Only Collections In The Building

Happy International Women's Day (IWD) from us all at the UCL Institute of Archaeology - I met with Dr Corinna Riva (Corinna Riva - Associate Professor in Mediterranean Archaaeology) on Friday 5th March, so this is pre recorded for IWD today. Corinna and I chatted about life at the IoA, life in London, Corinna's research and the importance of excellent female role models in our lives - we celebrate key Women in Corinna's life as part of this podcast. 

We also chat about her book 'A Short History of the Etruscans' 
https://www.waterstones.com/book/a-short-history-of-the-etruscans/corinna-riva/9781780766157 


https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/corinna-riva-associate-professor-mediterranean-archaeology

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Dr Corinna Riva

Today i met (virtually across the London postcodes) my colleague Dr Claudia Naeser.  Claudia and I chatted her life working on Egyptian Archaeology, her research and excavations in Sudan, working with undergraduates, taking more time to walk our dogs and swim in the River Thames (Claudia, not me!) and to praise the amazing Libraries - especially the IoA Library and Dr Katie Meheux. 

Dr Claudia Näser is Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology, Deputy Departmental Tutor & Editor-in-chief Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Dr Claudia Naeser

Trigger Warning: discussions of death from the beginning of the podcast and throughout. 

For today's Women's History Month podast I had the great pleasure of chatting death, bones & cross stitch with PhD student Marion Davidson.  We also discussed Marion's background in dance (in New York) and her amazing research, and commitment to getting staff and students undetaking yoga on Teams during lockdown. 


Marion Davidson is current PhD candidate in Forensic Anthropology at UCL. With an interdisciplinary approach, she is a student at both the Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Security and Crime Science. Her research interests include ancestry estimation, 3D virtual bone models, the role of the expert, decision-making, and cognitive bias. Outside of academia, she likes to dance, read, watch horror movies, cuddle with her cat, and cross-stitch inappropriate words.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/marion-davidson

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Marion Davidson

After a short break i am back with two (yes two) new podcasts today to celebrate Women's History Month.  Firstly i met with Dr Rachael Sparks on Friday (someone i always bump into outside my office to chat music / history of the IoA etc. and this podcast felt just like that!). Rachael and I chat the history of archaeology, music, serendipity, life at the IoA and stuff we have missed this year.  Plus, a love of Dame Kathleen Kenyon. 

Rachael is Associate Professor & keeper of museum collections in the IoA.  https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/rachael-sparks-associate-professorkeeper-museum-collections 

Below we have links to Kenyon and how you can help to save some of London's finest music venues. 

Kathleen Kenyon

https://trowelblazers.com/kathleen-mary-kenyon-dbe-the-legend/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Kenyon

Buried Treasure: Walls of Jericho. BBC film made during one of Kenyon's field seasons

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01819yv/buried-treasure-the-walls-of-jericho

Help save the Lexington (Live music venue in Islington)
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/help-the-lexington-survive-until-march-savethe30  

Save the Black Heart (live music venue in Camden)
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/savetheblackheart

Can't remember what that band played last time you saw them? Look them up on https://www.setlist.fm/ . I'm a frequent contributor. According to them, I saw 66 bands in 2019. In 2020, I only managed to fit in only 12 before lockdown.

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Dr Rachael Sparks

A small gap in the proceedings, but back today with a flurry of Women's History Month Podcasts, we start the day with Dr Sarah Stark, one of the most recent additions to the UCL IoA family, and a human i am yet to meet anywhere other than online (very excited about the prospect of meeting IRL very soon!). Sarah and I chatted about her background and winding road to Bioarchaeology - we find out, again, how small the Archaeology world is, and a shared love of space and lego (& the link between my 'Women of Space Lego' and Sarah's inspirational woman).  

Dr Sarah Stark is an Associate Lecturer in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Dr Sarah Stark

'Historians of Archaeology' podcast 5: Dr Amara Thornton, IoA alum, Hon Research Associate, and Coordinator of the IoA History of Archaeology Network, interviews researchers in this exciting new series!

