Science Cafe: "Who would live in a house like this?"

09 Mar

Time: Drop by from 7.30 for 8pm start end 10 pm

Location: Cafe-At-Bristol

We might often think about our identities as social concepts in our minds, but we also project those identities through the objects we use throughout our lives, whether we realise it or not. Identity  may be defined as the collective aspect of a set of characteristics by which something or someone is recognisable or known.

This collective aspect also implies that the notion of identity depends upon contrast with something else. One of the challenges for archaeologists who explore the expression and projection of identities in the past is that all we have to rely on is, for the most part, the patterning of artefacts in the material record, a picture that is incomplete at best.  

Join Dr. Tamar Hodos, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Bristol to explore the difficulties of understanding social identities within the archaeological record and consider how we project our own identities through the material artefacts we use in our own lives, and how these might be interpreted by archaeologists of the future.

This event is in conjunction with the Wellcome Trust's Identity Project 
 

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Join us in At-Bristol's café on the second Tuesday of the month to discuss contemporary science with experts - scientists, engineers, mathematicians, industry professionals and historians.

Science Cafés are informal evenings where you can discuss the latest issues in science and technology over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine.

Check out the science café website for further details.