EPoCH 2025. Emerging Perspectives on Conservation and Heritage
Communication and participation
27th to 29th March 2025

Dean Sully
University College London's Institute of Archaeology

Keynote title: Beyond People Centred Approaches to the Conservation of Heritage
27th march, at 10 am

Bio:
Dean Sully is Associate Professor in Conservation at University College London’s Institute of Archaeology, where he co-ordinates the MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums.
He is a co-ordinator of the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS) and the Curating the City Research Cluster, National Trust’s Conservation Advisor for Archaeological Artefacts, Emeritus Scientist-in-Residence at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Conservator-in-Residence at the Material Museum, and Director of the Illegal Museum of Beyond.
He studied conservation and gained his PhD at UCL, and has worked as a conservation practitioner for the National Heritage Board in Singapore (1997-2000), The Museum of London (1993-1997), The British Museum (1987-1993), and Monmouthshire District Council Museums Service (1985-1987).

Eric Gable
University of Mary Washington

Keynote title: Heritage as Erasure
28th march, at 10 am

Bio:
1996-present University of Mary Washington, Professor. Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia (1990).
2022-present, Scientific Editorial Board, Hau: The Journal of Ethnographic Theory, University of Chicago Press; 2020-present, Advisory Board, Museums and Narrative book series; 2018- present, Editorial Board, Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute; 2017-present Advising Editor, Museum and Society; 2012-present Editorial Board, Museum and Culture (Chinese Association of Museums, Taiwan).

Books:
2011. Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau. Indiana University Press.
1997. The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. (With Richard Handler). Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

Articles:
2018. “When the Monuments Came Down Where was Anthropology.” Museum Anthropology. 41(2): 130-34.
2018. “Missing Bodies in Manjaco:  or, the Past and Future of some Funeral Customs in the Context of Cosmopolitanism.” Death on the Move: managing narratives, silences and constraints in a transnational perspective. Philip J. Havik, José Mapril and Clara Saraiva (eds.) Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.