Tuesday lunchtime lecture series
Organised by PhD students in the Department of Archaeology, this series gives an overview of current work in all areas of our research.
The Tuesday Lunchtime Lecture Series gives an overview of current work in all areas of archaeological research and invites guest speakers from universities and institutions across the UK and worldwide. The series is organised by PhD students in the Department of Archaeology, and it is also part of our first-year PhD student's Doctoral Development Programme (DDP).
Delivered Online Via Blackboard
Time: Tuesdays, 1-2pm
Talks are free and open to everyone.
Themes for upcoming lectures
Date: 9 May 2023
Speaker: Dr Paz Ramirez-Valiente, University of Nottingham
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: 'To gender or not to gender? Exploring sex and gender through Neolithic figurines from Greece'
Date: 2 May 2023
Speaker: Mr Blair Nolan, Lund University
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: 'A Biocultural Perspective on Urbanisation in Medieval Denmark: Lund from 990 AD – 1536 AD'
Date: 28 March 2023
Speaker: Dr Claire Hodson, University of Reading
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: 'New evidence and insights into early life challenges: exploring relationships between fetal-infant growth and health'
Date: 7 March 2023
Speaker: Dr Julieta Gómez García-Donas, University of Dundee
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: 'Human bone microstructure for anthropological assessment: insights from different populations and skeletal elements'
Date: 7 February 2023
Speaker: Corinne Feuillatre, University of Bradford
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: 'Stable isotope analysis: a window onto reproductive life'
Date: 31 January 2023
Speaker: Professor Joel Irish, Liverpool John Moores University
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: 'Ancient Teeth and Population Affinity: Two Nubian Case Studies'
Date: 24 January 2023
Speaker: Dr Peter Campbell, Cranfield University
Introduction and moderator for the session:
Subject: 'Heritage Crime and Research: Archaeology after disaster'
Date: 31 May 2022
Speaker: Dr Andrew Reinhard, New York University
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: A tour of video game archaeology
Date: 24 May 2022
Speaker: Dr Kevin Kuykendall, The University of Sheffield
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: Creswell Crags: palaeolithic archaeology, research frameworks, and the WHS tentative list
Date: 17 May 2022
Speaker: Dr Rob Dinnis, University of Aberdeen
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: Is there anything left? A decade of excavation at British caves
Date: 10 May 2022
Speaker: Dr Virginia Barciela and Dr Maria Lillo, Universidad de Alicante
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: Let's make women visible in Prehistory! An approach to female representations and researchers through Prehistoric art
Date: 3 May 2022
Speaker: Alexandra Morton-Hayward, University of Oxford
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: Suspicious minds: a molecular taphonomic approach to the preservation of the central nervous system in the fossil record
Date: 22 March 2022
Speaker: Dr Lizzy Craig-Atkins, The University of Sheffield
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: Marking Maternity: Integrating historical and archaeological evidence for reproduction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Date: 8 March 2022
Speaker: Alexis Thouki, The University of Sheffield
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: Heritagization of religious sites: A structural analysis
Date: 1st February 2022
Speaker: Jennifer Gonissen, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Introduction and moderator for the session: Aimée Barlow, Ofelia Meza-Escobar
Subject: Belgian Colonists in early 20th-century Congo; headhunters or curious doctors? An anthropometrical and traumatological analysis of 14 Congolese skulls kept at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Link to Join: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/dcecbc3eb62749268a14272c9c1a5316
Date: 20th April 2021
Speaker: Christopher Witmore, Texas Tech University.
Introduction and moderator for the session: Christos Giamakis
Subject: The end of agrarianism at the dawn of the Anthropocene
Link to Join: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/5a064533d1f84cc4ba4961c6ea4a8297
Date: 4th May 2021
Speaker: Corinna Riva, University College London
Introduction and moderator for the session: Christos Giamakis
Subject: Citizenship and urban states in 1st-millennium-BC Mediterranean: a case study from southern Etruria:
Link to Join: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/dcee8e08256d43da9515f13c2bfe65ff
Date: 18th May 2021
Speaker: Liv Nilson Stutz, Linnaeus University
Introduction and moderator for the session: Christos Giamakis
Subject: ‘When I sat fiddling with tiny things’. Memory, Materiality, and Emotion inside the Ravensbrück Prison Camp:
Link to Join: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/7671343ccab447f185797736157ed3c
Date: 8th June 2021
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Kay, University of Leicester
Introduction and moderator for the session: Resa Nelson
Subject: Value and the habitus in bottom-up histories: political layers in Çatalhöyük houses
Link to Join: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/3ad7922616054d99840cee12fed31389