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GAP Lectures and Seminars

Second Semester 2012-2013

DateClusterSeminar Details  
Tue 29 January
@4pm		 EC  Dr. Raimon Tolosana-Delgado (University of Gottingen): An  introduction to Compositional Data Analysis (or how should we deal  with variables in percentages?)

 Chair: Dr. Jennifer McKinley
Tue 12 February PCC  Dr Alison Sheridan (National Museums of Scotland): Jet-setting toffs, isotopic aliens and the get rich quick generations: the social dynamics of Britain and Ireland, c 3300–1750 BC

 Chair: Dr Finbar McCormick
Tue 12 February
@4pm		 EC

 Dr Iestyn Barr (QUB): Glacial, climatic, and tectonic controls upon the topography of Kamchatka
 Chair: TBC
Wed 20 February EC

 Dr Barry Smith (Schlumberger Water Services (UK) Ltd): Determining the availability of potentially harmful substances in urban and peri-urban environments
Tue 26 February PCC  Dr Marion Uckelmann (University of Exeter): Armour or Glamour – shields and warfare in the Bronze Age

 Chair: Dr Dirk Brandherm
Thu 28 February SCC  Professor Alan Lester, University of Sussex, ‘Indigenous Engagements with Humanitarian Governance: The Port Phillip Protectorate of Aborigines and ‘Humanitarian Space’

 Chair: Dr. David Livingstone
Thu 7 March @ 1pm

Room 0G006 
Refreshments beforehand in 01-009 of the Elmwood Building

 SCC  Dr. John Meehan, University of Regina, Canada, ‘Flags, Loyalists and Nationalists: The Canadian Experience’ 

 Chair: Prof. Steve Royle

Co-sponsors QUB Centre of Canadian Studies and the Society, Space and Culture Cluster of the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology. Supported by the Eaton Foundation
Tue 12 March EC  Prof. Siwan Davies (Swansea University), Tephra constraints on rapid climatic events: exploring ice and marine records in the North Atlantic region

 Chair: Dr Gill Plunkett
Thu 14 March PCC  Dr Vyacheslav Moiseyev (Russian Academy of Science): Recent developments in population studies of northern Eurasia

  Chair: Dr Eileen Murphy
Thu 14 March@12pm SCC  Dr. Hilary Geoghegan, UCL, ‘Harnessing Enthusiasm: understanding what motivates and sustains citizen participation in science’

 Chair: Dr. Carl Griffin
Tue 16th April
*POSTPONED*		 PCC  Dr Christopher Young (English Heritage): Hadrian’s Wall to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire: the evolution of a World  Heritage

 Chair: Dr Caroline Malone
Thu 25 April SCC  Professor Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 'Achieving  Endangerment: Breeds, Species, and Degrees of Difference'

 Chair: Dr. Nuala Johnson
Tue 30th April PCC  Professor Bruce Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast): Matthew Paris and the volcano: the English 'famine' of 1258 reconsidered

 Chair: Prof Mike Baillie
Tue 14th May PCC  Dr Laura McAtackney (University College Dublin): Material approaches to imprisonment during the Irish Civil War: exploring female experiences through historical prison graffiti

 Chair: Prof Audrey Horning
Thu 16 May SCC  Dr. Al James, Queen Mary, ‘“Economic” Geography – “Development” Geography Trading Zone: Experiments in Teaching and Research in India's New Economy’

 Chair: Dr. Satish Kumar

PCC  Seminars usually take place at 1pm in Room 0G 043, Archaeology Building - All welcome
EC seminars usually take place at 1pm in Room 01-009, Elmwood Building - All welcome
SSC Seminars usually take place at 3pm  in Room 01-009, Elmwood Building - All welcome

 

Thursday Evening Seminars 2012-2013

DateSeminar Details  
Thu 7 March

 Evelyn Keaveney, CHRONO : "Here be Dragons: Radiocarbon in a complex lake system"
 Poster (pdf)
Thu 23 May
Room 0G006,
Elmwood Building
@4pm

 Rory Flood, QUB : "Does size really matter? Grain size data and what we find"
 Poster (pdf)
Thu 13 June

 Evan Hill, QUB : "Re-dating Prehistory in North Africa: 'Shells, Radiocarbon and the Archaeology of the Haua Fteah'"
 Poster (pdf)

Evening Seminars usually take place at 4pm in Room 0G 043, Archaeology Building - All welcome