Maker visit to the National Museum of Denmark, November 2012
Rachel Brockhurst Helen Marton Syann van Niftrik News entry at Danish National Museum’s...
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Çatalhöyük: Shrine of the Hunters
Çatalhöyük: Shrine of the Hunters from Artas Media on Vimeo.
Last year during my presentation at the VIA conference I was asked the question “When will you be creating an animation?” and it was one of the main talking points during the 45 minute question and answer session that accompanied the end of my paper.
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HEA and British Council promote international mobility for students
A new report launched by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the British Council calls on UK universities to commit to securing 20% participation in mobility amongst all higher education students by 2020.
The report, entitled ‘Going Mobile: Internationalisation, mobility and the European Higher Education Area’, highlights some of the challenges and opportunities for UK universities in increasing student mobility.
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HEA and British Council promote international mobility for students
A new report launched by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the British Council calls on UK universities to commit to securing 20% participation in mobility amongst all higher education students by 2020.
The report, entitled ‘Going Mobile: Internationalisation, mobility and the European Higher Education Area’, highlights some of the challenges and opportunities for UK universities in increasing student mobility.
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Rome’s Lost Empire
A documentary called Rome’s Lost Empire featuring our work at Portus funded by the AHRC and the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma (Ostia Antica) was broadcast on BBC One in the UK at 8:40 pm on Sunday 9th December 2012.
You can watch it now on BBC iPlayer from within the UK.
If you are interested in behind the scenes information on the computer graphics on the programme and how it benefits our research read the Reconstructing Portus – Rome’s Lost Empire post.
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Discussion about accents on the BBC
Clare Mar Molinero, Professor of Sociolinguistics in Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, has taken part in a discussion on BBC Radio Solent about the importance of accents and how people use them to judge others. Clare is a frequent guest in the media when languages are in the news.
To listen to an audio podcast of Clare’s interview, see the University’s Humanities website.
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Discussion about accents on the BBC
Clare Mar Molinero, Professor of Sociolinguistics in Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, has taken part in a discussion on BBC Radio Solent about the importance of accents and how people use them to judge others. Clare is a frequent guest in the media when languages are in the news.
To listen to an audio podcast of Clare’s interview, see the University’s Humanities website.
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The oldest erotic image in Estonia?
As one of the Estonian newspaper stated, it could be the oldest erotic image found in Estonia. It is an engraving on the wall of the old church in Lüllemäe. To get a better “reading” of the image we used RTI technique to document it. Here are some example screenshots below, interactive image can be viewed from Archaeovision’s website.
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BSR Archaeology featured in Forma Urbis
Forma Urbis, the Italian archaeological magazine, has been entirely devoted to the the work and research of the BSR in its November 2012 issue. Portus is one of several projects featured.
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Christmas Seminar
7th December, Christmas Lecture
Dr. William Davies
CAHO, Southampton
“Fifty shades of mobility and behavioural modernity: the ties that bind”
I shall explore the potential effects of individual and group mobility on the transmission of ideas. How are innovations transmitted in these situations, and what implication does this mobility have for the manifestation of traits of “behavioural modernity” (art, personal ornament, music, etc.
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