Organised conferences and sessions: profile

  • Member of the organising committee for the 2001 McDonald Heritage Seminar.

  • December 2003. Just Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in the Historic Past, 1 session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter.

  • July 2004. Negotiating through Beasts: European Appropriations of Strange and Familiar Creatures from Distant Lands – 2 sessions at the International Medieval Congress, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds.

  • March 2005. Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages. Conference at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.

  • May 2006. New Perspectives on Medieval Hunting - 1 session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

  • September 2006. Two sessions at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 12th Annual Meeting in Kraków. 1) Crusade, Colonisation and Conversion: Material Traces at the Frontiers of Medieval Christendom 2) Animals and Alimentation: The Material Culture of Animals in Diet and Cuisine. Sessions organised with Krish Seetah.

  • March 2007. Bestial Mirrors: Using Animals to Construct Human Identities in Medieval Europe: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages 3, Institute for Archaeological Science, Vienna. Organised with Günther Karl Kunst.

  • September 2007. Medieval Zooarchaeology and Archaeozoology in Europe: The State of Research and Future Directions, session organised with Giovanni de Venuto and Antonella Buglione for the 4th International Congress of Medieval and Modern Archaeology - Medieval Europe Paris 2007 (4e Congrès International d'Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne).

  • September 2007. Archaeologies of Crusading and Colonisation. Session at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 13th Annual Meeting in Zadar. Organised with Krish Seetah.

  • December 2007. Theorising in Animal Bone Research. Session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of York. Organised with Krish Seetah.

  • July 2008. Moderating 2 sessions ('Medieval Fauna in Zooarchaeology, Literature, and Art'; 'Superfurry Animals: Explained') and participating in 'M(edieval) A(nimal) D(ata Network): A Workshop', at the International Medieval Congress, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds.

  • September 2008. Archaeologies of Crusading, Conversion and Colonisation. Session at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 14th Annual Meeting in Malta. Organised with Krish Seetah.

  • September 2009. The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Conquest and Colonisation in the Medieval Baltic. Convenor of ESF Workshop, Malbork, Poland. Details available here.

  • September 2009. The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals: European Perspectives, Session at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 15th Annual Meeting in Trento. Organised with Krish Seetah.

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