Dr Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona

In 2015, Antonio was invited to undertake a Visiting Scholar position at the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham. Antonio was based at the Institute from January 2015 to March 2015. During this time he presented the findings of his research on landscape iconoclasm and heritage destruction at Birmingham and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia.

In 2016, Antonio was invited by the Centre for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (Doha), to be part of a CIRS Working Group, to produce an edited volume on Pluralism and Community in the Middle East. CIRS edits books in prestigious university presses and is a leader in high-level research on the Middle East. As a result, Antonio has been invited to co-authored a book chapter (10,000 words) with Associate Professor Ben Isakhan, titled “Cultural Cleansing and Iconoclasm under the ‘Islamic State’: Human / Heritage Attacks on Yezidis and Christians”.

In 2016, Antonio was the recipient of a competitive travelling grant from the Australian Academy of the Humanities to undertake research at Oxford University with the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project. During this time he presented papers at the University of Birmingham and at the School of Archaeology at Oxford University.