POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE IN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 2009
THE CENTRE FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
Saturday 3rd October 2009
The conference will provide a lively and informal forum for the presentation and discussion of current postgraduate research in the archaeology of the last 500 years, and will highlight the strength and diversity of the discipline. PhD students will be provided with an opportunity to present their research and gain constructive feedback; academic and professional archaeologists are warmly invited to hear about current work within the field and to support new researchers.
The conference lunch will be provided courtesy of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology.
Attendance at the conference will be free for all currently registered postgraduate students.
The conference fee for waged delegates will be £20.00 (please note increase from original conference announcement)
Deadline for booking: 15th September 2009
Booking forms and credit card payment forms are available on the Centre for Historical Archaeology website: http://www.le.ac.uk/archaeology/centhistarch/CentreforHistoricalArchaeology.html
For further information please contact Sharon North [log in to unmask] or Dr Chris King [log in to unmask]
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Location: Frank and Katherine May Lecture Theatre, Henry Wellcome Building, Leicester University (off Lancaster Road, opposite main campus). For maps, see: http://www2.le.ac.uk/maps
9.30: Registration opens
9.50: Welcome by Dr Sarah Tarlow (Director of the Centre for Historical Archaeology)
Session 1 (Chair: Dr Audrey Horning)
10.00: Eve Campbell (Archaeology, N.U.I. Galway): Displacement and relocation in early modern Ireland: studies of transplantation settlements in Connacht and Clare
10.30: Siobhán McDermott (Archaeology, N.U.I. Galway): Spoken in stone: flowering flax Tree of Life iconography and the funerary tradition of 18th-century South Ulster
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30: Bob Ruffle (University of Worcester): 'Earthen Ware and Other Odd Things': The (in)significance of pottery in the early modern household
12.00: Christopher McDaid (Archaeology, University of Leicester): The social context for taverns in 18th-century Hampton, Virginia
12.30: Stephania Skartsis (Archaeology, University of Birmingham): Chlemoutsi: an Ottoman and Venetian castle and its pottery
1.00-2.30: Lunch, sponsored by the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
Poster display
1.45: Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology AGM (Seminar room 0/51, Henry Wellcome Building)
Session 2 (Chair: Dr Sarah Tarlow)
2.30: Annalisa Christie (Archaeology, University of York): Were the coastal societies of the East African coast also 'maritime societies'?
3.00: Ashley Coutu (Archaeology, University of York): Tracing the links between elephants and humans during the 19th-century East African caravan trade
3.30: Ágústa Edwald (Archaeology, University of Aberdeen): The archaeology of Icelandic immigration to Canada in the late 19th century
4.00-4.30: Coffee
4.30: Charlie Newman (Archaeology, University of York): The place of the pauper: the West Yorkshire workhouse in the New Poor Law era
5.00: Elli Winterburn (SAPL, University of Newcastle/Newcastle City Council): Intervention in unequal measure: an archaeology of planning interventions of the last 100 years in the 19th-century residential areas of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
5.30: Conference closes
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