Archaeology and Conservation Research Seminar Series
Cardiff University's Archaeology and Conservation Research Seminar Series features experts from across the UK.
All of our seminars are free, open to all and take place on Thursdays at 17:10.
Seminars will take place in person in room 4.45, in the John Percival Building. In line with university policy, we recommend that face coverings are worn throughout the seminar, unless exempt.
Past seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 31/03/2022 | Dr Carmen Esposito (Cardiff University) | Reconsidering the Villanovan phenomenon of pre-Roman Italy through an isotopic-based perspective |
| 10/02/2022 | Dr Eric Nordgren (Cardiff University) | The Craft of Conservation or Conservation as Craft: Exploring the Contribution of Making Techniques to Conservation Practice |
| 09/12/2021 | Dr Roz Gillis, University of the Algarve | The Archaeology of Milk |
| 02/12/2021 | Dr Joanne Rowland (Edinburgh) | Investigating social complexity in late prehistoric/early historic Egypt: the view from the Delta and Nile Valley in 2021 |
| 25/11/2021 | Dr Elizabeth Walker (National Museum of Wales) | Untangling the archive: how museum lithic collections can enhance our understanding of life in late Glacial and early Holocene Wales |
| 18/11/2021 | Dr Maria Duggan (Newcastle/British School at Athens) | Analysing the Early Medieval Ceramic Assemblage from Tintagel: Connecting Britain and the Aegean |
| 04/11/2021 | Professor Jane Henderson (Cardiff) | The future of our past? A conservator’s perspective |
| 21/10/2021 | Miranda Aldhouse-Green (Professor Emerita, Cardiff) | In Conversation with Miranda Aldhouse-Green: Rethinking the Ancient Druids - Book Launch |
| 14/10/2021 | Niall Sharples (Cardiff) | Ten years digging on Bornais. What did we learn? |
| 07/10/2021 | Emily Holt (Cardiff, Marie Curie Fellow) | Seasonal streams to sacred wells: water and political consolidation in the Nuragic culture |
| 06/05/2021 | Cara Jones (CiFA) | People | Design | Approach: Exploring the legacy and future of Public and Community Archaeology |
| 29/04/2021 | Alan Lane (Cardiff) | Is there really only one Crannog south of Hadrian's Wall and East of the Irish Sea? Llangorse - a dramatic historical anomaly? |
| 22/04/2021 | Amelia Pannett (Cadw) | The Challenges of Protecting the Historic Environment in the 21st Century |
| 25/03/2021 | Peter Guest (Barbican Research Associates) | Becoming Roman in Britain: a History of the Civitas Silurum |
| 18/03/2021 | Ollie Harris (Leicester) | Assembling Past Worlds: Materials, Bodies and Architecture in Neolithic Britain |
| 11/03/2021 | Josh Pollard (Southampton) | The View from the Valley Floor: the Avebury Landscape and the Cardiff Legacy |
| 25/02/2021 | Alasdair Whittle (Cardiff emeritus) | The first stones: Penywyrlod and Gwernvale in their Neolithic Black Mountains context |
| 11/02/2021 | Penny Bickle (York) and Dani Hofmann (Bergen) | Gender, Migration and Mobility: New Perspectives on the European Neolithic |
Communities
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12/03/2020 | Cara Jones | To be confirmed |
| 05/03/2020 | Mike Pearson | The Cardiff Riots of 1919: performance, archaeology and the city |
| 20/02/2020 | Will Tregaskes, Mark Lewis, Amanda Rosewarne | Local Museums and Communities Panel |
| 13/02/2020 | Denise Allen | Archaeological Tourism: the pros, cons, highs, and lows |
| 06/02/2020 | Emily Gal | Archaeology and community in Scottish islands: challenges and opportunities |
| 30/01/2020 | Ffion Reynolds | Making Space: Engaging with Communities through Heritage, Arts, and Archaeology |
World views
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 30/04/2020 | Josh Pollard | The view from the valley floor: the Avebury landscape and Cardiff’s legacy |
| 23/04/2020 | Not available | People called Romanes, they go the house? Identities in a changing world: new research at the Romano-British 'small town' of Durobrivae (Water Newton) |
| 26/03/2020 | Ollie Harris | Archaeology and the Creation of Pasts |
| 19/03/2020 | Penny Bickle and Daniela Hofmann | Gender, migration and mobility: new perspectives for the Neolithic |