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February 13, 2023September 21, 2023

Brown Bag Talks for Spring 2023

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 2023 semester is below.

February 16, 2023:
Celebrating 2023 Anthropology Day

February 23, 2023:
Morgan Clark (Department of Anthropology, Brown University)
“True Stories” and Narrative Control: Speech and Image in Classic Maya Mythohistory

March 16, 2023:
Cicek Beeby (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Parodies of Sexual Violence in Art and Media: A Parallel Study of Ancient Greece and Modern Turkey

March 23, 2023:
Ana Gonzalez San Martin (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
The Hammer and the Sickle: Tracing the Landscape of Labor Organization in Prehistoric Cyprus

April 6, 2023:
Leah Neiman (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Translating Clitoral Pain in the Kahun Papyrus and What Medicine Doesn’t Have To Say About It

April 13, 2023:
Elizabeth Davis (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Lived Religion and the Making of Early Christian Identity in Late Antique Asia Minor

April 20, 2023:
Gerasimoula (Mina) Nikolovieni (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Reading Textile Traces of Modern Greece

May 4, 2023:
M. Elizabeth Gravalos (Department of Anthropology, Brown University and Postdoctoral Scientist in the Negaunee Integrative Research Center at the Field Museum)
Casma Statecraft? Examining Politics and Pottery Production on Peru’s North Coast, ca. 1000-1450 CE

December 6, 2018September 21, 2023

Brown Bag Talks for Spring 2019

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

January 31, 2019:
Daniel Plekhov (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Scrollytelling and Archaeological Publication: Spring 2019 Project for Digital Archaeology Group (DAG)

February 7, 2019:
David Mixter (Binghamton University)
Palimpsest Urbanism: Urban Reworking as Political Action, a Mayanist’s Perspective

February 14, 2019:
Ilaria Patania (Harvard University)
Investigating Palaeolithic Space: Micromorphological Studies of Cave Sites from China and Tanzania

March 7, 2019:
Alex Marko (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
The Archaeology of Roman Hourly Timekeeping

March 14, 2019:
Lennart Kruijer (Leiden University)
Of Mind-Traps and Pornoboskoi: Objects in Motion in the Late-Hellenistic Palace of Samosata

March 21, 2019:
Gretel Rodríguez (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University) and Willis Monroe (University of British Columbia)
Thinking about Religion Digitally: Archaeology and the Database of Religious History

April 4, 2019:
Susan Pollock (Freie Universität Berlin)
Which Bones Matter? Investigations on the Former Property of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin

April 11, 2019:
Karl Krusell (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
The Social Construction of Ships: Anthropological Perspectives on Mediterranean Nautical Technology and Maritime Practice

April 18, 2019:
Parker VanValkenburgh (Anthropology, Brown University)
Site Seeing: Towards an Ethics and Politics of Archaeological Vision

April 25, 2019:
Martin Uildriks (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
The Lost Cemetery of Mesa’eed: Legacy Data in the Study of Predynastic Egypt

January 9, 2018September 21, 2023

Brown Bag Talks for Spring 2018

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

February 1, 2018:
Marleen Termeer (Leiden University)
Coining Roman Rule? The Emergence of Coinage as Money in the Roman World

February 8, 2018:
Cristiano Nicosia (University of Padua)
Soil Micromorphology in Archaeology

February 15, 2018:
Emmanuel Botte (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Fish & Ships: The Salted-Fish Industry in the Mediterranean During Antiquity

February 22, 2018:
Lynnette Arnold (Anthropology, Brown University)
Imagining Family across Borders: Epistolary and Digital Communication in Migrant Families

March 1, 2018:
Jamie Forde (Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow, John Carter Brown Library)
Broken Flowers: Sacralizing Domestic Space in a Colonial Mixtec Household

March 8, 2018:
Anita Casarotto (Leiden University)
A GIS Procedure to Study Settlement Patterns in Early Roman Colonial Landscapes

March 15, 2018:
Miriam Rothenberg (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Montserrat’s Volcanic Landscapes: Rupture, Memory, and the Temporality of Disaster

March 22, 2018:
Linda Reynard (Harvard University)
Inferring Diet and Migration from Isotopes in Bones

April 12, 2018:
Darcy Hackley (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Social Landscapes in the Egyptian Deserts, 3000-1000BCE

April 19, 2018:
Kate Brunson (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Oracle Bone Divination and the Oracle Bone Database Project

April 26, 2018:
Stephen Houston (Anthropology, Brown University) and Sarah Newman (James Madison University)
Arrival, Return: Movement and Founding Among the Maya

January 21, 2014September 21, 2023

Welcome to Archaeology at Brown

This site features updates on archaeology at Brown. The majority of these posts will be written by students in Archaeology and the Ancient World courses, but we may occasionally also highlight other archaeological news at the university, or of interest to our community.

In Spring 2014, students from three of our courses will be posting regular updates to this site. They would welcome comments and questions on these posts.