Evening Lectures and Lunchtime Seminars 2022-23

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28 September 2022 (Wednesday evening public lecture, Geography Lecture Theatre, UCC Campus; time TBC)
Professor Michael Parker Pearson (University College London)
‘Stonehenge and its origins: new discoveries’

4 October 2022 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Dr John Ó Néill (adjunct researcher, Queens University Belfast)
‘Sooner or later they will be neglected, forgotten, and perhaps finally perish: Ireland’s Iron Age horns.’ 

11 October 2022 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Dr Colin Rynne
'Europe's first industrialized farm, the archaeology of Curraghmore Estate, County Waterford, 1847-1855'

17 October 2022 (Monday evening lecture; venue/time TBC)
Dr Gareth Williams (Curator of Anglo-Saxon Coins, British Museum)
‘The phenomenon of Viking camps’

24 October 2022 (Monday evening lecture; venue/time TBC)
Professor Andrea Gaucci (University of Bologna)
‘From the mountain to the coast: Cities and society of the Etruscan Po Valley (Italy)’

25 October 2022 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room):
Professor Andrea Gaucci (University of Bologna)
‘Rebuilding a Mediterranean hub: The Etruscan city port of Spina (6th-3rd cent. BC) and the University of Bologna’s research in the Comacchio Valleys (Italy)’

8 November 2022 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Dr Adrián Maldonado (National Museums Scotland)
'Crucible of Nations: rethinking Scotland’s Viking Age at the National Museum'

22 November 2022 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
John Sheehan ‘The Clonmoney West, Co. Clare, Viking-age hoard’
Professor William O’Brien ‘The coastal promontory forts of Sherkin Island’

29 November 2022 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Professor Laura McAtackney
‘Archaeologies of conflict and colonialism: working with recent historical material remains and their heritage potential’

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17 January 2023 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Maggie McCabe (PhD candidate) ‘Repatriation of Cultural Material from Former British Colonies in Museums in Britain and Ireland’
Shauna Allen (PhD candidate) ‘Curating change: a study of activism in museums’

24 January 2023 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Giulia Giannella (PhD candidate) ‘Aspects of La Tène archaeology’
Peter McDonagh (PhD candidate) ‘Ecclesiastical enclosures in early medieval Ireland’

31 January 2023 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Maeve Sikora (PhD candidate) ‘Feasting and Dining in Early Medieval Ireland’
Carolyn Howle Outlaw (PhD candidate) ‘Shell midden archaeology in Ireland’

6 February 2023 (Monday evening lecture; time/venue TBC)
Dr Rosie Everett (University of Newcastle)
‘Soils from the past, present and future: what can forensics learn from archaeology?’

7 February 2023 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Dr Rosie Everett (University of Newcastle)
‘The development of palaeoecological techniques in forensic ecology’

14 February 2023 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Dr Katharina Becker and Dr Donna de Groene
‘New Pastures - Livestock and Lifeways of the Irish Iron Age’

21 February (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Dr Tomas Ó Carragáin
‘Digital Atlas of Early Irish Carved Stones (DAEICS): Introducing the Project’

28 February 2023 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Dr Ben Gearey
‘Irish Peatland Archaeology Across Time’

7 March 2023 (Tuesday seminar, 1pm Windele Research Room)
Roisin Nic Cnaimhnin (PhD candidate) ‘The archaeozoology of Caherconnell stone fort’
Stephanie Robinson (PhD candidate) ‘Burials in Early Bronze Age Ireland’