by Dr. Eva Miller (University College, London) Warwick Global History and Culture Centre Annual Conference: Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939. Organisers: Guillemette Crouzet (European Research Institute at Florence) and Eva Miller (UCL) Since Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798 with a cadre of scientific experts, the Middle East has been framed as the cradle of the world past: the place where civilization began, burgeoning with antiquities, where ancient history was visible in the landscape—or could be made so through the right kind of labour. This framing continues to affect heritage politics and international relations in the region. The conference ‘Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939’, held on 25–26 May, 2023 at the University of Warwick, explored how historical consciousness about the Middle East was reshaped in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and new senses of its ancient past forged through excavation and exegesis of traces of ancient civilisations (programme here). The Past & Present Society supported the essential participation of ECRs travelling from the Middle East. Why was a conference about one particular area of the globe the annual conference of a centre for ‘global’ […]