We invite you to join us for our 2026 Dublin Day School, on the theme of The Elements, and hosted this year at University College Dublin on Saturday April 11th from 1 - 4.30 pm. The event will be hybrid with the option to attend in person or via Zoom.

The Elements are universal subjects of interest from ancient writers to scientific archaeological analyses today. Presentations at this event will engage with this from a range of perspectives over five papers.

Programme

13h: Welcome

13.15: Brendan O'Neill (UCD Archaeology)
Forged in Fire: experimenting with hot technologies

13-45: Sasha Smith (UCD Classics)
Leave no stone unturned: The search for Sir George Cockburn's Antiquities

14.15: Barry Molloy (UCD Archaeology)
It's Element-ary Dr Watson: Investigating human mobility in Neolithic Crete using stable isotopes

14-45: Coffee Break

15.15: Samantha Martin (UCD Architecture)
Gimme Shelter: Architecture and the Elements in Athens

15.45: William Megarry (QUB Archaeology)
Staying Safe from the Elements: Climate Change, Culture and Curating a Future for our Past

16.15: Discussion

16.30: Reception, kindly sponsored by Odaios Foods, to follow

Location: The Barry Raftery Seminar Room, Ardmore Annex, UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.

For in-person attendance, please book your place here with Eventbrite

To attend online, join on Zoom: https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/j/63761802630?pwd=zTylGcgZqdvm6ZAXAC6ZX0pxUxn2pI.1&jst=2

IIHSA Dublin Day School 2025
Hearth and Home: everyday lives in the ancient world

We invite you to join our Day School on Saturday March 29 2025 at 13:00 (Dublin time) at the Trinity Long Room Hub. Join us in person or online (booking details below)

Exploration of the evidence for ordinary, everyday life can offer a powerful window for engaging and empathising with people in the past. What were their homes like? What do we know about some of the daily rhythms of life such as cooking and eating? And, if away from home, how did families keep in touch. Our 2025 Day School addresses these and other questions using case studies from across the Mediterranean and showcasing textual, archaeological and artistic evidence.

Programme

1 - 1.15: Registration and Welcome

1.15 - 1.45: Philip de Souza (UCD Classics)
The 'ins' and 'outs' of an ancient Greek oikos

1.45 - 2.15: Barry Molloy (UCD Archaeology)
Houses and families at the beginning of the Bronze Age in Crete: A view from the IIHSA excavations at Priniatikos Pyrgos

2.15 - 2.45: Amy O'Keeffe (TCD Classics)
Momma's in the Kitchen: Depictions of Bread and Baking in the Archaeology of Ancient Greece.

2.45 - 3.15 Coffee Break

3.15 - 3.45: Alastair Daly (TCD Classics)
Pots and Pans: Household Objects in Greek Comedy

3.45 - 4.15: Marc Martucci Morris (UCD Archaeology)
Messapian Home Cooking: Everyday Meals at the Crossroads of the Greco-Roman World.

4.15 - 4.45: Anna Chahoud (TCD Classics)
Home Abroad: Letters as documents of everyday life at the periphery of the Roman empire

Followed by a small reception sponsored by Odaios Foods

Organised by the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in co-operation with the Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin, and kindly hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub.

Please reserve an in person place:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hearth-and-home-everyday-lives-in-the-ancient-world-tickets-1266594762029

or register to join us online:
https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/uIekK8y0TeqDJ993m-UPpw