Talks are held
Thursdays from 12:00-1:00 PM
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Brown University, 60 George Street, Providence, RI
February 2
Kevin Smith (Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology)
Symbols of Power and the Color of Belief: Legitimation, Place, and State Formation in 13th Century Iceland
February 23
Julia Troche (Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies)
Education and Virtual Reality: An Exemplar of a Ptolemaic Temple
March 1
Thomas Garrison (Anthropology and Joukowsky Institute)
Re-Thinking Regional Analysis in Lowland Maya Archaeology
March 8
Eben Gay (Engineering)
REVEAL: Excavation Tools for the Twenty-First Century
March 15
Felipe Gaitan-Ammann (Anthropology)
Good to Show, Good to Eat: Traveling Pots in the Spanish Golden Age
March 22
Carrie Murray (Joukowsky Institute)
Investigating Cultural Interaction and Identity Formation through Material Culture and Social Practices at the Greek Colony of Emporion
April 5
Timothy Sandiford (Joukowsky Institute)
A City No Less than Thebes? A Report on the Northern Abydos Settlement Site (Upper Egypt) 2011-2012 Season
April 10 (TUESDAY!)
Leonardo López Luján (Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City)
Cosmology in Teotihuacan and Recent Archaeological Work at the Pirámide de la Luna
April 12 (THURSDAY!)
Sarah Ralph (Harvard University)
Performing Violence in Iron Age Europe
April 19
Felipe Rojas (Joukowsky Institute)
Signs of God, Signs of Men: Ancient Interaction with Foreign Scripts in the Mediterranean
April 26
Christoph Bachhuber (Joukowsky Institute)
The Early Bronze Age at Zincirli (Ancient Sam’al) in Southeastern Turkey: a Platform to Consider ‘Hurrian’ Monumental Modifications of Settlement Mounds
May 3
Jessica Nowlin (Joukowsky Institute)
Reorienting Orientalization: Iron Age Central Italy Beyond the ‘Princely’ Tombs
May 10
John “Mac” Marston (Anthropology)
Towards a Regional Perspective on Agricultural Sustainability in the Imperial Eastern Mediterranean