In this week’s episode of the podcast, we sit down with Dr. Hardeep Dhindsa, a recent PhD graduate from King’s College London.
Listen in, as Dr. Dhindsa discusses colonialism and Whiteness, and the use of Classics in upholding these narratives.
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Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: Naturalizing Inequalities: The Colonial Museum with Dan Hicks
In today’s episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. Dan Hicks, professor of contemporary archaeology at the University of Oxford and the curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Listen in, as he discusses the role of modern museums in colonial mythologies, and what a path forward might look like.
Season 4, Podcast 4: Curating with Care: Transparency in Museums with Lisa Saladino Haney
In this week’s episode we are joined by Dr. Lisa Haney, Assistant Curator of Egypt on the Nile at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and part-time instructor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Listen in, as Dr. Saladino Haney speaks about museum pedagogy, community engagement in exhibit development, and the display of Egyptian cultural heritage.
Blog Post #107: Tomb Robbers, Warehouses, and Vases: Giving Looted Antiquities a New Life with Marie Hélène van de Ven
In this week’s blog post, Marie Hélène van de Ven, a PhD student at Aarhus University, explores the ethics of studying looted artefacts without reinforcing the very networks through which they were illegally acquired. Here, she shares a component of this research based on her work with the Illicit Antiquities in the Museum project at Antikmuseet, Aarhus University.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 2: Fragments and Falsehoods: The Papyrus Trade with Roberta Mazza
In this week’s instalment of the podcast, we are joined by Roberta Mazza, papyrologist and Associate Professor at the University of Bologna.
Listen in, as Dr. Mazza discusses the antiquities trade, both past and present, and the ethics behind papyrology, especially highlighting her experience with the illicit papyrus trade in academia.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 1: Trafficking through the Metaverse: The Antiquities Trade in the Internet Age with Katie Paul
Today, we kick off the fourth season of the Peopling the Past podcast, which focuses on cultural heritage and legacies of colonialism. In our first episode, we are joined by Katie Paul, an anthropologist and research analyst whose work centers on the destruction and displacement of cultural heritage.
Listen in, as Katie discusses the role of Facebook in the illicit antiquities trade, and how the company has been complicit in the sale and destruction of cultural heritage.
Blog Post #105: The Gaza Maritime Archaeology Project (GAZAMAP)
Join us for an interview with Yasmeen Elkhoudary and Georgia Andreou, where they discuss the creation and evolution of The Gaza Maritime Archaeology Project (GAZAMAP). Focused on monitoring coastal heritage and training professionals, GAZAMAP shifts the study of heritage to the voices of those most impacted by ongoing humanitarian crises.
Blog Post #104: EAMENA Project: Ten Years Documenting Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa with Mohamed Kenawi
In this blog post, Mohamed Kenawi discusses the work of the Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) Project and the important work they are carrying out documenting the endangered heritage of the MENA region using advanced recording methods.
Blog Post #102: The Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance with Mireille Lee
In this week’s blog post we interview Dr. Mireille Lee on her work with the Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage (FESCH) and the Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance (MAPRA). Here, she takes us through the issues with undocumented antiquities and the ethical issues that arise when looted objects end up in university and museum collections.
Peopling the Past Podcast Season 4: Cultural Heritage and Legacies of Colonialism
The Peopling the Past Podcast is back for a fourth season and this time we’re focusing on cultural heritage and the legacies of colonialism. Join your hosts Dr. Chelsea Gardner and Dr. Melissa Funke, as well as Dr. Christine Johnston (the producer of Season 4), for a very special preview episode, taking us through what we can expect from our podcast this season.
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