First Semester 2011-12
Seminars
| Date | Cluster | Seminar 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 abstract. Renard 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 |
| 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 |
| Fri 9 Mar | EC/PCC |
Dr James H. Speer (Indiana State University): Dating of the Bridger Antelope Trap Archaeological Site in Wyoming using Dendrochronology |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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
| Date | Seminar Details |
|---|---|
| TBA |
TBA |
Evening Seminars usually take place at 5pm in Room 0G 043, Archaeology Building - All welcome