SHS Events

The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships

Start: May 10, 2013 10:00:00 AM
End: May 1, 2014 5:00:00 PM

The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships
The Institute of Archaeology’s new student exhibition, The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships, opens to the public from 10 May 2013.

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Dig This! @the Geffrye Museum

Start: May 11, 2013 10:00:00 AM
End: Sep 30, 2013 5:00:00 PM

Dig This! Gardening for Happiness and Well-Being
A project and related events produced by Institute Masters students in collaboration with London's Geffrye Museum will be available at the museum until the end of September.

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Rust, Regeneration and Romance Conference

Start: Jul 10, 2013 12:00:00 AM
End: Jul 14, 2013 12:00:00 AM

Ironworks
The University of Birmingham's Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust are hosting a conference in July entitled Rust, Regeneration and Romance: Iron and Steel Landscapes and Cultures in July 2013. 

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Institute of Archaeology Tours

Start: Aug 7, 2013 12:00:00 PM
End: Sep 18, 2013 2:00:00 PM

UCL Institute of Archaeology (Image courtesy of Lisa Daniel)
Tours of the Institute of Archaeology and its facilities and collections will be held on selected dates in August and September.

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Ancient and Historic Metals: Technology, Microstructure, and Corrosion

Start: Aug 22, 2013 12:00:00 AM
End: Aug 26, 2013 12:00:00 AM

Cast Bronze Metallography
A Summer Intensive Course on Ancient Metals and Metallography is to be taught by Prof. David A. Scott at UCL in July 2013 aimed at conservators, scientists and archaeologists.

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International Conference on Ancient Bronzes

Start: Sep 4, 2013 12:00:00 AM
End: Sep 7, 2013 12:00:00 AM

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The 18th annual conference on bronze, covering all aspects of research on this material, will be held in Zurich, Switzerland in September 2013.

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BUMA VIII Conference 2013

Start: Sep 10, 2013 12:00:00 AM
End: Sep 15, 2013 12:00:00 AM

Nara Japan
 The international conference on the Beginnings of the Use of Metals and Alloys (BUMA) is the interdisciplinary gathering of scientists, engineers, archaeologists and historians in a focus on production and use of metals, with emphasis on cultural interactions and evolutions over time and space especially between the West and Asia.

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International Conference on Metals Conservation 2013

Start: Sep 16, 2013 12:00:00 AM
End: Sep 20, 2013 12:00:00 AM

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The International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) Metal Working Group is hosting its triennial confernece on metals conservation. The conference will be held in beautiful Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Using material culture to (re)construct personal, family and community history in the UK and Greece

Start: Sep 30, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Using material culture to (re)construct personal, family and community history in the UK and Greece
Theano Moussouri & Eleni Vomvyla will give the opening seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 30 September.

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Written, visual and material culture: modelling administration in early Egypt

Start: Oct 7, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Seal impressions from Hierakonpolis
Richard Bussmann will give the second seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 7 October.

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Heritage Syndromes - From the Acropolis to Jerusalem

Start: Oct 14, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Beverley Butler on a research trip to Jerusalem, 2010
Beverley Butler will give the third seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 14 October.

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HMS Annual Conference October 2013

Start: Oct 19, 2013 12:00:00 AM
End: Oct 20, 2013 12:00:00 AM

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the use of stainless steel, the Historical Metallurgy Society will be hosting a two day conference in the Cuttler's Hall, Sheffield on the 19th and 20th of October 2013.

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The Multi-Cultural Origins of Agricultural Villages in the Near East

Start: Oct 21, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Catalhoyuk house
Karen Wright will give the fourth seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 21 October.

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Bronze Age burnt mounds on Bow Hill: their contribution to the debate into burnt mound technology and use

Start: Oct 28, 2013 4:00:00 PM

The Devil's Humps, Bow Hill
Mark Roberts will give the fifth seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 28 October.

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Portraits and politics in classical Greece and early imperial China: an institutional approach to comparative art

Start: Nov 11, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Portraits and Politics in classical Greece and early imperial China: an institutional approach to comparative art
Jeremy Tanner will give the sixth seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 11 November.

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Imperial Logistics: The Making of the Terracotta Army

Start: Nov 18, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Terracotta Warriors (Image courtesy of Xia Juxian)
Marcos Martinón-Torres will give the seventh seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 18 November.

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Community archaeology, geophysics and the Roman settlements of Hertfordshire

Start: Nov 25, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Community archaeology, geophysics and the Roman settlements of Hertfordshire
Kris Lockyear & Ellen Shlasko will give the eighth seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 25 November.

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From Massacre to Martyrdom, between Memory and Memorialization: The Rotifunk Missionary Murders of 1898

Start: Dec 2, 2013 4:00:00 PM

From Massacre to Martyrdom, between Memory and Memorialization: The Rotifunk Missionary Murders of 1898
Paul Basu will give the penultimate seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 2 December.

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Knossos: tracking regional dynamics over eight millennia at Europe's oldest city

Start: Dec 9, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Knossos: tracking regional dynamics over eight millennia at Europe's oldest city
Todd Whitelaw will give the final seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 9 December.

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