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