Winter Semester - Seminar Series 2022/23

Published: 24 November 2022

Check out our exciting forthcoming seminars!

Our winter seminars have been announced, theys 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 (room 109) and **Thursday 16 March 2023 in the Wolfson Building Yudo Room)

Seminars are generally livestreamed.

Date

Speaker

Title

Chair

*19 Jan 2023

Mark Altaweel (UCL)

The Rise of Complex Societies and Mesopotamia’s Climate: New Results and Lessons for the Future

Claudia Glatz

25 Jan 2023

Laura Longo (Ca' Foscari, Venice)

Stone tools as bioarchives

Karen Hardy

1 Feb 2023
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Tina Greenfield (Cambridge)

"Royal Cattle for a Royal Cemetery?" Animals from The Early Dynastic Cemetery of Ur

Daniel Calderbank

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

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

1 March

Jessica Pearson (Liverpool)

Mobility and kinship in the world’s first village societies 

Claudia Glatz

8 March

Dan Lawrence (Durham)

Sustainable Urbanism, past, present and future: Exploring long-term trends in settlement persistence in Mesopotamia 

Rachel Opitz

**16 March 2023

Elsa Yvanez (Copenhagen)

(Un)Shrouding the evidence. Uncovering textile-related gestures in burial practices

Susanna Harris

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


First published: 24 November 2022

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