Humanities Society - Can museums really contribute to research in social sciences?

Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou Assistant Keeper and Cyprus Curator, Department of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum

Date 28/01/2020 at 17.45 - 28/01/2020 at 19.00 Where Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson College

The Humanities Society arranges weekly talks (during term time) from various disciplines across the Humanities. The talks are open to anyone and free to attend.

‘“Being an Islander”: art and identity of the large Mediterranean Islands’, or, can museums really contribute to research in social sciences?

This paper describes the narratives developed for a new research and exhibition project at the Fitzwilliam aiming to elucidate what defines island identity in the examples of Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia. This paper will introduce the project’s aims, as well as examine the case of museums as institutions that can contribute to the discourses on Mediterranean archaeology, in collaboration with other academic departments.

Refreshments from 17.45, talk begins at 18.00 and ends in time for Formal Hall reception.