26/07/2026
Taking place next Friday 7 August 4pm at Burns 2, we are very excited to host Professor Christina Warinner (Harvard University), a distinguished biomolecular archaeologist and notable TED Talk speaker, who will speaking about how advances in aDNA and other scientific technologies are opening our eyes to a new kind of archaeology - an 'Archaeology of the Invisible'.
Come along and spread the word!
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Date/Time: Friday 7 August 4pm
Venue: Burns 2
Zoom link will be shared here closer to the date
13/05/2026
Friends who dig archaeology and PhD study
Everything is better when shared with a friend, and that includes doctoral study.
16/04/2026
We are delighted to welcome Associate Professor James Flexner as the speaker for this year’s Ian Smith Memorial Lecture! James is Associate Professor of Historical Archaeology and Heritage at the University of Sydney and has spent much of his career working on the archaeology and heritage of the Pacific region, including Vanuatu, French Polynesia and coastal Australia.
This year’s lecture will once again be held at Tūhura Otago Museum at 5.30 pm on the 7th of May. If you’re unable to attend in person, it will also be streamed via Zoom. You can register to attend in person or online here: https://otago.zoom.us/meeting/register/HxdeISmmS1S3NQjEj9IsGQ #/registration
The Ian Smith Memorial Lecture is organised in partnership with the University of Otago and with the support of the New Zealand Archaeological Association, the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology and Tūhura Otago Museum.
