McDONALD INSTITUTE for Archaeological Research

15th January: Plant Sciences Seminar
Martin Jones: Cambridge Early farming pathways: recent work on the archaeology and genetics of barley and broomcorn millet
(4.00pm in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences)
Anyone is welcome to attend.

19th January: Cambridge Numismatic Society
Ian Leins (curator of Iron Age coins at the British Museum) will be giving a talk on ‘The Leicestershire Hoards of Iron Age Coins’
(7.30 pm Friends Meeting House, Jesus Lane)

20th January: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies
Dr Alan Thacker (IHR): ‘Bede and his martyrology’
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX)

20th January: Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit seminar
Astrid Zimmermann (MIASU): Local leaders between obligation and corruption: State workplaces, the discourse of ‘moral decay’, and ‘eating money’ in the Mongolian Province
(4.30 pm to 6.00 pm, Seminar room, The Mond Building, Free School Lane)

21st January:
Talk by Laurence Rees (Creative Director of BBC History), on “Reconstructing History on TV”
(5pm Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College )
More info…

21st January: Cambridge Union
Professor Lord Colin Renfrew: Loot: combating the Illicit Traffic in Antiquities: from Afghanistan and Peru to the world's great museums
(7.30pm, Cambridge Union, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge)
More info…

27th January: D Caucus Seminars
Cynthia Shelmerdine (University of Texas at Austin): Mycenaean Kings and Commoners
(4.30pm, room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

28th January: LCHES Special Seminars in Human Evolution
Dr T Kivisild: Genetic differentiation of linguistic groups in Asia: sex, selection or isolation by distance?
(5pm, LCHES seminar room, The Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street)
Enquiries to Danni: dc431@cam.ac.uk Tel: (01223 764700)

28th January: Mulvey Egyptology Seminar
Angelika Zdiarsky: Women's Medicine based on Papyri and Amulets
(5pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)

3rd Febuary: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies
Prof Peter Heather (King’s College London): ‘Predatory migration and the first millennium’
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX)

3rd February: D Caucus Seminars
Graeme Earl (University of Southampton): Computational approaches to the recording, analysis and representation of Portus, Italy
(4.30pm, room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

3rd Febuary: Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit seminar
Isabelle Charleux (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris)): Chinggis Khan: Buddha or Shaman? On the uses and abuses of the portrait of Chinggis Khan
(4.30 pm to 6.00 pm, Seminar room, The Mond Building, Free School Lane)

4th February: LCHES seminar series in Human Evolution- Darwin 1809-2009
Lluis Quintana-Murci: From hunter-gathering to farming: evolutionary inference of demography and natural selection
(5pm LCHES seminar room)
The Leverhulme Centre, The Henry Wellcome Building Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.
Enquiries to Danni: dc431@cam.ac.uk Tel: (01223 764700)

10th February: D Caucus Seminars
Mark Wilson (Jones University of Bath): Gifts to the Gods: the conception of temples and orders in ancient Greece
(4.30pm, room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

11th February: LCHES seminar series in Human Evolution- Darwin 1809-2009
Montserrat Gomendio: Sperm competition and speciation
(5pm LCHES seminar room)
The Leverhulme Centre, The Henry Wellcome Building Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.
Enquiries to Danni: dc431@cam.ac.uk Tel: (01223 764700)

13th February:
SKELETONS IN THE GARDEN: DOROTHY GARROD AND THE AIR RAID SHELTERS OF 1939
It is 70 years since Dorothy Garrod was made Disney Professor of Archaeology; the first female professor in archaeology and the first woman to hold an Oxbridge Chair.
To celebrate this anniversary, Dr Catherine Hills, Department of Archaeology, will give a lecture on the burials discovered by Garrod in the grounds of Newnham college in 1939, women in archaeology, and the reliability of official archaeological records vs. memories and letters.Newnham College.
(5.30pm Lucia Windsor Room) All welcome!

