Wednesday, March 24, 2021 @ 6:00 pm-7:30 pm
Rethinking Mesopotamia in Oxford
The chance to refurbish the Ancient Near East gallery at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has offered opportunities to rethink what stories are told and also who tells them.
By Ali Khadr
The chance to refurbish the Ancient Near East gallery at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has offered opportunities to rethink what stories are told and also who tells them. The result has been several projects designed to explore these issues. This talk will describe the work, with a focus on a dual-language temporary exhibition called Owning the Past: From Mesopotamia to Iraq, which has been supported by the BISI.
Dr Paul Collins is Jaleh Hearn Curator for Ancient Near East at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. He has worked previously as a curator at the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He is currently BISI’s Chair of Council.
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BISI works to advance research and public education about Iraq in all of the arts, humanities and social sciences subjects, and enables exchange and collaboration between UK and Iraqi academics. Our grants and scholarships have helped the fund the following research projects.