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Abstract

Whilst听sociologies of British racism have always placed significant emphasis on the 1960s-1980s as foundational to the institutionalised landscape of racism in Britain today, these formative years have largely been overlooked within post-colonial critiques of the UK museum sector.听This paper will explore how territorial decolonisation, self-declared anti-racism, liberalism, technocratic expertise and museum ethics intersected with the increasing professionalisation of the sector. It will draw on archives of the UK Museum Ethnographers Group and the Museums Association to argue that these formative years structurally embedded inequalities, oppressions and entitlements within notions of best practice. It will argue that this continues to shape the limits within which decolonial work must engage today. It will focus in particular on how 鈥渂est practice鈥� is encased within a self-articulated ethical completeness, based on narrowly defined public responsibility and access. And how this continues to restrict the possibilities for more human futures for collections and belongings from the African continent through policy and process.

UCL Institute of Archaeology Research Seminars Programme | Term I, 2023-24

The Term I seminar series will again highlight current Institute of Archaeology research.听These are scheduled to听be in-person events; where speakers have agreed, a recording may be made available afterwards.

Mondays, 5pm听

• 9 October:听Victoria Lucas听(Archaeological Sciences):听"Everything Old is New Again" early medieval glass recycling: technology, change, and resourcefulness
• 16听翱肠迟辞产别谤:听Jan Kolar听(Archaeological Sciences):听Prehistoric demography, social transformations and woodland in Central Europe
• 23 October:听Giacomo Fontana听(World Archaeology):听Computational and landscape approaches to non-urban political centralisation in the 1st millennium BCE Mediterranean: the Samnites听
• 30 October:听Ulrike Sommer听(World Archaeology):听Varna, Bodrogkereszt煤r and the development of formal cemeteries in the Carpathian Basin

[6听November: Reading Week - no seminar]

• 13听狈辞惫别尘产别谤:听Johanna Zetterstrom Sharp听(Heritage Studies):听Mid-century Museum 鈥楤est鈥� Practice and Self-Defined Anti-Racism -听this seminar will take place in Room 609 (Staff & Research Student Common Room)
• 20听狈辞惫别尘产别谤:听Cristina Castillo听&补尘辫;听Dorian Fuller听(Archaeological Sciences):听Evolutionary Dynamics of Enset Vegeculture in Ethiopia
• 27听November:听Rafie Cecilia听&补尘辫;听Theano Moussouri听(Heritage Studies):听Inclusive Digital Museum Innovation听
• 4 December:听听Veronica Occari听(Archaeological Sciences/World Archaeology):听The Technology of Medieval Venetian Glass and the Levantine Connection听
• 11听December:听Rodney Harrison听(Heritage Studies):听Ghosts of Solid Air: Using Augmented Reality to Engage with Debates Regarding Contested Monuments in London