Sue Hamilton gives Stanford University Distinguished Lectures (March 2023)

10 March 2023

Sue Hamilton (香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Archaeology) has been invited to present in the Distinguished Lecture Series at Stanford University, USA.

Megalithic stone statue lying on teh ground on its back with a mountain in the distance and blue sky overhead

The invites prominent archaeologists from around the world听to be in residence for a week as a Distinguished Lecturer. During their residency, the Distinguished Lecturer gives two lectures and meets with faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students. Distinguished Lecturers are nominated by Stanford Archaeology Center faculty and selected by the Director.

Sue Hamilton has been in residency in听Stanford this week giving lectures entitled '' and also ''.

A landscape photo of white building (a square tower with red domed roof) with trees around it and a roof of another building in the foreground

Following her eight-year Directorship of the Institute, Sue is currently on sabbatical听writing-up a decade of work on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and her new book, The Making of Rapa Nui. During her stay at Stanford, Sue has been听discussing themes of interpretative archaeology relating to materiality and the senses, and how these concepts can be robustly explored via fieldwork.听

International Women's Day听in Archaeology (2023)

A woman in a wooded area/garden looking up at tall wooden sculptures among the trees

Images:

Top: Moai statue lying on its back on Rapa Nui (Image: Aerial Cam Ltd)听
Middle:听Stanford University 听Hoover Tower (Image: Sue Hamilton)
Bottom:听Stanford Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, created on-site at Stanford by artists from Papua New Guinea (Image Sue Hamilton)