I am currently the Curator for Later European Prehistory at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, and a Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. My research focuses on rock art and portable art in Europe; Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeology in Northern, Central, and Western Europe; coastal and intertidal archaeology; effects of environmental change on art production; and the intersections of archaeological and anthropological theory in prehistoric art studies.

I am currently leading and collaborating on four grant-funded projects: NoMAD: Non-destructive Mobile and imaging Device at the University of Exeter (funded by UKRI); LINXS: Heritage Science theme at the University of Lund; Sir John Evans and the Hallstatt Collection at the Ashmolean Museum; and the Iron Age Coins in Britain and Celtic Coin Index Digital projects at the Ashmolean and School of Archaeology. I recently led the Leverhulme-funded project Ebb & Flow: Exploring rivers in later prehistoric Britain and BALMS: Bronze Age Landscapes and Metalwork in Sweden.

From 2017–2018, I was a Research Fellow at the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit at Griffith University (Australia) on the Australian Research Council Laureate project: Australian Rock Art History, Conservation and Indigenous Wellbeing. From 2015–2017, I was a researcher on the Leverhulme-funded project 'European Celtic Art in Context' at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford (http://ecaic.arch.ox.ac.uk/) and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

I have a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading, for which I created a Scandinavian-wide GIS survey of prehistoric rock art and used this to discuss maritime rock art and human responses to environmental change. The monograph of this research was published in 2015 (http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/prehistoric-rock-art-in-scandinavia.html). I have an MA Distinction in Maritime Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Prior to my settlement in the UK, I worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (USA) in Conservation and Collections Management. I completed my BFA (University of California, Santa Cruz) and MFA (Tufts University, SMFA) in fine art, art history and museum studies.

Dr Yunuen Montelongo obtained his PhD in 2015 at the University of Cambridge in the Centre of Advanced Photonics and Electronics. Then, he continued with his postdoctoral training in the Chemistry Department at the Imperial College London. Currently he is a Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering Science and Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. The research work of Dr Montelongo focuses in the development of reconfigurable materials for photonic devices. His research includes theoretical aspect of the light-matter interaction and experimental demonstrations involving nanostructured materials. The applications of reconfigurable materials include sensors, metamaterials, holographic displays, data storage, tuneable lasers among many others.

My research is based in Cameroon where I work on many topics with Mambila people. I have worked on spider divination, the history of Cameroonian photography and endangered languages near the Nigerian border. A book on divination came out in 2020. A short theory book will be published in the autumn of 2022: "An anthropological toolkit"

 

The Palestinian independent researcher and activist Adam Haj Yahia has been involved in grassroots organizing and community building initiatives, concerned with feminist, queer, and anti-colonial movements and communities in Palestine. In recent years, LGBTQIA+ issues have been increasingly discussed in mainstream media and society, leading to an acceleration in change and a shift in dynamics. In his research, Adam looks at how LGBTQIA+ Palestinians navigate through online platforms since then, and which parts of their identities and views they choose to disclose for anti-colonial, political, and social reasons.

For this event, Adam will give some insight into the political and colonial frameworks in Palestine and how they intersect with LGBTQIA+ folks' lives and queer issues. We will also learn about the ways in which queer politics in the Palestinian context differ from the more liberal/individualistic ones in western societies and how it is crucial to discuss these politics through an intersectional lens.

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