Seminar series for semester 2, 2013-2014

Here is the programme for the upcoming seminar series for the second semester of the year ! A huge thank you to Steve Davis for organising it.

All seminars (unless otherwise advertised) are held on

Thursdays at 5:30 pm inRoom A109, Newman Building, UCD

   All welcome

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

• Thursday 23rd January, 2014

Dr James Barrett, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge

“Clontarf, Orkney and the Power of Piracy in the Late Viking Age”

This seminar had to be cancelled and will be re-scheduled.
Instead, the seminar will be given by

Dr Amanda Kelly, UCD School of Classics

"Roman bathing and its legacy on Crete"

• Thursday 6th February, 2014

Prof. Alex Bentley, University of Bristol

"Land Use and Community Differentiation in the European Neolithic: Isotopic Evidence"

• Thursday 20th February, 2014

Prof. Robert van der Noort, University of Exeter

"Trials and tribulations of building Morgawr, a Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat”

• Thursday 27th February, 2014

Prof. Dorian Fuller, University College London

"Comparing pathways to agriculture: current evidence on crop domestication rates and contexts from across Asia"

• Thursday 6th March, 2014

Cóilin O’Drisceol, Kilkenny Archaeology

"The Cathedral Close of St. Canice's, Kilkenny"

**** Mid-Term Break ****

• Wednesday 26th March, 2014

Prof. Annelou van Gijn, University of Leiden
"Itineraries of Neolithic jet and amber beads: a microscopic view"
Attention please, this seminar will take place on a Wednesday.

•      Thursday 3rd April, 2014 

Prof. Bill Hanson, University of Glasgow

“Rome's most northerly frontier: the Antonine Wall”

Unfortunately, we had to reschedule this until next semester.

•      Thursday 10th April 2014

Dr Andrew Gardner, University College London
“Debating theories of Roman imperialism”  

•      Thursday 24th April 2014

Prof. Ian Ralston, University of Edinburgh

“Bourges-Avaricum, central France: a case of early but fragile urbanisation in temperate Europe?”

Seminar series, lecture 8: Assembly places and hunting grouns in Mediaeval Ireland

Next week seminar will be the last for this first semester of 2013-2014. It will be given by Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick from NUI Galway with the title "Assembly places and hunting grounds in Mediaeval Gaelic Ireland". 


Thursday 28th November
5.30pm
Room A109, Newman Building

All welcome !

Seminar series for semester 1, 2013-2014

Here is the programme for the upcoming seminar series for the first term of the year ! A huge thank you to Steve Davis for organising it.

(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 12th September, 2013

Dr Laura McAtackney, UCD School of Social Justice

“Graffiti recording in the West Wing of Kilmainham Gaol: ‘reading’ the revolutionary period?” - read the report here

• Thursday 26th September, 2013

Dr Maureen Doyle, UCD School of Archaeology

"Keeping up appearances:  dress and identity in early medieval Ireland" - read the report here

• Thursday 10th October, 2013

Dr Katharina Becker, University of Bradford

"Token interpretations: the interpretation of cremation burial in Late Prehistoric Ireland" - read the report here

• Thursday 24th October, 2013

Dr Geert Verhoeven, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection

"Breaking new ground from the air: some recent technologies for the benefit of aerial archaeology” - read the report here

• Thursday 7th November, 2013

Prof. Colin Richards, University of Manchester

"Wrapping up the late Neolithic in Orkney"

• Thursday 14th November, 2013

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY INAUGURAL LECTURE
Prof. Paul Pettitt, University of Durham

"The emergence of cave art in Palaeolithic Europe: new research, new hypotheses”

• Thursday 21st November, 2013

Prof. David Hendy, University of Sussex

“Noise:a Human History - Telling the Story of Sound before the Age of Recording”

• Thursday 28th November 2013

Dr Liz Fitzpatrick, NUIG

    “Title TBC”