The »UK Gespräche« are a discussion forum for research on the Late Bronze Age/Urnfield Culture (13th–8th century BC) in Europe. The internationally orientated concept combines a one- or two-day thematic workshop with a corresponding public lecture the evening before. The »UK Gespräche« have established themselves in the European academic landscape as an important and significant platform for various questions relating to the Bronze Age period and are very well received. Each year, the »UK Gespräche« are dedicated to either a region (Central Europe, Northern Italy) or a thematic focus (storage, metallurgy, burials).
Previous events
- 23.–24.05.2019
UK-Gespräche / Workshop
»Bronze Age Metallurgy: Production – Consumption – Exchange«
- 17.–18.05.2018
UK-Gespräche / Workshop
»Storage and Consumption / Speicherung und Ernährung – Neue Einblicke in die bronzezeitlichen Praktiken von Speicherung und Ernährung«
- 16.05.2018
UK-Gespräche / Pre-conference lecture
»Vorratshaltung und -gefäße. Siedlungen und Nahrungsdistribution nördlich der Mittelgebirgszone von der mittleren Bronzezeit bis in die frühe Eisenzeit«
Immo Heske
- 15.–17.11.2017
UK-Gespräche / VAMOS-Workshop
»New Approaches to Burnt Human Bones and Teeth: the bioarchaeology of cremations and tooth cementum annulation«
- 15.11.2017
UK-Gespräche / Pre-conference lecture
»Fuel for Thought – Thermal Modification of the Corpse in Cross-Cultural Perspective«
Estella Weiss-Krejci
- 6.4.2017
UK-Gespräche / Workshop
»'South Wind' – Late Bronze Age cultural phenomena and influences from the Adriatic region to the north«
- 5.4.2017
UK-Gespräche / Pre-conference lecture
»Bronze Age Aquileia and the role of the northern Adriatic in the interaction between Europe and the Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age«
Elisabetta Borgna
- 01.–02.12.2016
UK-Gespräche Get Together / Workshop
Let the Dead Speak for the Living – Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Burials in Southeast Europe – Theoretical Perspectives in Balkan Archaeology
- 30.11.2016
UK-Gespräche „Get Together“ / Pre-conference lecture
»New Perspectives in Funerary Archaeology for Later Prehistory«
Mike Parker Pearson
- 10.03.2016
UK-Gespräche Get Together / Workshop
»Archäologische Strukturen – Urnenfelderzeitliche Grabungen und Forschungen (13.–8. Jh. v. Chr.)«
- 09.03.2016
UK-Gespräche Get Together / Pre-conference lecture
»UrnenfelderzeitlicheSiedlungen, Gräberfelder und Hortfunde Mährens – Neueste Ausgrabungen und Forschungen«
David Parma, Klára Šabatová, Milan Salaš