Today Amara interviews Dr Debbie Challis is Education and Outreach officer at the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE Library). She runs the public engagement programme of events and other activities around the special collections, including the Women's Library collection. (https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/people/debbie-challis)

Historians of Archaeology - Dr Amara Thornton Interviews Dr Debbie Challis

In the first of a new series of Parkaeology Podcasts Charlotte Frearson (UCL Institute of Archaeology) meets alumni, staff and students to chat all things Archaeology, Heritage and where these subjects have taken people! Today we meet Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022 - 2024 (and UCL IoA Alum 1999-2002) Joseph Coelho. 

Joseph Coelho is a multi-award winning children’s author and playwright. He writes across several mediums for children including stage plays, picture books, non-fiction and middle grade. His latest ‘Story told in poems’ The Girl Who Became A Tree’ was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and received a special mention from the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2021. His latest stage play The Wishing Tree recently finished a run at the Little Angel Theatre in London. He wrote and presented ‘Teach Poetry’ - a 10-part BBC online series that aims to make the writing of poetry fun and accessible to all and is the Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022 - 2024.

Find out more about the Poetry Prompts here… www.booktrust.org.uk/poetryprompts

Parkaeology with Joseph Coelho UCL IoA Alum and Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022 - 2024

William Carruthers is a historian of archaeology, heritage, and decolonisation. He holds an AHRC-funded PhD (2014) in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and trained in archaeology (BA and MA) at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Will is the author of Flooded Pasts (Cornell University Press, 2022) and an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia.https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501766442/flooded-pasts/#bookTabs=1

Historians of Archaeology - Dr Amara Thornton Interviews Dr William Carruthers

The first podcast of 2023 (recorded in 2022 - all references to open days etc. are from December - please email Charlotte c.frearson@ucl.ac.uk for up to date information).

Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp is recently appointed Associate Professor in Heritage at UCL’s Institute of Archeology. Prior to this, she was Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum, Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, and has over 10 years of experience working in museums. The focus of her museum practice is opening up museum collections to community-led research and projects. Her research explores mid-century museum practice, and its intersection with colonialism, as well as the colonial history and inheritance of milk and dairy.

Parkaeology with Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp

Only Collections in The Building is a podcast series by researcher and museum activist Heba Abd el Gawad, and Associate Professor Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, as part of UCL’s Institute of Archaeology AHRC funded Mobilising Collections for Institutional Change: Egypt at the Horniman’ project.
 
Activists, artists, and indigenous practitioners are being invited to intervene in or disrupt museum spaces with the aim to bring change. But meaningful collaboration relies on much larger structural or professional changes that they rarely have the power to implement.
 
There is so much talk about museums, decolonisation, and social justice, but very little that is grounded in the day-to-day work of structural change and how it impacts the people who are relied on to implement it. It is in this everyday work that relationships can breakdown. Rather than having a breakdown, we will ask what it means in practice to put people before collections by sharing our experience working together on All Eyes on Her! (https://www.horniman.ac.uk/project/all-eyes-on-her/), a community-collaborative exhibition at the Horniman.
 
This series is produced by Maria Christodoulou, creator of From Root to Vine.
 
Episode 1 uses a packet of scarf pins from the 1990s to explore how everyday resistance is hidden through museum practice.

Episode 1: Unpinning Colonialism "Only Collections in the Building"

Only Collections in the Building Episode 2: I don’t accept Horniman’s gift.

What does it mean to be generous, when that generosity is built on the exploitation of others?

In this episode we explore the limits of good intentions and how inherited stories of public generosity impact on our ability to tell truthful histories in the present.

The Horniman in South London takes its name from Frederick Horniman, a liberal MP, abolitionist and a Quaker. He is a man remembered in the Horniman’s institutional aims for his founding gift to the people of London in 1901. Horniman’s gift included his collections, a considerable plot of land, and money to build a new Museum that would “bring the world to forest hill”. 

