Seminar list announced for the first semester of 2014/2015 !

UCD School of Archaeology & Archaeological Society Research Seminar Series 2014/15

Thursdays at 5:30 pm, 

Room A109, 

Newman Building, UCD

All welcome

For further information contact: archaeology.soc@gmail.com stephen.davis@ucd.ie

• Thursday 25^th September 2014

Dr Jo Buckberry, University of Bradford

“Death during the Scottish war of independence”

• Thursday 2^nd October 2014

Geraldine Stout, National Monuments Service

"The Bective Abbey Project: Survey, Excavation and Results"

• Thursday 16^th October 2014

Richard O’Brien, Rathnadrinna Research Project

"In the plains of Mag Femen: excavations at the royal fort of Rathnadrinna”

• Thursday 30^th October 2014

Dr Tomás O Carragain, University College Cork

“Insular Monasticism and Royal Patronage in the Glen of Aherlow: Survey and Excavations at Toureen Peakaun"

Mid-Term Break

• Thursday 13^th November 2014

Dr Alison Sheridan, National Museum of Scotland

“Green treasures from the magic mountains: Neolithic Alpine axeheads in Ireland and Britain, and the amazing story of how they got here”

• Thursday 20^th November 2014

                ***ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY INAUGURAL LECTURE***

Prof. Chris Scarre, University of Durham

“Missing Persons? Formal Disposal and Funerary Practices in Prehistoric Britain”

• Thursday 27^th November 2014

Prof. John Schofield, University of York

“Forget about ‘Heritage’: Place, Ethics and the Faro Convention”