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
2021 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 25 January |
How Mike Baillie was right: resolving the links between volcanoes, ice cores, tree-rings and societal responses Dr Gill Plunkett |
| Monday 22 February |
AGM |
| Monday 29 March |
Rethinking Early Medieval Whithorn and the Conversion to Christianity in Scotland Dr Adrián Maldonado |
| Monday 26 April |
The Life and Times of Takabuti in Ancient Egypt and in Belfast Professor Eileen Murphy |
| Monday 31 May |
Take me to church. A look at two Early Medieval enclosed settlements in County Armagh and their associations with early church sites Gavin Donaghy |
| Monday 28 June |
An update on the findings of the 2018-19 Downpatrick Cathedral Hill excavations Brian Sloan |
| Monday 27 September |
Movements and connections between Ireland and Scotland (and beyond!), from around 4000 BC to around 1500 BC Dr Alison Sheridan |
| Monday 25 October |
The transitory character of society in Gaelic Ulster Dr Katharine Simms |
| Saturday 7 November |
Annual Conference Discovery 2021! |
| Monday 6 December |
Reconstructing Ireland’s Castles: An Archaeological Interpretation of the Environs of the Irish Tower-House Dr Michael O’Mahony |