16th Febuary: The Sidgwick Club (The Geology Society)
John Underhill (University of Edinburgh): Where was Odysseus' homeland? The geological, geomorphological and geophysical evidence for relocating Homer's Ithaca
John Underhill has been leading the scientific tests of Robert Bittlestone's theory that the Paliki peninsula in western Kefalonia might have been a free-standing island as recently as 3,000 years ago. Confirmation of that hypothesis would have dramatic ramifications for our understanding of Homeric Greece.
(17:00 - 18:00, Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ) All welcome
For info about the Sidgwick Club contact Anne Forbes af346@cam.ac.uk

16th Febuary:
Dr Adrian Popescu: Noviodumum: Roman coins from the Danube Frontier
(7.30 pm, Monday 16 February, Friends Meeting House, Jesus Lane) All welcome!

17th Febuary: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies
Prof Jill Harries (St Andrews): ‘Constantine I, The Legislator’
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX)

17th February: D Caucus Seminars
Simon James (University of Leicester): Soldiers in the city: the Roman military base at Dura-Europos, Syria
(4.30pm, room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

17th Febuary: MIASU Research seminar
Marsha Levine (McD) and Mark Holmes (Dept of Veterinary Medicine): An experimental study of technological change in Inner Asia: The reconstruction of an ancient saddle from Subeixi (Xinjiang)
(4.30-6.00pm, Seminar Room, The Mond Building, Free School Lane)

18th February: LCHES seminar series in Human Evolution- Darwin 1809-2009
David Perrett: Skin colour, health and mate selection in humans
(5pm LCHES seminar room)
The Leverhulme Centre, The Henry Wellcome Building Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.
Enquiries to Danni: dc431@cam.ac.uk Tel: (01223 764700)

18th Febuary: Mulvey Egyptology Seminar
Dr Paul Nicholson: Amarna site 045.1: technology and organisation at an industrial estate
(5pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)

19th February: D Caucus Seminars
Graeme Earl University of Southampton: Computational approaches to the recording, analysis and representation of Portus, Italy
Room 1.04 between 1.00 and 2.00pm. (postponed from 3 February because of the snow)

23rd February: ASNC Graduate Seminar Series
Dr Lise Gjedssø Bertelsen (Curator, National Museum, Copenhagen)
From King Harold's picture runestone in Jelling, Denmark to Östman Gudfastssøn's picture runestone in Jämtland, Sweden'
(5 pm, Faculty of English, room G-R06/7)

24th February: ASNC Graduate Seminar Series
Dr Lise Gjedssø Bertelsen (Curator, National Museum, Copenhagen)
Ornamentation styles on rune-stones
(4-6 pm in room G-R04 of the English Faculty Building)

25th Febuary: MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
FESTIVAL OF LANDSCAPE
Conversations 8: ROADS
This discussion, with a distinguished panel of experts, will address ways in which thinking about ROADS contributes to our understanding of the landscape and of people's interaction with it.
Speakers:
Tatiana Argounova-Low: Routes across the Ice
Ray Laurence: Roman Roads
Michael Hrebeniak: Karouac’s On the Road
AT 5.00 pm IN THE SIR HUMPHREY CRIPPS THEATRE, MAGDALENE COLLEGE (CHESTERTON ROAD ENTRANCE),
All welcome, free of charge
www.magd.cam.ac.uk – click on Festival

25th February: LCHES seminar series in Human Evolution- Darwin 1809-2009
Ruth Mace: A phylogenetic approach to cultural evolution: kinship, social organization and cultural group selection
(5pm LCHES seminar room)
The Leverhulme Centre, The Henry Wellcome Building Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.
Enquiries to Danni: dc431@cam.ac.uk Tel: (01223 764700)

27th February: D Caucus Seminars
Colin Renfrew: Excavations at Dhaskalio, Keros: new light on the Cycladic Early Bronze Age
(4.30pm, room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

3rd March: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies
Prof Mayke DeJong (Utrecht): ‘Looking back in anger? Paschasius Radbertus and Louis the Pious’
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX)

3rd March: D Caucus Seminars
Dirk Booms: Space and Identity at Roman Imperial Villas
(4.30pm, room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

3rd March: Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit seminar
Adam Yuet Chau (FAMES, University of Cambridge): Hosting Protocols and the Qing Incorporation of Inner Asian Domains
(4.30 pm to 6.00 pm, Seminar room, The Mond Building, Free School Lane)

