Festival of Ideas, Cambridge (UK)

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A brief Tour of European Research

Programme
10:00-10:10 am Remarks and Introduction

10:10-10:15 Alice Leplongeon. “Homo sapiens and his stone tools in prehistory: tracing human dispersals within, out of and back into Africa”.

10:15-10:20 Giulio Lucarini. “African veggie food under the microscope. The analysis of plant micro-remains from ancient grinding tools”.

10:20-10:25 Dunia Filippi. “One, one hundred, one thousand squares: the Roman Forum and its many forms”.

10:25-10:30 David Friesem. “MicroArchaeology: Connecting culture and materials beyond the visible range”.

10:30-10:35 Stefano Campana. “Mediterranean Emptyscapes: how sensitive the soil is, how slow nature heals the wounds made also by past populations”.

10:35-10:40 Tommaso Piffer. “Investigating World War II from the Cambridge, Moscow and the United States”.

10:40-10:45 Lidia Puigvert Mallaart. “My parents tell me that I should marry a good guy. And I do pay too much attention… until I get married I have fun with bad guys. Attractiveness and desire in teenagers: overcoming gender violence”.

10:45-10:50 Gisela Redondo. “We improve because we lead through dialogue”.

10:50-10:55 Eran Tal. “How Heavy is a Kilogram?”

10:55-11:00 Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco. “Engaging with 3D digital artefacts and 3D prints inside museums. What can you learn from them?”

11:00am-1pm Hands On activities. These activities will include:
1. Handling and investigating stone-tools

2. Analysis of plant micro-remains from ancient grinding tools

3. Interactive session on maps showing how the forum has changed through time

4. Slides from archaeological sites under the microscope and understand how they help us to understand ancient human activity

5. Stand of Leadership for Learning Academic Group and then, Share ideas and insights about the role of leadership enabling improvements!

6. Learning more about how to overcome gender violence

7. Laser scanning session. How to create the 3D model of an artefact