Category: Seminar
Video: ‘A great show-off’ – carving as an expression of self in the runic inscriptions of Maeshowe
Maeshowe’s runes featured in April’s UHI Archaeology Institute online seminar, which saw Dr Karen Langsholt Holmqvist present her research on medieval runic graffiti.
Talking bruck – free online seminar on the art and archaeology of waste in Orkney
The art and archaeology of rubbish is the subject of a free online seminar by Dr Antonia Thomas next week.
Video: Connections across Britain and Ireland during the age of Stonehenge
Nick Card, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and director of the Ness of Brodgar excavation, was a speaker in a British Museum talk last week on links between Neolithic Orkney and the rest of Britain and Ireland.
Video: ‘Roots and routes’: Journey along the Ara Metua
Register now for March’s free UHI Archaeology Seminar – “Roots and Routes in Polynesia: investigating the fabulous Ara Metua and the colonisation of Rarotonga”
Video: The memorialisation of religious and community identities in Orkney
The recording of February’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, February 25, 2022.
Video: Discussing dolmens – in conversation with Professors Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings
On Tuesday, February 1, 2022, Professor Colin Richards of the UHI Archaeology Institute was joined by Professor Vicki Cummings, of the University of Central Lancashire, to discuss prehistoric dolmens – the subject of their recently published book.
Video: ‘Grave matters: harnessing the enduring power of prehistoric grave goods’
The recording of January’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, January 28, 2022.
An evening with Professor Dan Hicks – online talk postponed until 2022
The talk by Professor Dan Hicks, curator of the world-renowned Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, that was due to take place on Wednesday, December 15, has been cancelled.
Video: Tresness – fresh findings from Sanday stalled cairn
The recording of November’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, November 26, 2021.
Video: Exploring applications of location-based augmented reality in an island landscape
The recording of October’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, October 29, 2021.
Video: ‘Of trough and trencher’ – Prof Ingrid Mainland’s inaugural professorial lecture now online
The recording of Professor Ingrid Mainland’s inaugural professorial lecture on Thursday, October 7, 2021.
Inaugural professorial lecture explores the archaeology of food, fodder and feasting
Professor Ingrid Mainland of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute will deliver her inaugural professorial lecture online at 4pm today, Thursday.
Video: ‘Out of the Round: Continuity and connection to landscape in hut circle communities’
Hannah Genders Boyd outlines her research on Bronze and Iron Age roundhouse communities in western Scotland and their relationship with the local environment.
Video: Masks Unmasked – tracing traditions of mask wearing in the hunter-gatherer communities of Early Prehistoric Europe
The recording of the first monthly UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar of the 2021/22 season, which took place on Friday, September 3.
‘The Ness in Rock and Stone’ – Orkney International Science Festival talk premieres on Sunday
The 31st Orkney Science Festival kicks off today and among the events on offer are talks on the ongoing excavations at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney.
‘Women and men of the Viking Age’ – inaugural professorial lecture from Professor Alexandra Sanmark
Women and men of the Viking Age is the subject of Professor Alexandra Sanmark’s inaugural professorial lecture next month.
‘Orphir: A Norse Economic Hub’ – free online seminar begins Scottish Society for Northern Studies’ new series
A talk on Norse period Orphir kicks off the Scottish Society for Northern Studies new season of online seminars next week.