From Ancient Fields to Modern Plates: The Culinary Heritage of Cyprus and the Mediterranean Diet

Location
Hybrid
Time
3:00 pm
Date
26 February 2025

Speaker: Dr. Evi Margaritis

Evi is Associate Professor at the Cyprus Institute, based at the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center. As part of her PhD and post-PhD fieldwork and research, Dr Margaritis has gained extensive experience working in Greece, Cyprus, Jordan and Italy, and is in charge of archaeobotanical studies of research projects run by numerous universities and research institutions. She is one of the leading experts in archaeobotanical research in the eastern Mediterranean and the only archaeobotanist based in Cyprus. She has extensively published in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes. She has been working with national and international teams, with other specialists and with students, and leads her own teams in various projects. She has initiated Erasmus programmes in order to attract students to be trained in archaeobotany in the CyI. Currently, she is the Assistant Director of the Cambridge Keros Excavation Project, one of the most multidisciplinary projects in the eastern Mediterranean.

Time: 6pm Amman, 5pm Cyprus, 3pm London

This lecture will be hybrid.

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