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Department research seminars

Spring 2011/12

5 October	Research Extravaganza!	Annual round-up of the exciting and cutting-edge research being undertaken in the Department.
12 October	Dr Steve Roskams, York and Dr Sam Turner, Newcastle - a CLABS (Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies) event	Western Britain and the world of late Antiquity: recent fieldwork at Mothecombe, Devon
19 October	Dr Chris King, Nottingham	Constructing Space and Society in late medieval town houses
26 October	Dr Melanie Giles, Manchester	Harnessing History: the Iron Age Chariot Burials of Britain
2 November	Dr Vince Holyoak, English Heritage	Masterclass 2.00-3.00pm, venue A1 (HUMS): Legal and ethical issues relating to the conservation of 20th-century military archaeology and the treatment of human remains (open to all masters and PhD students Seminar: 4.40pm, venue A2 (HUMS): 20th-century military airfields and military aircraft crash sites up to 1945
9 November	Dr Sebastiano Tusa, Soprintendenza di Trapani, Italy	Uzzo Cave, Mesolithic-Neolithic transition
16 November	Dr Cameron Petrie, Cambridge	Masterclass 2.00-4.00pm, venue A2 (HUMS): Satellite imagery and GIS mapping of settlement distributions: determining the contemporaneity of archaeological sites known from survey (open to all masters and PhD students) Seminar: 4.30pm, venue A2 (HUMS): Investigating the collapse of the Indus Civilization
23 November	Dr Clare Pickersgill, University of Nottingham Museum – a CSPS (Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies) event, dedicated in memory of Dave Hopkins.	Venue A3 (HUMS): The contribution of pottery studies to an understanding of Roman Sparta
30 November	Dr Ine Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - a CLABS (Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies) event	Aesthetic Maintenance of Civic Space. the Classical city from the 4th to the 7th century AD

Spring Term 2010/11

January

Students’ Choice

Prof. Martin Carver

(University of York)

Sutton Hoo and the end of pagan England

This will be preceded by a student Master Class – The Stafford Excavations and new thoughts on the Anglo-Saxon burh.

02 February

Prehistory

Drs. Andrew Fitzpatrick

(Wessex Archaeology) and Jane Evans (NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory)

The Amesbury Archer: the story of a Prehistoric journey

This will be preceded by a student Master Class – Isotopes studies and migration: theory and practice.

09 February

Prehistory

Dr Andrew Shapland

(British Museum)

Animals and art in the Bronze Age Aegean

This will be preceded by a student Master Class on human-animal relationships in archaeology

16 February

Prehistoric

Dr Simon Kaner

(University of East Anglia)

Unearthing dogu: new approaches to figuring out the Japanese past

23 February

Bioarchaeology

Dr Simon Mays

(English Heritage)

A 'new' skeleton of a crewmember from Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the artic, 1845

02 March

CSPS

Socrates Koursoumis

(Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism)

The sanctuaries of Artemis Limnatis and Demiova on Mt Taygetos

09 March

CLABS

Peter Guest

(Cardiff University)

Isca: recent discoveries on the site of the Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon

This will be preceded by a student Master Class on coin analysis in archaeology.

16 March

no seminar

23 March

CSPS

Dr Emily Banou

(University of Peloponnese)

The Minoan peak sanctuary at Ayios Georgios sto Vouno on Kythera: The evidence from the small finds

w/c 28 March (date tbc)

Dr Soultana Valamoti

(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) will be in the department to give a research seminar and master class

