You are cordially invited to join us for Eileen Murphy's (Professor of Archaeology) Inaugural Lecture on:

Encounters with Some (Extra)ordinary People from the Past

Eileen Murphy is Professor of Archaeology in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses particularly on human skeletal populations from prehistoric Russia and Ukraine and all periods in Ireland. She is especially interested in the use of approaches from bioarchaeology and funerary archaeology to help further understanding of the lives and lived experiences of people in the past. Her recent books include Children, Death and Burial: Archaeological Discourses (2017, edited with M LeRoy), Across the Generations: The Old and the Young in Past Societies (2018, edited with G Lillehammer) and Life and Death in Medieval Gaelic Ireland: The Ballyhanna Skeletons (2018, with C McKenzie). She is the founding editor of the international journal, Childhood in the Past, which she has edited since 2008, and is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Archaeology. Eileen is particularly focused on public outreach and is a founding leader of the Belfast Young Archaeologists’ Club (established 2006) and Director of the Centre for Community Archaeology.

The event will take place in 0G.029 in the Elmwood Building at 6.15pm. There will be a reception afterwards in the Elmwood Staff Common Room. You are very welcome to join us. We hope to see you there.







