Seminars/Lectures
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Seminars and Lectures
The Department of Archaeology arranges a Seminar and Evening Lecture Programme during term time, where staff, students and visiting academics present on current work.
The Lunchtime Seminars take place on Tuesdays at 1pm in J5, First Floor Connolly Building. Evening Lectures are undertaken in conjunction with the Student Archaeology Society (ArchSoc) and are normally held at a venue on the Main Campus.
You can find out more about where we are on our Location and Facilities page.
Details of upcoming events are also posted on our social media pages.
Evening Lectures and Lunchtime Seminars 2025-26
---SEMESTER 1---
Monday 6 October 2025 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Dr Dominic Bush (UCC): ‘The Underwater Archaeology of the World War II Pacific Theatre’.
Tuesday 7 October 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Dominic Bush (UCC): ‘Assessing Pollution Potential Risk at Shipwreck Sites off the Irish Coast’.
Tuesday 14 October 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Sally Fletcher (UCC): ‘Facing our Past: The Jericho Skull’.
Tuesday 21 October 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Eóin Parkinson (UCC): ‘Life history evolution at the transition to farming in Europe’.
Monday 3 November 2025 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Professor Dan Hicks (University of Oxford): ‘Militarist Realism: monumentality, museums, and memory from Cork to Oxford’ (co-run with Radical Humanities Laboratory).
Monday 10 November 2025 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Dr Antonio Caruso (The Cyprus Institute): ‘A Bioarchaeological Examination of Past Life Through Indirect Proxies: A Case Study From Hellenistic - Early Roman Menainon, Sicily’.
Tuesday 11 November 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Antonio Caruso (The Cyprus Institute): ‘A Multi-Proxy Examination of Dietary Patterns: Evidence from Dental Diseases, Stable Isotopes (δ¹⁵N, δ¹³C), and Dental Calculus in Hellenistic-Roman Sicily’.
Tuesday 18 November 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Sarah Kerr (UCC): ‘Networked Control: Rethinking the Irish Tower House’.
Tuesday 25 November 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Professor Laura McAtackney (UCC): ‘Material dissonance in the post/conflict city: personal archaeologies of material, meaning and memory in contemporary Belfast’.
---SEMESTER 2---
Tuesday 20 January 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Diarmuid Lyons (PhD candidate): ‘Absent archaeology: The Special Infantry Corps in Waterford - Establishing preconstructive surveillance in the Irish Free State’.
James Hickey (MPhil candidate): ‘The castles of Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork’.
Tuesday 27 January 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Greta Abmorseva (MPhil candidate): ‘Analysis of Post-Medieval archaeological textiles from bogs in Ireland’.
Ruairí Falvey (MPhil candidate): Title TBC.
Tuesday 3 February 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Bronagh Murphy (PhD candidate): Smoking Guns: Integrating Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches in the Study of 20th-Century War Graves.
Siobhan Malone (PhD candidate): Title TBC.
Tuesday 10 February 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Maeve Sikora (PhD candidate): ‘Feasting and dining in early Medieval Ireland’.
Carol Smith (PhD candidate): ‘La Tène scabbard in Ireland’.
Tuesday 17 February 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Marcus Anton (PhD candidate): ‘Museums and Neurodivergent Accessibility’.
Paula O’Leary (MPhil candidate): ‘Sacred Mountains of Ireland’.
Tuesday 24 February 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Giulia Giannella (PhD candidate): ‘Identity and archaeology in Italy during the La Tène period’.
Fionn Simpson (MPhil candidate): Title TBC.
Tuesday 3 March 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Peter McDonagh (PhD candidate): ‘Ecclesiastical Enclosures in Early Medieval Ireland: Investigating the Scale, Layout, and Diversity of Church Sites’.
Nolwenn Ré (MPhil candidate): ‘Perceiving the Past in Medieval Ireland: A Study of Church Sites in close proximity to Prehistoric Monuments’.
Monday 9 March 2026 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Dr Gian Battista Marras (Aarhus University) & Dr Eóin Parkinson (UCC): ‘Human- landscape interactions in Bronze Age Sardinia: Excavations at Nuraghe Genna Maiu’.
Tuesday 10 March 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Gian Battista Marras (Aarhus University): ‘The geoarchaeology of early urbanism in central Italy: A case study from Tarquinia’.
Monday 30 March 2026 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Dr Llorenc Alapont (University of Valencia): Title TBC – topic Pompeii.
Tuesday 31 March 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Llorenc Alapont (University of Valencia): Title TBC – topic Spanish Civil War mass graves.
For any queries about the seminar series please contact Eóin Parkinson (eparkinson@ucc.ie).