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RAC/TRAC Conference 2024 Timetable

The timetable for the 15th Roman Archaeology Conference / 32nd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, being held at UCL from 11-14 April 2024, is provided here.

RAC/TRAC 2024 General Timetable: Thursday 11/4/24 – Sunday 14/4/24

All rooms in UCL IOE, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

 

Room 1

Elvin (Level 1)

RAC

Room 2

Drama (Level 1)

TRAC

Room 3

Nunn (Level 4)

RAC

Room 4

Clarke (Level 3)

TRAC

Room 5

C3.09 (Level 3)

RAC

Room 6

C3.11 (Level 3)

RAC

Room 7

C3.15 (Level 3)

RAC
Thursday AMRegistration, from 09.30 (IoE Foyer)

Thursday PM

13.30-17.00
9. Women of Roman archaeology27. Investigating public spaces11. Tracking the hunt29. South-east Europe20. Invasive species16. Roman York1. Britannia et Germania
Thursday evePlenary session (17.30-19.00, Logan Hall) and opening reception (19.00-20.30, Crush/Jeffery Hall)

Friday AM

09.30-13.00
7. Roman Britain34. Feminist, postcolonial Roman archaeology5. Riddles of the sands30. Inclusion and exclusion6. Port cities18. Pottery in Roman Egypt25. Hilltop settlements

Friday PM

14.00-17.30
8. Vindolanda tablets35. The body of the Roman archaeologist21. Material culture of childhood33. For a fistful of daleks12. Roman colonial coinages19. Romans in Sussex15. Ritual in war and peace

Saturday AM

09.30-13.00
3. Roman frontiers and borderlands37. Sexuality, gender and imperialism10. Urban archaeology in central Italy36. Theorising arts and crafts14. Sacred landscapes23. Peopling rural architecture38. RAC general session

Saturday PM

14.00-17.30
22. Winners and losers28. Big data13. Urbanism in Roman Britain40. TRAC general session17. Decolonial Roman archaeology2. Imperial Rome39. RAC general session
Saturday eveTRAC Party, IOE Bar, 20.00
Sun AMTrip to St Albans and Welwyn, 09.30-15.00

Refreshment Breaks: within each session block, each session will break for 30 mins between 10.30-11.30 (morning sessions) and 15.30-16.30 (afternoon sessions, except Thurs PM, 15.00-16.00). All refreshments will be served in the Jeffery Hall, which is also the exhibition area. 

Download details of RAC/TRAC Sessions

Organising Committee: Andrew Gardner (UCL, Chair), Isabel Annal (UCL, TRAC), Jennifer Baird (Birkbeck), Chloe Clark (King’s, TRAC), Emlyn Dodd (ICS), Alessandra Esposito (King’s), Natasha Gravatt (UCL, TRAC), Claire Heseltine (King’s, TRAC), Zena Kamash (Royal Holloway), Francesca Lam-March (King’s, TRAC), Kris Lockyear (UCL), Dominic Perring (UCL), Louise Rayner (UCL/ASE), Erica Rowan (Royal Holloway), Sian Therese (UCL), with Fiona Haarer (Roman Society), Blanka Misic (TRAC Standing Committee), Ursula Rothe (Open University, RS Archaeology Committee), and Anna Walas (TRAC Standing Committee).

To mark the start of the conference, the Antiquity Journal put together a free to access collection of Roman archaeology papers containing the latest research in the archaeology of the Roman world.