Conferences
22nd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference - Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Thursday 29 March - Sunday 1 April
The confirmed sessions for TRAC 2012 are:
1.) Roman copies and Greek originals: theories, methods, perspectives
Chair: Anna Anguissola (LMU München)
2.) Roman archaeology on the margins: working in a provincial context
Chair: Peter Norris & Colin Wallace (University of Liverpool)
3.) Religion in Roman Italy: Continuity and change, continuity in change
Chair: Annalisa Calapà (LMU München)
4.) The Romanisation of the Roman world: new theoretical, practical and methodological approaches to an old paradigm
Chair: Michael Sommer (University of Liverpool), Miguel John Versluys (University of Leiden) & Hartmut Leppin (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
5.) Roman neighbourhood relations in urban contexts
Chair: Anna Kieburg & Renate Storli (Universität Hamburg)
6.) Embodying value? The transformation of objects in and from the Roman world
Chair: Clare Rowan (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
7.) Philhellenism and the Romans
Chair: Kelly Olson (University of Western Ontario)
8.) Conceptualising frontier markets – the free market, imperial supply, and expression of local identity
Chair: Meike Weber (University of Reading) & Tyler Franconi (University of Oxford)
9.) General Session I
10.) General Session II
More information and abstracts of each session can be found at:
http://www.trac2012.com
We are looking forward to seeing you in Frankfurt,
Annabel Bokern, Marion Boos, Stefan Krmnicek, Dominik Maschek, Sven Page, TRAC 2012 Organising Committee
Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Lecture in memory of Geoff Egan
Friday 16 December, 7pm (tea and coffee 6.15pm) at the Society of Antiquaries
RSVP to secretary@spma.org.uk.
(Please note that we do not normally list conferences with a non-Roman focus, but it was felt that members may wish to attend this memorial lecture.)
Living with the Roman Army - Sat 24th Sept 2011, Cross St Chapel, Cross St, Manchester
10.30 Coffee and welcome
11.00 Welcome and introduction - Birgitta Hoffmann
The picture up close
11.10 Life around the fortresses – canabae, vicus and the civilians - Birgitta Hoffmann, Roman Gask Project
11.40 Life around the fortlets -Matt Symonds, Current Archaeology
12.10 Living with a fort – the example of Manchester - Norman Redhead, Greater Manchester Archaeology Unit
12.45-13.45 Lunch
The wider picture
13.45 Roman and Native in Central Scotland - David Woolliscroft, Roman Gask Project
14.15 Boom and Bust? - The impact of the Roman Army on the rural economy of the North West - Mike Nevell, University of Salford
14.45 Toil and Trouble: Magic in Roman Britain - Adam Parker
15.15 Discussion and Closing
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Walk through Roman Manchester - Norman Redhead
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Please return to: Birgitta Hoffmann, MANCENT/Hadrianic Society, 55 Broadwalk, Wilmslow, SK9 5PL
Following finds - from site to store: A meeting on aspects of archaeological finds in memory of Penny MacConnoran'
To be held at the Weston Theatre, Museum of London on Saturday 10 September 10.00 to 17.30
Museum of London Archaeology and the Museum of London invite colleagues and friends to join in this one-day meeting in honour of the great contribution made to London’s archaeology by Penny MacConnoran, who died in July 2010.
The varied programme will address Penny’s main interests and areas of expertise: processing, conservation and archiving, and finds research and will appeal to finds specialists, archaeologists, students, volunteers and anyone interested in archaeology. Particular emphasis will be on new research in the study of artefacts in and beyond London.
Speakers will include Jon Cotton, Marit Gaimster, Francis Grew, Lynne Keys, Gus Milne, Jacqui Pearce, Frances Pritchard, Beth Richardson, Ian Riddler, Roberta Tomber, Aidan Walsh, Angela Wardle and Sue Winterbottom.
Registration is £10 which includes morning and afternoon tea and coffee. Lunch is not provided but can be found close by, or at one of the museum cafés.
