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GAP Lectures and Seminars

First Semester 2011-12

Seminars

DateClusterSeminar Details  
Tue 11 Oct PCC Dr Sam Turner (University of Newcastle) 'Scale, power and church foundation: comparing early medieval Britain and Ireland

Chair: Dr Mark Gardiner 

Tue 18 Oct PCC Dr Colin Breen (University of Ulster) 'Archaeology, identity and conflict in east and north Africa'

Chair: Dr Eileen Murphy

Tue 1 Nov PCC Dr Meggen Gondek (University of Chester) 'Mystery monuments: rethinking approaches to Pictish symbol stones'

Chair: tbc

Wed 2 Nov EC Dr Kirsty Penkman (University of York) 'Marking time at a snail's pace: million-year old amino acids' Penkman abstract  

Chair: Professor Paula Reimer

Wed 9 Nov SSC Dr Michele Campopiano (University of York) 'Space representation and measurability in the 12th century: the works of Guido da Pisa'.

Chair: Dr Keith Lilley

Tue 15 Nov PCC Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory (University of Cambridge) 'Piecing the puzzle together: understanding prehistoric Malta beyond monuments'

Chair: Dr Caroline Malone

Wed 16 Nov
*4pm*
SSC Professor Rajesh Kochhar (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali) 'Scriptures, science and mythology: ancient Indian astronomical interplay'.

Chair: Dr Carl Griffin

Tue 29 Nov PCC Dr Ben Roberts (British Museum) 'All that glitters: metal-detecting, the Treasure Act (1996) and Bronze Age Gold in England and Wales'

Chair: Dr Dirk Brandherm

Wed 30 Nov
*Postponed*
SSC Dr Katy Hayward and Dr Milena Komarova (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Mapping conflict in urban space'.

Chair: Dr Ian Shuttleworth

Thurs 1 Dec EC Professor Jed Kaplan (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 'From moraine to meadow and forest to farmland: 8000 years of human-environment interactions'. Kaplan abstract  

Chair: Dr Nicki Whitehouse

Wed 7 Dec
SSC Dr Heather Winlow (Bath Spa University) 'Rational frontiers: cartography as a tool of dispossession in the US, 1825-1934'.

Chair: Professor Stephen Royle

Mon 12 Dec  EC Dr Frederike Verbruggen (Archeologisch Diensten Centrum) 'The development of a new proxy for climate change: the use of δ18O in non-biting midges'. Verbruggen abstract  

Chair: Dr Maarten Blaauw

Tues 31 Jan  EC Dr Philippe Renard, University of Neuchâtel 'Multiple point statistics for improved heterogeneity characterization: the direct sampling method'. Renard abstractRenard poster

Chair: Dr Jenny McKinley

Wed 15 Feb
4pm
SSC Dr Steven Legg (Nottingham University), 'An international anomaly: the League of Nations, India and its princely geographies'.

Chair: Dr Nuala Johnson

Tue 21 Feb PCC

Professor Stephen Shennan (Institute of Archaeology, UCL): Boom and bust in Europe’s earliest farming societies
Chair: Professor Audrey Horning

Wed 29 Feb
3.30pm
SSC Dr Franklin Ginn (University of Edinburgh), 'Dig for victory! Austerity, sustainabiliy and pruning the past of Britain's wartime gardening'.

Chair: Dr Carl Griffin

Tue 6 Mar PCC

Dr Jessica Smyth (University of Bristol): Bubbling over: archaeological lipid analysis and the Irish Neolithic
Chair: Dr Finbar McCormick

Fri 9 Mar EC/PCC

Dr James H. Speer (Indiana State University): Dating of the Bridger Antelope Trap Archaeological Site in Wyoming using Dendrochronology
Chair: Mike Baillie

Mon 12 Mar EC

Professor Steve Jackson (University of Wyoming) 'Uses of the ecological past for global-change vulnerability assessment'

Tue 20 Mar PCC

Dr Seren Griffiths (University of Cardiff): Scatter matters: Bayesian statistical modelling and evidence for overlap between late mesolithic and early neolithic material culture in England
Chair: Dr Nicki Whitehouse

Wed 21 Mar SSC Professor Sarah Whatmore (University of Oxford), 'Making things public: an experimental intervention in flood risk management'.

Chair: Dr Carl Griffin

Wed 28 Mar SSC Dr Anna Carlsson-Hyslop (Cardiff University) 'Storm surge science at the Tidal Institute 1919-1959: patronage and practice'.

Chair: Dr Diarmid Finnegan

Wed 9 May SSC Dr Katy Hayward and Dr Milena Komarova (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Mapping conflict in urban space'.

Chair: Dr Ian Shuttleworth

Tues 17 April  EC Professor Kevin Edwards, University of Aberdeen 'Three pollen diagrams and an Irishman: excursions in the Norse North Atlantic'

Chair: Professor Keith Bennett

Tue 24 April PCC

Professor Martin Carver (University of York): The Pictish Monastery at Portmahomack – discovery, excavation and context
Chair: Dr Caroline Malone

Wed 9 May  PCC Dr Peter Hinton, (Institute for Archaeologists): The Southport Group Report, planning legislation, and its relevance to Northern Ireland.

Chair: Dr Colm Donnelly

Tues 29 May  EC Professor Mary Edwards, University of Southampton : New DNA approaches to understanding Late-Quaternary and recent biodiversity changes – potential and problems.

Chair: Professor Keith Bennett

Tues 29 May
at 3pm
 PCC Professor Wiebke Kirleis, (Universiät Kiel): Clearance, woodland management and agriculture in primeval forest

Chair: Professor Audrey Horning

 

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 2011

DateSeminar Details  
TBA

TBA

Evening Seminars usually take place at 5pm in Room 0G 043, Archaeology Building - All welcome