EPoCH 2025. Emerging Perspectives on Conservation and Heritage
Comunicação e participação
27 a 29 de Março 

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.