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Making Things Better - a series of public lectures and seminars brought to you by UCL and The British Museum (sponsored by Novartis and The Wellcome Trust).
Date: Thurs March 2
Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm
Venue: Sackler Room, Clore Education Centre, The British Museum, Great Russell St, London
Panel Discussion: Heritage Magic, Healing and Palestinian Identity
Speaker: Baha Jabeh Discussants: Beverley Butler, Ken Arnold, Stephen Quirke
This week's seminar will be run as a panel discussion with Baha Jabeh as main speaker, complemented by Beverley Butler from IOA, Ken Arnold, Director of Research at the Wellcome Institute, and Stephen Quirke from the Petrie Museum. The discussion will commence from an examination of amulets/magic, to contemporary Palestinian healing and identity, and use of atropaic materials. Exploring the ways in which Palestinian cultural heritage sites and collections are being re-interpreted, re-presented and opened up for access in the contemporary context, the key question addressed in these seminars is the formation of Palestinian identity. How is heritage magic and healing implicated in the constitution of such identity? How do acts of magic and healing bear on the commitment to restitute an historical Palestinian presence and to restore an affirming sense of Palestinian cultural memory and identity within both contemporary Palestine and in global diasporic contexts?
About the speakers:
Ken Arnold is Head of Public Programmes at the Wellcome Institute. He has been at the Wellcome Trust for 12 years, and in his capacity as Head of Exhibitions has been responsible for leading a series of programmes and exhibitions including those held at the Science Museum and the British Museum. This has included two galleries devoted to exploring the culture of medicine (its art, science and history), and a variety of funding initiatives aimed at promoting the mutual interaction of contemporary medical science and the arts (most notably the sciart and Science on Stage & Screen initiatives).
Beverley Butler is Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
Her research interests involve: the theorisation of cultural heritage studies and museological theory;
museum historiography; the application of philosophy, psychoanalysis, literary theory, postcolonial theory, deconstruction and memory-studies to cultural heritage/ museum studies; the application of ethnographic methods and anthropological theory to cultural heritage/ museum studies.
Her work has also addressed themes of cultural loss and revivalism; critical studies of the archive; postcolonial politics of memory-work; cosmopolitanism and ethnicity; maritime heritage; cultural/ human rights and marginalised histories. Dr Butler's specialist focus is on North Africa and Eastern Mediterranean, and Alexandrian/ Egyptian and Palestinian cultural heritage and cultural politics.
Stephen Quirke is curator of the Petrie Museum, University College London, which houses 80,000 objects revealing the Egyptians in their sociallives across all periods, at sites as celebrated as Abydos, Memphis,Thebes, the 'Hyksos' sites of the Eastern Delta, and the Greek colony at Naukratis. This makes it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. His research interests include the history of state/institutionalization; gender; Egyptian language; museology; ethics in archaeology and anthropology.
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