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Postgraduate Conference Programme
Please note that at this stage minor changes may occur.
Friday 7th October
09.00 - 13.00 Registration for delegates in the Gregory Building (see campus map)
10.00 - 13.00 Tour of the Arms and Armour Collections at Glasgow Museums, Nitshill Resource Centre (details to be posted)
Afternoon sessions and keynote speech to be held in the Officer Training Corps, 95 University Place
Chair: Lt Col Simon Higgens (Commanding Officer, Glasgow & Strathclyde Universities Officer Training Corps)
14.00 - 14.20 John Winterburn (University of Bristol)
Flying Elephants and Pumas: aerial archaeology and a desert war
14.20 - 14.40 Terence Christian (University of Glasgow)
Title tbc
14.40-15.00 Matthew Kelly (AHMS Pty Ltd/University of Sydney)
Eora Creek, Papua New Guinea, Battlefield Survey: local knowledge and historical events of World War Two
Discussion
15.15-15.30 Coffee/Tea Break
15.30 - 16.45 Session Two: Equipment, Methods and Techniques of Historical Warfare
Chair: TBC
15.30-15.50 Christina Mackie (Cranfield University at the Defence Academy)
An Application of Modern Ballistic Techniques to 15th Century Artillery
15.50-16.10 Brendan Halpin (University College, Dublin)
The Importance of Reenactment and Western Martial Arts: an Irish case study
16.10-16.30 James O’Neill (Queens University, Belfast)
Trailing Pikes and Turning Kern: assimilation and adaptation of military methods during the Nine Years War in
Ireland,1593-1603
Discussion
19.00 – Keynote: Dr Tony Pollard (Director, Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow
To be followed by a wine reception in the Officer's Mess, hosted by the Glasgow & Strathclyde Universities Officer Training Corps
Saturday 8th October
09.00 - 09.30 - Registration and sessions to be held at the Queen Margaret Union (see campus map)
09.30 - 11.10 – Session Three: Social Meanings in Material Culture
Chair: TBC
09.30-09.50 Rachel Askew ()
‘Not with down-right bloews to rout’: the social side of siege warfare during the English Civil Wars
09.50-10.10 John Mabbitt (Newcastle University)
The Origins of Humpty Dumpty: archaeology, destruction and the narratives of the city
10.10-10.30 Abigail Coppins (Southampton University)
Prisoners of War at Portchester Castle 1793-1815
10.30-10.50 Chantel Summerfield (Bristol University)
The Forgotten City of Tents
Discussion
11.10 - 11.30 – Coffee/Tea Break
11.30 - 13.00 – Session Four: Death, Memory and Heritage
Chair: TBC
11.30 - 11.50 Emma Login (Birmingham University)
The Memory of Defeat or the Defeat of Memory: war memorialisation in the Lorraine region of France
11.50-12.10 HyunKyung Lee (University of Cambridge)
The Post-conflict Response of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to the Built Heritage of the Japanese Occupation
12.10-12.30 Artemi Alejandro-Medina (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
Franco’s Bunkers and Hitler’s Dreams in the Canary Islands: the heritage nobody wants to inherit
12.30-12.50 Tadeusz Kopys (Jagiellonian University)
The Massacre of Polish Soldiers in the Soviet Union 1939-1944
Discussion
13.10 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.45 Session Five: Conflict Archaeology in Practice
Chair: TBC
14.30 - 14.50 Syed Shahnawaz (University of Padua)
Braving the Conflict: Swat Valley archaeological sites and the Operation Rah-e-Raast
14.50-15.10 Owen O’Leary (JPAC/Centre for Battlefield Archaeology)
Accounting for America’s Missing: recovery and identification of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator from World War Two
15.30-15.30 Alexandria Young (Bournemouth University)
Reconstructing the Aftermath of Battle: the effects of vertebrate scavenging on the recovery and identification of human remains