4th March: LCHES seminar series in Human Evolution- Darwin 1809-2009
Mark Thomas: Demography and the origins of behavioural modernity
(5pm LCHES seminar room)
The Leverhulme Centre, The Henry Wellcome Building Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.
Enquiries to Danni: dc431@cam.ac.uk Tel: (01223 764700)

4th March: Mulvey Egyptology Seminar
Dr Stephen Quirke: Borderlines: questions of definition amid the documentary and pictorial archives and collections of the Petrie Museum, UCL
(5pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)

9th March: Rainbow Seminar
“Computerized Archaeology” by Prof. Uzy Smilansky

Professor Uzy Smilansky from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, will be visiting the Computer Laboratory to talk about recent advances and outstanding problems in developing mathematical and computational methods for classification and analysis of archaeological artifacts.
Not only would the talk be very interesting to researchers in archaeology working with artifacts, it would also make the subsequent discussion more fruitful since our knowledge in archaeology is limited. Because this particular research encompasses both our fields (graphics and archaeology) I am hoping to get interesting and realizable ideas flowing by inviting members of your institute to visit this talk.
(11:00-11.30am Seminar Room SS03, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFD (Please ask for access at the Reception)
For further details
Computerized Archaeology
Summary on U.Smilansky's work published in Nature.

9th March: Cambridge Union
JAMES CUNO (Author, President of the Art Institute of Chicago and former director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Harvard University Art Museums)
James Cuno will be talking about his latest book “Who Owns Antiquity?”
(7.30pm, Cambridge Union, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge)
Organiser: Julien Domercq -King's College
More info…

10th March: D Caucus Seminars
Rolf Schneider (University of Munich): Images of Troy in Rome
(4.30pm, room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

13th March: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Conference
Between the Islands: Interaction with Vikings in Ireland and Britain in the Early Medieval Period
(Friday, 13 March to Sunday, 15 March
Location: Faculty of English)
More info…

28th April: Classical Art & Archaeology
Julia Armstrong (Faculty of Classics) “Greek Trade with Iron Age Italy”
(4.30pm, room 1.04 in the Faculty of Classics)

29th April: Celebration of the inauguration of ‘Plant’ by Antony Gormley
The finished piece will be ceremoniously unveiled and Antony Gormley will give a brief talk which will be followed by a wine reception to which all are welcome. Photographs of the installation process will be on display in the seminar room.
(12 noon at the McDonald Institute)
More info… .pdf

5th May: Classical Art & Archaeology
Sturt Manning (Cornell University): “Groundhog Day and the date of the Santorini/Thera eruption: is the problem significant and can it be resolved?”
(4.30pm, room 1.04 in the Faculty of Classics)

12th May: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies Prof Chris Wickham (All Souls, Oxford): ‘Social change in early medieval Rome’
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX)

12th May: Classical Art & Archaeology
Georg Gerleigner (Faculty of Classics): “ ‘Reading’ ” the François Vase? Images and Inscriptions
(4.30pm, room 1.04 in the Faculty of Classics)

19th May: Portus Seminar
(2.00-6.00 pm, Faculty of Classics, Room 1.04)
Programme (.pdf)

19th May: Cambridge Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Group
Dr Tim Winter (Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney): At the Cliff's Edge: World Heritage, Conflict and Preah Vihear
(3:00-4:45pm at the CRASSH seminar room, 17 Mill Lane)
Contact: Dacia Viejo Rose (dv230@cam.ac.uk)

22nd May: Launch of “A ‘Splendid Idiosyncrasy’: Prehistory at Cambridge 1915-50”
Pamela Jane Smith is delighted to invite you to the launch of her monograph ‘A Splendid Idiosyncrasy’ (BAR 495, 2009; ISBN 9781-40-730430-4) Based on hundreds of interviews and new archival sources, ‘A Splendid Idiosyncrasy’ is the original history of Cambridge archaeology and anthropology in the early-twentieth century. It includes authoritative biographies of Miles Burkitt, Grahame Clark and Dorothy Garrod, cultural histories of the Faculty, Museum, Tea-room and Haddon Library and transcripts of interviews.
(3.30-5.30pm, McDonald Institute, tea and Madeira cake at 3.30pm, wine at 5pm)

