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2012-11-15 13:30: Collecting Mesopotamia in Henry Wellcome's Historical Medical Museum (Ruth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-29 13:30: What is Armchair Anthropology? (Efram Sera-Shriar (York University, Canada))

2013-01-17 13:30: Race: Greek Sculpture and 'Stuffed Natives' at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. Defining the Classical Body in 1850s London (Kate Nichols (CRASSH, University of Cambridge); Discussant - Brian Murray (CRASSH, University of Cambridge))

2013-01-31 13:30:  Science and Nationalism. Atapuerca, the Making of a Magic Mountain: Human-Origins-Research and National Identity in Contemporary Spain (Oliver Hochadel (Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain); Discussant - Robert Foley (Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution, University of Cambridge))

2013-02-14 13:30: Geographies of Archaeological Knowledge: A Critical View of the Relationship between Spanish and British Archaeology in the Twentieth Century  (Professor Margarita Díaz-Andreu  (CREA-University of Barcelona); Discussant - Dr Sheila Kohring (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge))

2013-02-28 13:30: Regimentation. Proof/Discipline, and Military Influence in 19th Century Archaeology (Chris Evans (Cambridge Archaeological Unit, University of Cambridge); Discussant - Simon Schaffer (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge))

2013-03-14 13:00: Gender: In the Field: Relations and Relationships in the History of Archaeology (Amara Thornton (UCL); Discussant - Eleanor Robson (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge))

2013-04-25 13:30: Objects: From the Excavation Site to Storage: Archaeological Objects in Transit. (Mirjam Brusius (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science); Discussant - Christina Riggs (University of East Anglia))

2013-05-09 13:30: Cultural Evolution: Interpreting the Art of the Old Stone Age and the Origins of Human Nature, 1870-1940. (Chris Manias (University of Manchester); Discussant - Peter Mandler (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-16 13:30: Gender: In the Field: Relations and Relationships in the History of Archaeology (Amara Thornton (University College London); Discussant - Kate Nichols (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-23 13:30: Excavation: Living with the Ancient Romans: Past and Present in Eighteenth-Century Encounters with Herculaneum and Pompeii (Charlotte Roberts (University of Cambridge); Discussant - Melissa Calaresu (University of Cambridge))

2013-06-06 13:30: Empire: Displayed Peoples, Empire and Anthropology in the Metropole (Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham); Discussant - Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-14 17:00: Of Cats, Cathedrals and Crusaders: Rethinking Approaches to ‘Heritage’ through Representations of Restoration in Cyprus (Dr. Astrid Swenson (Brunel University); Discussant - Prof. David Abulafia (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-28 17:00: People & Places Reading Group: Experts, Politicians, Labs and Media in Late 20th-Century Palaeoanthropological Knowledge Production (Miquel Carandell Baruzzi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona))

2013-11-11 17:00: Narrating the Fall of Empires in Weimar and National Socialist Racial Ideology (Dr. Helen Roche (University of Cambridge); Dr. Joachim Whaley (University of Cambridge))

2013-11-25 17:00: Skull Triangles: Flinders Petrie, Craniometry and Race (Dr. Debbie Challis (UCL); Discussant - Dr. Kate Nichols (University of Cambridge))

2014-01-20 17:00: Physics, Anthropology and the Cultural History of Mechanics, 1870-1930 (Dr. Richard Staley, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge; Discussant - Professor Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-03 17:00: Archaeological Context in Motion: Egyptian Field Sites and the World's Museums, 1880-1930 (Dr. Alice Stevenson, UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology; Discussant - Ruth Horry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-17 17:00: Beautiful Burials, Beautiful Skulls: The Aesthetics (and Ethics) of the Egyptian Mummy (Dr. Christina Riggs, University of East Anglia; Discussant - Dr. Chris Wingfield, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-03 17:00: Disciplinary Formation, Imperialist Gender, Nationalist Class: Egyptian Archaeology under British Military Occupation (1882-1956) (Professor Stephen Quirke, UCL; Discussant - Dr. Kate Nichols, CRASSH, University of Cambridge)