State of the Field 2023 Home | Speaker Biographies | Abstracts
Friday, 14 April 2023
Introductions and Keynotes
16:00-16:30:
Peter van Dommelen (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology) and Tyler Franconi (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology):
Introductions
16:30-17:15:
Lin Foxhall (Liverpool):
Keynote Address: “Changing Approaches to Mediterranean Archaeology: Seeking Small, Thinking Big“
17:15-18:00:
Elizabeth Fentress:
Keynote Address: “Mediterranean Networks — Towards a Collective Archaeology”
Saturday, 15 April 2023
Session 1: Perspectives
9:30-9:50:
Eva Mol (York), Andrew Gardner (UCL), Lindsey Allen (KCL), and Corinna Riva (UCL):
“New Agendas in Decolonised Mediterranean Archaeologies?”
9:50-10:10:
Benjamin Luley (Gettysburg):
“Comparing Colonialism: Between Classics and Anthropology in Roman Mediterranean Gaul”
10:10-10:30: Discussion
10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
Session 2: Pedagogy
11:00-11:20:
Stephen Collins-Elliot (Tennessee Knoxville):
“The Sisyphean Bind of Romanization: Post-Colonial Approaches, Cultural Essentialism, and Grand Narratives in Roman Archaeology”
11:20-11:40:
James Newhard (Charleston) and Allison Sterrett-Krause (Charleston):
“Consilience and Resilience: Mediterranean Archaeology at an American Undergraduate University”
11:40-12:00: Discussion
12:00-13:00: Lunch Break
Session 3: Geographies
13:00-13:20:
Leah Bernardo-Ciddio (Michigan):
“From Its Depths: Archaeology and Colonialism through the Adriatic Mirror”
13:20-13:40:
Lara Fabian (Freiburg):
“Antiquity and the Narrativization of the Black Sea”
13:40-14:00:
Ana Delgado Hervás (Pompeu Fabra) and Mateo González Vázquez (Trier):
“Uncovering the Past and Present of Mediterranean Rural Landscapes. A View from the Iberian Peninsula”
14:00-14:30: Discussion
14:30-15:00: Coffee Break
Session 4: Diversity
15:00-15:20:
Ileana Micarelli (Cambridge):
“Osteobiographical Investigation of Disability and Care in Late Antique and Early Medieval Italy”
15:20-15:40:
Giulia Saltini Semerari (Michigan), Meritzell Ferrer (Pompeu Fabra), and Mireia Lopez-Bertran (Valencia):
“Gender Archaeology and the Ancient Mediterranean”
15:40-16:00: Discussion
16:00-16:15: Break
Final Discussion
16:15-17:00:
Dimitri Nakassis (Colorado)
Open to the Public
This conference will be held in person on the campus of Brown University, with the goal of bringing colleagues together to discuss the issues raised by the talks. It is free and open to the public, and no registration is required.
Although the conference will not be offered online in a hybrid format, we plan to film the proceedings and make as many of the talks as possible available for viewing online several weeks after the conference’s conclusion.