Lunchtime Lecture Series celebrating 50 Years of Archaeology in Sheffield in 2013
The Department of Archaeology is pleased to announce the upcoming Lunchtime Lecture Series celebrating 50 Years of Archaeology in Sheffield in 2013. The Lunchtime Lecture Series has a long history within the Department - and this semester welcomes former staff and students back to the University to help us celebrate this special anniversary event.
The series will be opening on Tuesday February 5th at 13:00 in the Departmental Lecture Theatre, Northgate House, West Street with an opening lecture from Professors John Collis and John Moreland on Sheffield Archaeology: Past and Present - from the first appearance of archaeology at Sheffield in 1963, to the founding of the Department in the 1970s, and then beyond.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Department and about the upcoming lecture series and events and we hope to see many of you there. We will be heading out for food, drinks, and conversation following the lecture and all are welcome to join us.
The line-up and schedule for the entire series is as follows – but for more details, please see posters around the University, our Facebook group, and the Faculty Events Calendar.
Lectures take place on Tuesdays from 13:00 – 14:00 in the Departmental Lecture Theatre, in Northgate House on West Street (unless otherwise stated).
Following the enormous success of the spring Lunchtime Lecture Series celebrating 50 years of archaeology at Sheffield, we are pleased to announce a second themed series taking place this Autumn.
Speakers confimed thus far include:
October 1st
Prof Chris Gosden, Chair of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford
English Landscapes and Identities: exploring the English landscape from 1500 BC to AD 1086
October 8th
Jon Humble, Senior National Minerals Adviser & Inspector of Ancient Monuments at English Heritage
Using archaeology for conservation management purposes
October 15th
TBC
October 22nd
Prof Barbara Ottaway, Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter
Hot and bothered; archaeologists in Sheffield's foundry. Experiments in archaeometallurgy.
October 29th
Dr Rebecca Gowland, Lecturer at Durham University
November 5th
TBC
November 12th
TBC
November 26th
Prof Andrew Fleming, Emeritus Professor at University of Wales, Trinity Saint David
On and off Dartmoor: forty years in landscape archaeology
December 3rd
Prof Steve Mithen, Professor at the University of Reading
December 10th
Dr Alex Woolf, Senior Lecturer at University of St Andrews
A Historian in Prehistory
December 17th
Departmental Debate and Panel Discussion
Also speaking (date TBC) is Richard Hodges, president of the American University of Rome, on 'The dark age economics of dealing with billionaires and bunga bunga'.
Please check back for more information and details closer to September.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with either Alison Atkin (a.atkin@shef.ac.uk) or Jenny Crangle (prp11jnc@shef.ac.uk) the Organising Committee.