To register, visit the Museum of London site: http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk/News/FollowingFinds.htm and follow the instructions. There are options for telephone and on-line booking. The charge for the event is £10 and you will be requested to pay at the time of booking.
For enquiries regarding the programme please contact lblackmore@museumoflondon.org.uk
'Why Leather?'
Thursday 8th September 10am-5pm, University College London
The day conference, organised by the Archaeolgical Leather Group and UCL, brings together researchers to explore the science, craft and beliefs behind the use of leather, fur, parchment and rawhide. Topics include the physical properties of skins according to species and tanning process, medieval armour, South American codices, furs in Bronze Age Europe, scented gloves in Renaissance Italy, nineteenth century industrial machinery, wineskins, bespoke contemporary interiors and more. £10 students, £20 members, £25 non-members. Tea and cakes provided. To register contact Jackie Kiely on 0207 814 5734 or visit http://www.archleathgrp.org.uk/WhyLeather_form.pdf or http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20110908.
The Historical Metallurgy Society introduces their Spring meeting and AGM
Royalty, Religion and Rust!
4-5th June 2011, Helmsley, N Yorkshire
This meeting will explore the role of metals in both religious and high status contexts. We have a range of papers discussing a variety of different metals including to name a few copper bell casting in Mexico, Anglo-Saxon royal gold, Early Medieval pewter and various ironworking sites from monasteries to castles. The full provisional programme is available on the HMS Website http://hist-met.org/agm2011.html and our facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175470292481558
This meeting will also include a guided field trip to nearby Rievaulx Abbey and Helmsley Castle, with a particular focus on the production and use of metals at these sites. There will also be limited places for the trip to the Bilsdale sites.
The booking form is now available online at http://hist-met.org/agm2011.html
Please note accommodation in the village is limited; early booking of accommodation is essential, a list of options is available on the HMS website. The organisers have also booked several reasonably-priced beds in a local hostel, for both the Friday and Saturday nights. Alternatively the Feathers Hotel at www.feathershotelhelmsley.co.uk is offering a 10% off if you quote Helmsley Arts Centre/Historical Metallurgy Society booking on the 4th/5th June.
Association for the History of Glass
Neighbours and Successors of Rome: traditions of glass production and use in Europe, the Mediterranean and western Asia in the later first millennium AD (c AD400-1000)
19-20th May, The King's Manor, University of York
From the fifth century AD glass production and consumption throughout what was the western and eastern Roman
Empire appears to decline, although more recent work has suggested that this was more a change in emphasis,
economic and political influences and location. Few studies have considered this episode in glass history. It is the aim
of the present conference to explore this period in connection with the themes of glass in the east and in the west of
the old Roman Empire to establish any commonality or linking between the two cultural and geographic regions.
The main themes of the conference will address glass use in the East and West during the Late Antique period (4th
centuries to 8th centuries), the different traditions in the two geographic regions, and the apparent fragmentation of the
glass industry in the West in comparison with that in the Byzantine and Sasanian empires. The conference will also
focus on the development of trading networks in early medieval Europe, in the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires, and
in the early Islamic world through the medium of glass.
The conference will be inter-disciplinary and aims to bring together historical, ethnographic, scientific, and new
archaeological sources. Participants will include invited keynote speakers and others resulting from a peer-reviewed
response to this call for papers. Posters are also welcome, especially from young and early stage researchers.
The conference builds upon a very successful two day meeting organized by the Association for the History of Glass in
2006 on Glass of the Roman Empire, which attracted international speakers and audience. It is intended the refereed
proceedings of this conference will be published in an edited volume.
The 21st Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference
Newcastle University , Thursday 14 April to Sunday 17 April 2011.
As this is the 21st Birthday of TRAC, which started life in Newcastle, this conference promises to be a celebration of previous TRACs along with a look on the future of the conference. Sessions will start from 2.30pm on Friday 15th April and finish at 1pm on Sunday 17th April. There will be a pre-conference trip to Hadrian’s Wall departing 12 midday on Thursday 14th April. A Plenary lecture followed by drinks will run on Friday 15th April and the TRAC party will take place on the evening/night/morning of Saturday 16th April. There will be seven sessions in total. The final session on the Sunday will combine a retrospective panel session featuring delegates from the 1st TRAC and contributions by leading theorists who normally operate outside Roman studies.
