Lectures
Please note: All face-to-face UAS activities are postponed until COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted following government advice. Our statement is here - https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/uas/NewsandEvents/#d.en.1063450
2022 Lecture Programme
Monthly lectures are held at Queen's University Belfast and cover a wide range of archaeological and related topics. All lectures are held at 7.30pm. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are holding lectures online. Members will be sent a link to the Zoom meeting, the public can watch live on YouTube. Recordings will be available on YouTube. You can access our YouTube channel here.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
| Monday 31 January |
'For want of a horse, the rider was lost’: an introduction to Ireland's Late Iron Age equitation Dr Rena Maguire |
| Monday 22 February |
“Better pass boldly into that other world”. The Dead in the Irish Early Bronze Age, their rituals and the society that made them. Dr Cormac McSparron |
| Monday 28 February |
Annual General Meeting |
| Monday 28 March |
Sacred waters: cures, penance and holy fish Finbar McCormick |
| Monday 25 April |
“If I had a hammer”: Bronze Age metalworkers and their tools Dr Linda Boutoille QUB |
| Monday 30 May |
Bricks, steel and a lot of Concrete: The Defence Heritage resurvey of Northern Ireland Dr James O'Neill Ulidia Heritage Services |
| Monday 27 June |
Idols, ards and severed heads: Three thousand years of deposition in a Roscommon fen Eve Campbell |
| Monday 25 July |
40 Years ‘a Digging: Reflections of an Irish Field Archaeologist Ruairí Ó Baoill |
| Monday 29 August |
Larne Lough: A Forgotten Seascape Stephen Cameron |
| Monday 26 September |
Exploring Ulster's hidden medieval landscape Laura Patrick |
| Monday 31 October |
The Tara Research ProjectRoseanne Schot |
| Saturday 12 November |
Annual Conference Discovery 2022! |
| Monday 28 November |
The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer IrelandGraeme Warren |
| Monday 12 December |
Mullyash Mountain and the Ulster Warriors: the extraordinary history, iconography and geology of the claimed pagan statues of UlsterRichard Warner |