Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls presented her work at Treblinka at the Archaeology of Violence: Wartime Violence, Mass Violence conference this month. Her paper, entitled “Mapping Nazi Terror: Archaeological Investigations at Treblinka Extermination and Labour Camps” outlined the results of her work at the extermination and labour camps. The conference was organised by the National Institute of Preventive Archaeological…
A television documentary following work undertaken by the Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University has won a prestigious award. Treblinka: Hitler’s Killing Machine, which was broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel earlier this year, won the CINE Golden Eagle Award in the Televised Documentary and Performance Division – History category. The documentary follows the work of Dr…
Five years on from the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard in a field near Lichfield, the Centre of Archaeology is hosting a free public lecture on the 11th of June at 7pm by Stephen Dean, the Principal Archaeologist for Staffordshire County Council. At the event, Stephen will be presenting a fascinating talk that highlights some…
A new book and exhibition were launched this month which include the results of Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls’ research at Staro Sajmiste in Serbia. Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth is the culmination of a collaborative partnership between Dr Sturdy Colls and artists, filmmakers, lawyers, and theorists who participated directly in the “Forensic Architecture” project in…
On the 26th February 2014, Kevin Colls will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Archaeology and the Search for Shakespeare’. The lecture will outline recent archaeological investigations that have aimed to find out more about William Shakespeare’s life and death. “William Shakespeare is arguably one of the most famous people who have ever lived. His plays have been…
On the 27th January 2014, Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls delivered a series of lecture about her research to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. In the morning Dr Sturdy Colls visited Blythe Bridge High School where she spoke to pupils about her work and encouraged them to think about what lessons we can learn today from the…
Over the summer months, staff from the Centre of Archaeology have been involved in a number of exciting fieldwork projects, conferences and events: June 2013 Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls participated in a research visit to Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia Herzogovina with the Terrorscapes Research Group. Fifteen international scholars visited sites from the Second World War,…
This section is for invitees of the event to be held on the 18th of December. Further public events are in development for early in 2014, so please check the website regularly. The official opening of Staffordshire University’s new Centre of Archaeology is on 18 December 2013. Based in our state-of-the-art Science Centre at the…
