When: Thursday, March 13, 2025, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMWhere: Room 100, Laws Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
Centre for the Study of Race, Class, and Empire and School of History Research Seminar
A part of IHSS Visiting Fellow Dr Tawfiq Da’adli’s (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) events
This seminar will focus on the use of community archaeology to decolonize archaeological research in Palestine-Israel. In Israel, where most excavations are state-led and often serve political agendas, contemporary archaeological practice alienates the indigenous Palestinian population. This research seminar will discuss an alternative: an excavation in which the community is at the centre and not the archaeological find, and where the needs of the community and its perception of the past are considered, with the archaeologist embedded in the community. The proposed seminar will illustrate this alternative model through a comparison of Dr Da’adli’s (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) fieldwork in Jerusalem and in Lod.
This seminar will be chaired by Dr Sharri Plonski (School of Politics and International Relations).
The event is co-organised by the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire and the School of History and supported by the IHSS Visiting Fellowship scheme.
The venue Laws Building is marked 36 on the Mile End campus map. For more travel information, visit the Mile End campus web page.