News & events
Upcoming Events
World Art Research Seminars
Research seminars held on Wednesdays during term time
School Lecture Theatre, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 5pm.
For details of future seminars, please see the School website.
ART/SRU Postgraduate research seminars
Research seminars held on Thursdays during term time
SRU Seminar Room, Crescent Wing, 5pm.
For further details, please see the programme.
SRU Scholarships
The Robert Sainsbury Scholarship is a fully funded scholarship available to PhD applicants to the SRU in 2012. The scholarship covers fees and living costs for three years plus an allowanace for fieldwork and conference visits.
All applicants to the SRU are eligible to be considered for various other scholarships covering fees and related costs. For further information, please contact Lisa Shayes, Senior Academic administrator at the Sainsbury Research Unit (l.shayes@uea.ac.uk).
CfAA Staff News
Dr Sam Nixon has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Researcher in African Archaeology at the Sainsbury Research Unit (UEA) and is joining Dr Haour’s Crossroads project from January 2012. Sam completed his doctorate at UCL Institute of Archaeology (London), researching the early Islamic trading towns that developed in the West African Sahel as the main exchange points for the growing trans-Saharan trade. The research was focused around fieldwork at the site of Tadmekka in northern Mali, where Sam carried out pioneering excavations, published in 2009 in the journal Azania and scheduled to appear next year in a monograph for the Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series. Sam has also been assisting with the British Museum exhibition Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam (commencing January 2012). Sam’s research into trading communities and the material culture remains of trade will provide a useful complement to the existing research skills of the Crossroads project team. He also brings a wide range of archaeological skills to the project, including experience coordinating specialist studies of ceramics, archaeometallurgy, and archaeobotany.
Visiting Fellowships
The new autumn 2012 visiting fellow will be announced shortly.
Ceremonial staff. Central and East Africa, Zaire: Luba-Hemba. Late 19th century. figure h. 24.1 cm. UEA 266
Photo: Andrew Hamilton.