26th May: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies
Prof Wendy Davies (UCL): ‘Economic change in early medieval Ireland: the case for growth’
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX)

26th May: Classical Art & Archaeology
Panagiotis Faklaris (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): Reflections on the so-called Eurydike's tomb and the chronology of the Macedonian tombs
(4.30pm, room 1.04 in the Faculty of Classics)

26th May: The Cultures of Climate Change at CRASSH presents:
“The Impact of the Global Recession on the Carbon Market” Seb Henbest, New Carbon Finance
(5.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeology (Downing Site)
Discussion and wine reception to follow

28th May: Professor T.D. Price (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Isotopes at the Transition to Agriculture: The View from the Danube Gorges
(4.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

2nd June: Cambridge Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Group
Dr Yael Navaro-Yashin (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge): The Unhomely Home and the Legal Uncanny: Expropriation and Affect in Northern Cyprus
(3:00-4:45pm at the CRASSH seminar room, 17 Mill Lane)
Contact: Dacia Viejo Rose (dv230@cam.ac.uk)

12th June:
Dr. Mandy Jay (Max Planck Institute)
“The Beaker People Project, sulphur isotope data: mobility and diet”
1.15-2pm McDonald Seminar Room
Contact: Alex Pryor ajep2@cam.ac.uk

6th July: PI Development Programme Research Grant Workshop- Leverhulme Trust – funding opportunities for the coming year
A popular inter-active presentation featuring:
A presentation by Dr Anne Dean, Assistant Director, on current funding streams
Hints and tips on preparing successful proposals
Lively question and answer session
Opportunity for one-one discussions regarding forthcoming applications
To book a place on this course e-mail name, dept, and course title to Centre for Personal and Professional Development on cppd@admin.cam.ac.uk
(11.00 - 1.00 p.m. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site, Seminar Room)

22nd July: National Festival of Archaeology
Thea Thompson (PhD student)
Erik the Red didn’t wear a horned helmet:
Viking dress and adornment
(1.00pm Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

23rd July: National Festival of Archaeology
Rachel Hand (Curatorial Assistant in Anthropology at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Quills, Beads & Buttons in North America
(1.00pm Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

24th July: National Festival of Archaeology
Chloe Duckworth (researcher on the Museum’s Beck Bead collection from ancient Egypt)
Beads from the Beck Collection:
science and secrets of the earliest glass
(1.00pm Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

25th July: National Festival of Archaeology
Chris Chippindale (Senior Curator for Archaeology at the Museum)
Tattooing: an ancient and modern craft
(1.00pm Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

7th September: Department of Archaeology
Special Guest Seminar
Professor Wang Changsui with Drs Yaowu Hu &.Yimin Wang (Chinese Academy of Science): New Perspectives of Bio-archaeology in China
(4.00 pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)

10th September: Pre-term bioarchaeology seminar!
‘Incipient domestication by New Zealand Maori: a molecular study of karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus)’
Robin Atherton, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University.
Robin Atherton is a PhD student in Peter Lockhart’s group at Massey University. The lab’s evolutionary interests include Maori domestication of the native New Zealand flora. This will be a really interesting opportunity to hear about plant domestication in a part of the world that has been little studied in this regard.
All welcome! Any questions contact Harriet Hunt
(1.15 pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)

1st-3rd October:
Africa’s Fragile Heritage: Future Challenges Workshop
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
More info…

12th October: The Personal-Histories Project: Sir David Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough has accepted our invitation to speak about his experiences as Assistant to the Producer during the early 1950s of “Animal, Vegetable or Mineral”. Sir David writes, ‘I have many vivid memories of Glyn Daniel, Mortimer Wheeler and many others as well as having something to do with Buried Treasure, Chronicle and the Silbury Hill excavation. It would be a pleasure to talk about this.’
SORRY - ALL SEATS IN THE BABBAGE THEATRE ARE NOW RESERVED. IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO ATTEND UNLESS YOU HAD A PREBOOKED SEAT.
UNRESERVED SEATS TO WATCH BY VIDEO LINK ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COCKCROFT THEATRE, NEW MUSEUMS SITE
Contact: Dr Pamela Jane Smith or personalhistories2009@googlemail.com

