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Hi Dan,

There's a group of us working on a collaborative project between the Pitt Rivers Museum and Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre. Our project's called 'Architectures of Displacement: experiences and consequences of temporary migrant shelter'. We have just started but we've visited the Jungle (Nov 2016) and I'm off to Athens in March. My colleagues are going to Berlin and Jordan and we're visiting Lampedusa, among other places. We're keen to record the various types of temporary shelter that migrants must endure and show how some projects are positive forces of solidarity; how migrants help themselves and contribute positively to the countries they end up in while they wait for paperwork etc.

My colleagues are Dan Hicks, Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze. We are variously archaeologists, an anthropologist and an architect. More information to come out on a website soon.

Best wishes,
Rachael

Dr Rachael Kiddey
Postdoctoral Researcher
'Architectures of Displacement'
Pitt Rivers Museum
University of Oxford
tel: 07515 263 722
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From: Discussion List for Contemporary and Historical Archaeology [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Daniel Lee [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 January 2017 15:49
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Subject: Re: Gideon Mendel exhibition visit and pub meet, London, 2 Feb

Thanks James for the link to this incredibly powerful exhibition. Just a shame I won’t be able to see it in person.

 

Does anyone know of any archaeologists working/having worked at the Calais Jungle camp, or what remains of it? It strikes me that contemporary archaeology could play a significant role in retelling these stories through such evocative material remains, and bearing witness to this crisis.

 

Regards,

Dan

 

From: Discussion List for Contemporary and Historical Archaeology [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Dixon
Sent: 11 January 2017 15:16
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Subject: Gideon Mendel exhibition visit and pub meet, London, 2 Feb

 

Dear all, 

 

We will be holding our first informal London meet-up of 2017 on Thursday 2 February at The Owl and Pussycat on Redchurch Street, E2. In advance of the pub, we encourage people to visit the exhibition Dzhangal at the Autograph ABP gallery in nearby Rivington Place, Gideon Mendel’s installation using objects gathered from the Calais ‘Jungle’. The exhibition is open until 9pm, but we will be there 1730-1830. Further details here: 

 

 

Following that, we will be at The Owl and Pussycat from 1900.

 

 

According to its website, the pub is ‘a proper old battlecruiser right in the heart of the New East End’ and promises ‘vintage leather sofas by a roaring fire’.

 

Shoreditch High Street Overground station is closest, but it’s within walking distance of Liverpool Street and Old Street as well.

 

PubCHAT exists to provide a friendly forum for discussion of contemporary/historical archaeology and welcomes all comers.

 

Please contact me or Sefryn Penrose for any further information.

 

Yours,

 

James

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