Conferences, Meetings & Lectures

‘PKARF: Priorities in Progress’ Regional Archaeology Conference

30.08.19, Soutar Theatre, AK Bell Library, 2-8 York Place, Perth

A regional archaeology conference organised as part of the Perth and Kinross Archaeological Research Framework (PKARF). Join Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust for a summary of findings from the first year of knowledge assessment and hear preliminary research priorities presented by leading experts. Contribute to the shaping of the future Framework by joining 'think tank' workshops. Student Attendance Bursaries available to assist with travel and accommodation. For registration details and more information visit: www.pkht.org.uk/pkarf. Free of charge.

Call for Papers - Making Your Mark: The first National Symposium for the study of Historic Graffiti

05.10.19, The University of Southampton

In recent decades there has been a steady growth in interest within both the academic world and community archaeology projects in the recording and study of historical graffiti. As such we are launching the first in what we anticipate will become a regular program of historic graffiti symposia, to include academics, archaeologists, scholars, and enthusiasts, to discuss the work that is under way. Call for papers and posters: We encourage established researchers, new scholars, and amateur archaeologists to submit papers and posters for presentation at the symposium. Please click on this link for further information: https://tinyurl.com/y67u694j Send abstracts to cfp@historicgraffiti.co.uk Closing date for papers 14th June. www.historicgraffiti.co.uk

Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group

12.10.19, The Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge

Day school from 9.15am to 4.45pm, talks include West Yorkshire Registry of Deeds (West Yorkshire Archive Service); Censuses and house history (Anna Mealia); Land valuation survey 1910-1915 (Mary Twentyman and Barbara Reardon); Probate records (Hazel Seidel); and case studies on Old Town Hall (David Cant) and Higher Kinders (Mike Buckley). To book, send contact details and cheque for £20 payable to Hebden Bridge Local History Society to Rachel Smith, Bramble Dene, Moss Lane, Hebden Bridge HX7 7DS or email membership@hebdenbridgehistory.or g.uk for enquiries.

Pitt Rivers Lecture 2019

29.10.19, Bournemouth

The Third Annual Pitt Rivers Lecture entitled “Fire: Friend or Fiend in Human History?” will be given by the internationally renowned anthropologist Professor Ruth Tringham (University of California at Berkeley, USA). It is a free public lecture and will be held in the Fusion Building, Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University, BH12 5BB, at 7:00pm (Displays and welcome reception from 6:30pm). The lecture will explore how archaeologists can and do act as arson investigators many centuries or millennia after the event. It will focus on the burned houses of Neolithic Southeast Europe, and earlier examples in Neolithic Anatolia (Çatalhöyük, Turkey), in order to consider how fire has been managed and controlled, and why fire is chosen as a means of destroying places, be they urban or rural, public monuments, or intimate domestic places. For further details and booking please visit the Eventbrite page at: https://pittrivers.eventbrite.co.uk

The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, 12th Annual Conference

30.10.19 – 01.11.19, University of Sheffield

This year’s conference is entitled ‘Rebels Without a Cause? Accessing and Exploring Adolescents/ Adolescence in the Past’. An interdisciplinary and international society, the 2019 SSCIP Conference seeks to explore the many facets of adolescence, and how scholars from diverse fields of research offer nuanced insight into the lives of those occupying this unique stage in the life course in the past. This conference is supported by the Sheffield Centre for the Archaeology of Childhood. Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Jane Eva Baxter (DePaul University, USA) and Dr Mary Lewis (University of Reading, UK). For further information visit: https://sscip.wordpress.com and follow us @SscipChildhood

40th Association for Environmental Archaeology Conference 29.11-01.12.19, University of Sheffield

This year’s theme is "Living through change: the archaeology of humanenvironment interactions". We welcome papers that explore environmental change from the human perspective through engagement with questions of change, adaptation, sustainability and human impact. Early Bird prices are available until 1st September, last booking date is 1st November. https://tinyurl.com/yxct5f2a