Discussion
15.50 - 17.10 Session Six: Tourism and Thanatourism at Sites of Conflict
Chair: TBC
15.50-16.10 Justin Sikora (International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University)
Considering the Value of Battlefields as Heritage through On-site Interpretation
16.10-16.30 Stephen Miles (Glasgow University)
From ‘Fields of Conflict’ to Dark Attractions: battlefields as thanatouristic sites
16.50-17.10 Annalisa Bolin (University of York)
Witnessing the Remains: material heritage, memory politics and western tourism in Rwanda’s National Genocide Memorials
Discussion
17.00 - 19.00 Drinks to be held in Jim's Bar of the Queen Margaret Union
19.00 - Conference Dinner: Mother India, Westminster Terrace
Sunday 9th October
09.00-9.30 Registration
09.30-11.10 Session Seven (a): Methodologies for Conflict Archaeology
Chair: TBC
09.30-09.50 Julie Wileman (University of Winchester)
Evidence for Prehistoric Warfare: a counter-intuitive perspective
09.50-10.10 Joanne Ball (University of Liverpool)
Lost Landscapes of Conflict: approaches to locating ancient landscapes
10.10-10.30 Carlos Landa (CONICET/Universidad de Buenos Aires), Emanuel Montanari (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Facundo
Gomez Romero (UNCPBA)
La Verde Battlefield (25 de Mayo, Buenos Aires Province)
10.30-10.50 Gavin Lindsay (Independent Researcher)
Material in Conflict: rethinking approaches to challenging assemblages
Discussion
Or
09.30-11.10 Session Seven (b): Heritage Management and Remembrance
Chair: TBC
09.30-09.50 Emilio Distretti (University of Portsmouth)
The Stele of Axum and Italy’s Colonial Legacy: all the remains in the land of amnesia
09.50-10.10 Elizabeth Cohen (University of Cambridge)
Reminders of a Shared Past: the Ottoman heritage in Greece
10.10-10.30 Iraia Araboalaza (GUARD Archaeology) and Carmen Cuenca-Garcia (University of Glasgow)
Retrieving the Long Lost Memory: Spanish Civil War archaeology
10.30-10.50 Emily Glass (University of Bristol)
‘Enverism Nostalgia’ or Albanian Cultural Heritage Icon: conflicting perceptions of Tirana’s pyramid
Discussion
11.10-11.30 Coffee/Tea Break
11.30-12.45 Session Eight: Ancient Warfare
Chair: Dr Jon Coulston (Ancient History and Archaeology, University of St Andrews)
11.30-11.50 Samantha L. Cook (University of Liverpool)
Archer’s Looses in Sudan: an Asiatic style in an African context
11.50-12.10 Catherine Parnell (University College, Dublin)
The Kopis and the Machaira: portrayals and perceptions
12.10- 12.30 Salvatore Vacante (Università degli Studi di Genova)
Alexander the Great and the Defeat of the Sogdian Revolt
Discussion
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Session Nine: Landscapes of Conflict
Chair: Ryan McNutt (Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow)
14.00-14.20 Benjamin Raffield (University of Aberdeen)
A Landscape of Endemic Warfare: the archaeology of Scandinavian-occupied England
14.20-14.40 C. Broughton Anderson (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Subtle Violence: improvement and clearance in Galloway during the 18th Century
14.40-15.00 Salvatore Garfi (University of East Anglia)
Colonialism, Conflict and Exclusion: the case of Western Sahara
15.15-15.30 Coffee/Tea Break
15.30-17.00 Workshops/Roundtables
Workshops titles to be confirmed
Conference Posters
These will be on exhibit in the Queen Margret Unition throughout the duration of the conference.
Angela Cunningham (Kingston University)
Terrestrial Lidar as a Data Collection Method for Historic Landscape Reconstruction
Emma Login (University of Birmingham)
A Biographical and Collective Memory Approach to War Memorials
Beatriz Rodriguez Garcia (University of Bath)
Consuming Dark Tourism: the role of organisational storytelling and narratives