# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Shapes of Time: Deposition, Repetition, Transformission - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 07:15 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: UCL Institute of Archaeology Gordon Childe Lecture by Prof Laurent Olivier (Honorary Chief Curator, National Archaeological Museum, France)About this EventWe are delighted to invite you to this year’s Gordon Childe Lecture, delivered by Prof Laurent Olivier. Please join us for an evening of discussion and exploration, featuring Prof Olivier’s lecture (18:00 to 19:15), followed by a drinks reception (19:15 to 20:45).Confronted with the temporalities recorded in materiality, archaeology ultimately deals with the present, within which the past remains embedded as an absent presence or an imprint. Archaeology therefore does not simply describe the past as an event occuring in its own moment. Instead, it engaged with its temporality, which is necessarily multiple, veiled, and ambiguous, because it is carried by traces that accumulate and layer themseleves as strata.Seen from the perspecitve of archaeology, the present is fundamentally multi-temporal or hetero-chronological. The past is gone and will never return. But it nevertheless continues to occupy the present as a material presence. It transforms itself as it is transmitted, in processes of transformission, where it appears masked, alternating between periods of latency and sudden reappearance. Something is there that is no longer there. Something we cannot fully know continues to act, persisting beyond loss and disappearance.The time of archaeology, which is a time of the material memory of the present, is not the same as the time of history. This diachronic time, fundamentally cumulative, is now revealed in the Great Acceleration of the Anthropocene. Today, both past and future are crushed into a present with no way out. In such a moment, the present itself becomes memory, and its archaeology begins to appears to us as a form of revelation.About the speakerLaurent Olivier was Curator in Chief of the Celtic and Gallic Department at the French National Museum of Archaeology in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, until retiring this year. His main area of research is the archaeology of the European Iron Age, but he is also interested in the history of the archaeological discipline and its place in the building of collective identities. He is the author of The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory (2015). profile.AccessibilityThe corridor outside the lecture theatre(s) is sufficiently wide enough (150cm+) to allow wheelchair users to pass.There is step free access into the lecture theatre(s).The door opening width(s) is/are 75cm+ for the lecture theatre(s).There are designated spaces for wheelchair users within the lecture theatre(s), located at the back.There is level access to the designated seating from an entrance.There is space for an assistance dog.There is a hearing assistance system for the lecture theatre(s).There is not a visual fire alarm beacon in the lecture theatre(s).For more accessiblity info and an access guide please visit AccessableIf you have accessibility needs, please let us know and we will do our best to help.UCL200This event is part of the UCL200 programme. Celebrating UCL’s Bicentenary and marking 200 years since UCL’s establishment as the first University in London.Agenda🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:15 PMLecture🕑: 07:15 PM - 08:45 PMDrinks reception - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/the-shapes-of-time-deposition-repetition-transformission/100001985074311703 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, theatre, dog - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fthe-shapes-of-time-deposition-repetition-transformission-tickets-1985074311703 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: UCL Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Theatre G6 - **lat**: 51.524925 - **long**: -0.1315748 - **full address**: UCL Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Theatre G6, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: UCL Institute of Archaeology (https://allevents.in/org/ucl-institute-of-archaeology/27606131) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/cdf8a952a718b5583f4a641ef81dcf322f5196438ff3052be6fc3d3e102cbf07-rimg-w1200-h600-dc191813-gmir.jpg?v=1774137289 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/6c3bbcfe0ed61fa935a41253ff45a85a66ec0a43fbfb96022132244b99e72b90-rimg-w400-h400-dc494a42-gmir.jpg?v=1774137288 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm (+01:00) - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** UCL Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Theatre G6, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 GBP - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** UCL Institute of Archaeology - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, theatre, dog - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Shapes of Time: Deposition, Repetition, Transformission ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Shapes of Time: Deposition, Repetition, Transformission", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/cdf8a952a718b5583f4a641ef81dcf322f5196438ff3052be6fc3d3e102cbf07-rimg-w1200-h600-dc191813-gmir.jpg?v=1774137289", "startDate": "2026-05-20T18:00:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-05-20T19:15:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/the-shapes-of-time-deposition-repetition-transformission/100001985074311703", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "UCL Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Theatre G6", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "31-34 Gordon Square", "postalCode": "WC1H 0PY", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.524925", "longitude": "-0.1315748" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "UCL Institute of Archaeology Gordon Childe Lecture by Prof Laurent Olivier (Honorary Chief Curator, National Archaeological Museum, France)", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-21", "availabilityEnds": "2026-05-20T19:15:00+01:00", "validFrom": "2026-03-21", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/the-shapes-of-time-deposition-repetition-transformission/100001985074311703" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-21", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-21", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/the-shapes-of-time-deposition-repetition-transformission/100001985074311703", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "UCL Institute of Archaeology", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/ucl-institute-of-archaeology/27606131", "description": "The UCL Institute of Archaeology is one of the largest and most highly regarded centres for archaeology, cultural heritage and museum studies in Britain. 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