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From Plunder to Preservation - Britain and the ‘Heritage’ of Empire, c. 1820-1940

10:00	Registration and Coffee, King’s College
11:00	Welcome and Introduction Astrid Swenson (CVSG, Cambridge)
11:30	Roundtable: From Plunder to Preservation Chair: Peter Mandler (History, Cambridge) Panellists: Maya Jasanoff (History, Harvard University); Holger Hoock (History, University of Liverpool); Sujit Sivasundaram (History, LSE)
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Panel 2 The Classical World Chair: Anthony Snodgrass (Classics, Cambridge) Ed Richardson (Independent Scholar): ‘This Memory is Not for You’ Mary Beard (Classics, Cambridge): ‘Officers and Gentlemen? How Imperialist a Project was Nineteenth-Century Roman Britain?’ Robin Cormack (Courtauld Institute): ‘Byzantium and Sudan’
15:45	Tea
16:15	Panel 3 The Biblical World Chair: Michael Ledger-Lomas (CVSG, Cambridge) David Gange (CVSG, Cambridge): ‘Unholy Water: Archaeology, the Bible, and the last Nile floods’ Simon Goldhill (Classics, Cambridge): ‘Restoration and Empire: Ashbee’s Jerusalem’ Eleanor Robson (HPS, Cambridge): ‘Occupied and Mandate-Period Iraq (c.1917-32)’
18:00	Drinks Reception

Coffee
9.00	Panel 4 Empires and Civilizations Chair: t.b.a. Indra Sengupta (German Historical Institute London): ‘Preservation and the Vexing Question of Religious Structures in Colonial India’ Donald Malcolm Reid (Georgia State University/University of Washington): ‘Claiming the Pharaohs, 1882-1922: A British, a French, and an Egyptian Egyptologist at Imperial High Noon’ Lindsay Allen (Classics, King’s College London): ‘Appropriations of Imperial Space at Persepolis’
10:45	Tea
11:15	Panel 5 The New World Chair: Richard Drayton (History, Cambridge) Donna Yates (Archaeology, Cambridge): ‘The Early Twentieth -Century Excavations of E. R. Merwin and Publication as Problematic Preservation at a Remote Maya City’ Sadiah Qureshi (CVSG, Cambridge): ‘Dying Americans: Race, Extinction and Conservation in the New World’ Melanie Hall (History of Art, Boston University): ‘Despoliation or Diplomacy? Britain, Canada, the United States and the Evolution of an English-Speaking Heritage’
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Roundtable: Between Imperialist and Nationalist Preservation Chair: Marie Louise Stig-Sørenson (Archaeology, Cambridge) Panellists: Erik Goldstein (International Relations, Boston University) Margarita Diaz-Andreu (Archaeology, Durham University) Astrid Swenson (CVSG, Cambridge)
16:00	Tea