McDonald Institute Seminar Room 

Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

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Schedule time zone: British Summer Time (BST) GMT +1

 

Friday, September 16, 2022

 

9:00 AM – Conference Welcoming Remarks 

 

Session 1: Postcolonialism, Coloniality and Decolonisation: Crisis in the Discipline of Heritage Studies in Post-colonial Contexts

(9:30 AM - 12:00 PM)

 

9:35 AM - Session Introduction, Session Chairs: Geonyoung Kim, Hyunjae Kim, and Saltanat Amir (University of Cambridge)

 

9:45 AM - “Decolonising our perception of the past: the narrative of Roman colonisation in Italian archaeological museums” by Marianna Negro (University of Cambridge)

 

10:05 AM - “Felling trees, telling time: modernity and memory in William Notman’s Ottawa Portfolio (1869-1872)” by Katherine Lacroix (University of St Andrews)

 

10:25 AM - BREAK

 

10:45 AM - “From Somanatha to Babri: religion, archaeology and the disputed heritage sites in India” by Peeyash Das and Dipshikha Chhetri (Delhi University)

 

11:05 AM - “Attempting to settle the Hong Kong turmoil: a comparative analysis of the heritage management by colonial and postcolonial governments in the aftermaths of the protests” by Charmaine Lin (University of Oxford)

 

11:25 AM - “The crisis surrounding the control of heritage: the international negotiation of cultural rights and the destruction of cultural objects from the perspective of the biography of objects” by Yannick Dreessen (University of Bonn)

 

11:45 AM - Session Wrap Up

 

12:00 PM - LUNCH BREAK 

 

Session 2 - Rethinking Crisis: Archaeological Perspectives on Humans, Non-humans and Environments from the Late Pleistocene Onwards

(1:30 PM - 4:00 PM)

 

1:35 PM - Session Introduction, Session Chairs: Tom Dwyer, Ayelen Delgado Orellana, Yu-Chun Kan, and Anna Den Hollander (University College London)

 

1:45 PM - “Indigenous adaptations to climate change and environmental shifts: the settlement of Trinidad in the early Holocene” by Chike Pilgrim (University of Cambridge)

 

2:05 PM - “Raised fields of Amapá, Northern Brazil – sustainability, productivity, and ecological inheritance of a pre-colonial agricultural system” by Wiktoria Sagan (University College London)

 

2:25 PM - BREAK

 

2:45 PM - “Soil erosion in the Roman Empire: between crisis management and environmental exploitation” by İ. Erkin Göçen (Boğaziçi University)

 

3:05 PM - “Chronology, climate & resilience: using multi-proxy Bayesian chronologies to examine pastoralist responses to dynamic steppe environments and landscapes in Northern Mongolia” by Emilie Jean Green (University of Aberdeen)

 

3:25 PM - “Submerged landscapes in the South and East China Sea: modelling prehistoric coastlines” by Jiayin Wang (University of Oxford)

 

3:45 PM - Session Wrap Up

 

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Opening Night Reception

 

Saturday, September 17, 2022

 

Session 3 - Resilient Traditions: What to Learn and How to Share

(9:00 AM - 11:30 PM)

 

9:05 AM - Session Introduction, Session Chairs: Jiayao Jiang and Pedro Marroquim Senna (Sapienza University of Rome)

 

9:15 AM - “The resilience, transformation and collapse of Erlitou culture from the

perspective of archaeology” by Yun Ge (University of California, Riverside)

 

9:35 AM - “The nation that preserved” by Sultan Beisembek (Nazarbayev University)

 

9:55 AM - BREAK

 

10:15 AM - “National heritage and archaeology through warefare: the crisis and repair

of identity” by Danielle Andréa Krikorian (University of Birmingham)

 

10:35 AM - “The need for strategic documentation and sui generis protection of the

siddha medical system of 'Maruthuvar' community in Tamil Nadu: a case study” by Balachandran Sathyan (University of Madras) 

 

10:55 AM - “Analyzing crisis and resilience in the museum space through the ‘When

it rains, We Harvest’ / Cuando Llueve Cosechamos’ exhibition” by Emily Sears (University of St Andrews)

 

11:15 AM - Session Wrap Up

 

11:30 AM - LUNCH BREAK

 

Session 4 - Health, Disease, and Population Demographics - Methodology for Exploring Resilience in Populations of the Past

(12:30 PM - 2:40 PM)

 

12:35 PM - Session Introduction, Session Chairs: Bronwyn Wyatt and Bonnie Taylor (The Australian National University)

 

12:45 PM - “Resilience and privilege: survivorship in industrial London” by Emma Spencer (The Australian National University)

 