13th October: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham: Byzantine Iconoclasm did not exist - why did we have to invent it?
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

14th October: LCHES Seminars Michaelmas 2009
Carrying on with 2009’s Darwin-mania, we focus this term on a later but equally seminal book of his, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (EEMA). All speakers will address some aspect of Darwin’s work in the book. Informal discussion of EEMA, for those who have read/re-read the book over the summer and who wish to discuss it before the seminars start (led by William McGrew)
(5-6 pm in LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St., Cambridge CB2 1QH) Seminar Organiser: W.C. McGrew, email: wcm21@cam.ac.uk

17th October: CU Music Faculty
Public Seminar on music's evolution, to celebrate the centenary of Dr Laurence Picken FBA, Cambridge scientist and musicologist 1909-2007. Keynote speaker Professor Allan Marett (Sydney): /Vanishing Songs: How Musical Extinctions Endanger the Planet/. Discussants include Richard Widdess (SOAS), Ian Cross (CU Music Faculty) Graeme Lawson (CU McDonald Institute) and colleagues.

(3:30 to 7:00 in the Faculty of Music Recital Room, West Road). All welcome, admission free. Tea beforehand and wine reception to follow. Details and registration or in case of difficulty email ancientmusic@madasafish.com

20th October: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Dr Richard Hobbs (British Museum): Coinage and currency in ancient Pompeii
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

20th October: The Linguistic Survey of Sikkim
Mark Turin (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge): Mother Tongue or Heritage Object: Ethnicity and Linguistic Competence in Sikkim

From September 2005 to November 2006, under the auspices of the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology and in close partnership with the Government of Sikkim, India, Mark directed the first phase of a modern linguistic survey of Sikkim. During the survey process, the research team visited 105 government and private secondary schools across Sikkim to administer an extensive questionnaire on language use to students in classes 8-12. The preliminary results of these 17,000 completed survey forms offer insights into the process of language shift from indigenous mother tongues to regional vernaculars, the growing importance of linguistic heritage and feelings of group belonging over actual competence in specific languages, and the symbolic and practical steps taken by the state government to support linguistic diversity in Sikkim
(4.30pm, Mond Building Seminar Room, Free School Lane, Cambridge)

21st October: LCHES Seminars Michaelmas 2009
Carrying on with 2009’s Darwin-mania, we focus this term on a later but equally seminal book of his, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (EEMA). All speakers will address some aspect of Darwin’s work in the book. Ms. Gillian Ragsdale (LCHES): Conspiracy out of conflict: How imprinted genes produce sex differences in empathy
(5-6 pm in LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St., Cambridge CB2 1QH) Seminar Organiser: W.C. McGrew, email: wcm21@cam.ac.uk

27th October: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford: The Last Statues of Antiquity
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

27th October: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Lacey Wallace (Faculty of Classics, Cambridge): Approaching the archaeology of early Roman London
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

27th October: Reconstruction Illustration in Archaeology, a talk Jane Stanley
Do reconstruction drawings and paintings help to describe and explain the past, to bring it alive? They are used in museums and on information panels at archaeological sites, but how does the artist carry out the research, and what techniques are used?
Jane Stanley is an artist who specialises in reconstruction paintings of Prehistoric, Romano-British and Early Medieval sites in Cornwall. She will be talking about her new book A Brush with the Past which contains over 85 of these paintings, and the role of reconstruction drawings in archaeology.
(5pm, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, First Floor, followed by tea and biscuits)

28th October: LCHES Seminars Michaelmas 2009
Carrying on with 2009’s Darwin-mania, we focus this term on a later but equally seminal book of his, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (EEMA). All speakers will address some aspect of Darwin’s work in the book. Prof. Kim Bard (Psychology, Portsmouth Univ.): Expression of happiness and sadness in human and chimpanzee infants
(5-6 pm in LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St., Cambridge CB2 1QH) Seminar Organiser: W.C. McGrew, email: wcm21@cam.ac.uk

30th October: 5.30 - 7pm at CRASSH
Welcome drinks for postdocs in Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences Organised by CRASSH Post-Doc Forum, Careers Service and CPPD
Whether you are new to Cambridge, a new post-doc, or just feel like celebrating the new term please come and join us for nibbles and drinks.
RSVP to Anne Alexander.