Visit http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/TRAC2011/
Seeing Red: International conference on new economic and social perspectives on Gallo-Roman sigillata
1st - 3rd April 2011, University of Reading
The conference aims to capture the new research on samian stimulated by the publication of Brian Hartley’s and Brenda Dickinson’s Names on terra sigillata. Speakers from a wide range of European countries, from the Atlantic to the Black Sea, and the Baltic to the Mediterranean, will give papers on the following themes: production centres (history, location and technology); consumption and distribution; onomastics and iconography. Cost: £250 (full residential); £100 (full non-residential); £50 (day rate).
See website for details, http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/research/arch_sigillata.aspx.
TAG 2010
17th - 19th December 2010, University of Bristol
The 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group annual meeting, with a 'Science and Theory' theme.
Contact details can be found at www.bristol.ac.uk/archanth/tag.
Recent Roman Research - what's new?
27th November 2010, Priory Centre, Lincoln
To review the results from recent excavations of Roman sites throughout the East Midlands.
Contact details can be found at www.britarch.ac.uk/cbaem.
SMMF Roman Small Finds Masterclass - Identifying Roman Small Finds
25th November 2010, St Albans Museums
Learn the basics of how to identify Roman small finds from St Albans Museums Keeper of Archaeology, St Albans District Archaeologist and Hertfordshire Finds Liaison Officer, and see examples of common finds from our archaeology collection. This master class is particularly aimed at those with little or no prior knowledge of Roman archaeology and Roman object identification.
Historical Metallurgical Society - Research in Progress 2010
Wed 10th November 2010, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London
There are still places available; if you are interested in attending
All other information available on http://hist-met.org/hmsrip2010.html
30th and 31st October 2010
To commemorate the 1600th anniversary of the end of Roman Britain, and to celebrate the Roman Society's centenary, Cardiff University and the Monmouthshire Antiquarian Association are hosting a two-day conference to explore th evidence for Roman continuity in western Britain in the 5th century.
Contact details can be found at www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/newsandevents/archaeology.html.
Roman Villas in Kent and Surrey
23rd October 2010, Canterbury Christ Church University.
A joint conference with the Surrey Archaeological Society and Council for Kentish Archaeology.
Cost £5. Contact details can be found at www.the-cka.fsnet.co.uk.
What's New in Roman Scotland?
23rd October 2010, St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art, 2 Castle St, Glasgow G4 0RH
To mark the 1600th anniversary of AD410 and the 1800th anniversary of the last major Roman invasion of Scotland, the Glasgow Archaeological Society is holding a day seminar along with the Roman Society.
Cost £15. Contact details can be found at www.glasarchsoc.org.uk.
New Light on the Roman North-East
9th October 2010, County Hall, Durham
Re-assessing life and society in North-East England by the Archaeological and Architectural Society of Durham and Northumberland.
Cost £10. Contact details can be found at www.romansociety.org/events/roman-society-centenary/conferences.html.
Boom and Bust in Romano-British Purbeck
2nd October 2010, Dorset County Museum, 66 High St, Dorchester DT1 1XA
A symposium on 'Villa Economy and its Portable Antiquities in a Wider Context' by Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society.
Roman Archaeology Conference IX / Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference XX
25th - 28th March 2010
Under the aegis of the Roman Society, the 9th Roman Archaeology Conference and the 20th Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference will be held at the University of Oxford from Thursday 25 March to Sunday 28 March 2010. The conference also marks the Roman Society's Centenary.
Please address enquires to Dr. Hannah Friedman c/o RAC Hannah Friedman
Dragana Mladenoviae c/o TRAC Dragana Mladenoviae
IFA Annual Conference - every April
Further information at the IFA website (www.archaeologists.net)