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Katherine Crawford

I am a PhD student at the University of Southampton. My research is focused on Ostia, considering the sacrality of urban landscapes and how this impacted both the urban enviornment and interactions within the city. I am approaching this by attemting to reconstruct processional routes within Ostia using a variety of digital computing methods that consider how movement, visibility, and sound affected both the processional route and the wider citysape. My undergraduate degree was in English, Latin, and Medieval Studies in 2011. I then went on to recieve a MA in Classical Archaeology from the University of British Columbia (2013) as well as a second MA in Maritime Civilizations, focusing on maritime archaeology from the University of Haifa (2014). I have experience excavating in Italy, FYROM (Macedonia), and many sites throughout Israel.

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Photo Competition

We Know you took a selfie with that trench section! We won’t judge your for it..too harshly. The PGRAS 2015 PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION is live! Send your favorite archaeology photos to pgrsymposium@gmail.com by May 10th! All photos will go on display during PGRAS 20-21 May, putting you in the running to win a once-in-a-low-budget-annual-symposium prize! The categories are open to your own interpretation – the only limits are your creativity. Continue reading →

Book Sale and Cake Sale

Do you have books gathering dust at home? Give them a new home! Consider donating your old books to this year’s charity book sale, taking place during the symposium May 20-21. You can find donation boxes in the Archaeology coffee room or near the reception desk at Avenue Campus, building 65. If you like baking and love showing off your creations consider baking a cake for the PGRAS bake sale! If you would like to make something email us at pgrsymposium@gmail. Continue reading →

Logo Competition

Dear All,  Do you like shoving bits of cocoa-flavoured goodness in your mouth? Maybe you like to share, maybe you don’t – we won’t judge! The only thing we will judge you on is whether you’ve earned said chocolatey delights, by creating the most eye-catching,memorable and cheaply reproducible logo for this years Postgraduate Research Archaeology Symposium! Don’t like chocolate? No worries! You can just use your logo-inspired influence upon us to give you the most convenient... Continue reading →

Call for Papers

The call for papers for the Postgraduate Research Archaeology Symposium 2015 (20th-21st May) is now open. It is compulsory for all full time 1st, 2nd and 3rd year PhD students to give a presentation (part-time students are required to present every other year). Presentations are in the form of a talk of no more than 15 minutes (questions will be asked in the form of panel discussions involving 4-5 students each). Continue reading →