Join Professor Hannah O'Regan for the return of the inaugural lectures from the School of Humanities at University of Nottingham. There will be an introduction from Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Arts Professor Jeremy Gregory and the talk will be followed by a drinks reception.
Bones, caves and bears: an archaeological adventure
Humans and non-human animals have been living alongside each other (and eating each other) for millions of years. Hannah has been fascinated by archaeology – the study of the human past - since childhood, and at university this expanded into how humans and other creatures interacted with their environments (palaeoecology). In this talk Hannah will talk about interdisciplinary research, that there is space in academia for people who explore outside the confines of just one field, but that such opportunities are rarer than they should be. Join us to travel from South Africa 2.5 million years ago to Shakespeare’s London, meeting sabretoothed cats, porcupines and bears along the way.
Professor Hannah O'Regan will reflect on her archaeological and interdisciplinary research, discussing how bones can tell us tales of human-animal interactions from two million years ago to the present day. Bears are a current preoccupation, but porcupines, sabretoothed cats and many others will appear too!
This is a free event open to all.
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