Material Connections: Mobility, Materiality and Mediterranean Identities

Glasgow Seminars

A series of  public and informal seminars in Glasgow on Friday afternoons will bring invited specialists in Mediterranean archaeology and material culture studies to Glasgow University. These specialists will present their own research to a wider audience in a public lecture and they will engage in discussion with project members and Glasgow University research students. They have initially taken place on a three-weekly basis throughout the autumn and winter terms of the 2008-09 academic session with additional seminars in the summer and autumn of 2009.

Seminar Program Autumn 2009

Seminar Title	Speaker	Date
Islands in the Pond: Reflections on Material and Intellectual Exchanges in the Mediterranean	Half-day symposium with Michael Given, John Cherry, Sarah Janes and Peter van Dommelen (detailed program)	6 November 2009 *
Monuments and Ancestors: the Monte Prama statues in Iron Age Sardinia	Carlo Tronchetti, Cagliari, Italy	4 December 2009

*This symposium will take place in the Yudowitz Seminar Room of the Wolfson Medical Building, 1.30 - 4.00 pm

Seminar Program 2008-209

Seminar Title	Speaker	Date
Mobility, Memory and Materiality: Early Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus	Paula Jones, Wales, Lampeter	10 October 2008
Iron Technology, Social Change and Mediterranean Identities	Maria Kostoglou, Manchester	31 October 2008
Mediterranean Colonisation from Local Perspectives	Tamar Hodos, Bristol	5 December 2008
Materiality and Mobility: Comparative Parameters	Mike Rowlands, UCL	23 January 2009
Tracing Networks/Craft Traditions in Iron Age Mediterranean	Lin Foxhall, Leicester	6 February 2009
The Geography of Art	John Robb, Cambridge	27 February 2009
The Tartar Steppe: an Archaeology of Fascist Colonialism	Alfredo González-Ruibal, Madrid, Spain	24 April 2009

Seminars are held in the Conference room (321) of the Department of Archaeology (Gregory Building, Lilybank Gardens) on Fridays 4-6 pm.