Zena Kamash's guest appearances

Zena Kamash

Coffee and Circuses

Khameleon Classics

Phil Hughes

Patty Baker

Alex Davis

Fiona Macintosh

John Gilmore

Tom Hawkins

David Walsh

Liz Gloyn

Oliver Taplin

Deb Mayers

Adam Parker

Rosemary Sutcliff

Caroline Lawrence

Charlie Edwards

Richard Hobbs

OwlTail

In 2015, the world reacted furiously to the deliberate acts of destruction that the Islamic State group (Da’esh) staged in the Roman-period city of Tadmor-Palmyra in Syria. This provoked numerous plans for reconstruction, with each proposed project claiming to offer the best technological solution for rebuilding the archaeological site. In this podcast, Shivaike Shah discusses these events and their ramifications with Dr Zena Kamash, a British-Iraqi archaeologist and Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at Royal Holloway University. They consider some of the key questions in the thorny debates over how we treat our cultural heritage. Should we rebuild sites of cultural heritage destroyed in conflict, and what is the role of digital reconstruction? Does the proliferation of reconstruction projects in Tadmor-Palmyra represent a form of digital colonialism? Crucially, what alternatives might we envision?To find out more about this topic, check out the reading list on our website: https://www.khameleonproductions.org/khameleon-classics/tadmor-palmyra-reconstruction-digitization

In 2015, the world reacted furiously to the deliberate acts of destruction that the Islamic State group (Da’esh) staged in the Roman-period city of Tadmor-Palmyra in Syria. This provoked numerous plans for reconstruction, with each proposed project claiming to offer the best technological solution for rebuilding the archaeological site. In this podcast, Shivaike Shah discusses these events and their ramifications with Dr Zena Kamash, a British-Iraqi archaeologist and Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at Royal Holloway University. They consider some of the key questions in the thorny debates over how we treat our cultural heritage. Should we rebuild sites of cultural heritage destroyed in conflict, and what is the role of digital reconstruction? Does the proliferation of reconstruction projects in Tadmor-Palmyra represent a form of digital colonialism? Crucially, what alternatives might we envision? To find out more about this topic, check out the reading list on our website: <a href="https://www.khameleonproductions.org/khameleon-classics/tadmor-palmyra-reconstruction-digitization" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.khameleonproductions.org/khameleon-classics/tadmor-palmyra-reconstruction-digitization</a>

Tadmor-Palmyra: Reconstruction and Digitisation, with Zena Kamash

Zena chats about the heritage of the Near East and her family connection to the region, the 3D re-construction of the Palmyra Arch in Trafalgar Square, and the recent documentary film the 'Destruction of Memory'. We also talk about how monuments are recorded via photographs, and what this means in the age of Tripadvisor, Instagram, and even Tinder..., as well digging at Silchester, Roman toilets, and how Zena thinks archaeologists can make Twitter more inclusive.Zena Kamash is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, London. She has her own blog at: https://notallarchaeologistshavebeards.wordpress.com/Theme tune: 'La Calahorra' by Rolemusic (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/~/calahorra) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zena chats about the heritage of the Near East and her family connection to the region, the 3D re-construction of the Palmyra Arch in Trafalgar Square, and the recent documentary film the 'Destruction of Memory'. We also talk about how monuments are recorded via photographs, and what this means in the age of Tripadvisor, Instagram, and even Tinder..., as well digging at Silchester, Roman toilets, and how Zena thinks archaeologists can make Twitter more inclusive.Zena Kamash is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, London. She has her own blog at: <a href="https://notallarchaeologistshavebeards.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://notallarchaeologistshavebeards.wordpress.com/</a>Theme tune: 'La Calahorra' by Rolemusic (<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/~/calahorra" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/~/calahorra</a>) Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

3: Zena Kamash (Royal Holloway)