2nd November: CRASSH
An expert panel discussion about the Copenhagen talks composed of representatives from science, policy, media, and the arts.
More information closer to the time, but for now, save the date!
(5.00pm, CRASSH). Contacts: Ben Morris, Bradon Smith.

2nd November: Professor Norman Hammond: Exploring La Milpa: a Classic Maya city in Belize
This presentation discusses a decade of research by Professor Hammond, among the world's pre-eminent specialists in the ancient Maya, on a major Maya site buried in the rainforest in Belize since AD 850. La Milpa had a population estimated at 50,000 and a main plaza large enough to play two football World Cup finals side by side, but flourished for a relatively short time, unlike many other Maya cities.

(5-7.00pm, University of London, Stewart House (adjacent to Senate House), 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN
More info…

4th November: LCHES Seminars Michaelmas 2009
Carrying on with 2009’s Darwin-mania, we focus this term on a later but equally seminal book of his, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (EEMA). All speakers will address some aspect of Darwin’s work in the book. Dr. Gregory Radick (History & Philosophy of Science, Leeds Univ.): Why natural selection is so marginal in The Expression
(5-6 pm in LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St., Cambridge CB2 1QH) Seminar Organiser: W.C. McGrew, email: wcm21@cam.ac.uk

10th November: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Paul Fouracre (Manchester: St Wilfrid on the Continent: the view from across the Channel
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

10th November: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Stefano De Caro (Direttore Generale per i Beni Archeologici del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Italy): New Archaeological Discoveries in Naples and Campania
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

11th November: Heath and Safety Training for PIs
Dr Martin Vinnell (Director of CU Health and Safety): Training for PIs/Group Heads and others with supervisory responsibility: identifying responsibilities in law and ways in which these responsibilities can be met.
(3.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

11th November: LCHES Seminars Michaelmas 2009
Carrying on with 2009’s Darwin-mania, we focus this term on a later but equally seminal book of his, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (EEMA). All speakers will address some aspect of Darwin’s work in the book. [Open-maybe another discussion of EEMA, for those who missed first?]
(5-6 pm in LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St., Cambridge CB2 1QH) Seminar Organiser: W.C. McGrew, email: wcm21@cam.ac.uk

12th November: Philological Society
Dr Ellen Adams (King’s College London): Capital cities through the lens of island archaeology: a comparative account of Bronze Age Knossos and Enkomi
All are welcome to attend.
(4.30pm, Room G21, Faculty of Classics)

14th November: Historic Environment Research Conference: Institute of Continuing Education in collaboration with the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
The Origins of Medieval Field Systems
(10.00am, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research)
More info…

17th November: THE BOOK PEOPLE
The Book People are making their annual visit to the McDonald on Tuesday 17th November from 10.00am-3.00pm. A great opportunity to buy top quality, popular children's and adults books at huge discounts of between 50-75% off normal prices!
(10am-3pm McDonald Seminar Room)

18th November: LCHES Seminars Michaelmas 2009
Carrying on with 2009’s Darwin-mania, we focus this term on a later but equally seminal book of his, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (EEMA). All speakers will address some aspect of Darwin’s work in the book.
Prof. Tecumseh Fitch (Life Sciences, Vienna Univ.): The roles of instinct and of learning in vertebrate vocal communication: Darwin redux
(5-6 pm in LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St., Cambridge CB2 1QH) Seminar Organiser: W.C. McGrew, email: wcm21@cam.ac.uk

23rd November: ASNC Graduate seminar Series
Dr Lesley Abrams (University of Oxford): Constructing Identities in Anglo-Scandinavian England: Hogbacks and Stone Crosses
(5pm in room G-R06/7 of the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge) followed by a drinks reception in the ASNC common room)

