Our events

Submissions are invited for papers or posters on all aspects of conflict archaeology from all periods for the 11th Biennial Fields of Conflict Conference to be held in Edinburgh in September 2020.

In August and September of 2019 students explored the multiple pasts of Macedonia on an 11-day fieldtrip through the sites of the historic region. Join them at this free event to find out their conclusions.

Second World Studies at Edinburgh will be hosting its first international conference in June 2020 to mark the eightieth anniversary of the second year of the conflict. It invites all scholars with an interest in the Second World War to submit an abstract which engages in some way with the events and/or memory of 1940.

This conference brings together scholars working on slavery and childhood to explore the role and extent of child slavery in the Roman Empire.

The 2019-20 Arbuthnott Lecture will be delivered by Professor Diarmaid Ferriter MRIA (University College Dublin). This event was postponed from 28 November, 2019.

Professor Monica H Green will deliver the 2020 Fennell Lecture on 5 March, 2020.

Dr Christopher Harding’s new book is a fresh and surprising account of Japanese culture. Part of the Aye Write! festival.

The 2020 Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture will be delivered by Dr Julian Gallego, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

The annual UK Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar will take place at the University of Edinburgh in May 2020.

The 2020 Lecture in the History of Slavery will be delivered by Dr Ana-Lucia Araujo, Howard University.

'Aesthetic properties in Greek and Roman thought’ - a free public lecture by visiting Northern Scholar Eric Cullhed.

The annual UK Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 20 May 2020.

This conference brings together scholars working on slavery and childhood to explore the role and extent of child slavery in the Roman Empire.

The 11th Biennial Fields of Conflict Conference will be hosted by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in September 2020.