Events at the Institute of Archaeology

Ethnographic Object Analysis Short Course

Start: May 2, 2012 2:00:00 PM
End: May 30, 2012 5:00:00 PM

The Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies is running a short course on Ethnographic Object Analysis to be held on Wednesdays throughout May 2012.

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Exhibition: Breaking Ground: 75 Years of Pioneering Archaeology

Start: May 10, 2012 10:00:00 AM
End: Feb 28, 2013 5:00:00 PM

A new exhibition entitled 'Breaking Ground: 75 Years of Pioneering Archaeology', created by MA Museum Studies students, opens at the Institute of Archaeology on 10 May.

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Exhibition@the Geffrye Museum: Who Stole My Milk?

Start: May 15, 2012 10:00:00 AM
End: Sep 9, 2012 5:00:00 PM

Who Stole My Milk? Exploring Student Homes in London exhibition

An exhibition by Institute Masters students in collaboration with London's Geffrye Museum will be on display at the museum from 15 May-9 September.

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Make a small sacrifice? Issues around religion in museums

Start: May 23, 2012 5:00:00 PM

Issues around religion in museums. Seminar given by Crispin Paine, 23 May 2012

Crispin Paine will give a seminar sponsored by the World Archaeology Section at the Institute on 23 May.

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Provenance and technology of seal impressions from Late Iron Age Judah

Start: May 24, 2012 4:00:00 PM

Seal impression from Late Iron Age Judah

Yuval Goren (Tel Aviv University) will give a special seminar at the Institute on 24 May.

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UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: Did the Maya really collapse?

Start: May 25, 2012 1:10:00 PM
End: May 25, 2012 1:55:00 PM

Maya elite ceramics from the Early Postclassic period

Institute research student Carmen Ting will give a Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture at UCL on 25 May.

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Archaeology and Humour

Start: May 26, 2012 10:15:00 AM
End: May 26, 2012 5:00:00 PM

A one-day workshop on Humour and the Individual in Site and Museum Archives will be held at the Institute of Archaeology on 26 May.

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Book Launch: The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past

Start: Jun 1, 2012 6:00:00 PM

The launch of the proceedings of the 6th CHAT conference held at UCL on the theme of 'Heritage' will take place at the Institute on 1 June.

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Recent research on the ritual landscape of Abydos

Start: Jun 6, 2012 5:00:00 PM
End: Jun 6, 2012 7:00:00 PM

Material Cultures of Prehistoric and Dynastic Egypt seminar series

The Material Cultures of Prehistoric and Dynastic Egypt Research Network will host a seminar series this term, the final event taking place at the Institute on 6 June.

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Rome of the Pilgrims

Start: Jun 6, 2012 5:30:00 PM

The final seminar in the 2011-12 Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series will be given by Alan Thacker (University of London) on 6 June.

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Abu Tbeirah: Italian Excavations in Southern Iraq

Start: Jun 7, 2012 12:00:00 PM
End: Jun 7, 2012 1:00:00 PM

Franco D'Agostino (Sapienza University of Rome) will give a special lecture at the Institute on 7 June.

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At Home with the Neanderthals

Start: Jun 7, 2012 1:15:00 PM
End: Jun 7, 2012 1:55:00 PM

Matt Pope takes the UCL Lunch Hour Lectures on tour to the British Museum this year giving a presentation at the museum on 'At Home with the Neanderthals' on 7 June.

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Gordon Square Anniversary Events: Day 1

Start: Jun 8, 2012 5:00:00 PM
End: Jun 8, 2012 9:00:00 PM

The Institute's 75th anniversary celebrations include two days of activities in Gordon Square gardens, immediately in front of the Institute of Archaeology, the first of which takes place on 8 June.

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Gordon Square Anniversary Events: Day 2

Start: Jun 9, 2012 12:00:00 PM
End: Jun 9, 2012 9:00:00 PM

The Institute's 75th anniversary celebrations include two days of activities in Gordon Square gardens, immediately in front of the Institute of Archaeology, the second of which takes place on 9 June.

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