This group is open to anyone interested in archaeological and anthropological research projects throughout the Americas. Presentations are given by research students, postdocs, visiting scholars and lecturers from the UK and overseas institutions
The Americas Archaeology Group is funded by the Centre for Latin American Studies. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.
The Multidimensional Dialogues (MD)Research Network is an exciting new research series that will run during 2022-23, sponsored by the Cambridge Research in Arts Social Sciences and History (CRASSH) and the Americas Archaeology Group at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology. Our network is working towards strengthening world-class scholarship on the study of the Americas. Please see our CRASSH research network landing page Multi-Dimensional Dialogues: Entangling the Americas’ Pasts, Presents and Futures - CRASSH (cam.ac.uk) for more information.
The Americas Archaeology Group organisers are Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas, Camila Alday, Jasmine Vieri, Chike Pilgrim, Oliver Antczak, and Joshua Fitzgerald.
Events In This Series For This Academic Year
| Session Name | Date | Event speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Roundtable: Entanglements in current end-gendered pasts discourse in the Americas | Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 - 16:30 to 18:00 | Americas Archaeology and Multidimensional Dialogues Community |
| Rethinking gender and female bodies in archaeological praxis | Wednesday, 1 November, 2023 - 16:00 to 18:00 | Beatriz Marin-Aguilera (Liverpool); Francisca Moya (Barcelona) |
| Indigenous and African-descended Women, Alcohol, and the Material Culture of Political Power in the early modern Leeward Islands | Wednesday, 15 November, 2023 - 16:00 to 18:00 | Lila O’Leary Chambers (University of Cambridge) |
| Patrimonialising the ‘mestizo gaze’: cultural heritage (patrimonio cultural), ‘race’, and gender in Mexico | Wednesday, 29 November, 2023 - 16:00 to 18:00 | Abeyami Ortega (University of Manchester) |
| Reintroducing native cottons of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia: lessons learned and future horizons | Wednesday, 17 January, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00 | Santiago Giraldo (World Monuments Fund) |
| Film and Q&A session in collaboration with the Egyptian World Seminar Series: Film: From Sudan to Argentina | Wednesday, 24 January, 2024 - 16:00 to 18:00 | Ricardo Preve (Filmmaker, photographer, and activist) |
| Looking at Andean South America from new lenses: Inka Architecture & Asymmetrical codependencies | Wednesday, 14 February, 2024 - 16:00 to 18:00 | Prof. Bil Sillar (University College London) and Christian Mader (University of Bonn) |
| Between Créolité and Indigeneity: Social movements for reviving French and Creole in Louisiana | Wednesday, 21 February, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00 | Oliver Mayeux (JRF, Trinity College, Cambridge) |
| The River Flow Memory Book Project: integrating local and academic knowledge to study human/rivers entanglement in central Nicaragua | Wednesday, 6 March, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00 | Irene Torregianni (University of Oxford) |
| Wari People: Fiction and personal memoir as a way to tell local stories | Tuesday, 12 March, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00 | Prof. Aparecida Vilaça (Simón Bolívar Chair, CLAS, Cambridge) |
| Artistic Responses and Digital Curations: Connecting to Mexico's Gaming History with 'Re-Imagining Coyote' at MAA | Wednesday, 1 May, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:30 | Dr Joshua Fitzgerald (Churchill College); Julian Escott (CSVPA); Adrián Eliel Gamboa Ruiz (CSVPA) |
| Community archaeology and museology in a context of conflict: Santa María de la Antigua del Darién, Chocó (Colombia) | Wednesday, 8 May, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:30 | Alberto Sarcina (Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia) |
| New challenges and renewed paths for curatorial practices with Latin American collections and local communities | Wednesday, 15 May, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:30 | Danny Zborover and Louise de Mello (SDCELAR/British Museum) |
| RESCHEDULED Michaelmas 2024 [Threads of knowledge and power: engaging with khipus in ethnologic museums and in Andean communities] | Wednesday, 22 May, 2024 - 00:00 to 00:30 | Moved to Michaelmas Term [Lucrezia Milillo (University of St Andrews)] |
| Community Heritage and Sustainability in Scotland, Latin America and the Caribbean | Wednesday, 29 May, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:30 | Karen Brown (University of St Andrews) |
| Expansive Museality. Camila Caris Seguel in conversation with Sebastián Eduardo Dávila on Museo del Mundo and the Garífuna Nation | Wednesday, 5 June, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:30 | Camila Caris Seguel (Museo del Mundo); Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (University of Cambridge) |
| Repatriation work and international collections: collaborations and curation | Wednesday, 12 June, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:30 | Trish Biers (Duckworth Laboratory) |
