Brown Bag Talks for Spring 2020

Talks are held
Thursdays from 12:00-1:00 PM
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Brown University, 60 George Street, Providence, RI

January 30, 2020:
Ashish Avikunthak (University of Rhode Island)
Rummaging for Pasts: Excavating Sicily, Digging Bombay a film by Ashish (Chadha) Avikunthak

February 6, 2020:
Holly Shaffer (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University)
Goods Gained from Graft: An Archaeology of an 18th-Century Indian Art Market

February 13, 2020:
Dan Plekhov ( Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Terraced Landscapes: The Historical Ecology of Long-Term Agricultural Practice

February 20, 2020:
Débora Leonel Soares (University of São Paulo)
Working With Huacos: Archaeological Ceramics and Relationships Among Worlds in the Peruvian North Coast

March 5, 2020:
Alex Marko, Dan Plekhov, and Miriam Rothenberg (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Mapping God’s Little Acre: Documenting Newport’s Colonial African Cemetery

March 12, 2020:
Catherine Scott (Brandeis University)
Around the Hearth: Reconstructing and Recontextualizing Burning Features at the 2nd Millennium BCE Citadel of Kaymakçı, Western Turkey

March 19, 2020:
CANCELED: Kathleen Forste (Boston University)
Farming the Hills: An Archaeobotanical Analysis of an Early Islamic Town in Palestine

April 9, 2020:
CANCELED: Sanja Horvatinčić (Institute of Art History, Zagreb) and Rui Gomes Coelho (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Heritage from Below – Drežnica: Traces and Memories 1941-1945

April 16, 2020:
CANCELED: Amélie Allard (Rhode Island College)

April 23, 2020:
CANCELED: Julia Hurley (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)