The Garrod Research Seminar Series is the Department of Archaeology’s principal seminar series of invited scholarly lectures. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Bodies, People, and Persons: Identity in Conversation with Intersectionality and Beyond 

Traditionally, archaeologists have broken down identity into core components that are analysed as individual facets, such as sex/gender, age, and class. Across numerous subdisciplines, however, scholars have highlighted that identity, and people's experiences in the world, is neither singular nor reducible, but instead a simultaneous persistent negotiation of historical, biological, cultural, and political forces. Recent archaeological approaches to identity have sought to destabilise fixed notions of singularity and instead incorporate and challenge our perception of identity as an ever moving, ever changing, deeply cultural and historical experience. 

This series will feature current research from leading scholars in archaeology, anthropology, biological anthropology, primatology and heritage studies to promote updated perspectives on identity from across the subdisciplines of our field. From intersectionality to post-humanism, the current symposium brings together recent approaches to the archaeology of identities that confront how we interpret bodies, people, and persons in the past. 

Talks will be held in the McDonald Seminar Room from 4pm-5:30pm (GMT), followed by a drinks reception. 

This series is organised by Dr. Jess Thompson (jet71) & Taylor Peacock (tmp38)