Research Forum Spring Term 2011
material life of things: lecture
What is a Fragment? Forms of the Material, the Cultural, & the Interdisciplinary
Thursday, 17 March 2011
18.30 - 20.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Ground Zero, July 2009
Speaker(s): Dr Dan Hicks FSA (University of Oxford); Respondent: Daniel Miller (Professor of Material Culture, Department of Anthropology, University College London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Francesco Lucchini
This paper reflects upon the status of the idea of 'the fragment' in contemporary interdisciplinary material culture studies. In doing so, it uses anthropological thinking, to interrogate how we comprehend the forms that the material, the cultural, and the interdisciplinary can take in the study of things.
Dr Dan Hicks FSA is University Lecturer and Curator in the Modern Period at the Pitt Rivers Museum/School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology at St John's College, Oxford, and Research Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology at Boston University. Dan's most recent book is The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies (OUP 2010, edited with Mary C. Beaudry). He publishes some of his writing on a blog at http://weweremodern.blogspot.com