Archaeology Seminars 2022-23
Autumn Semester Series 2022-23
Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 4.00-5.30pm in the Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre 222 (apart from Wednesday 30 Nov 2022: room to be confirmed).
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Chair |
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21 Sept 2022 |
Susanna Harris Kenny Brophy (UoG) |
The Galloway Hoard; an update. |
Michael Given |
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28 September 2022 |
Karen Hardy; Kenny Brophy & colleagues (UoG)
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From the Late Pleistocene to the mid Holocene. Archaeology of the earliest human inhabitants of Scotland's north-west; |
Michael Given |
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5 October 2022 |
Rowan McLaughlin Hamilton Inst, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, in person |
Modelling and understanding cultural change through the millennia |
Nicki Whitehouse |
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12 October 2022 |
Karen Hardy, UoG |
People and Plants before Agriculture |
Susanna Harris |
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19 October 2022 |
Gareth Beale, Michael Given, Mónica Palmero Fernández, Tessa Poller and Eddie Stewart, UoG |
Remarkably fat cattle: Shielings, Hut Circles and Creative Practice on Cochno Hill |
Rachel Opitz |
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26 October 2022 |
Sadie Watson, Mola (remote) |
Rethinking Value from Development-led Archaeology |
Rachel Opitz |
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2 November 2022 |
Seren Griffiths, University of Manchester (in person) |
Making Time in 4th and 3rd millennium Ireland and Britain |
Kenny Brophy |
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9 November 2022 |
Mel Giles, University of Manchester (remote) |
Bog Bodies: face to face with the past |
Nicki Whitehouse |
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16 November 2022 |
Antonia Thomas, UHI |
Contemporary Art and Contemporary Archaeology |
Kenny Brophy |
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23 November 2022 |
Laura McAtackney, University of Cork, Republic of Ireland (in person) |
Materials and Memory: conducting contemporary archaeologies of Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries |
Kenny Brophy |
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30 November 2022 CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION |
Xiaolin Ren, Chinese Academy of Sciences (remote) |
Incipient urbanism, environmental consequences, and social resilience in the Central Plains of China |
Daniel Calderbank |
Winter Semester Series 2022/23
Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 4.00-5.30pm in Room 639 in the James McCune Smith Building (apart from *Thursday 19 January 2023 in the Molema Lecture Theatre and **Thursday 16 March 2023 in the Wolfson Building Yudowitz Room)
Seminars are generally livestreamed.
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Chair |
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*19 Jan 2023 |
Mark Altaweel (UCL) |
The Rise of Complex Societies and Mesopotamia’s Climate: New Results and Lessons for the Future |
Claudia Glatz |
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25 Jan 2023 |
Laura Longo (Ca' Foscari, Venice) |
Stone tools as bioarchives |
Karen Hardy |
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1 Feb 2023 |
Tina Greenfield (Cambridge) |
"Royal Cattle for a Royal Cemetery?" Animals from The Early Dynastic Cemetery of Ur |
Daniel Calderbank |
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8 Feb 2023 |
Peggy Brunache (UofG) |
Digging a Difficult Past and Actualising a Better Future: Historical Archaeology and Social Activism of the African Diaspora |
Claudia Glatz |
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22 Feb |
Karina Croucher (Bradford) |
Continuing Bonds - Past and Present: Using funerary archaeology to talk about death and dying today, and implications for archaeological interpretations of the past |
Daniel Calderbank |
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1 March |
Jessica Pearson (Liverpool) |
Mobility and kinship in the world’s first village societies |
Claudia Glatz |
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8 March |
Dan Lawrence (Durham) |
Sustainable Urbanism, past, present and future: Exploring long-term trends in settlement persistence in Mesopotamia |
Rachel Opitz |
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16 March 2023 |
Elsa Yvanez (Copenhagen) |
(Un)Shrouding the evidence. Uncovering textile-related gestures in burial practices |
Susanna Harris |
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22 March 2023 |
Aphrodite Sorotou (Inherit) |
"No Future Without Past": How heritage becomes a driver for change for the marginalised Bedouin of Lebanon |
Claudia Glatz |
