologies
(5.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics )
All Welcome

28th-29th April 2012: Art Through Millennia: Cambridge Art and Archaeology Workshop
The first Cambridge Art and Archaeology workshop invites presentations on research and ideas involving prehistoric, historic and contemporary art. The workshop aims to stimulate lasting discussion considering how existing understandings of contemporary art influence the way we view and interpret the visual culture of the past. Further, we welcome submissions which explore new and diverse approaches to the study of prehistoric art. There will be three sessions over the course of the weekend and we invite submissions for all: Art and Process
Contemporary Art and Archaeology
New Approaches to Prehistoric Art
Presentation abstracts for submission should be no longer than 400 words and sent to Jessica Cooney and Sarah Evans or Mark Sapwell by the 16th March. Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge
For more information, please visit our website. Call for Papers

28th April 2012: Cambridge Heritage Seminar
The Annual Cambridge Heritage Seminar brings together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to explore the most pressing issues in Heritage Studies today. For the 13th Annual Cambridge Heritage Seminar, we welcome back distinguished Cambridge Alumni who will speak at this one day event of lectures, panel discussions and seminars, reflecting on their personal contributions to Heritage Studies, and the emergence and trajectory of Heritage as a discipline. Our intention is to weave together an image of the evolution of the heritage field and its stories in the making. Venue: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site, University of Cambridge Please see invitation and poster for details. For more information and registration please visit the 13th Cambridge Heritage Seminar website
The deadline for registration is Friday 25 February 2012.
Invitation
Event poster

7th September 2012:
Fourth meeting of the Ancient Egyptian Language and Text Workshop
The purpose of this all-day workshop is to bring together text-based researchers in Egyptology in the UK and to provide a forum for sharing and discussing ideas, problems and issues. The intention is to highlight work in progress: we do not aim to publish papers from the workshop, but to provide an opportunity for colleagues to present their research at a working stage with publication taking place elsewhere. For more information please see the workshop website. Registration is free but space is limited, so please email contacts below if you would like to attend.
Contacts: Sian Thomas and Amy Bahe.

21st to 23rd September 2012: African Conference
African Conference.

21st to 23rd September 2012: Gardening Time
Reflections on Memory, Monuments and History in Sardinia and Scotland.

29th-30th September 2012:
Workshop/Seminar on Chronology of the migration period
Details tba
Contact: Catherine Hills