Autumn Term 2010/11

06 October Students' choice	Research Extravaganza!	Annual round-up of the exciting and cutting-edge research being undertaken in the Department. Followed by wine reception and launch of Extinctions and Invasions: A Social History of British Fauna
13 October, 7pm CLABS and Alumni Event	Prof. Andrew Poulter (University of Nottingham)	Unearthing a Late Roman fortress in Bulgaria: new results from the 2010 season of excavation. Followed by wine reception.
20 October Historic archaeology	Dr Hella Eckardt (University of Reading)	Foreigners and locals in Romano-British towns – recent isotopic analysis
27 October UARC	Dr Garry Momber (Hampshire and Wight Maritime Trust)	Drowned and Deserted: Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes This will be preceded by a student Master Class – Underwater Archaeology in Practice.
03 November Historic archaeology	Dr Andrew Reynolds (Institute of Archaeology UCL)	Burial on the boundary: dealing with the undesirable dead in Anglo-Saxon England This will be preceded by a student Master Class – Rethinking landscape archaeology in Anglo-Saxon England.
10 November Historic archaeology	Prof Diego Moreno (University of Genoa)	Archaeology and Historical Ecology (AEA seminar)
17 November Prehistoric archaeology	Dr Catherine Frieman (University of Nottingham)	Fishy tails and stone axes: using lithics to study metal
24 November CSPS	Aris Tsaravopoulos (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism)	Antikythera: A Persian naval base and/or a pirates' lair?
01 December CLABS	Prof. Dr Lauret Verslype Universite Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve)	The environment and harbour of Quentovic: the largest early medieval port in France, AD 600 – 900

Spring Term 2009/10

3rd February Archaeological materials	Dr Patrice de Rijk (Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow, University of Nottingham)	The Stanley Grange Medieval Iron Project
10th February Prehistoric archaeology	Dr Konstantinos Kopanias (University of Athens)	Paradise Lost. The Image of the Netherworld in the Bronze Age Near East
17th February Prehistoric archaeology	Dr John Robb (University of Cambridge)	The Geography of Art
24th February Bioarchaeology	Prof. Olivier Hanotte (Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham)	Digging out the past from modern indigenous livestock population The examples of African cattle and chicken
3rd March Prehistoric & Historic	Dr Linda Hulin (Oriental Institute, Oxford)	Archaeology in an untouched landscape: The Western Marmarica Coastal Survey, Libya
10th March CSPS seminar	Dr Hamish Forbes (University of Nottingham)	"So what about the Parthenon?" Identity, monumentality, ethnicity and nationality in a Greek rural community
17th March Prehistoric Archaeology	Dr Mercourios Georgiadis (University of Nottingham)	Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age: the survey finds and the settlement pattern of Kos in the Aegean context
24th March CLABS seminar	Prof. Paul Reynolds (University of Barcelona)	The supply networks of the Roman East and West: Interaction, fragmentation and the origins of the Byzantine economy
31st March Prehistoric archaeology	Dr Lloyd Weeks & Dr Matthew Jones (Archaeology & Geography, University of Nottingham)	Integrating palaeoclimate and archaeological studies in Mamasani, Iran
(EASTER break 5th – 30th April 2010)
5th May Prehistoric & Historic	Prof. Frédéric Trément (Université Clermont-Ferrand II) Archaeology	Romanisation et dynamiques territoriales en Gaule centrale. Le cas de la cité des Arvernes (IIe s. av. J.-C. – IIe s. ap. J.-C.)’ (will be in English)
12th May CSPS seminar	Dr. Dan Stewart (University of Leicester)	Reintegrating Rural and Urban. Depolarising the Peloponnese: the case of Sikyon

Autumn Term 2009/10

7th October	Prof Ruth Whitehouse (UCL/Accordia Research Centre)	Phenomenological research in southeastern Italy
14th October	Dr Lloyd Laing (University of Nottingham)	Ballachly, Caithness: Picts, Vikings and failed town builders
21st October	CSPS seminar: Dr Chrysanthi Gallou & Dr Jon Henderson (University of Nottingham)	Investigating the oldest submerged town in the World: The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeological Project
28th October	CLABS seminar: Dr Gerda Von Bülo (German Archaeological Institute, RGK)	Romuliana (Gamzigrad), the Roman palace of Galerius (Serbia); the latest results
4th November	Dr Eva Alram (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mykenische Komimission)	The acropolis of Aigeira – a postpalatial Mycenaean settlement
9th November	Prof Torill Christine Lindstrøm (Dept of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Norway)	Cultic codes in clothes, costumes, and colours? Detecting Dionysiac dress in the Great Fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii
18th November	CLABS seminar: Prof James Crow (University of Edinburgh)	Water for the imperial city of Constantinople
25th November	Prof Eleni Mantzourani (University of Athens)	The Ceramic Neolithic of Cyprus: The case of Kantou-Kouphovounos settlement
2nd December	Dr Marie Millet	Towns on the Nile; the development of urbanism viewed from Karnak and Amara

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