Do you have gadgets and gizmos aplenty? Whosits and whatsits galore? Whether your answer is yes or no, if you're interested in finding out whether the seaweed is really greener in somebody else's lake, come along to our next Kulturo Share event on August 20th and hear all about a few of the different aspects of maritime archaeology from our three guest speakers.

Speakers:

Dr. Claire Harris

Dr Claire Harris is a palaeolithic and community archaeologist. She is currently working at the Museum of London Archaeology as part of the Thames Discovery Programme, which is a community-based archaeological project that aims to document the River Thames foreshore. She will be telling us more about this project during her talk.

Dr. Rachel Bynoe

Dr Rachel Bynoe is an archaeologist specialising in submerged landscapes and human origins. She is currently working as a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Southampton, where she is also the director of the Center for the Archaeology of Human Origins. She will be talking more about her work, which focuses on the underwater landscape of Doggerland.

Alexandra Ulisch

Alexandra Ulisch is a scientific diver and research associate at the Baden-Württemburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. She is currently working in the "Wrecks in the Depth of Lake Constance" project, and she will be talking more about her work in this sector during our upcoming event.

We all have a mother, of course. And believe it or not, so did our ancestors! But, how do they show up in the archaeological record? Can we see motherhood? Can we see gender roles? Can we see parenting? Our speakers for this Kulturo Share event will explore those questions and more.

Speakers:

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Amy O'Keeffe

Jessica Thompson

What's next in the study of heritage? The three speakers will discuss their efforts to "digitize heritage" and what that means for them. It seems like everything is being "digitized" these days. How do you do it while preserving the feeling of heritage? How do you do it while preserving the sense of the original research? These speakers will discuss what they do and how they digitize heritage.

Speaker bios:

Gary Dempsey is PhD candidate and lecturer in Game and Animation, GIS and Heritage at the Heritage Research Group at Atlantic Technological University - Galway City. He is also the founder of Digital Heritage Age, which is a network of digital heritage professionals engaged in the promotion of digitising cultural heritage in Ireland. He will be talking about various methods of digitization for projects and when to apply them.

Caroline Jeffra is an archaeologist by training whose current work focuses on digital heritage and game design, which she will discuss further in this talk. She is the founder of Immersive Heritage, which is a studio that aims to bridge the digital divide for museums and archaeological interpretation by building immersive, open-world gaming inspired experiences for people around the world to explore digitally.

Thomas Flynn comes from a background in audio and digital design, and is currently the cultural heritage lead and community manager at Epic Games (Sketchfab). His work specialises in 3D digitisation, and he will be talking in this event about opportunities for engaging online audiences with 3D.

This is the Q&A with Chris Webster and the three speakers.

Main Event

We've got three speakers for this event. First, here's the format:

15 min introductions

30 min chat with guest 1

30 min chat with guest 2

30 min chat with guest 3

15 min break (chat possible)

30-45 min group discussion (including audience members)

Here's the line-up:

Thomas Keyes is a Scotland-based artist who specialises in the reconstruction of insular manuscripts and their material components, in particular the parchment and pigments. He'll be talking about his current kickstarter project "Making the Book of Kells", in which he aims to recreate one of the iconic pages from the Book of Kells, starting completely from scratch and using only authentic materials and methods.

Aaron Deter-Wolf is the Prehistoric Archaeologist for the Tennessee Division of Archaeology in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Alongside this work, he is also an experimental archaeologist with a particular interest in ancient tattooing. He'll be talking about his work and experience on this subject, in particular a recent project undertaken alongside professional tattoo artists to compare the physical characteristics of tattoos using different pre-modern tools and methods.

Dr Anita Radini currently works as the archaeological science and engagement officer at the Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC) at University College Dublin in Ireland. Her research specialises in the micro- and macro- remains of plants, and she uses experimental archaeology "as a means to understand the past, but also as a valuable tool to bridge traditional and ancient craft skills with a more sustainable future". She'll be talking about her projects and the work currently being done at the CEAMC.

This is the Q&A with all speakers for the 2022Q4 Kulturo Share Event.

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