2009 Press Releases
18.02.2009
This year marks a century of Archaeology as an academic discipline in University College Cork.
The appointment in 1909 of Sir Bertram Windle as Professor of Archaeology marked the establishment of a new academic discipline in University College Cork. Building on an earlier tradition of antiquarian scholarship in the Munster region, the UCC department has grown to become one of the leading teaching and research centres in Irish archaeology.
To mark the centenary, staff, students and members of the public are cordially invited to attend a series of lectures and events during the year. The evening talk series will be delivered by leading international archaeologists, on a range of topics connected to the research interests of the Department. A public conference on the origins of Cork city in April will review archaeological research on the Viking and medieval walled town. A photographic exhibition will be held in October highlighting the many important archaeological excavations conducted by UCC over the past century.
The Centenary programme will be launched at 7pm on Thursday evening, February 19th when Professor Klavs Randsborg (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a lecture on ‘King’s Jelling: Viking Denmark’s Imperial Centre’. All welcome.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Professor Klavs Randsborg (University of Copenhagen)
'Kings’s Jelling: Denmark’s Imperial Centre'.
Thursday, February 19th 2009. 7pm, Boole II Lecture Theatre
Professor Andrew Fleming (University of Lampeter)
‘From Wildwood to Pasture in Early Britain’
Thursday, March 19th. 7pm, Boole I Lecture Theatre
Centenary Public Conference
Viking and Medieval Cork: the Origins of a City
April 24-25th. (Friday evening and all-day Saturday). Venue to be confirmed.
Professor Kristian Kristiansen (University of Gothenberg)
‘1200 BC and the Big Turmoil’
Thursday, June 11th. 7pm, Boole I Lecture Theatre
Professor Barry Cunliffe (University of Oxford)
‘Celts from the West’
Thursday, October 22nd, Boole Lecture Theatre
Later that evening – Launch of photographic exhibition:
‘Digging up the Past: UCC and archaeological excavation, 1909–2009.
Professor Jane Buikstra (Arizona State University)
‘Tuberculosis: The Plague Continues’
Thursday, November 12th, Boole Lecture Theatre
Professor Marilyn Palmer (University of Leicester)
‘The Role of Archaeology in the Study of Industrialization’
Thursday, December 10th, Boole Lecture Theatre.
All lectures will be held in the Boole lecture theatres, located in the basement floor of the University Library building.
Admission to these evening lectures and to the public conference is free.
Further details on the Centenary Programme are available on http://www.ucc.ie/en/DepartmentsCentresandUnits/Archaeology or contacting the Department at 021-4904048; email: archaeology@ucc.ie
Picture: Newgrange
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