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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



The seminar will be run as a panel with Bahar 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 social lives
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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