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 2024 semester is below. (Note that we are still scheduling additional talks, and will be adding to this calendar over the coming weeks.)
February 15, 2024
Francesco Guiliano (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)
“The Aeolian Archipelago
During the Greek and Roman Ages (6th c. BC – 5th c. AD)”
February 22, 2024
Kirie Stromberg (Yale University)
“From Musicking to Governance: Dōtaku Bronze Bells of Japan’s Yayoi Period (ca. 800 BC-250 AD)”
March 14, 2024
Zachary Silvia (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Ancient Sogdiana and the Emergence of the Northern “Silk Road” (4th-1st c. BCE): New Archaeological Discoveries from Bukhara, Uzbekistan“
March 21, 2024
Harper Dine (Anthropology, Brown University)
“Local Landscape Contours: A Paleoethnobotanical Case Study of Two Rejolladas at Yaxuna and Joya, Yucatán, Mexico”
April 4, 2024
Kathleen Forste (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“From Terrace to Tray: Archaeological Investigations of Andalusi Agriculture and Foodways”
April 18, 2024
Margaret Graves (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University)
“Extraction and Liquidation, from Rayy to Russia: Iranian Ceramics in a Global Art Market”
April 25, 2024
Daiana Rivas-Tello (Anthropology, Brown University)
“Relocating Crafting Communities: Inka Imperialism and the Huancas Mitmaqkuna in Amazonas, Peru”