EVENTS

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Lunchtime Lectures
Semester 1 2012

Sessions are held in the John Woolley Building (near the Parramatta Road footbridge), from 1.00 to 2.00 pm, in Room S325 (a small tiered theatre).

FRIDAY 25 MAY
Dr Pamela O’Neill
The University of Sydney
Medieval Gaelic Law and Archaeology
This illustrated lecture will discuss the interaction between material culture and vernacular legal texts in Scotland and Ireland from about 500 CE to about 1000 CE. In particular, the lecture will examine the relationship between the evidence provided by archaeological discoveries and references to objects and built structures in law texts. It will suggest that a close examination of this relationship can contribute to the quest for a clearer understanding of the dates of legal texts and provisions and their place in the development of the societies of early medieval Scotland and Ireland. The research is supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number DP120103684).

FRIDAY 29 JUNE
Dr Beverley Sherry
The University of Sydney
Australia’s Stained Glass: the Scottish Heritage
An illustrated talk by the author of Australia’s Historic Stained Glass. She will discuss the contribution of Scottish artists to the establishment and development of stained glass in Australia. Scotland was a leader in the nineteenth-century revival of stained glass, and artists who trained there, especially in the Glasgow area, emigrated to Australia and established firms of their own. The talk will be illustrated with stained glass by Lyon & Cottier (Sydney), Ferguson & Urie (Melbourne), as well as examples of stained glass in Scotland.

ALL WELCOME