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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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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Massive stones, earthquakes, and Medieval hermits

Start: Jun 20, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Water colour published in 1906 showing Menga as a dwelling: Unknown Source
Leonardo García Sanjuán (Universidad de Sevilla) will give a seminar sponsored by the Archaeological Sciences Section and Narnia project at the Institute on 20 June.

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Centre for Applied Archaeology Reception

Start: Jun 21, 2013 5:30:00 PM

UCL Centre for Applied Archaeology (CAA)
The UCL Centre for Applied Archaeology / Archaeology South-East will hold a special reception at the Institute on 21 June.

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Institute of Archaeology participation in the UCL Open Day 2013

Start: Jun 27, 2013 10:00:00 AM
End: Jun 27, 2013 4:00:00 PM

UCL Institute of Archaeology
The Institute of Archaeology is open from 10am-4pm to those students and their families attending this year's UCL Open Day on 27 June.

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Institute of Archaeology Tours

Start: Jul 1, 2013 11:30:00 AM
End: Aug 31, 2013 4:00:00 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 throughout July and August.

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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

Bronze 2013 Logo
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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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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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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