April 2019 The Archaeology of Melancholy Museum of the Mind, London
March 2019 Convenor of session Archaeologies of Now Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress, Glasgow
January 2019 Co-convener of Public Archaeology Twitter Conference #3: Archaeology and Storytelling
December 2018 Co-convener of session Practising Creativity: Experiments, Mistakes and Successes in Art-Archaeology TAG, Chester
December 2018 Walking Around Looking At Stuff TAG, Chester
December 2018 Expertise Is A Thing You Do TAG, Chester
October 2018 Creative Archaeology and Built Heritage: From Experiments to Practice University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History
September 2018 Co-convener of session ‘Archaeology and…’: Interdisciplinary Working in Planning and Design EAA, Barcelona
September 2018 Multi-Disciplinary Environmental Assessment and the Case for Hybrid Practice EAA, Barcelona
September 2018 An Archaeology of an Archaeology of the Credit Crunch? EAA, Barcelona
June 2018 Robin Hood Gardens: Archaeology and Geography of Identity London Festival of Architecture
December 2017 Duration, Endurance and Clumps of Ongoingness TAG, Cardiff
November 2017 Co-convener of Public Archaeology Twitter Conference #2: An Equitable Archaeology
September 2017 Reimagining Memorials Four day residency with workshops and seminars at Platform, Southwark
April 2017 New Rules? Public Archaeology Twitter Conference 1
October 2016 What’s a Future for the Past?, Cambridge Festival of Ideas
September 2016 Organiser of conference Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning, London
September 2016 Human > Site > City, Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning, London
September 2016 Sustainability and politically-engaged archaeology, World Archaeological Congress, Kyoto, Japan
September 2016 Site-specificity in an international context, World Archaeological Congress, Kyoto, Japan
February 2016 Prospection Goldsmiths University, Department of Archaeology Research Seminar
January 2016 Buildings Archaeology with Non-Archaeologists University of York Heritage Research Seminar
November 2015 Archaeology at the Margins of the City, HTF Annual Conference
September 2015 Buildings Archaeology Without Recording in ‘Creative Archaeologies’, EAA Conference, Glasgow
September 2015 Photographing Buildings in session ‘Photography and Archaeology’, EAA Conference, Glasgow
May 2015 Human-nature relations in built heritage and urban places, present and past, Archaeology, Architecture and Contemporary City Planning, Valencia
March 2015 Archaeology, Architecture and Planning UCL Society of Archaeological Masters Students
January 2015 The Spectre of Non-Completion UCL Research Seminar
June 2014 Archaeology and Public Art in Changing Urban Places Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning, Florence
June 2014 Public Art and the Local on a Global Stage World In Denmark 2014: Nordic Encounters, Copenhagen
November 2013 Art and Archaeology in the Urban Landscape – legibility v habitability Sharing the Field: art in the landscape and landscape archaeology, UCL, London
September 2013 Speaker at People Tend To Sit Where There Are Places To Sit: a conversation in public space, Cricklewood, London
September 2013 First World War Art in Context Conflict and the Senses conference, Imperial War Museum, London
September 2013 Speaker at Tools of the City and Movements of Work, The Parlour Showrooms, Bristol
June 2013 An Archaeology of Modernism: The Case of Chapel House Street Estate in session ‘The Problem of Style’, Stylistic Dead Ends? conference, Oxford (with Dan Hicks, Oxford University)
May 2013 Participant in Tate Developmental Seminar on the conservation of Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture studio, St Ives, Cornwall
January 2013 Economies of Duration in Contemporary Archaeology in session ‘In The City: archaeology and the personal experience of urban transition’, SHA conference, Leicester
June 2012 The Spectre of Non-Completion* in session ‘Heritage and the Long-Term Future’, Critical Heritage Studies conference, Gothenburg, Sweden
October 2011 Discussant for Modern Conflict Archaeology conference, University of Bristol
May 2011 Discussant/Chair, Mellon Workshop in Human Creativity, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
April 2011 Chair of debate on ‘The Role of Tradition in Contemporary Art’, part of the ‘England, my England‘ festival, The Brewhouse, Taunton
December 2010 The Spectre of Non-Completion* Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, University of Bristol
December 2010 Is it good? A practical perspective on the art-archaeology relationship Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, University of Bristol
October 2009 The Case of Lakota Postgraduate conference in Modern Conflict Archaeology, University of Bristol
November 2009 Art and Contemporary Archaeology, Future Perfect: Art and Regeneration, Engage
December 2008 Archaeologist-in-Residence in session ‘Archaeological Ontologies’ Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, University of Southampton (with Lisa Hill)
December 2008 The role of flowerpots, lampposts and nightclubs in the creation and affirmation of identities in contemporary central Bristol in session ‘A Dynamic Relationship: exploring the complexities of representation in the museum/heritage experience. Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, University of Southampton
November 2008 Heritage…whose is it? The case of Lakota Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory conference, University College London
November 2008 Chair of a four lecture series on public art and urban planning at Arnolfini, Bristol
July 2008 Convenor of session ‘Method and the Machine: theorising an archaeological approach to technical processes’. World Archaeological Congress, University College Dublin (with Brent Fortenberry)
June 2008 Through the looking glass, and what the Archaeologist found there AHRC Landscape and Environment Network symposium, University of Bristol
April 2008 An Archaeological Avant-Garde Crossing Paths and Sharing Tracks, Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, University of Leicester
March 2008 Panel member at AHRS Landscape and Environment Network event, University of Bristol
December 2007 Planes, trains and automobile collision scenarios in session ‘The Archaeology of Ephemerality’ Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, University of York
December 2007 Convenor of session ‘Fragmenting Archaeology, or; Taking a Leaf out of Shanks and Tilley’s Book’ Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, University of York
November 2007 Art, heritage and local identity in changing urban places Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Conference, ARCUS, Sheffield
April 2007 Art and heritage in Bristol Broadmead “Not Yet…” Public Art and Heritage in the Context of Urban Renewal Conference, Arnolfini, Bristol
February 2007 Panel member at AHRC Landscape and Environment Network ‘Living in a Material World’ Seminar; ‘Text/Event/Image’, University of Bristol
January 2007 Public Art and Heritage in the Context of Urban Renewal Preserving Our Past Research Cluster ‘Consensus or Collision’, St Benet’s Hall, Oxford
November 2006 Approaching modern material on developer funded projects, Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Conference, University of Bristol
December 2005 Archaeology, tours and performance in session ‘Archaeology and Tours’, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, University of Sheffield
December 2005 Convenor of session ‘Archaeology and Tours’, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, University of Sheffield (with Sarah May)
July 2005 Archaeological Approaches to the Heritage Tour Tourism and Performance Conference, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University (with Sarah May)
December 2004 Convenor of ‘Speed Conference’ session, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, University of Glasgow (with Jane Ruffino, Sam Hardy and Tomas Kador)
December 2003 The Importance of ‘the Global’ in British Historical Archaeology in session, ‘Why all this ‘CHAT’ about British Historical Archaeology’, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, University of Wales, Lampeter
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