By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 23 May 2013
This project seeks to better understand how the Roman Republic transformed into an Empire and how this transformation was visualised in the regions that fell under Roman control. From 168 BC Rome controlled provinces in both the East and the West of the Mediterranean, but it would not be until c. 27 BC that Rome received its first emperor. How was Rome viewed in this intervening period, and to what extent did this prepare the way for later events under Augustus and his successors? Was there a revolution with Augustus? How was Roman domination represented, ritualised or rejected, and what traces of this process can we find in the surviving material? The project will focus on coinage produced in areas under Roman control in this period in order to answer these questions. Through an examination of coinage and its iconography, the project will look at the self-representation of Roman officials who dealt with the provinces, as well as how Rome was perceived by the people who fell under her command.
By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 21 May 2013
The Institute of Archaeology Library will be closed on the Bank Holiday Monday next week, 27th of May.
UCL Main and Science Libraries will be open on reduced hours on the Bank Holiday Monday, please be aware that some outlying libraries are closed and opening hours are not the same across all libraries. For details of sites and opening hours, please see our web pages:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/opening.shtml
By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 21 May 2013
The new accessions list for April 2013 is now available!
By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 16 May 2013
RESET
(RESponse of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions)
Finale Meetings 2013
British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
OPEN SCIENCE MEETING
Thursday 6 to Friday 7 June
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT DAY
Saturday 8 June
Convenors : Professor John Lowe, Dr Rupert Housley & Dr Nicholas Ashton
contact email : Rupert.Housley@rhul.ac.uk
Programme > http://bit.ly/16g1sUC
By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 15 May 2013
The Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference will take place this year on 20-21 May on the topic of ‘Forming Material Egypt’.
Archaeological finds from Egypt have been dispersed worldwide on a massive scale both through documented excavation and through gifts and purchases, by museums, archaeologists and others. The distribution of material has played a major role in forming contemporary attitudes to the Egyptian past.
In this conference, organised by the Material Cultures of Prehistoric and Dynastic Egypt Research Network, in association with the Egypt Exploration Society and the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies, SOAS, Egyptian colleagues are invited to open and steer the discussions, by aiming for practical policy outcomes, and by prioritising the use and survival of material.
Start: May 20, 2013 9:00:00 AM
End: May 21, 2013 5:00:00 PM
Location: UCL Institute of Archaeology, Petrie Museum and SOAS
By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 15 May 2013
Start: May 15, 2013 7:00:00 PM
Location: Daniel Blau gallery, 51 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB
Jeremy Tanner’s special lecture at the Daniel Blau gallery, London on 15 May has had to be indefinitely postponed. Apologies for any inconvenience.
By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 14 May 2013
Dear All,
Prof. Thomas Carpenter (Ohio) gives a lecture entitled ‘The impact of theatre on Apulian red-figure at Ruvo di Puglia’. This will take place on Tuesday 14 May at 5pm in Senate House South Block G22.
Everyone welcome!
By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 10 May 2013
The opening of the new student exhibition The Key Ingredient: Food in Social 
Relationships, will be marked by a reception at the Institute this evening.
Exploring how humans use food in social situations The Key Ingredient investigates not only how food can be used to forge personal relationships, but how it has been employed as a vehicle for power.
The temporary exhibition created by MA Museum Studies students will be displayed in the A.G. Leventis Gallery of Cypriot and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology until May 2014.
The Museum Studies programme provides a broad academic and professional training in all aspects of museum work, whilst encouraging students to reflect critically on the concept of the museum and its associated practices and provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to set up, develop and deliver an exhibition project in a museum setting.
By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 9 May 2013
Dorian Fuller’s research project on the evolution of rice systems from China to Southeast Asia, funded by a major new NERC award, has begun at the Institute.
The new international collaborative research project led by Dorian follows on from his previous NERC-funded research project on ‘The identification of arable rice systems in prehistory’ which has consolidated our understanding of early rice agricultural development in the Yangtze and in India, helping to reconstruct how past agricultural activities may have impacted the global climate through methane emissions and deforestation.
The Institute is pleased to welcome Cristina Castillo and welcome back Alison Weisskopf as researchers on the new 3-year project which aims to investigate early rice systems in southern China and Southeast Asia and, in collaboration with Andrew Bevan, to develop more sophisticated spatial modelling of land use and population.
By Volkan L Akgunlu, on 8 May 2013
Summer Party
As part of the celebrations to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Archaeology in 2012, the Institute will be unveiling a monolith in Gordon Square on Friday 7 June 2013 (from 5pm).
A drinks reception for IoA alumni, staff, students and current honorary staff will be held in the North Cloisters from 5.30pm, directly after the unveiling of the monolith.
So, you are all cordially invited to the unveiling ceremony in the northwestern corner of Gordon Square (at 5pm), followed by a drinks reception in the North Cloisters (from 5.30pm). Registration for the ‘Summer Party’ is essential. Please book your place here.
