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SUMMARY:The Centre for the Archaeology of the Modern World: Aims\, Objecti
 ves and Rationale - Professor Tim Murray\, (La Trobe University\, Australi
 a)
DTSTART:20151005T153000Z
DTEND:20151005T163000Z
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CONTACT:Professor Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS NOT OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC\n\nThe
  Centre for the Archaeology of the Modern World focuses on global\, nation
 al and local issues to advance our understanding of the modern world and t
 he nature of the societies that have been created by it.\n\nOur particular
  focus will be on the ‘long 19th century’ (given that our base is Aust
 ralasia)\, but it is well understood that many of the global forces unleas
 hed during that time had their genesis in the first great movements of peo
 ple and capital from Europe to the Americas\, Africa and Asia beginning in
  the 16th century\, but gaining great momentum in the 17th and 18th centur
 ies.\n\nA core objective of the Centre is to provide a framework within wh
 ich scholars can undertake collaborative comparative research across conti
 nents and across the last three centuries. A specific concern will be to e
 xplore the contexts within which settler colonies became established and t
 hen transformed into nations\, during a period of intensifying globalisati
 on. These historical archaeologies of transformation\, diaspora and global
 isation are about frontiers\, blurred boundaries\, and the refashioning of
  ethnicities and identities. The political context of transnational histor
 ical archaeologies is undeniable and pervasive\, as postcolonial societies
  at once celebrate diversity and cultural and social possibilities derivin
 g from an extraordinarily eclectic sampling of global ‘capital’\, whil
 e also seeking to retain identities that have created the cohesion of nati
 ons.\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, McDonald Institute\, Downing Street\, Cambridge
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