SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY & ANCIENT HISTORY
50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS March 15th 2008
10.00 - 11.00 am Registration and Coffee in the foyer to the School
Posters of fieldwork projects in foyer, activities in Drawing Office and Seminar room
11.00 – 12. 30 Short lectures: the School in the Past. Attenborough Film Theatre
Charlotte Roberts, Professor of Archaeology, University of Durham: ‘a past student’s view of
archaeology at Leicester’
Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge: ‘A Head’s view of the
School in the 1990s’.
David Mattingly, Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Leicester: ‘the School’s fieldwork
projects, past and present’.
12.30 pm
Photocall outside School
1.00 pm
Celebration lunch and birthday cake with speech from Dr Alan Mcwhirr and launch of the
anniversary book, Digging up our Past. Charles Wilson Building
2.30 – 5.15 Short lectures: the School in the Present. Attenborough Film Theatre
2.30 pm Lecture on the work of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services by one of its
Directors, Dr. Patrick Clay
3.15 tea break
3.45 Dr Huw Barton ‘The contribution of starch analysis to the study of prehistory’
4.05 Dr Pim Allison ‘Roman archaeology and social practices’
4.25 Dr Ruth Young ‘ Archaeology in Pakistan: defining the Gandharan Grave Culture’
4. 45 Dr Audrey Horning - Comparative Colonialism of the British Atlantic World
5.15 wine reception in School foyer
Sales of Anniversary books and T-shirt! Sales of School monographs Competition: ‘Where is Clive
Ruggles now? Pin your guess onto a map of the world!