Latest News
The latest news stories from the School.
Cardiff archaeologist Professor Miranda Aldhouse-Green talks about Boudica on BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time'.
The programme is available on the BBC iPlayer for 1 week after the broadcast at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r7lr9
Future Animals produce new video and launch exhibition soon
The Future Animals team have produced a video about the project posted on You Tube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOqTFgiUWVk
The Future Animals exhibition will officially open at Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum Wales on March 23rd.
How Wales moulded modern America
Welsh historian Dr Bill Jones of the School of History and Archaeology will be undertaking a short lecture tour of the United States between 11th and 27th March 2010 highlighting the role of the Welsh in the industrial, cultural and social development of America.
The lecture tour is featured on the BBC Regional News web site
Investment secures rare book collection
Staff in the School of History and Archaeology took part in the campaign which has resulted in the University's investment in the Cardiff Public Library's Rare Books Collection.
Professor Jonathan Phillips will present the 2010 Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture on Wednesday 10th March at 6pm in the Julian Hodge Building with a drinks reception to follow.
Department of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University
A PhD studentship is available within the research project concerned with the post-excavation analysis and publication of the excavations of Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries under RAF Lakenheath, Eriswell parish, Suffolk. These excavations produced a large number and wide range of securely contextualised finds, and a key objective of the post-excavation programme is a thorough and groundbreaking analysis of the material resources, supply and technology available to and used by the population of the late fifth to late seventh centuries.
Deadline for applications Friday 19 March 2010
Artist in residence in the Archaeology Department, Paul Evans has produced a new Osteography blog posting the latest news about his project.
The Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies has a series of upcoming events - everyone welcome.
Icon the UK institute for Conservation will hold their first ever conference in Cardiff University, titled Conservation in Focus 2010, or CF10 for short. The themes of the conference will be: evidence based decision making in conservation and a sustainable future for UK conservation.
Wednesday 7th April - Saturday 10th April 2010.
The 2010 Classical Association Annual Conference is to be hosted by Cardiff University. This is one of the most important events in the Classics calendar, and has around 50 panels of papers on a huge variety of classical subjects.
Cardiff University has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Leverhulme Trust through which Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology Dr Jacqui Mulville and artist Paul Evans will share their practice and expertise to explore and develop new visualisations of animal osteology in a project entitled 'Osteography'.
Jacqui Mulville is leading a team that has been awarded Beacon for Wales funding for a project engaging young people in workshops to consider how future pets and farm animals will look.
‘The effects of ritual dowsing on fissure-patterning in cremated bone’
The Cardiff Osteoarchaeology Research Group recently joined forces with the National Museum of Wales and St. Fagan’s National History Museum to conduct an experimental outdoor sheep cremation simulating Anglo-Saxon ritual practices. The aim of this research was to gain a better understanding of the affects of purposeful manipulation of bones during cremation and how this may help in our interpretation of the types of rituals, if any, that were performed as part of the ancient cremation process.
Steve Mills and Jacqui Mulville are part of a team awarded £129,293 from English Heritage for the Lyonesse Project.
Congratulations to Richard Madgwick (PhD Archaeology) on his successful Student-Led Initiative application to the AHRC Collaborative Research Training Scheme. Richard will be setting up a Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum (PZAF) for UK and European students and has been given an award of £1460.
Jacqui Mulville is now a Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Ambassador. STEM Ambassadors are inspiring role models to young people, switching their minds to the excitement and potential of STEM subjects and careers.
Richard Madgwick, postgraduate researcher, and Jacqui Mulville have been awarded the equivalent of £16,200 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Isotope Geosciences Facilities Steering Committee (NIGFSC) for analytical support.
Dr Vicki Szabo associate professor of history at Western Carolina University was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship based at the School of History and Archeology, Cardiff University. Vicki will be in Cardiff for four months working with Jacqui Mulville to continue creating a database for the identification of whale species from artifacts and examine historical whale-hunting patterns.
Rare C18th chandelier returns to the church at Pennant Melangell after 300 hours of conservation at the School of History and Archaeology.
Latest news for and about Postgraduate students in the School of History and Archaeology.
The Archaeology Festival 2009 held at Cardiff University in February hailed as a major success.
Professor Peter Edbury has secured £410k research grant from the AHRC for a 3-year project, starting in September 2009, on 'The Old French William of Tyre and its Continuations'.
Cardiff historian, Garthine Walker joins Alexandra Shepard of the University of Glasgow to edit the 20th anniversary special edition of the journal Gender & History.
Cardiff Archaeologist Professor Alasdair Whittle and colleagues have won £610,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to study the first farmers in central Europe.