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Immortal Materiality or Mortal Objects? – 16 December 2021

Immortal Materiality or Mortal objects? – 16 December 2021 Date: 16 December 2021 Location: Online Credits: 1 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 months. The one-day conference ‘Immortal Materiality or Mortal Objects’ 2021 is taking place […]

NVFA Symposium – 20 November 2021

NVFA Symposium Date: 20 November 2021, 12:00-14:00 Location: Online Credits: no ECTS ***Due to the latest corona-measures, NVFA has decided to let the symposium take place online *** ***Due to the shortening of the lectures, ARCHON cannot grant 1 ECT anymore*** NVFA (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fysische Antropologie) organizes their annual Symposium on 20 November. During this year’s […]

ARCHON DAY 2021 – 29 October

Archon Day 2021 Date: 29 October 2021 Location: Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam (a valid QR-code will be requested at the door!) 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 […]

CAA Conference – 9 & 10 December 2021

CAA – Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference Date: 9 & 10 December 2020 Location: online Credits: 1 ECT CAA Netherlands/Flanders organise the 2021 chapter meeting online on December 9 & 10 2021. With ever increasing ubiquity of digital tools and practices, and applications related to data science in archaeology, the organising committee […]

Academic Poster Presentation – 24 September 2021

Skills course: Academic Poster Presentation Date: 24 September 2021 Location: Online Credits: 1 or 2 ECT Presenting an academic poster at a conference can be a daunting prospect, and sometimes a frustrating experience. How should you prepare for presenting your poster, and how do you get people to engage with you? What makes an academic poster appealing, […]

Sensing the Past – 7, 8, 9 October 2021

Sensing the Past A workshop in applied sensory archaeology and heritage assessment Date: 7, 8, 9 October 2021 Location: Online and on location Credits: 1-2 ECTS An increasing number of interdisciplinary approaches to sensory research in humanities has proven productive in decentralize ocular-centric models of experience towards holistic comprehension of historic remains. These innovative perspectives have […]

Subsistence Course – 4 & 5 November 2021

Subsistence Course Date: 4 & 5 November 2021 Location: Online Credits: 2 ECTS What did people eat in the past? How did this change through time? How was food gathered and how was it processed? Food procurement, preparation and consumption form one of the major themes in archaeological research. Nowadays, next to “traditional” settlement archaeology, archaeozoology and […]

ARCHON conference series – September – December 2021

ARCHON Conference Series ‘Sustainability and Resilience of Past Human Societies’ Date: TBA, September – December Location: Online Click here for PDF version The national Research School of Archaeology ARCHON is preparing concrete steps towards closer collaboration of Dutch research institutes and societal partners in archaeology and the historical, social, natural, earth & life sciences. The ultimate […]

Workshop LiDAR – 16 & 17 June 2022

Workshop LiDAR Date: 16 & 17 June 2022 Location: Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, room F0.06 (Thursday and Friday) and room F1.03 (Friday) Credits: 1 ECT Innovations in archaeological remote sensing are moving at a rapid pace, driven by the combination of powerful machine learning techniques, common use of UAVs (drones) with multiple sensors, and increasing availability of […]

Workshop ‘How to get a Postdoc’ – 17 June 2021

How to get a Postdoc Date: 17 June 2021 Location: online 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) apply for one. […]