Heritage Research Group Seminars

The Cambridge Heritage Research Group (HRG) meets regularly in term-time for discussions on the theme of heritage. The program includes talks by invited speakers as well as members of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre. Forthcoming talks are also advertised on our Events Page.

Seminars take place in Michelmas and Lent Terms and are open to all students, staff and the general public

If you would be interested in speaking or would like more information please email the Seminar Series Coordinator William Wright.

 

Watch or Listen to HRG Seminars Live
If you would like to attend virtually, a video link will be available here for each seminar
HRG Programme Archive
To view programme cards for previous terms, click here

Lent Term 2026

All Seminars take place in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room on Thursdays, 13:00-14:00, unless otherwise specified below

29 January

Living Status and Millenary Fisherman: Uses of Heritage during the Venezuelan Crisis

Dr. Oliver Antczak, CHRC, University of Cambridge 

5 February

Participatory Encounters in Prestigious Institutions

Molly Stock-Duerdoth, Fitzwilliam Museum and University of Leicester 

12 February

Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia: Critical Reflections

Dr Rebecca Roberts and Professor Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge: 

*TUESDAY 17 February

Cultural Heritage in Conflict-Related Recovery: Planning and Practice in Ukraine

Dr Dora Merai, University of Newcastle

26 February

Re-reading Power and Memory: The Ife Sacred Forests and Osugbo in the Era of Mining and Colonial Sculptural Economies

Oluwasola Obisesan, University of Edinburgh

5 March

Red Dirt Nationalism: A Discourse Analysis of the US Country Genre’s Mobilization of Dirt, Soil, and Land in 21st Century Lyrics

Dr Camille Westmont, University of Alabama

19 March

Materialising Myth: Mórẹ̀mí, Monumental Politics, and the Struggle for Narrative Authority

Akeem Adagbada, University of Cambridge