SYMPOSIUM: ANCIENT VASES IN MODERN SHOWCASES Date: 26-28 January 2023 Location: Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam and National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden Credits: 1 ECT Too often, Greek ceramics are exhibited as self-explanatory, aesthetically pleasurable objects of art, standing alone and apart, accompanied by text displays only offering straightforward analyses of the depiction, the dating, the […]
Computational Archaeology Lab ‘Delving into Data’ Date: 11-14 April 2023 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), map VU campus Credits: 2 EC From 11-14 April 2023, the first CAA Computational Archaeology Lab will be held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, following the CAA2023 Conference. It will provide a unique opportunity to enhance your skills in archaeological […]
Moving Materiality Forward: Exploring the Future of Materiality in Archaeology and Heritage Date: 15 December 2022, 12:00-18:00 Location: University of Amsterdam, Singel 425, room: Belle van Zuylenzaal Credits: 1/2 ECT The graduate students of the UvA-RMA course Matter Materiality and Material Culture, are organizing a conference on what they have learned the past couple of […]
Annual Mortuary Workshop: Ethics and Diversity – 17 November 2022 Date: 17 November 2022, 10:00-13:00* Location: Room 1315-0049, Harmonie Building, University of Groningen Livestream: https://meet.google.com/wqy-ofus-bea Credits: 1 ECT This workshop is the annual event of the Archon Mortuary Studies group. This workshop will bring together local, national and international specialists in mortuary studies, with a particular […]
Archon Day 2022 Date: 28 October 2022 Location: Kinderdijkzaal, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Smallepad 5, Amesfoort. Credits: 1 or 2 EC Every year Archon organizes the ARCHON Day. During this day, we want to bring students, researchers, and professional archaeologists from the commercial sector together to talk about current topics in archaeology. This year […]
Recap of the ARCHON conference: Pathways to the Present On 3 June 2022, ARCHON organized a national conference aiming to develop an agenda for more collaborative archaeological research in the Netherlands: academia, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, heritage institutions, professional archaeologists. As a first step, the ARCHON board defined ‘Pathways to the Present’ as a […]
How to get a Postdoc Date: 30 June 2022 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, HG-14A36 Credits: 1 EC ARCHON is organizing a workshop for PhD students: How to get a postdoc. This workshop will be organized with the aim to offer PhD students information about what they can expect from a postdoc position and how to (successfully) […]
ARCHON CONFERENCE: ‘PATHWAYS TO THE PRESENT’ Date: 3 June 2022 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, HG 12A00 Credits: 1 ECTs On June 3, ARCHON will organize a one-day conference dedicated to developing a research agenda for Dutch archaeology on the deep history of social and environmental resilience. The aim of the conference is to exchange viewpoints on […]
HUMAN AND NATURAL IMPACTS ON MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES PALAEOBOTANICAL EVIDENCE FROM CORES Date: 20 May 2022 Location: Laboratory for Palaeobotany and Palynology of the Department of Archaeology / University of Groningen, Broerstraat 9. Credits: 1 ECT Recent palaeobotanical research of cores from wetlands and peat bogs at various altitudes and in various landscape zones provides evidence […]
ARCHON Masterclass: Science Communication Date: POSTPONED Location: tba Credits: 1 ECT This year ARCHON will organize a day with various masterclasses on the topic of ”Science Communication’ in which you will be trained to write and present scientific findings for a popular audience. Afterwards, you will be challenged to create a vlog of your topic. […]
