PGRAS Charity Book & Cake Sale

Every year the Post-graduate Research Archaeology Symposium (23rd-24th May) has a second-hand book sale and cake sale to raise money for charity.

In the last three years, we have commemorated loved ones by raising a total of £750 for Glencoe Mountain Rescue, the Mexican Association for the Fight Against Cancer, and Action on Addiction. This year, the collection is (fortunately!) not as personal as it has been in previous years. Nonetheless, the charities were chosen with care:

Macmillan Cancer Care relies on donations for 98% of their income.

Our second charity, The Brooke, provides veterinary care for work animals in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Horses, donkeys and such.

Both the cake and book sale depend very much on your generosity. If you can donate any unwanted archaeological or non fiction books to the stall, please do. There is a box in the photocopy room (ground floor of 65a) marked “PGRAS BOOKS” to receive your donations. Alternatively, contact pgras@soton.ac.uk and we can arrange to collect the books from you. If you would like to bake a cake for us, contact us by email and let us know.

Also don’t forget to drop by the stalls next Thursday and Friday!

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I completed a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge in 2007. I then worked in commercial archaeology before beginning a masters in Archaeological Computing at the University of Southampton in 2010. I am now undertaking a PhD with the ACRG focussing on the visualisation and analysis of medieval Cairo, with particular emphasis on simulating movement, visibility and acoustics. My research interests include procedural modelling, visualisation of ancient cities, the visualisation of uncertainty in archaeological reconstructions, medieval and Roman urbanism, the archaeology of early Christianity and Islam.

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