AfOx Globinar: Africanising archaeology and palaeoanthropology: decolonisation, race and inequality

Watch the event live here.

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and increasing global inequalities suggest that archaeology must reinvent itself to go beyond colonial applications and provide models of alternative knowledge that have the potential to contribute towards sustainable development.

These AfOx webinars will feature experts from around the world to explore questions such as:

• Who receives and benefits from funding for research?
• Can we apply Africa’s archaeological and cultural heritage to contribute to sustainable development, trans-cultural education and social justice?
• Will Africa ever get improved infrastructure for research?
• How can we reinvent archaeology with positive knock-on effects to social justice?

The inaugural globinar panel will consist of:

• Prof Shadreck Chirikure, University of Oxford
• Prof Iddir Amara, Algiers
• Prof Rebecca Rogers Ackermann. University of Cape Town
• Prof Kristina Douglass, Penn State University
• Dr Freda Nkirote, British Institute in Eastern Africa
• Prof Innocent Pikirayi, University of Pretoria
• Prof Ibrahima Thiaw, FAN, Senegal

These globinars are hosted in partnership with TORCH Oxford, St Cross College, Oxford’s School of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town, Great Zimbabwe University, Pan African Congress for Prehistory and Related Studies, Society for Black Archaeologists, Society for Africanist Archaeologists, SAPIENS, and Wenner Gren Foundation.