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SUMMARY:Groundbreakers: Women in Archaeology – part of Being Human Festival
DESCRIPTION:This display draws on the archives of the British International Research Institutes (BIRI) and the Petrie Museum’s collections to highlight the pioneering work of women archaeologists across the late 19th and early 20th centuries. \n‘Groundbreakers’ is part of Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest\, the UK’s national festival of the humanities\, 5-14 November 2026. \nA specially commissioned film ‘Nine Lives: the women who shaped archaeology’\, will be shown alongside the display. \nThe display is based on “Women Transcending Boundaries”\, a British Academy-supported online research project exploring over a century of scholarship\, fieldwork and friendship across the BIRI network. \nTwo talks bring these stories to life: \n 9 November\, 6–8pm: The Joy of Lists\, Letters and Wills – Women in the Archives. \n 11 November\, 6–8pm: A reading of A Thousand Miles Up the Nile \nBoth talks take place at UCL Institute of Archaeology\, Gordon Square. \nFor the Full programme click here \nFor display details click here 
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LOCATION:UCL Institute of Archaeology\, Lecture Room G6\, 31-34 Gordon Square\, London\, WC1H 0PY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Right to the City: Strategies for Elite Neighbourhood Development over the Long Antiquity by J. Andrew Dufton
DESCRIPTION:The right to the city\, a term coined by Henri Lefebvre in the late 1960s\, has been consistently invoked by activists in favour of a greater equality in urban governance. It asks us who has the power to control changes to the built environment? And who benefits? \nThis talk extends a modern conceit to an ancient setting to consider examples of elite intervention in the neighbourhoods of North Africa’s cities from the late Punic to the Late Antique. Positioning elite actions beyond the well-studied euergetism that occurred during the height of Roman power\, and considering the ways elite pursuits impacted non-elite populations\, helps to contextualize civic benefaction as but one of many elite strategies to shape urban developments. \n REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE HERE \nAbout the Speaker \n \nJ. Andrew Dufton is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Dickinson College. His work introduces ideas\, tools\, and methods from literature on cities like New York\, London\, or New Orleans to refocus the study of North African cities on the social lives of their inhabitants. He’s currently a co-director of the Acholla Archaeological Project\, an international collaboration surveying an ancient city on the Tunisian coast.
URL:https://www.bilnas.org/event/the-right-to-the-city-strategies-for-elite-neighbourhood-development-over-the-long-antiquity-by-j-andrew-dufton/
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SUMMARY:Critical Digital Archives: Travel\, Translation\, Transformation – A Hybrid Symposium on Archives in and from the SWANA Region
DESCRIPTION:📣 Call for Papers and Registration 📣 \nThis BILNAS-sponsored symposium aims to provide a forum for scholars\, archivists\, community and cultural organizations interested in critical approaches to digital archives containing materials from and about the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region. \nIn this space\, archives have been historically imposed\, looted\, extracted\, dispersed\, destroyed\, but also rescued\, rebuilt and reinvented\, pioneering practices of resistance\, reparation and return that raise compelling ethical\, theoretical and practical questions for scholars and stakeholders (Carbajal and Caswell\, 2021; Ghaddar\, 2025). \nWe are interested in digitisation as a transformative process that reshapes archival practices\, knowledge production\, and power relations. \nFor full details please follow this link to the Institute of Classical Studies website. \nThe full version of the Call for Papers can be found here. \nThe deadline for submissions is Wednesday 30 September 2026. \nThe event takes place in London on 21-22 January\, 2027.
URL:https://www.bilnas.org/event/critical-digital-archives-travel-translation-transformation-a-hybrid-symposium-on-archives-in-and-from-the-swana-region/
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