Burial & Funerary Practice London
25 November 2017
Fieldwork in Late Antique Archaeology 2017: Burial and Funerary Practice
Birkbeck, University of London, London, Saturday 25th November 2017
This seminar reviews the state of funerary archaeology across the late antique world, providing an up-to-date overview of the latest discoveries in the field and in the lab, organised in terms of a series of regional portraits, from the cemeteries of Britain to the caves of Egypt.
Britain
10.00-10.30 Paul Booth (Oxford Archaeology) Southern Britain
10.30-11.00 Sadie Watson* / Alison Telfer* (Museum of London Arch.) London
11.00-11.30 Jake Weekes (Canterbury Arch. Trust) Canterbury
Western Mediterranean
11.50-12.20 Mauro Puddu (Cambridge) Sardinia
12.20-12.40 Alexandra Chavarria* (Padua) Northern Italy
12.40-13.10 Kaja Stembeger (KCL) Slovenia
Africa and Egypt
14:00-14:30 Anna Leone* (Durham) Africa
14:30-15:00 Elisabeth O’Connell (British Museum) Egypt
East Mediterranean
15:20-15:40 Joseph Rife# (Vanderbilt) Greece
15:40-16:10 Sophie Moore (Brown) Asia Minor
16.10-16.40 Ádám Bollók (HAS, Budapest) The Near East
16:45-17.00 John Pearce (KCL) Conclusion
The conference will be held at Birkbeck, University of London. All are welcome. Admission 15 GBP; Students / OAPs 7.5 GBP.
To register, write to michaelmulryan@gmail.com before 20th November.
Venue: B35 Lecture Theatre inside Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX. Metro: Russell Square.
Conveners: L.Lavan/M.Mulryan (Kent) T.Penn (Edin.) R,Darley (Birkbeck).Sponsors: Birkbeck, VirtualCentreforLateAntiquity, J.Beale, Brill.