An Autumn Lecture Programme at The Roman Army Museum
Thursday 11th September 2008
Britain’s’ Top Treasure –
The Vindolanda Writing Tablets
An evening with Dr Robin Birley
A lecture about Britain’s Top Treasure – The Vindolanda Writing Tablets. Find out more about the tablets and the people who wrote them. Dr Robin Birley, the archaeologist who discovered these amazing artefacts will discuss what it meant as a discovery and why they were voted Britain’s Top Treasure.
Thursday 25th September 2008
The Horse Through the Ages
An evening with Dr Debra Bennett
An expert bone analyst, Dr Deb Bennett, is an equine anatomy specialist and will be giving a lecture on the horse and it’s relation to humans throughout history. This entertaining and informative lecture will appeal to all those with an interest in horses past and present.
Tickets - £10
This includes:
A lecture by a guest speaker
An exclusive after hours viewing of The Roman Army Museum
The opportunity to watch The Eagle’s Eye Film
A complimentary glass of wine after the lecture
The Evening Format:
6:30pm - The museum doors open
(exclusively for lecture ticket holders only)
7:00pm The lecture starts
8:00pm Guests can mingle and chat with the guest speaker
Receive a complimentary glass of wine
Enjoy the museum at your leisure
9:00pm The museum closes for the evening
The coffee shop will be open from 6:30pm until 8:30pm for refreshments
Tickets must be booked in advance
via The Vindolanda Trust office
Contact telephone: 01434 344 277
contact email: info@vindolanda.com
Refunds are not available
Friends of Vindolanda receive a 25% discount (tickets £7.50)
Other Vindolanda Lectures coming up this Autumn/Spring
Worksop - 9th October
Lancaster - 11th October
Mansfield (SAS - sherwood archaeological society) - 15th October
Newcastle University - 3rd Feburary 2009
RAC (Roman Archaeology Conference) - USA- 3rd April 2009
more to follow later........
CENTRE FOR NORTH-WEST REGIONAL STUDIES
Saturday 11 October 2008
ROMANS AND BRITONS IN THE NORTH WEST: new research and interpretations
(TO BE HELD IN THE FARADAY LECTURE THEATRE)
9.30 a.m. Assemble in Faraday Lecture Theatre (please note: tea/coffee not available until 10.50 a.m.
break)
10.00 - 10.50 Romans and Britons in the North West: an overview - Professor David Shotter, Lancaster University
10.50 - 11.20 Coffee/tea & biscuits
11.20 - 12.10 Roman Garrisons in North West England - Ben Edwards, Lancaster University
12.15 - 1.05 A Fort Wall, the Great Divide? - Andrew Birley, Director of Excavations, Vindolanda Trust
1.05 - 2.15 Lunch (see below)
2.15 - 3.05 The Classis Britannica in the Oceanus Hivernicus - Dr David Mason, County Archaeologist, Durham County Council
3.05 - 3.35 Tea/coffee & biscuits
3.35 - 4.25 Rural Economy of the North West - Dr Rob Philpott, Head of Field Archaeology Unit, National Museums Liverpool
Fee: £18.00 (£17.00 for Friends of the Centre (fee includes coffee/tea & biscuits))
Lunch: £8.50 per head, optional. MENU: Home-made Lancashire Hot Pot (or Home-made Vegetable Hot Pot), served with Mushy Peas, Pickled Onions, Red Cabbage and Crusty Bread, followed by a Lancashire Cheeses and Fruit Table, Tea and Coffee.
Alternatively sandwiches/coffee/tea can be bought on the University campus (either at SPAR supermarket, Gregg's or Diggle’s). Hot and cold snacks and drinks are also available at The Venue or Café Republic - or you are welcome to bring your own lunch.
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RAC 2009
The 8th Roman Archaeology Conference will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, from 9:00 AM Friday, April 3 to 4:30 PM Sunday, April 5, 2009. All sessions will be held in the Rackham Building on the central campus of the University of Michigan. RAC 2009 will also host the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC: Ann Arbor), which will take place concurrently.
Register for RAC/TRAC 2009
Inquiries can be directed to:
jra@journalofromanarch.com
Organizing Committee
Tony Wilmott (Roman Society ex officio), Susan Alcock, Peter A.J. Attema, Stephen Dyson, Bruce Hitchner, John Humphrey, Simon Keay, David Mattingly, and Nicola Terrenato.
Accepted Sessions
The Late Republican period in “native” Southern Italy
Organizer: Fabio Colivicchi (Queen's University)
Kings, Clans and Conflict: Italic Warfare in the first millennium BC
Organizers: Hilary Becker (Washington & Lee University) and Jeremy Armstrong (University of Auckland)
Rome and the Alps
Organizers: Bruce Hitchner and Maxence Segard (Tufts University)
Current Approaches to the Archaeology of first millennium BC Italian Urbanism
Organizers: Jeffrey Becker (Boston University) and Elizabeth Robinson (University of North Carolina)
The Roman city as ‘written space’
Organizers: Simon Esmonde Cleary, Ray Laurence, and Gareth Sears (University of Birmingham)
Between Canon and Kitsch: Eclecticism in Roman Homes
Organizers: Sinclair Bell (University of Manitoba) and Francesca Tronchin (Getty Research Institute, Getty Villa)
Rethinking Britannia. New Approaches to a Grand Old Lady
Organizer: Pete Wilson (English Heritage)
Irrelevant Wall or Untapped Resource? Challenging Preconceptions of Hadrian’s Wall
Organizers: Rob Collins (University of Newcastle) and Matt Symonds (Durham County Council)
Dura-Europos
Organizers: Jennifer Baird and Simon James (University of Leicester)
Roman Imperialism in Africa Proconsularis
Organizer: David Stone (Florida State University)
The Troubled Adolescence of Late Antique Studies: Archaeological approaches to ‘change’ in Late Antiquity
Organizer: Hendrik Dey (University of Aarhus)
Incorporating coin finds into the archaeological and historical narrative
Organizer: Kris Lockyear (Institute of Archaeology, University College London)
Roman villa landscapes in the Latin west: economy, culture and lifestyles
Organizers: Nico Roymans and Ton Derks (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Aelia Capitolina – The Establishment and Development of a Roman City in Palestine
Organizers: Gideon Avni (Israel Antiquities Authority) and Guy Stiebel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Comparative issues in the archaeology of the Roman rural landscape, site classification between survey, excavation and historical categories
Organizers: Peter A.J. Attema (University of Groningen) and Günther Schoerner (Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena)
Alteration, influence, transfer and exchange: architectural relations between Rome and the Greek East
Organizer: Philip Stinson (University of Kansas)
Archaeology-based approaches to the study of food and drink in the Western Roman Empire
Organizer: Robert Curtis (University of Georgia)
The Lives of Others: peoples of the peripheries
Organizers: David Mattingly (University of Leicester) and Peter Wells (University of Minnesota)