Talking Orkney placenames at national conference
Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon was talking Orkney placenames recently at the Scottish Place Name Society Autumn Conference.
Category: Conference
Representing the UHI at this year’s Highland Archaeology Festival
A group from the UHI Archaeology Institute travelled down to Inverness at the weekend for the 2025 Highland Archaeology Festival.
Australian conference session on graffiti co-convened by institute lecturer
Dr Antonia Thomas had a very early start yesterday when she co-convened a session at the World Archaeological Congress in Darwin, Australia.
Crafting kin and marine molluscs – two institute research projects outlined at Iron Age conference
A delegation from the UHI Archaeology Institute was in Wales recently, where two gave presentations at the Iron Age Dialogues conference.
Institute speakers at April’s two-day islands symposium
The UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Emily Gal and Martin Carruthers are among the speakers at a two-day symposium, ‘Island narratives of kinship, place and the weather’, next month.
Conference in Kirkwall to look at the future of Scotland’s islands
Dr Antonia Thomas is among the speakers at a two-day conference in Orkney this week dedicated to exploring the future of Scotland’s islands.
Institute’s island issues experts welcome group from USA and Ireland
The UHI Archaeology Institute and Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Development Trust (REWDT) hosted a field trip to Rousay earlier this month.
SIRFA Orkney research event comes to an end in Kirkwall
After two-and-a-half days of discussion and debate, the SIRFA research symposium drew to a close in Kirkwall this afternoon.
Hoy trip kicks off a weekend of SIRFA symposium events in Orkney
The island of Hoy was the destination for a group of SIRFA symposium participants on Friday, March 24.
Experts gathering in Orkney for this weekend’s SIRFA symposium
Experts from around the world are gathering in Orkney this weekend for the third, and final, Scotland’s Island Research Framework for Archaeology (SIRFA) symposium.
Orkney playing host to SIRFA’s final archaeology symposium in March
A four-day archaeological research conference is being held in Orkney in March as the final event in the development of Scotland’s Islands Research Framework for Archaeology (SIRFA).
Prehistory on the Edge – two-day conference in memory of Caroline Wickham-Jones
The University of Aberdeen is hosting a two-day conference next week in memory of the late Caroline Wickham-Jones.
Video: The Edge – conference recordings now available
The first of the recordings covering December’s two-day The Edge conference are now available.
Call for Scottish Student Archaeology Society conference papers
A call has gone out to Archaeology Institute students interested in participating in the 2022 Scottish Student Archaeology Society Conference.
Join us for December’s ‘The Edge’ conference
A two-day online conference in December will mark the the culmination of almost two years of seminars, blogs and other activities exploring the theme “The Edge”.
Nick Card presents research in China
Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card was invited by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to give a lecture in Xi’an this month – the birthplace of Chinese Civilisation and home to the Terracotta Army.
Western Isles symposium was a great success
In the second week of January, Dr Rebecca Rennell of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute organised Scotland’s Island Research Framework for Archaeology (SIRFA) first research symposium.
‘Our Islands, Our Past’ conference: a big thank-you
The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute held the inaugural Our Islands, Our Past conference in Orkney over the weekend of 14th to 17th September 2017 and we would just like to say thank you to all those people who made the event such a success.