Conference programme

The Materiality of Maritime Cultures and Connections

Durham University

26th June 2018

Venue: Calman Learning Centre

9.15 – 9.40 Registration and Conference Welcome
9.40 – 10.40

Keynote Lecture

 Professor Chris Scarre (Durham University)

‘Megalithic missionaries? Coastal Connections and Neolithic Voyaging in Atlantic Europe’
10.40 – 11.00 Tea and Coffee
 11.00 – 11.20

Poster presentations

 Beatrice Wallbank (University of Nottingham)

Dyfed and the Sea: Insights from Southwest Wales in the Early Medieval Period
 

 

11.20 – 12.20

Session 1

 Rosamund Fitzmaurice and Elizabeth Graham (University College London)

‘Shifting Tides of Power: A new perspective on the coastal networks in the Maya economy’
Charlotte Williams (University of Cambridge)

‘Where the Old World Meets the New: Investigating the Plundered Past of Spanish Ships in a Borderless Cultural Heritage’
12.20 – 13.20 Lunch (Calman Learning Centre)
 

13.20 – 14.50

Session 2

 Solenn Troadec (University of Nottingham)

‘Burial practices in maritime Northwest Europe (c.650-1050AD): a cross-Channel comparative study’
Wyatt Rowe (University of Newcastle)

‘The Exceptionality of Rome’s Red Sea Frontier’
Dr David Petts (University of Durham)

‘The emergence of maritime cultural landscapes in post-medieval Northumberland’
14.50 – 15.10 Tea and Coffee
15.10 – 16.10

 

Session 3

 Achilles Isaonos (University of Oxford)

‘Deep-Sea archaeology in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus’
Michael J. Curtis (University of Leicester)

‘Identifying aspects of maritime culture within the coastal landscape of Roman Crete’
16.10 – 16.30 Tea and Coffee
16.30 – 17.30

Keynote Lecture

 Prof. Chris Loveluck (Nottingham University)

‘Maritime-oriented communities, networks and materiality in the medieval west, c. 600-1250 CE: Atlantic and North-Sea Europe compared’
END OF CONFERENCE
17.30 – 18.15 Wine Reception

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