Elements and Environment in the Middle Ages: A Multidisciplinary Workshop

Belfast, Thursday 29 June 2023

 

Queen’s University Belfast

The Graduate School, ROOM TR6

 

Programme:

 

9.15-9.30 Welcome

 

9.30-10.45 Session 1 ‘COSMOLOGY’

moderator: Ciarán Walsh

Matthew McMahon (Armagh Observatory):  “Science and Spectacle; The History of Irish Astronomy Network” 

Re: International Catacomb Society Online Lecture: Davide Tanasi, "The Digital Afterlife of the Catacombs of Abbatija tad-Dejr at Rabat (Malta)"

The link to register for this event is tinyurl.com/ICSTanasi in case the hyperlink in the announcement does not work.

Sorry for any inconvenience,
Arthur Urbano

International Catacomb Society Online Lecture: Davide Tanasi, "The Digital Afterlife of the Catacombs of Abbatija tad-Dejr at Rabat (Malta)"

The International Catacomb Society is delighted to host a lecture by past Shohet Scholar Grant recipient Prof. Davide Tanasi of the University of South Florida's Institute for Digital Exploration on Friday, June 2, at 1:00 pm (EDT) on Zoom.

The title of the lecture is "The Digital Afterlife of the Catacombs of Abbatija tad-Dejr at Rabat (Malta)."

This event is free and open to all. Register here.

International Catacomb Society Online Lecture: Davide Tanasi, "The Digital Afterlife of the Catacombs of Abbatija tad-Dejr at Rabat (Malta)"

The International Catacomb Society is delighted to host a lecture by past Shohet Scholar Grant recipient Prof. Davide Tanasi of the University of South Florida's Institute for Digital Exploration on Friday, June 2, at 1:00 pm (EDT) on Zoom.

The title of the lecture is "The Digital Afterlife of the Catacombs of Abbatija tad-Dejr at Rabat (Malta)."

This event is free and open to all. Register here. (tinyurl.com/ICSTanasi)

Female skulls in Huey Tzompantli

Recent reports from the Templo Mayor project have announced that nearly 40% of the skulls pertained to females.  According to Raul Barrera Rodríguez, the females may have been executed as part of commemorations of Coyolxauhqui, the sister of the Mexica national deity, Huitzilopochtli.

 

A longer press release from INAH is available:

Call for Contributions: “Medieval Borders and the Environment"

You have still a week to send your 200-300 word abstract of your proposed essay, and a brief introduction of yourself, to elisa.ramazzina@unipv.it

The abstract will need to explain the interrelation between borders, the environment (natural, urban, etc.) and/ or natural elements

Proposals for essays in English (c. 8000-12000 words) are warmly welcomed on the topic “borders, the elements, and the environment”.

CFP: Third Issue of the Journal of the Turkish Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

The Journal of the Turkish Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage invites you to submit articles for our third issue to appear in December 2023. We are a double-blind bilingual (English-Turkish) peer reviewed journal that publishes both on paper and online. Accepted articles are available on Turkey's DergiPark system which works with a DOI database ensuring that the content is directly and immediately available on web databases in PDF. 

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