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Exploring the Past free lectures

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Exploring the Past – free courses is an exciting series of FREE talks delivered by local postgraduates and academics involved in cutting-edge research.

These monthly talks present an exciting window into research undertaken in areas like History, Archaeology, Literature, Philosophy and Religion. They are intended to provide adult learners with a fresh and up-to-the-minute taster of the kinds of research undertaken within the Humanities at Cardiff University and beyond. No need to book just turn up on the night!

A fascinating programme is lined up for the Autumn/Spring 2012-13

All seminars start at 7.15pm and are held in the Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning, Senghennydd Road, Cardiff.  Room numbers to be announced.

24/10/2012
Dr Oliver Davies & Dr Dave Wyatt
Forging Communities Past and Present: Caerau Iron Age Hillfort and the CAER heritage project.

14/11/2012
Dr Paul Nicholson
A Short history of 3D photography (in 3D)

16/01/2013
Dr Peter Guest
Roman Caerleon – recent research and new ideas

20/02/2013
Dr Crystal Addey
Ancient Graeco-Egyptian Oracles

20/03/2013
Dr Melanie Rimmer
Conserving the material past: where science and heritage meet

17/04/2013
Gideon Brough
‘An Aulder Alliance?’ Wales and France in the Middle Ages

15/05/2013
Dr Martin Wright
Some Early Cardiff Socialists (1889-1914)

12/06/2013
Dr Alan Lane
King Alfred’s daughter and the sacking of the Llangors crannog

Please contact Dr Dave Wyatt for more information: 029 2087 0404 WyattD1@cardiff.ac.uk