SHS Events

Dilemmas of a Foreign Secretary (SPP Seminar Series)

Start: Mar 7, 2013 5:00:00 PM
End: May 7, 2013 7:00:00 PM

Jack Straw
Rt Hon Jack Straw has been Member of Parliament for Blackburn since May 1979. He was last re-elected at the General Election in May 2010, where unusually he saw a swing to Labour of 1.1%, contrary to the national trend. His majority is now 9,856.

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Ancient Egyptian Art revived through post-revolutionary graffiti in Cairo

Start: May 2, 2013 5:30:00 PM

Post revolutionary graffiti in Cairo
Soraya Morayef will give a seminar hosted by the Material Cultures of Prehistoric and Dynastic Egypt Research Network at the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology on 2 May.

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UCL Festival of the Arts

Start: May 7, 2013 1:00:00 PM
End: May 17, 2013 7:30:00 PM

UCL Festival of the Arts logo

This dedicated showcase will open up to the public the breadth and depth of the work which takes place across the UCL faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences.

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Accordia Lecture: Copper Age society and the Italian Alps

Start: May 7, 2013 5:30:00 PM

Accordia
Francesco Fedele (University of Naples 'Federico II') will give the final Accordia Lecture of the 2012-13 series at the Institute on 7 May.

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Anglo-Saxon towers of lordship and the origins of the English castle

Start: May 7, 2013 5:30:00 PM

Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar
Michael Shapland will give a seminar as part of the Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series at the Institute on 7 May.

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Inaugural Lecture - Professor Neil Mitchell (International Relations)

Start: May 7, 2013 6:30:00 PM
End: May 7, 2013 8:30:00 PM

Neil Mitchell

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Katie Meheux at the UCL Festival of the Arts

Start: May 8, 2013 1:00:00 PM
End: May 8, 2013 2:00:00 PM

Katie Meheux
Katie Meheux (Deputy Librarian, Institute of Archaeology Library) will give a special lecture as part of the UCL Festival of the Arts at the Institute on 8 May.

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100 Years of Archaeological Excavation at Anau, Turkmenistan

Start: May 8, 2013 5:15:00 PM
End: May 8, 2013 6:15:00 PM

Location of Turkmenistan (Image courtesy of the UCL Ancient Merv Project)
Gaigysyz Jorayev (UCL Institute of Archaeology) will give a seminar organised by the Institute's History of Archaeology Research Network at the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology on 8 May.

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Evolving Rice Cultivation Systems: Early Results from the Lower Yangtze

Start: May 9, 2013 5:30:00 PM

Evolving Rice Cultivation Systems: Early Results from the Lower Yangtze
Alison Weisskopf (UCL) will give the first International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA) China Night Lecture of Term III, 2012/13 at the Institute on 9 May.   

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The New Global Rulers: the Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy (SPP Seminar Series)

Start: May 14, 2013 5:00:00 PM
End: May 14, 2013 7:00:00 PM

Professor Walter Mattli
Walter Mattli is the Fellow in Politics at St. John's College and Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University.

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Centre for Transnational History Annual Lecture

Start: May 14, 2013 5:30:00 PM

Larry Wolff
Western Perspectives on Eastern Europe: New Mental Mapping after the Cold War

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Inaugural Lecture - Professor Maxine Molyneux (Institute of the Americas)

Start: May 14, 2013 6:30:00 PM
End: May 14, 2013 8:30:00 PM

Maxine Molyneux

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South American Archaeology Seminar

Start: May 18, 2013 10:00:00 AM
End: May 18, 2013 5:00:00 PM

South American Archaeology
The South American Archaeology Seminar, co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas, SAS, University of London, Beta Analytical Ltd., and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, will be held on 18 May.  

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IoA Annual Conference: Forming Material Egypt

Start: May 20, 2013 9:00:00 AM
End: May 21, 2013 5:00:00 PM

Forming Material Egypt
The Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference will take place this year on 20-21 May on the topic of 'Forming Material Egypt'.

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Visitor emotion, affect and registers of engagement at museums and heritage sites

Start: May 21, 2013 6:00:00 PM

Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies
Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) will give a lecture jointly sponsored by the Institute's Heritage Studies Section and the UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies on 21 May.

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Butser Experimental Course 2013

Start: May 31, 2013 12:00:00 AM
End: Jun 3, 2013 12:00:00 AM

Butser Iron Age Village
Running yearly in one for or another for nearly a decade, this year's Experimental Archaeometallurgy course will once again take place at the Butser Experimental Iron Age Farm in Hampshire, UK.

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Institute of Archaeology Graduate Open Evening

Start: Jun 6, 2013 5:00:00 PM
End: Jun 6, 2013 7:00:00 PM

IoA Graduate Open Evening
Following the success of the Institute's first Graduate Open Evening in March, a second Open Evening will be held at the Institute of Archaeology on 6 June.

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HMS 50th Anniversary Conference

Start: Jun 14, 2013 12:00:00 AM
End: Jun 16, 2013 12:00:00 AM

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Culminating a series of events marking the 50th Anniversary of the Historical Metallurgy Society, this conference aims at synthesizing the current state of the discipline of archaeometallurgy.

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IAMS Summer School 2013

Start: Jun 17, 2013 12:00:00 AM
End: Jun 28, 2013 12:00:00 AM

IAMS Summer School 2012 pXRF Session
This year's Summer Schoold will be held at UCL's Institute of Archaeology following the exciting HMS 50th anniversary conference. We welcome anyone with an interest in archaeometallurgy to attend our two week course.

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IAMS Archaeometallurgy Summer School 2013

Start: Jun 17, 2013 9:00:00 AM
End: Jun 28, 2013 5:00:00 PM

IAMS logo
The Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies (IAMS) is hosting its annual Archaeometallurgy Summer School at the Institute of Archaeology from 17-28 June.

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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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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

Metals 2013 Logo
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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