Brown Bag talks are held Thursdays from 12:00-12:50 pm in Rhode Island Hall 108. These talks are free and open to the public.
The schedule for the Fall 2023 semester is below. (Note that we are still scheduling additional talks, and will be adding to this calendar over the coming weeks.)
September 21, 2023:
Mariana Cabral (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Archaeology, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Future of the Amazon”
September 28, 2023
Dominic Pollard (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University)
“Hinterland and Borderland: Connecting Population, Agricultural Population, and Territoriality on Iron Age Crete”
October 5, 2023
Zachary Silvia (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Recent Explorations in the Bukhara Oasis, Uzbekistan: Towards an Archaeology of Rural Lifeways in Hellenistic Central Asia“
October 19, 2023
Eric Johnson (History of Art and Architecture, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University)
“Epistemologies of Recognition: Contending with Colonial Stonework on Indigenous Land“
October 26, 2023
Erynn Bentley (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Shadow and Bone: ‘Marginal’ Bone Workers of the Roman West”
November 2, 2023
Leah Neiman (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Reciprocal Care or Royal Coercion? Gramscian Common Sense, Consciousness, and Subalternity amongst Workers at Deir el-Medina“
November 9, 2023
Robyn Price (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Immeasurable Delights: Gardens and Sensory Indulgence in Ancient Egypt”
November 16, 2023
Jordi A. Rivera Prince (Anthropology, Brown University)
“Laying Siege to Violent Narratives for the Final Formative Central Andes (400-1 BCE)“
November 30, 2023
Jada Ko (Institute at Brown University for Environment and Society, Brown)
December 7, 2023
Shanti Morell-Hart (Anthropology, Brown University)
“Culinary Arts and Plant Sciences in the Ancient Maya Lowlands “