Super Review of 1001 Nights in the Colony
Lecture/seminar
This seminar will take a different format. The idea behind a super review is to provide HDR students and ECRs with some insights into how a review conversation can be productive and exciting, and leads to stronger work, with the added bonus of making the audience aware of the manuscript, hopefully,…
'Marlow’s plays & poems are totally vanished’: Charles Lamb’s recuperation of Christopher Marlowe in "Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakspeare" (1808).
Lecture/seminar
In 1804 Charles Lamb wrote to William Wordsworth that old editions of the plays and poems of Christopher Marlowe were now unobtainable: they had ‘totally vanished’1. In his anthology of extracts from the work of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808), Lamb included…
Ritual Places, Ancestral Knowledge, and the Archaeological History of the Torres Strait Meriam Dauareb People
Seminar
In Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992), Meriam plaintiffs claimed that they had “continuously inhabited and exclusively possessed” the Murray Islands since “time immemorial”. These claims were subsequently supported by the findings of Justice Moynihan and became an evidentiary basis for the Australian…
Haunting Futures. Time, Affect and Crisis in Iceland
Lecture/seminar
The seminar engages with ethnographic exploration of how the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising state with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Iceland, I will show how the complex relationships of the past and…
CHMS HDR Conference 2026: Research, Professional Development and Career Pathways
Conference
The CHMS HDR Conference brings together Confirmation of Candidature (CoC) and Final Presentation candidates with museum professionals, alumni and researchers. The conference supports candidature milestones while strengthening professional development, interdisciplinary exchange and career…
What Counts as Museum Research? Insights from ASSEMBLY's National Conversations
Seminar
ASSEMBLY is a national collaborative initiative exploring how museums and galleries can better value, enable and practise collaborative research in changing public contexts. Over the past two years, the project has convened national and local conversations, workshops and collaborative inquiry…
More than Bare Bones: Reconstructing the Lives of Egypt's Silent Majority. A Paleodemographic Framework for Ancient Egypt
Seminar
Ancient Egypt has left one of the richest archaeological records of the ancient world, yet the lives of most Egyptians remain surprisingly difficult to reconstruct. While thousands of non-royal skeletons have been excavated over the past century, the data is dispersed across excavation reports,…