HARN Workshop – Wednesday, 26 October 2011

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Workshop title: New Histories of 19th Century ‘Archaeology’: Séance, Mummies, Seriality, Aerial Photography and Theories of ‘Man’
Held at the University of Cambridge, in cooperation with the Cambridge undergraduate Archaeological Field Club

Speakers & Abstracts:

Amara Thornton, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, Archaeological Séance in the late Nineteenth Century

Gabriel Moshenska, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, Mummies, Pettigrew and the Institutionalisation of Nineteenth Century British Archaeology

Nathan Schlanger, AREA, Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century Science

Helen Wickstead, Kingston, Aerovision: An Hallucinatory History of Aerial Archaeology

Allison Ksiazkiewicz, HPS, Cambridge, Geology, technology and theories on the history of ‘Man’