A new PhD-led research group examining the historical and contemporary intersections between archaeology, museums and collections.
Speaker events are free and open to all and will take place at 6pm in the Virginia Woolf Building, Room 6.01, King’s College London, 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6LE
Speaker Programme
17th September 2018
Naomi Daw, PhD Student, University of Sussex
Walk Like An Egyptian: Stereoscopic Photography and British Travel to Egypt
8th October 2018
Alexandra Jones, Curator, V&A Museum
Maqdala 1868: Ethiopian Treasures at the V&A
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5th November 2018
Dr Eleanor Dobson, Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature, University of Birmingham
Gothic Histories: Howard Carter and The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amun
3rd December 2018
Nicole Cochrane, PhD Student, University of Hull
Ancient Sculpture and the Narrative of Collecting: Legacy and Identity in Museum Display
28th January 2019
Dr Rebecca Wade, Assistant Curator for Sculpture, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds
Domenico Brucciani and the Formation of Museums of Classical Archaeology
18th February 2019
Dr Emma Payne, King’s College London
Plaster Casts, Restoration, and the Interpretation of Classical Sculpture
March 2019 (date TBC)
Alice Procter, Independent Tour Guide
Museums and Decolonisation
April 2019 (date TBC)
Dr Amara Thornton, Honorary Research Associate, UCL
Scripting Spadework: Publishing Archaeology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
We are grateful to the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) and The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King’s College London for sponsoring our seminar series. For more information please visit our blog: https://exploringarchaeologyseminar.blogspot.com/
The Victorianist: BAVS Postgraduates 
Reblogged this on The Heritage Girl and commented:
If you’re able to make the rest of the ‘Exploring the Institutionalisation of Archaeology’ seminar series, please do. There are some really fascinating talks lined up, and I’m glad to have been involved in it.