Association of Young Irish Archaeologists
Association of Young Irish Archaeologists
Annual Conference
Dublin, March 4th – 6th 2011
The annual conference of the Association of Young Irish
Archaeologists (AYIA)
provides a great opportunity for those embarking on their
archaeological careers
or continuing their academic studies to showcase their
research.
This year’s conference will take place in the Clinton Auditorium
in UCD. The inaugural lecture will be given by Dr. Conor Brady of
Dundalk I.T. on the subject of the Rossnarea Enclosure in the Boyne
Valley, Co. Meath at 6.30pm on Friday the 4th of March followed by
a wine reception.
Saturday March 5th will be dedicated to speakers’ papers
beginning at 10am. Dr. Stephen Harrison will lead a tour of Viking
Dublin followed by visits to OPW sites on Sunday March 6th.
To register for the conference or to seek further information
please post to:
AYIA C/O Laura Scharding, School of Archaeology, UCD, Belfield,
Dublin 4
or
[email protected]
Price: €10/ €7 for students and preregistration
Association of Young Irish Archaeologists
Speakers List March 5th 2011
09.00 – 10.00 Registration
Session 1
10.00 Margaret Williams: Smiths, Pits and Burials – the role of
the smith in funerary rites in prehistoric and early medieval
Ireland
10. 25 Denise Keating: All That Remains? Child Death and Early
Medieval Social Identities.
10.50Maura Farrell: Prone, stoned and losing the head: Deviant
burials in early medieval Ireland
- Morning Break -
Session 2
11.30Johanna Callaghan: The importance of understanding material
in Artefact analysis: Shell
11.55Michael Corcoran: The Architecture of Identity in South
Wexford: The Pale and Beyond.
12.20 Eugene Costello: Transhumance in 19th and 20th century
Ireland
- Lunch-
Session 3
14.00Fionnuala Parnell: The Headstone as Material Culture
14.25 Enda Fahy: Chiselled in Stone: The Adaption of Nationalist
Symbolism in Burials in 19th Century Ireland
Session 4
15.00Cian O’Halloran: Secondary Burial in Prepalatial Crete
15.25Patrizia LaPiscopia: Did the Taliban know about the ‘CNN
effect’? Bamiyan and the media
15.50Paolo Ciuchini: Looking for ways forward: over coming
fragmentation in Irish archaeology
In association with the Archaeology Society and School of
Archaeology, UCD
