Scottish Student Archaeology Society Conference 2020 #SSASC2020

This conference is being hosted by the Glasgow University Archaeology Society in the Debates Chamber of the Glasgow University Union. The GUU sits at the junction of University Avenue, Kelvin Way and Bank Street, and is a 10 min walk from Hillhead and Kelvinbridge Subway Stations.

This year the conference shall run over the 15th-16th February. The conference venue will open for registration at 10:30 on Saturday the 15th with Sessions beginning at 11:00. On Sunday the 16th, the Conference venue will open at 12:30 and Panel Discussions will begin at 13:00.

The conference ceilidh will be held in the ballroom of Sloans Bar in the City Centre of Glasgow, a 2 min walk from St Enoch Subway Station. The conference ceilidh will start at 20:00, the ceilidh is included in the price of a conference ticket, extra ceilidh tickets can be purchased from Glasgow University Archaeology Society for £5, please ensure you have your ticket when attending the ceilidh to be admitted by the venue staff.

For advice on direction to the ceilidh venue, places to eat or accommodation please ask a member of the volunteer team at the registration desk.

Sessions

Day 1 - Saturday 15th 10:30 - 11:00 | Registration 11:00 - 11:25 | Johnny Gallacher ‘Forging Society: The Bronze-Iron Transition' 11:25 - 11:50 | Elizabeth Greenberg ‘‘FRUITS of the Sea: Subsistence in the Scottish Mesolithic’ 11:50 - 12:15 | ‘Fiona Child The Jewellery that Adorns Prehistory: Investigating Jet Necklaces in Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age ’ 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch 13:15 - 13:40 | Sarah Wink ‘Tracking social change through the changing use of and movement through city-space in Cyprus over the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods’ 13:40 - 14:05 | Erin Jameson ‘St Hilarion: throw me out of a window (but which one and when?)’ 14:05 - 14:30 | Kendall King ‘Battle Strategies and Tactics of the Viking Age’ 14:30 - 14:55 | Rob Pass and Stuart Munro ‘The Role of Memes in the Dissemination of Archaeology; A talk from Pictish Memes’ 15:20 - 15:45 | Scott McCreadie ‘Norse Christianisation and Conversion in Viking Age and Late Norse ’ 15:45 - 16:00 | Refreshments 16:00 - 16:25 | 16:25 - 16:50 | Sophie Cathcart ‘Imagined pasts and the Making of Scotland’ - End of day - 20:00 - 00:00 | Conference Ceilidh

Day 2 - Sunday 16th 12:30 - 13:00 | Registration / Refreshments 13:00 - 13:30 | Opening Lecture by Cara Jones/Giovanna Vitelli 13:30 - 14:40 | Careers Panel Discussion 14:45 - 14:50 | Project 14:50 - 15:00 | Archaeology Scotland Learning Team 15:00 - 15:15 | Refreshments 15:15 - 16:45 | Diversity and Equality in Archaeology Panel Discussion

Sponsors We would like to thank the following organisations for sponsoring this conference, without their support this conference would not be possible.

AOC Archaeology Group . Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . Scottish Archaeological Research Framework . Chartered Institute for Archaeology . GUARD Archaeology . University of Glasgow Archaeology . Past Horizons . Antiquity . Glasgow Archaeological Society . Landward Research

We also thank Dr Colleen Batey for sponsoring the Bursary for travelling speakers for this conference.