Brown Bag Talks for Fall 2012

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


September 13
Sturt Manning (Cornell University)

The Roman World and Climate: Context, Relevance of Climate Change

September 27
Amanda Lynch (Geological Sciences, Brown University)

The role of the Yorta Yorta people in clarifying the common interest in sustainable management of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

October 4
Fotini Kondyli (Joukowsky Institute, Brown University)

Memory and Power at the Borders of the Byzantine Empire

October 11
Tesse D. Stek (Leiden University)

State Organization and Cult Places in Latin Colonies

October 25
Andrea Matranga (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)

Mankind’s Best Mistake: How The First Farmers Accepted Subsistence Living in Exchange for Stability

November 1
Elizabeth Murphy (Joukowsky Institute, Brown University)

November 8
Cinzia Pappi (Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University)

Recent Excavations at Satu Qala in Northern Iraq

November 15
Alba Serino (University of L’Aquila)

The Cistercian Order in Middle Age: a topographic approach to the study of Cistercian landscape developments in France and Italy

November 29
Cristina Corsi

Radiography of the past. Integrated non-destructive approaches for studying complex archaeological sites