The next Discovery! conference will be hybrid on Saturday 18th November 2023, with the keynote and wine reception on Friday 17th November. There will be lectures from across the archaeological community in Ulster and beyond. The conference is organised and co-hosted by the Ulster Archaeological Society and the Centre for Community Archaeology at QUB, with the commercial sector, museums, academics, societies and community groups all represented at the podium.
The conference programme:
Friday 17th November
Venue: Common Room, Elmwood Building, QUB
@ 6.30pm: Wine Reception
Followed by the conference Keynote Address by Dr. Alison Sheridan Ballynahatty. Excavations in a Neolithic Monumental Landscape
Followed by the book launch of Barrie Hartwells
Saturday 18th November
Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Elmwood Building, QUB
@ 9.30am: A range of lectures on recent archaeological discoveries including:
Reflections on the EAA 2023 conference held in Queen's University Belfast
Re-discovering Emain Macha: Ritual, religion kingship in Later Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland
Exploring the Irish Diaspora: Archaeological investigations at the Keyes site, Lowell, Massachusetts
Driver's Seat: New evidence for horse drawn vehicles in Late Iron Age Ulster
A Case of Shot: Battlefield Archaeology at Charlemont, County Armagh
Digging Deeper into Kilmocholmóg
Investigating the Role of Dogs in Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland
Archaeology 2030: A Strategic approach for Northern Ireland - an update
Late Medieval Churches in the North of Ireland: The Physical Remains
Booking for the conference will be open soon.
The conference will be held both virtually and in-person. The in-person event will be in the lecture theatre of the Elmwood building, Queen's University Belfast.
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
