Archaeology, Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Seminar, 30 August
Dr Stanley Serafin | UNSW “Bioarchaeological insights into the Classic to Postclassic transformation of Mayan civilisation” Abstract TBC ……… The Department of Archaeology hosts a lively departmental research seminar series. Everyone is welcome to attend. Where Seminars are held in the Refectory from 4-5pm, and are followed by drinks and discussion. Refectory H113 Quadrangle A14 Click …
Archaeology, Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Seminar, 23 August
Dr Patrick Faulkner | The University of Sydney “Intertidal foraging and historical ecology in the Mafia Archipelago, eastern Africa” Abstract Research into the timing and nature of human impacts on coastal and island ecosystems is becoming a key area of archaeological research, particularly when embedded within an historical ecology framework. As a part of this …
Archaeology, Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Seminar, 16 August
Dr Sarah Kelloway | The University of Sydney “International Pots of Mystery: using PXRF spectroscopy to provenance botijas from 16th century sites on Peru’s north coast” Abstract Botijas/olive jars are one of the most ubiquitous types of ceramic found at Spanish colonial archaeological sites across the New World. Large, coarse and wheel-made, these ceramic storage …
NEAF Public Lecture Series | 21 August 2019
NEAF Public Lecture Series Wednesday 21 August 2019 Dr Amanda Dusting, The University of New England Darband-i Rania: Gateway to the Zagros Located at the northeast corner of Lake Dokan in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Darband-i Rania pass through the Zagros from Mesopotamia to Persia has been a central location through the millennia. The Darband-i Rania …
Pella @ 40 Conference | 19-20 July 2019
Pella @ 40 A 2-day celebration of 40 years of fieldwork and research at Pella in Jordan The University of Sydney’s Pella Excavation Project celebrates forty years of fieldwork in 2019. It is the longest running and arguably the most influential Near Eastern archaeological project in Australia’s post-war history. More than 20 PhD theses and …
The Wood Memorial Lecture, Thursday 26 September 2019
A biennial lecture in Australian history at the University of Sydney Professor Jane Lydon | Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia “Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy” Abstract What does empire have to do with emotion? This lecture explores the place of empathy in relationships between Britain, her Australasian colonies …
NEAF Public Lecture Series | 26 June 2019
NEAF Public Lecture Series Wednesday 26 June 2019 Dr Jamie Fraser, Nicholson Museum Beneath the Wings of the Thunderbird: Excavating Tello in Southern Iraq When Frenchman Ernest de Sarzec started digging at the dusty mount of Tello in 1877, he discovered extraordinary remains from the long-forgotten Sumerian civilisation that flourished in southern Iraq in the …
Jo McDonald: 2019 Tom Austen Brown Lecture
2019 Tom Austen Brown Lecture | Jo McDonald, Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at the University of Western Australia “From the desert to the sea: symbolic transformations in the human journey in Australia’s north- west” Abstract The last decade has seen a revolution in understanding how and when Australia was …
NEAF Public Lecture Series | 29 May 2019
NEAF Public Lecture Series Wednesday 29 May 2019 Shana Zaia, University of Vienna Noble Neighbours: Life in Imperial Cities of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 6,000 years ago, the first city in the world was born: Uruk, located in the southern part of what is now Iraq. From that point onwards, cities were the centres of civilization …
Classical Heritage and the Story of Sydney Forum II
Classical Heritage Forum II: Language and Learning Our next Classical Heritage Forum turns to the place of Classics in NSW secondary schools. We’ll explore the changing nature of pedagogy in the Classics from the early days of the colony to the present, both within and beyond formal schooling. We’ll also examine the shifting history of …