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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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' with a gathering of Egyptian and international experts.

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Modern Antiquities: The Looted and the Faked

Start: May 21, 2013 2:00:00 PM

Modern Antiquities: The Looted and the Faked
David A. Scott (UCLA/Getty Conservation Programme) will give a lecture regarding aspects of the acquisition of art at the Institute on 21 May.

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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 (School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University) will give a lecture at the Institute 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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Institute of Archaeology Summer Party

Start: Jun 7, 2013 5:00:00 PM
End: Jun 7, 2013 8:00:00 PM

Institute of Archaeology building, 2010
The Institute of Archaeology Summer Party will be held at UCL on 7 June.

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World Archaeology Festival

Start: Jun 8, 2013 11:00:00 AM
End: Jun 8, 2013 5:00:00 PM

World Archaeology Festival
Following the success of the Institute's 75th anniversary celebrations in 2012, the Institute is hosting another World Archaeology Festival on 8 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

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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

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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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