1:05 PM - “The stature-mortality correlation in bioarchaeology” by Veronika Unhurian (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”)

 

1:25 PM - BREAK

 

1:45 PM - “Comparison between mortality profiles of extinct and extant Hominin populations” by Mirabello Mattera, Tannistha Chakraborty, Theresia Lukita Oktarsia, and Hewy Alejandro (University of Ferrara)

 

2:05 PM - “Long term perspectives on human adaptive strategies at high-altitude: a bioarchaeological investigation on ancient Himalayan residents from the Tibetan Plateau” by Doudou Carol Cao (University of Cambridge)

 

2:25 PM - Session Wrap Up

 

2:40 PM - BREAK 

 

Session 5 - The Longest Story: Crisis and Resilience Throughout the Ages

(3:00 PM - 4:30 PM)

 

3:05 PM - Session Introduction, Session Chairs: Min Lin (University of Cambridge) and Phoebe J. Thompson (Vanderbilt University)

 

3:15 PM - “How were the lives of Homo erectus s.l. living in the East African Rift valley affected by their proximity to local volcanic eruptions?” by Eleanor Williams (University of Cambridge)

 

3:35 PM - “Bālagraha goddesses, disease, and the pomegranate: incorporating fertility in the monastic material culture through the narrative of a crisis” by Simran Kaur (University College London)

 

3:55 PM - “Understanding landscape history to implement sustainable conservation and land-management strategies, how can palynology help?” by Marguerite Waechter (University of Oxford)

 

4:15 PM - Session Wrap Up

 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Conference Dinner at Zizzi (Registration Required)

16 Bene't St, Cambridge CB2 3QN, United Kingdom

 

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Sunday, September 18, 2022

 

Session 6 - Inequality and Dynamism in Social Relations in the Times of Crisis: Archaeology of Other Voices

(9:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

 

9:05 AM - Session Introduction, Session Chairs: Tanoy Sengupta (Deccan College PGRI), Debajit Ghosh (Visva-Bharati University), and Ahana Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology)

 

9:15 AM - “Reconstructing the trauma of partition in West Bengal through the memories of refugees” by Subhajit Das (Visva-Bharati University)

 

9:35 AM - “Dimasas and their hunting souvenirs: a glimpse into the subsistence and survival measures of an ethnic community from Assam” by Atashi Maitra (North Eastern Hill University)

 

9:55 AM - BREAK

 

10:15 AM - “The archaeology of climate inequality” by Brandon Fathy and Nathan Gubbins (University of Leicester)

 

10:35 AM - “Slave trade between East Africa and Western India (13th - 20th c. CE), with emphasis on the change in nature of demand” by Gowrish R Prabhu (The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda)

 

10:55 AM - “Discipline contra autonomy in the landscape of emancipation of colonial Saint-Louis, north-western Senegal” by Elias Michaut (University of Cambridge)

 

11:15 AM - Session Wrap Up

 

11:30 AM - LUNCH BREAK

 

Session 7 - Crisis and Opportunity: Probes into the Crisis-induced "New Normal(s)" of Subsistence Economies During the Times of Change

(1:00 PM - 3:30 PM)

 

1:05 PM - Session Introduction, Session Chairs: Yunfeng Sun, Melissa M. Ritchey (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

1:15 PM - “Earthquake and tsunami evidence in the coastal Neolithic settlement of Halai (Central Greece): preliminary results of the geoarchaeological research” by Effimia Angeli (Democritus University of Thrace)

 

1:35 PM - “Radical dietary change and its social background in Tepecik-Çiftlik Höyük” by Sarp Unan (Koç University)

 

1:55 PM - BREAK

 

2:15 PM - “Persian Gulf in the middle Islamic period: crisis and resilience” by Maria Gajewska (University of Cambridge)

 

2:35 PM - “Archaeochemical study based on the stable isotopes of bone bioapatite of Harappan Civilization: a case study from Rakhigarhi, Haryana, India” by Prashant Mohan Trivedi (Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences)

 

2:55 PM - “The shift of economic policy in the West Han Dynasty: lead isotopic evidence of bronze artifacts in Eastern China” by Dongyi Yang and Xiaotong Wu (University of Science and Technology of China)

 

3:15 PM - Session Wrap Up

 

3:30 PM - BREAK

 

3:45 PM - Keynote Panel

APPLYING AND QUESTIONING CRISIS AND RESILIENCE

Panelists: Dr Anna Florin (University of Cambridge), Dr Rachel King (University College London), and Prof. Felix Riede (University of Aarhus)

Moderator: Christos Nikolaou (University of Cambridge)

 

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Awards Ceremony and Conference Closing Remarks