The 2024 SGRP Annual Conference will be held at Verulamium Museum, St Albans, on 15th June.
In addition to papers on various aspects of Roman pottery, there will be an option to view the museum and its current exhibition, ‘Women doing everything, everywhere, all at once’, which focuses on some of the Roman inhabitants of Verulamium, and on the women archaeologists of the 1930s who worked at Verulamium, as well as an optional walking tour of the Roman town. Conference registration includes refreshments, lunch and exhibition.
10am – 10.30 Conference registration
10.30 Conference welcome by Alice Lyons, SGRP President
10.35 Isobel Thompson: Verlamion’s role in the adoption and spread of kiln technology
11.00 Alice Lyons: A review of early Roman pottery production in Norfolk
11.25 Eniko Hudak: All things are numbers? Theoretical approaches to non-standardised legacy data in Romano-British pottery studies
11.40: Questions and discussion
11.55 Lexi Diggins: Introduction to ‘The Women Doing Everything, Everwhere, All At Once’ exhibition
12.25 SGRP AGM
1.00 Lunch (provided) with option for pottery viewing and exhibition
2.30 Cameron Moffett: A rediscovered homoerotic samian bowl from the 1912-14 Bushe-Fox excavations at Wroxeter
2.55: Charlotte Burn: True dolia or not true dolia – that is the question
3.20 Fiona Seeley: National Roman Forms Project: an update
3.45 Question and discussion
4.15pm Close of main conference
Optional pub dinner (at Ye Olde Fighting Cocks)