Brown Bag Talks for Spring 2012

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