Brown Bag Series in Archaeology Spring 2025

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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 Spring 2025 semester is below.

February 13, 2025
Christelle Alvarez (Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University)
Interpreting the Last Pyramid of the Old Kingdom: Monumentality, Imagination, and the Narrative of Collapse”

February 20, 2025
Benjamin Hellings (Yale University Art Gallery)
“Augustan Bronze Coins in the Roman Northwest: Cut and Pierced”

February 27, 2025
Sara Rich (RISD)
“Shipwreck Ecologies

March 13, 2025
Ayşe Şanlı (Anthropology, Brown University)
Materializing Morality in the Contemporary Mediterranean”

April 10, 2025
Morgan Clark (Anthropology, Brown University)
Talking Text: Speech in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing”

April 17, 2025
Christie Carr (Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University)
“Cuneiform Insights in the Dawn of the Anthropocene”

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology Fall 2024

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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 2024 semester is below.

September 26, 2024
Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch (Anthropology and Geography, University of Georgia)
“To La Muculufa and Back Again…: Re-investigating a Bronze Age Sanctuary and Village.”

October 10, 2024
Jonathan Russell (Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University)
“The Power of Substance and Transformation: Re-evaluating the Role of Beer Brewing Technology in Ancient Egyptian Therapeutic Recipe Compositions”

October 17, 2024
Joukowsky Institute Fellows in Focus Lecture:
Gretel Rodriquez (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University)
“Sacred Water, Votives, and Architecture in the Gallo-Roman Spring Sanctuary at Nîmes

October 31, 2024
Leah Neiman (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
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November 7, 2024
Regina Uhl (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Burial Mounds Between Hallstatt and Assur”