Bloomsbury Summer School

Fascinated by ancient civilisations?

Saturday 18 to Sunday 19 April

Course Director: Dr Christoph Bachhuber (University of Oxford)

Saturday 18 April

9:45* – 10:00
Participants login to Zoom; BSS Director’s Welcome Address

10:00 – 11:15
1. Introduction and Aims / Gordon Childe’s Neolithic Revolution

11:45 – 13:00
2. Jericho in the Neolithic: Kathleen Kenyon breaks ground

14:00 – 15:15
3. James Mellaart’s Çatalhöyük: A triumph ends in scandal

15:45 – 17:00
4. The Neolithic ‘Mega-Site’ and the Problem of the Stone Age City

Sunday 19 April

10:00 – 11:15
5. Scientific Revolutions in Neolithic Archaeology

11:45 – 13:00
6. The Göbekli Tepe Enigma

14:00 – 15:15
7. Ian Hodder’s Çatalhöyük: New ways of thinking through the Neolithic

15:45 – 17:00
8. What’s New in the Neolithic? A narrative for the 21st century

17:00 – 18:00
End-of-Course Online Social (you are welcome to invite guests)

*All times are London UK time; Zoom opens 15 minutes prior to the start of class

NB: Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.