Roots and Routes: Community-Led Archaeology
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Date
March 4, 2026
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University College London
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4 March: Francesco Ripanti (University of Birmingham) - Roots and Routes: A View of Community-Led Archaeology from the Mediterranean
Francesco is Assistant Professor in Heritage and History at the University of Birmingham, and was previously Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (MSCA) at Trinity College Dublin, researching archaeology, heritage and wellbeing (2022-2024), and a postdoctoral researcher in digital heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology (2020-2021). He uses fieldwork activities to experiment with new approaches and practices of communication, engagement and evaluation.Agenda
Wednesdays, 4pm
- 21 January: CAAL Project team - Central Asian Archaeological Urbanscapes: digital documentation, interpretation and monitoring
- 28 January: Pontus Skoglund (The Crick Institute) - Myth, materiality, and migration? - insights into the genetic histories of Britain, Scandinavia, and Egypt from ancient DNA
- 4 February: Xana Barroso (University of Southampton) - Measuring minds: exploring behaviour and information transmission in Middle Palaeolithic handaxes through Geometric Morphometrics
- 11 February: Francesco Carrer (Newcastle University) - Ethnoarchaeology and computer modelling to investigate long-term landscape dynamics
[18 February: Reading Week - no seminar]
- 25 February: Sarah Wolferstan (UCL ASE) - What tools are we using? ASE's approach to engagement and our Whitechapel project
- 4 March: Francesco Ripanti (University of Birmingham) - Roots and Routes: A View of Community-Led Archaeology from the Mediterranean
- 11 March: Harald Fredheim (University of York) - Foregrounding lived experience and relationships in museums for participatory heritage-making
- 18 March: Paola Giuseppantonio Di Franco (University of Essex) - Reimagining Place After Disaster: Community Voices, Immersive Technologies, and the Reconstruction of Belonging
Key Speaker: Francesco Ripanti
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