But this world was a colonial one, and Horniman was a tea trader. It is a world that enabled this liberal man and others like him to travel widely, build imperial connections and drive significant profit margins, all without recognition of the labour, entitlement and exploitation that underpinned it.

Only Collections in The Building is a podcast series by researcher and museum activist Heba Abd el Gawad, and Associate Professor Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, as part of UCL’s Institute of Archaeology AHRC funded Mobilising Collections for Institutional Change: Egypt at the Horniman’ project. In this episode we also speak to Nathalie Cooper, PhD student at the University of Warwick.

The series is produced by Maria Christodoulou, creator of From Root to Vine.

Episode 2: I Don't Accept Horniman's Gift "Only Collections in the Building"

Only Collections in the Building Episode 3: Money, money, money....
Money is both one of the most frequent reasons that tensions arise through work with external collaborators, yet at the same time a direct conversation that we often avoid. Episode 3 of Only Collections in the Building drills down into the decisions made about where money is spent, and how perceptions of museums as well funded institutions impact on trust. 
In this episode we explore the procedures that surround money, and how they reinscribe power. 
This includes how the legal language of contracts is underpinned by assumptions around institutional ownership, and how financial agreements impact on rights to refuse. We ask to what extent the financial year and the deadlines that fall during spring-time respect a Global calendar, considering, for example, the holy month of Ramadan.
How can we have honest conversations about money on a more human level, considering both the inequalities in the allocation of money, and the financial transactions that surround it?

Episode 3: Money, money, money….."Only Collections in the Building"

Only Collections in the Building Episode 4: Missed Translations
Language is particularly important when we are discussing, working with and interpreting collections. The assumption that everybody can engage equally in a language that is not the one they are most comfortable with, is one that reinscribes inequality. 
In this episode we will reflect on how difficult it can be to disrupt or challenge English-centred work. Johanna and Heba are in conversation with Navjot Mangat, Senior Curator of Social Practice at the Horniman, who shares his multi-lingual curatorial approach for 茶, चाय, Tea. We also hear from Dr Mariam Aboelezz, Lecturer in Arabic Translation Studies, at the University of Liverpool. 
Together we will explore why translation and de-centring of English is important, the structural challenges we have faced in projects that have sought to do this, and what better practice might look like.

Episode 4: Missed Translations "Only Collections in the Building"

Rather than risky places, you may be more likely to think about museums quiet and conservative spaces, ultimately resistant to change or transformation. However risk, and the perception of risk, dominates museum work in some quite fundamental ways.
One of the most obvious ways in which risk dictates museum process and practice is through the management of risks to collections. 
However in this episode we focus on reputational risk at an institutional level, and the unspoken emotional risks that community members and collaborators take when they work with museums. Attending to the present moment, institutional silences relating to Palestine, and the impact on All Eyes on Her, we explore the current climate of silence, self-censorship and the politics of solidarity.

Episode 5: Solidarity and Risk "Only Collections in the Building"

Today we are recording our first major podcast, and Charlotte and myself will be interviewing Professor James C. Scott of Yale University, who yesterday gave the annual Gordon Childe Lecture. 

http://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/james-scott

Photograph courtesy of James C. Scott

The Gordon Childe lecture was formally known as the Institute of Archaeology Annual Lecture. The objective of the lecture is to take a wide view on archaeological themes and topics that will be of interest to academics and specialists but also to the general public. 



In Conversation with Prof James C Scott

The relaunch of our podcast playlist 'Parkaeology' or maybe not 'Physical Distanced Parkaeology' as we are currently in lockdown in London in late March 2020.  

It felt like a good time to relaunch this series chatting to our staff and students - short chats about education, life and what you can't be without in your homes.

Today we chat to Dr Carolyn Rando (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/carolyn-rando-lecturer-bioarchaeology-and-forensic-anthropology)Lecturer in Bioarchaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

You'll also here about her hobby from home...'Cats Wearing Makeup' -bit.ly/Cats_Rando on YouTube!

