RAC/TRAC Conference 2024 Timetable

The timetable for the 15th Roman Archaeology Conference / 32nd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, being held at UCL from 11-14 April 2024, is provided here.

RAC/TRAC 2024 General Timetable: Thursday 11/4/24 – Sunday 14/4/24

All rooms in UCL IOE, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

	Room 1 Elvin (Level 1) RAC	Room 2 Drama (Level 1) TRAC	Room 3 Nunn (Level 4) RAC	Room 4 Clarke (Level 3) TRAC	Room 5 C3.09 (Level 3) RAC	Room 6 C3.11 (Level 3) RAC	Room 7 C3.15 (Level 3) RAC
Thursday AM	Registration, from 09.30 (IoE Foyer)
Thursday PM 13.30-17.00	9. Women of Roman archaeology	27. Investigating public spaces	11. Tracking the hunt	29. South-east Europe	20. Invasive species	16. Roman York	1. Britannia et Germania
Thursday eve	Plenary session (17.30-19.00, Logan Hall) and opening reception (19.00-20.30, Crush/Jeffery Hall)
Friday AM 09.30-13.00	7. Roman Britain	34. Feminist, postcolonial Roman archaeology	5. Riddles of the sands	30. Inclusion and exclusion	6. Port cities	18. Pottery in Roman Egypt	25. Hilltop settlements
Friday PM 14.00-17.30	8. Vindolanda tablets	35. The body of the Roman archaeologist	21. Material culture of childhood	33. For a fistful of daleks	12. Roman colonial coinages	19. Romans in Sussex	15. Ritual in war and peace
Saturday AM 09.30-13.00	3. Roman frontiers and borderlands	37. Sexuality, gender and imperialism	10. Urban archaeology in central Italy	36. Theorising arts and crafts	14. Sacred landscapes	23. Peopling rural architecture	38. RAC general session
Saturday PM 14.00-17.30	22. Winners and losers	28. Big data	13. Urbanism in Roman Britain	40. TRAC general session	17. Decolonial Roman archaeology	2. Imperial Rome	39. RAC general session
Saturday eve	TRAC Party, IOE Bar, 20.00
Sun AM	Trip to St Albans and Welwyn, 09.30-15.00

Refreshment Breaks: within each session block, each session will break for 30 mins between 10.30-11.30 (morning sessions) and 15.30-16.30 (afternoon sessions, except Thurs PM, 15.00-16.00). All refreshments will be served in the Jeffery Hall, which is also the exhibition area.

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Organising Committee: Andrew Gardner (UCL, Chair), Isabel Annal (UCL, TRAC), Jennifer Baird (Birkbeck), Chloe Clark (King’s, TRAC), Emlyn Dodd (ICS), Alessandra Esposito (King’s), Natasha Gravatt (UCL, TRAC), Claire Heseltine (King’s, TRAC), Zena Kamash (Royal Holloway), Francesca Lam-March (King’s, TRAC), Kris Lockyear (UCL), Dominic Perring (UCL), Louise Rayner (UCL/ASE), Erica Rowan (Royal Holloway), Sian Therese (UCL), with Fiona Haarer (Roman Society), Blanka Misic (TRAC Standing Committee), Ursula Rothe (Open University, RS Archaeology Committee), and Anna Walas (TRAC Standing Committee).

To mark the start of the conference, the Antiquity Journal has put together a free to access collection of Roman archaeology papers containing the latest research in the archaeology of the Roman world.