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 2025 semester is below.
September 18, 2025
Lorenzo Castellano (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Palaeobotanical Approaches to Farming in Ancient Anatolia: Twelve Millennia of Agriculture in Two Centuries of Research
October 2, 2025
Rachael Thimmig (Anthropology, Brown University)
Damming the Reservation: Hidden Histories of Salvage Archaeology and Domestic Life on the Great Plains
October 9, 2025
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez (Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University)
October 16, 2025
Rolf Winkes (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University)
Es war einmal – Once upon a time”: Reflections on Archaeology going back 60 years ago and before the Joukowsky Institute.
October 23, 2025
Simone Ciambelli (Marie Skłodowska Curie Action Global Research Fellow, Classics Department, Brown University)
The Agency of Intermediate Bodies in Pompeii: Preliminary Insights
October 30, 2025
Andrea Gonzalez Ramirez (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs, Brown University)
November 6, 2025
Arturo Sáez Sepúlveda (Academic School of Archeology, Austral University of Chile)
Thinking with Agents: Applications of Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) to Archaeological Problems
November 20, 2025
Catie Nuckols (Cogut Institute for the Humanities and History of Art & Architecture, Brown University)
Burden of Time: A Reconsideration of Full-Figure Glyphs as Carriers of Time
December 4, 2025
Maya Krause (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Milk, Maize, and Empire: Wari Influence on Breastfeeding, Weaning, and Childhood Diet in the Ancient Andes