24th November: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Susanna Elm (University of California Berkeley): Pagan Challenge - Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus
(2.30pm CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, followed by tea and cake - all welcome) Contact: Richard Fowler, email: raf33@cam.ac.uk

24th November: D Caucus Seminar, Faculty of Classics
Martin Millett (Faculty of Classics): Thwing: Rome and Yorkshire Wolds revisited
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

25th November: ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL?
Come and see lecturers from the Archaeology faculty(some familiar faces!)and students battle it out in a competition based upon the original series of ‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?’. This is a christmassy charity event that promises to be highly entertaining, using objects from our very own Archaeology and Anthropology Museum, in support of the museum itself and Camfed.
Tickets £4 to include a glass of wine,(It will be possible to purchase further drinks and snacks from the bar on the night!)available from the Haddon library or the Archaeology and Anthropology Museum
Alternatively find Kate Bayford (kb392@cam.ac.uk) or Helen Bernacki (hmeb2@cam.ac.uk).

25th November: LCHES Seminars Michaelmas 2009
Carrying on with 2009’s Darwin-mania, we focus this term on a later but equally seminal book of his, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (EEMA). All speakers will address some aspect of Darwin’s work in the book.
Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen (Experimental Psychology, Cambridge Univ.): Teaching emotion recognition to people with autism
(5-6 pm in LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St., Cambridge CB2 1QH) Seminar Organiser: W.C. McGrew, email: wcm21@cam.ac.uk

30th November: LCHES Seminar
Steve Jones (Professor of Genetics, at UCL): “Nature, Nurture or Neither? The view from the genes”
(5.00pm, LCHES seminar room)

1st December: Darwin College Humanities Group
Dr Bettina Bader, Research Fellow of McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Intercultural Relations in the late Middle Kingdom in Egypt (1820-1720 BC) Series: Darwin College Humanities Group, Time: 13:10-14:00, Venue: Entertaining Room, Darwin College
(1.10-2.00pm, Entertaining Room, Darwin College)

2nd December: LCHES Seminars Michaelmas 2009
Prof. Klaus Zuberbuehler (Psychology, St. Andrews Univ.): The beginning of language: Primate communication in the wild
(5-6 pm in LCHES Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam St., Cambridge CB2 1QH) Seminar Organiser: W.C. McGrew, email: wcm21@cam.ac.uk

7th and 9th December: SECOND-HAND BOOK SALE FOR CHARITY
In aid of the local charity CAMREAD - a Recording and Visiting Service for Blind & Visually Impaired people in Cambridgeshire. Buy your Christmas holiday reading: books of all kinds available, prices range from 50p to £10.00.
(10am - 2pm McDonald Seminar Room)
Donations of books please to go to Anne Taylor at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, please leave them at the Museum Front Desk.

7th December: CRIC/CAMBRIDGE POST-CONFLICT AND POST-CRISIS GROUP Film Masterclass on war and its aftermath
(15:00-17:00 McDonald Seminar Room)
All welcome but spaces are limited so please book in advance with Dacia Viejo Rose at dv230@cam.ac.uk This event is being co-organized by the CRIC research project and the Cambridge Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Group.
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9th December: SECOND-HAND BOOK SALE FOR CHARITY
In aid of the local charity CAMREAD - a Recording and Visiting Service for Blind & Visually Impaired people in Cambridgeshire. Buy your Christmas holiday reading: books of all kinds available, prices range from 50p to £10.00.
(10am - 2pm McDonald Seminar Room)
Donations of books please to go to Anne Taylor at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, please leave them at the Museum Front Desk.

9th December: CAU Book Launch
Please come along to celebrate two new publications from Cambridge Archaeological Unit: The Anglo-Saxon Settlement and Cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill, Carlton Colville, Suffolk (Lucy, Tipper and Dickens) and Fengate Revisited: Further Fen-edge Excavations, Bronze Age Fieldsystems and Settlement and the Wyman Abbott Leeds Archives (Evans with Beadsmoore, Brudenell and Lucas)
(4.30-6.00pm, McDonald Institute)
All welcome!

17th December: McDonald Christmas Party
17 December: “Archaeology at Cambridge” Christmas Party
(12:00-2:00, McDonald Institute)