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Seminars and Lectures
The Department of Archaeology arranges a Seminar and Evening Lecture Programme during term time, where staff, students and visiting academics present on current work.
The Lunchtime Seminars take place on Tuesdays at 1pm in J5, First Floor Connolly Building. Evening Lectures are undertaken in conjunction with the Student Archaeology Society () and are normally held at a venue on the Main Campus.
You can find out more about where we are on our Location and Facilities page.
Details of upcoming events are also posted on our social media pages.
Evening Lectures and Lunchtime Seminars 2025-26
---SEMESTER 1---
Monday 6 October 2025 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Dr Dominic Bush (UCC): 鈥楾he Underwater Archaeology of the World War II Pacific Theatre鈥�.
Tuesday 7 October 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Dominic Bush (UCC): 鈥楢ssessing Pollution Potential Risk at Shipwreck Sites off the Irish Coast鈥�.
Tuesday 14 October 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Sally Fletcher (UCC): 鈥楩acing our Past: The Jericho Skull鈥�.
Tuesday 21 October 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr E贸in Parkinson (UCC): 鈥楲ife history evolution at the transition to farming in Europe鈥�.
Monday 3 November 2025 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Professor Dan Hicks (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Oxford): 鈥楳ilitarist Realism: monumentality, museums, and memory from Cork to Oxford鈥� (co-run with Radical Humanities Laboratory).
Monday 10 November 2025 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Dr Antonio Caruso (The Cyprus Institute): 鈥楢 Bioarchaeological Examination of Past Life Through Indirect Proxies: A Case Study From Hellenistic - Early Roman Menainon, Sicily鈥�.
Tuesday 11 November 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Antonio Caruso (The Cyprus Institute): 鈥楢 Multi-Proxy Examination of Dietary Patterns: Evidence from Dental Diseases, Stable Isotopes (未鹿鈦礜, 未鹿鲁C), and Dental Calculus in Hellenistic-Roman Sicily鈥�.
Tuesday 18 November 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Sarah Kerr (UCC): 鈥楴etworked Control: Rethinking the Irish Tower House鈥�.
Tuesday 25 November 2025 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Professor Laura McAtackney (UCC): 鈥楳aterial dissonance in the post/conflict city: personal archaeologies of material, meaning and memory in contemporary Belfast鈥�.
---SEMESTER 2---
Tuesday 20 January 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Diarmuid Lyons (PhD candidate): 鈥楢bsent archaeology: The Special Infantry Corps in Waterford - Establishing preconstructive surveillance in the Irish Free State鈥�.
James Hickey (MPhil candidate): 鈥楾he castles of Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork鈥�.
Tuesday 27 January 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Greta Abmorseva (MPhil candidate): 鈥�Analysis of Post-Medieval archaeological textiles from bogs in Ireland鈥�.
Ruair铆 Falvey (MPhil candidate): Title TBC.
Tuesday 3 February 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Bronagh Murphy (PhD candidate): Smoking Guns: Integrating Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches in the Study of 20th-Century War Graves.
Siobhan Malone (PhD candidate): Title TBC.
Tuesday 10 February 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Maeve Sikora (PhD candidate): 鈥楩easting and dining in early Medieval Ireland鈥�.
Carol Smith (PhD candidate): 鈥楲a T猫ne scabbard in Ireland鈥�.
Tuesday 17 February 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Marcus Anton (PhD candidate): 鈥�Museums and Neurodivergent Accessibility鈥�.
Paula O鈥橪eary (MPhil candidate): 鈥楽acred Mountains of Ireland鈥�.
Tuesday 24 February 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Giulia Giannella (PhD candidate): 鈥�Identity and archaeology in Italy during the La T猫ne period鈥�.
Fionn Simpson (MPhil candidate): Title TBC.
Tuesday 3 March 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Peter McDonagh (PhD candidate): 鈥楨cclesiastical Enclosures in Early Medieval Ireland: Investigating the Scale, Layout, and Diversity of Church Sites鈥�.
Nolwenn R茅 (MPhil candidate): 鈥楶erceiving the Past in Medieval Ireland: A Study of Church Sites in close proximity to Prehistoric Monuments鈥�.
Monday 9 March 2026 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Dr Gian Battista Marras (Aarhus 深夜亚洲福利久久) & Dr E贸in Parkinson (UCC): 鈥楬uman- landscape interactions in Bronze Age Sardinia: Excavations at Nuraghe Genna Maiu鈥�.
Tuesday 10 March 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Gian Battista Marras (Aarhus 深夜亚洲福利久久): 鈥楾he geoarchaeology of early urbanism in central Italy: A case study from Tarquinia鈥�.
Monday 30 March 2026 - West Wing Room 6, 6pm
Dr Llorenc Alapont (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Valencia): Title TBC 鈥� topic Pompeii.
Tuesday 31 March 2026 - Connolly Building, Room J5, 1pm
Dr Llorenc Alapont (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Valencia): Title TBC 鈥� topic Spanish Civil War mass graves.
For any queries about the seminar series please contact E贸in Parkinson (eparkinson@ucc.ie).
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