On behalf of ACASA and the archaeology department of the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, we are happy to forward you the following announcement.
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Dear all,
A new series of Current Issues Seminars will begin shortly at the Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam. This lecture series offers insight in international
research topics in archaeology by renowned researchers from the Netherlands
and abroad. Guest speakers will present their research and debate with
master students. Topics will be widely varied and range from Mediterranean
and Dutch archaeology to Landscape archaeology and Historical archaeology, in
all periods and regions.
The programme is as follows:
Dr. Gundula Lidke
The Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley, Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania, northeast Germany – Research perspectives
14-09-2016
Dr. Philippa Walton
*Where, when and what for? Thinking about coin use in Roman Britain*
28-09-2016
Dr. Fokke Gerritsen
Between settling down and moving on: studying Neolithization in
northwestern Turkey
12-10-2016
Dr. Martin Pitts
Mass consumption and cultural mélange in the early Roman West
26-10-2016
Maurice de Kleijn
Simulating land-use for the Lower Rhine-Meuse delta in the Roman period
09-11-2016
Dr. George Koutsouflakis
*Commercial Transportation, Navigation and Interconectivity in the Euboean
Channel (Greece): The Evidence of Ancient and Mediaeval Shipwrecks*
23-11-2016
Prof. Lin Foxhall
*TBC*
07-12-2016
Prof. Jed Kaplan
From forest to farmland and meadow to metropolis, or, when did the
Anthropocene begin?
21-12-2016
All lectures begin at *15:30* and the first lecture will take place in *Main
Building, room 11A-22, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV
Amsterdam.*
Please check the ACASA website for further information and locations of
other lectures.
All welcome!
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Sjoukje Kamphorst
PhD student in Ancient History
on behalf of the CRASIS team
University of Groningen
CRASIS is the Groningen institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture,
Religion and Society of the Ancient World. Follow CRASIS on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/rug.crasis> or find out more about us on
www.rug.nl/crasis.