Enjoy and follow us if you can!

Say Home / Stay Safe / Listen to more podcasts - Frear & Indy

Physically Distanced Parkaeology with Dr Carolyn Rando

The second installment of Parkaeology 2020 'Physically Distanced Parkaeology' with Dr Borja Legarra Herrero - find out about Borja in under 8mins...plus his 5 essential Isolation items!

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/academic/borja-legarra-herrero-teaching-fellow-comparative-mediterranean-prehistory

Parkaeology 'Physically Distanced' with Dr Borja Legarra Herrero

The 3rd in our new series of Parkaeology: Physically Distanced.  Meeting remotely, making sure we are distant!

Lisa chats life at the IoA, goldfish and gin!

Parkaeology 'Phsyical Distanced Parkaeology' with Lisa Daniel

Welcome back to another Parkaeology with me, Charlotte Frearson, my dog Indy and another member of our UCL Institute of Archaeology (IoA) community! 
Today we meet Maria Cunningham a first year undergraduate archaeology student coming to their 1st year at the IoA! We chat archaeology, fieldwork and of course...pets.

Parkaeology 'Physically Distanced" with Maria Cunningham Undergraduate Archaeology Student

Today we meet Dr Matthew Pope of UCL Institute of Archaeology and UCL Archaeology South East - Matt and I chat isolation, West Sussex & our admiration for Prof Clive Gamble! 

Check out Matt's Earth Day 2020 video on our Twitter Page (full video on our Instagram Page @UCLArchaeology) https://twitter.com/UCLarchaeology/status/1252939839655350272?s=20

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/matthew-pope-principal-research-fellow-palaeolithic-archaeology

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-evolution/experts/experts-profile/pope-matt

Parkaeology 'Physically Distanced' with Dr Matt Pope

Today we meet up, virtually & safely, with Amanda and her beautiful poodles - Amanda and i chat research, time zones and dogs!

Here is a link to research Amanda works on in Sudan with Dr Claudia Naesar from the UCL IoA:

Mograt Island Project:
https://www.mogratarchaeology.com/en
Community archaeology in Sudan, on Mograt Island: https://youtu.be/BghCAyAsstU

Parkaeology 'Physically Distanced' with PhD Student Amanda Ford Spora

Today we meet Dr Emily Johnson from the UCL IoA Archaeology South East (ASE)based in Brighton. Emily is both a zooarchaeological specialist at ASE and their Social Media Officer. 

Emily and I chat research, social media, a shared love of bone marrow, the power of archaeology across the disciplines & crochet apples. 

Follow Emily on Twitter via the official UCL ASE tag - @ArchSouthEast & @zooarchaemily (Emily's personal account).

Parkaeology Phsyically Distanced with Dr Emily Johnson of UCL ASE

Today we meet Dr Alice Stevenson Associate Professor in Museum Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. 

Alice and Charlotte chat museums, history of archaeology and sourdough fails!

Enjoy!

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/alice-stevenson-associate-professor-museum-studies 

Egypt's Dispersed Heritage: views from Egypt https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS004580%2F1

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Dr Alice Stevenson

Today, after the bank holiday weekend, we meet Atena Ungureanu PhD student in the IoA. We chat cats, lockdown in London, moving around the world and the IoA!

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Atena Ungureanu IoA PhD Student

Today we meet Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, Associate Professor & lecturer in Geoarchaeology from the UCL IoA.  Manuel and I chat Walthamstow, flutes, the vast expanse of the Amazon & why we miss the IoA. 

Find out more about Manuel here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/manuel-arroyo-kalin-lecturer-geoarchaeology-and-historical-ecology

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin

Today we meet PhD student Giacomo Fontana - Giacomo and Charlotte chat surveying, fieldwork, Italy, life in London and spaghetti!

Sorry the sound isn't great on this one (and sorry i am so loud!)

Enjoy!

