David Wengrow gives Stanford University Distinguished Lectures (April 2023)
5 April 2023
David Wengrow (UCL Institute of Archaeology) has been invited to present in the Distinguished Lecture Series at Stanford University, USA.
![Prehistoric rock art paintings, La Lindosa, Colombia. Image: Alamy Prehistoric rock painting figures and shapes in browns. reds, oranges and white on a light/neutral coloured background (stone)](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/sites/archaeology/files/styles/large_image/public/wengrow2c8a1y9-800px.png?itok=iKSHLKUo)
The Stanford Archaeology Center invites prominent archaeologists from around the world to be in residence for a week as a Distinguished Lecturer. During their residency, the Distinguished Lecturer gives two lectures and meets with faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students. Distinguished Lecturers are nominated by Stanford Archaeology Center faculty and selected by the Director.
![Stanford University Hoover Tower (Image: Sue Hamilton) A landscape photo of white building (a square tower with red domed roof) with trees around it and a roof of another building in the foreground](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/sites/archaeology/files/styles/large_image/public/shamilton-stanford1-800px.jpg?itok=7UMcsxLC)
David Wengrow will be in residency in Stanford later this month giving lectures entitled 'Archaeology and Forensic Architecture: A New Collaboration' and also 'The Origins of Inequality'.
David has recently been in New York giving a presentation on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, his bestselling book with the late David Graeber, and has previously been invited to reflect on the ideas stemming from the book, and his new collaboration on Forensic Architecture, at two literature festivals in India as well as special events in Chicago, Edinburgh and Italy (Museo Egizio and Biennale Democrazia, both in Turin).
![Prof David Wengrow, UCL Institute of Archaeology (Image credit: Tom Jamieson) Man, wearing a grey jacket, sitting in a chair in an office setting, in front of a window](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/sites/archaeology/files/styles/large_image/public/wengrow_tom_jamieson800px.jpg?itok=_RYoXHt0)
Images:
- Top: Prehistoric rock art paintings, La Lindosa, Colombia (Image: Alamy)
- Middle: Stanford University Hoover Tower (Image: Sue Hamilton)
- Bottom: Prof David Wengrow, UCL Institute of Archaeology (Image: Tom Jamieson)