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Childe fifty years after

Conference on Saturday, 1st December 2007
Archaeology Department
Dawson Building
Durham University

http://www.dur.ac.uk/map/durham/ (No 41)


Programme:
9.30 am
Coffee 
10.00 am
Introductory remarks   


 Part I. Childe in History
10.15 am
 Prof. Jacek Lech (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw): V. Gordon Childe: an archaeologist looks at History.
11.00 am
 Prof. Timothy Champion (University of Southampton): Childe and Oxford (provisional title).
11.30 am
 Coffee
12.00 am
 Prof Ian Ralston (University of Edinburgh): Gordon Childe - the Edinburgh years.
12.30 am
 Prof David Harris (UCL): Childe at the London Institute of Archaeology.
1.00 pm
 Dr Díaz-Andreu (Durham University): The international context of Childe´s reception.
1.30 pm   Lunch


  Part II. Childe and Knowledge
3.00 pm   Dr John Chapman (Durham University): "The Danube in [settlement] prehistory" - 80 years on.
3.30 pm
 Prof. Elzbieta Jastrzebowska (Accademia Polacca di Roma): Gordon Childe and Late Classical Antiquity.
4.00 pm   Prof. Robin Coningham & Mr Mark Manuel (Durham University): Willing subordination in the Indus.
4.30 pm
 Coffee
4.45 pm
 Prof. Rowley-Conwy (Durham University): Culture, System, Context: What goes around, comes around.
5.15 pm
 Mr Peter Gathercole (Darwin College, Cambridge): Childe and the Sociology of Knowledge.


No registration needed. No fee to pay.

For further information please contact: Margarita Díaz-Andreu (m.diaz-andreu@dur.ac.uk)