Sue Hamilton gives Stanford University Distinguished Lectures (March 2023)
10 March 2023
Sue Hamilton (UCL Institute of Archaeology) has been invited to present in the Distinguished Lecture Series at Stanford University, USA.
The invites prominent archaeologists from around the worldÌýto be in residence for a week as a Distinguished Lecturer. During their residency, the Distinguished Lecturer gives two lectures and meets with faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students. Distinguished Lecturers are nominated by Stanford Archaeology Center faculty and selected by the Director.
Sue Hamilton has been in residency inÌýStanford this week giving lectures entitled '' and also ''.
Following her eight-year Directorship of the Institute, Sue is currently on sabbaticalÌýwriting-up a decade of work on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and her new book, The Making of Rapa Nui. During her stay at Stanford, Sue has beenÌýdiscussing themes of interpretative archaeology relating to materiality and the senses, and how these concepts can be robustly explored via fieldwork.Ìý
Images:
- Top: Moai statue lying on its back on Rapa Nui (Image: Aerial Cam Ltd)Ìý
- Middle:ÌýStanford University ÌýHoover Tower (Image: Sue Hamilton)
- Bottom:ÌýStanford Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, created on-site at Stanford by artists from Papua New Guinea (Image Sue Hamilton)