Parkaeology Phsyically Distanced with PhD student Giacomo Fontana

Today we meet IoA Alum, from Undergraduate Archaeology and MA Public Archaeology, Janie Gammans.

Janie and Charlotte chat work post Archaeology (and the skills taken from archaeology), Yorkshire Biscuit Tea, Podcasts, Fieldwork & exploring the fields of woodland of Sussex!

Parkaeology Phsyically Distanced with Janie Gammams IoA Alum

Today Charlotte meets Dr Rebecca Watts, a Forensic Archaeologist (Rebecca works with bones...lots of bones).  They chat excavation, London, IoA, keeping fit & moving between Universities.

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Dr Rebecca Watts

Today Charlotte meets Prof Andy Bevan - Professor of Spatial and Comparative Archaeology - chat missing the building (i know, who knew!), working on digital archaeology (especially in lockdown), the greatness of North London &, of course, cats.

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Prof Andy Bevan

Today Charlotte meets current 3rd year undergraduate, BA Archaeology with a Placement Year, student Neehaarika (on Teams between Charlotte's home in North London and Neehaarika's home in Mysore, India - a total of 6,005miles away and according to Google a 79 day walk...thanks google). 

Neehaarika & Charlotte chat placement year fieldwork and the amazing skills of the Commercial Archaeologists, cakes, living in London, good things about the IoA & dissertation research.

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Neehaarika Jayanth Veena

It's February - but this is a massive Tuesday Throwback to August 2020 when Charlotte met up (online - of course!) with illustrious Alum Beth Hinton-Lever. Beth and Charlotte chat the heatwave of 2020, the impact of Covid on musical theatre and of course...dogs. 

Beth has a BA in Classical Archaeology and Classical Civilisations from University College London and a MA in Musical Theatre from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre credits include: Dick Whittington (National Theatre); 
Treasure Island (Derby Theatre); West Side Story (Curve Leicester); As You Like It (National Theatre and Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Hadestown (National Theatre); Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre); Reasons to be Cheerful (Graeae Theatre Company/UK Tour); and Sleeping Beauty and Dancehall (CAST, Doncaster).

Television credits include: Silent Witness (BBC). 
Film credits include: Men in Black: International (Sony Pictures).

Beth also provided the Voice Over for The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places for History of Place and Museum of Liverpool. Her awards include the National Student Drama Festival Award for Best Choreography.

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Beth Hinton-Lever

Today Charlotte meets up (virtually) with Prof Mike Parker Pearson, possibly best known for his work at Stonehenge, Charlotte & Mike chat about life outside the stones from his time as an undergraduate at Southampton University to present day life as a Professor of British Later Prehistory at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.  They also discuss Mike's most influential piece of writing...Enjoy! 

"Michael Parker Pearson, FSA, FSA Scot, FBA (born 26 June 1957)[1] is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Neolithic British Isles, Madagascar and the archaeology of death and burial, and is known for his catchphrase "The Dead Don't Bury Themselves". A professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, he previously worked for 25 years as a professor at the University of Sheffield in England, and was the director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project.[2] A prolific author, he has also written a variety of books on the subject."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Parker_Pearson 

Find out more about Mike's work at the UCL IoA:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/mike-parker-pearson-professor-british-later-prehistory

You can also catch up on the latest Stonehenge research via iPlayer - http://bit.ly/MPP_Stone "Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed"

And also - a bit of early Stonehenge research from 1954 via iPlayer and incuding Stuart Piggott (who is portrayed in The Dig for his work at Sutton Hoo). Mike talks about both Stuart and Glyn (the host of 'Buried Treasure') in our podcast today.

Parkaeology Physically Distanced with Prof Mike Parker Pearson

The UCL Institute of Archaeology is the largest and one of the most highly regarded centres for archaeology, cultural heritage and museum studies in Britain. It is one of the very few places in the world actively pursuing research on a truly global scale in the archaeological sciences, heritage studies and world archaeology. 

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