PAS Annual Conference 2026
Online
Saturday 3rd October 2026
We are delighted to present the agenda for this year’s Pictish Arts Society Conference, held online via Zoom on the afternoons of Saturday the 3rd and Sunday the 4th of October 2026.
This year's conference theme is "What makes Pictish art Pictish?" for Day 1 followed by a day of exciting research updates from the
field.
The conference will be hosted on Zoom- all conference attendees will receive the zoom link by email.
Saturday 3rd of October
Day 1: The Pictishness of Pictish Art
13.30-13.40 Log on
13.40-13.50 Welcome Professor Jane Geddes
13.50-14.30 Insular Art and its Pictish Components Professor Jane Geddes
14.30-14.40 Q&A
14.40-15.20 The changing artistry of the Pictish
symbols over time Dr Martin Goldberg
15.20-15.30 Q&A
15.30-15.50 BREAK
15.50-16.30 Stone and the gods: religious cognition
and stone carving in first millennium AD
Northern Britain Prof Gordon Noble
16.30-16.40 Q&A
16.40-17.20 Pictish metalwork Andy Heald
17.20-17.30 Q&A
Sunday 4th of October
Day 2: New Research on Pictish Art and its Context
13.40-13.50
13.50-14.40 Recent discoveries at Burghead by
Aberdeen’s Northern Picts Project Dr Ellie Graham
14.50-15.20 On the mooooove: cattle, connectivity,
and catchments of clientship at Burghead Prof Kate Britton
15:20 - 15:30 Q&A
15:30 - 15:50 BREAK
15:50 - 16:30 Different strokes: changing identities
and connectivity between Iron Age
Ireland and Northern Britain Dr Rena Maguire
16:40 - 17:20 Playing with the Picts: Art and Accuracy in Carved in Stone Dr Heather Christie
17:20 - 17:30 Q&A
This year's conference theme is "What makes Pictish art Pictish?" for Day 1 followed by a day of exciting research updates from the
field.
The conference will be hosted on Zoom- all conference attendees will receive the zoom link by email.
Saturday 3rd of October
Day 1: The Pictishness of Pictish Art
13.30-13.40 Log on
13.40-13.50 Welcome Professor Jane Geddes
13.50-14.30 Insular Art and its Pictish Components Professor Jane Geddes
14.30-14.40 Q&A
14.40-15.20 The changing artistry of the Pictish
symbols over time Dr Martin Goldberg
15.20-15.30 Q&A
15.30-15.50 BREAK
15.50-16.30 Stone and the gods: religious cognition
and stone carving in first millennium AD
Northern Britain Prof Gordon Noble
16.30-16.40 Q&A
16.40-17.20 Pictish metalwork Andy Heald
17.20-17.30 Q&A
Sunday 4th of October
Day 2: New Research on Pictish Art and its Context
13.40-13.50
13.50-14.40 Recent discoveries at Burghead by
Aberdeen’s Northern Picts Project Dr Ellie Graham
14.50-15.20 On the mooooove: cattle, connectivity,
and catchments of clientship at Burghead Prof Kate Britton
15:20 - 15:30 Q&A
15:30 - 15:50 BREAK
15:50 - 16:30 Different strokes: changing identities
and connectivity between Iron Age
Ireland and Northern Britain Dr Rena Maguire
16:40 - 17:20 Playing with the Picts: Art and Accuracy in Carved in Stone Dr Heather Christie
17:20 - 17:30 Q&A
