Women in (Pre)History
Event
ICArEHB Dialogues ‘Women in (Pre)History’, will take place Tuesday 21st of May 2024 at 4pm (Faro time) in videoconference, with Dr. Maria Ana Correia, Dr. Njoki Wamai (USIU-A), and Dr. Jennifer French (University of Liverpool), and will be convened by Dr. Sara E. Rhodes.
Speakers
Each 90 min Dialogues event will be live-streamed for registered viewers and shared via the ICArEHB YouTube.
 | Dr. Njoki Wamai is a Kenyan Assistant Professor at the United States International University Africa (USIU-A). She is also a visiting lecturer in Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Spain and an Iso-Lomso Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Sciences (STIAS). She was previously a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and her research interests include Transitional Justice, Women Peace and Security and Women Political Participation. |
 | Dr. Jennifer French is a Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. She is a specialist in the European Palaeolithic, with a particular emphasis on the Middle and Upper stages of this period (Neanderthals and the first Homo sapiens in Europe). Her research focuses on social and demographic approaches to these early human populations as exemplified in her recent monograph “Palaeolithic Europe: A Demographic and Social Prehistory” (2021, Cambridge University Press). More recently, Jennifer has begun a research project exploring the technological concept of ‘containment’ and the role of containers in our evolutionary past, including the technology of infant carrying in Palaeolithic societies. An active field archaeologist, she is part of the team currently excavating the early prehistoric site of Wogan Cavern in Pembrokeshire, Wales. |
 | Dr. Maria Ana Correia has a BSc in Biology from the University of Lisbon, a MSc in Human Evolution and Biology from the University of Coimbra, and a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Afterwards, she worked for two years as a forensic anthropologist at a human rights group in Brazil and as a postdoc in Archaeology for another two years at the University of São Paulo. She joined ICArEHB as a Junior Researcher in 2023, where she’s studying breastfeeding and weaning practices in the past. |
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