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Sheffield Centre for Historical Archaeology

Sheffield Centre for Historical Archaeology - Events
Future Events:
                                          
Dressing the Dead Conference A one-day conference on clothing, textiles and bodily adornment from funerary contexts in the Graeco-Roman world. 27th May, 2010.
Fifth General Meeting of the EU-Culture 2007 funded project Clothing and Identities. New Perspectives on Textiles in the Roman Empire (DressID). 28th - 29th May, 2010.
Medieval and Ancient Research Seminars MARS is a seminar series that brings together the wealth of research conducted on the ancient and medieval worlds within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. This year´s programme covers subjects from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval Sheffield, and from Spanish contact in the new World to medieval east Asia.
Democratising Archaeology, 2012 A conference hosted by the Department of Archaeology in conjunction with the centenary of the Hunter Archaeological Society

Past Events:
New research on medieval childhood This workshop is jointly hosted by the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past and the Society for Medieval Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. It highlights new research on children and childhood in the medieval period and brings together historians, archaeologists and art historians.
                                          
Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium The Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium (EMASS) is a forum for the discussion of ongoing postgraduate research, run by students for students. The symposium provides an informal, interactive and constructive environment in which students can develop their research through discussion and debate. 21 - 22 May 2009
The Landscapes of South Yorkshire and the North Midlands This conference is jointly organised by the Society for Landscape Studies and the Department of Archaeology, and features papers of a selection of current research projects on the medieval and post-medieval landscapes of South Yorkshire and the North Midlands.
Archaeologies of the Everyday Questioning the `transparency of the daily´
Montarrenti 25 Years on Celebrating the life and work of Riccardo Francovich
  Biocultural approaches to early medieval burial workshop (December 2007)
Student Colloquium Material Culture Studies
Living through the Dead The material culture and social context of commemoration of the dead from antiquity to the eighteenth century
The Table The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining in the Historical Periods (May 2003)