Brown Bag Talks for Fall 2006

October 5
Christopher Witmore
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Post-doctoral Research Associate
A Past No Longer Past: Some Implications for Archaeology at Large”

October 26
Michael Zimmerman
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
PhD Candidate
“The Hellenistic & Roman Pottery from the 1961-62 Excavations at ‘Araq el-Emir: A Typological Study of Stratified Deposits from the Village Mound Excavations”

November 2
Ian Straughn
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic Archaeology
“Betwixt and Between: Place-making Against Spatial Production and the Landscapes of Muslim Societies”

November 16
Katherine Marino
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
PhD Student
“Graeco-Egyptian Uterine Amulets: A Reinterpretation of Function Based on the Inscriptions”

November 30
Christine Reiser
Department of Anthropology
PhD Candidate
“Engaged Stewardship: Identity, Heritage, and the Presence of the Past in Community-Based Archaeology in New England”