ArchSoc Archaeology seminars

The ArchSoc Archaeology seminars provide an opportunity for discussion of current research developments on a range of archaeological themes from diverse chronological and geographical areas. The seminars are open to all.

Seminar description

You are cordially invited to our Archaeological Seminar Series of Semester 2 2025/26, in collaboration with our student Archaeology Society (ArchSoc). 

Seminars will take place every Thursday from 4.15pm in the Meadows Lecture Theatre (G.07), Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, unless indicated otherwise, followed by a post-seminar reception afterwards in the McMillan Room. Please note – the Munro lecture may be in a different location and may have a different start time.

To join the ArchSoc Archaeology Seminar mailing list, there are  instructions here, or please email Claire.Brown-2@ed.ac.uk.

Semester 2 2025/26

Thu 15 Jan       Sian Halcrow (University of Otago; University of Durham)'Forgotten children: The fetal and infant skeletal remains from the W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum, New Zealand'

This seminar will be on-line only.

Joint seminar with One Health Archaeology Research Group

Thu 22 JanJess Thompson (National Museum of Scotland)'Curating Scotland’s archaeological human remains: Past, present & future' Joint seminar with One Health Archaeology Research Group
Thu 29 JanAnna van der Weij (Utrecht University)'Constructing the Limes: Burial culture in Roman Period Netherlands'ArchSoc Seminar
Thu 5 FebSimon Mays (Historic England)            'Osteoporosis past and present: Age-related deterioration in the nano-platelets of bone hydroxyapatite'Joint seminar with One Health Archaeology Research Group
Thu 12 FebFlorian Cousseau (Durham University)             'Central Brittany in the Middle Neolithic:  A landscape far from empty' 
Thu 26 FebJessica Irwin (University of Edinburgh)'Underwater archaeology of WW2'ArchSoc Seminar
Thu 5 MarIan Ralston (University of Edinburgh) 'Prehistoric archaeology at Edinburgh University until about 1990: Robert Munro, John Abercromby, Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott and others. Some highways and byways in the development of a Department' 
Thu 12 MarSabrina Agarwal (University of California Berkeley)Munro LectureLocation and start time tbc
Thu 19 MarAlice Wolff (University of Edinburgh) 'Agriculture and environment at Bamburgh Castle' 
Thu 26 MarBarry Molloy (University College Dublin)        'Did climate change cause Bronze Age societies to collapse ca. 1200 BC? A critical perspective from Central Europe' 
Thu 2 AprElisabeth Niklasson (University of Aberdeen)              'Heritage and the politics of fear'ArchSoc Seminar

Semester 1 2025/26

Thu 18 SepDiane Bolger (University of Edinburgh)Gender, fragmentation and social transformation in prehistoric CyprusArchSoc Seminar
Thu 2 OctMiguel Angel Moreno (University of Edinburgh)       Atapuerca archaeological sites (Burgos, Spain), from Palaeolithic to 2025Joint seminar with One Health Archaeology Research Group
Thu 9 OctDavid Farrell-Banks (University of Edinburgh)  Nostalgia and Sportswashing: The Role of the Past in the Saudi Takeover of Newcastle United 
Thu 16 OctVarious (University of Edinburgh)Fieldwork Updates 
Thu 23 OctJohn Bintliff (University of Edinburgh)Hyettos: The Origins, Florescence and Afterlife of a Small City in Central Greece
 		 
Thu 30 OctBeatrijs de Groot (University of Edinburgh)       Of rocks and hard places: from geopractices to extractivism in late prehistoric EuropeArchSoc Seminar
Thu 6 NovIain Banks (University of Glasgow)TBCArchSoc Seminar
Thu 13 NovVanessa Reid (University of Edinburgh)Residues of Life: Microanalysis of Activity & Climate Change at Roman Vindolanda 
Thu 20 NovFabio Saccoccio (University of Nottingham)    The Cenomani in Northern Italy: from Celtic invaders to Roman citizens (late 1st millennium BC) 
Thu 27 NovRicardo Fernandes (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology)              Isotopic Snapshots: A 15,000-Year Journey Through the Human StoryMunro Lecture (lecture location and start time tbc)

Further Information

To join the ArchSoc Archaeology Seminar mailing list, University of Edinburgh staff can join the mlist at the link below, or please email Claire.Brown-2@ed.ac.uk.

If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact the coordinator Professor Robin Bendrey, (robin.bendrey@ed.ac.uk). You can also follow Edinburgh Archaeology and ArchSoc on Instagram (see below).

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