brown bag – Archaeology at Brown University

October 4, 2024October 4, 2024

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology Fall 2024

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)
Title TBA

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

August 28, 2023October 24, 2023

Brown Bag Talks for Fall 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 Fall 2023 semester is below. (Note that we are still scheduling additional talks, and will be adding to this calendar over the coming weeks.)

September 21, 2023:
Mariana Cabral (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Archaeology, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Future of the Amazon”

September 28, 2023
Dominic Pollard (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University)
“Hinterland and Borderland: Connecting Population, Agricultural Population, and Territoriality on Iron Age Crete”

October 5, 2023
Zachary Silvia (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Recent Explorations in the Bukhara Oasis, Uzbekistan: Towards an Archaeology of Rural Lifeways in Hellenistic Central Asia“

October 19, 2023
Eric Johnson (History of Art and Architecture, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University)
“Epistemologies of Recognition: Contending with Colonial Stonework on Indigenous Land“

October 26, 2023
Erynn Bentley (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Shadow and Bone: ‘Marginal’ Bone Workers of the Roman West”

November 2, 2023
Leah Neiman (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Reciprocal Care or Royal Coercion? Gramscian Common Sense, Consciousness, and Subalternity amongst Workers at Deir el-Medina“

November 9, 2023
Robyn Price (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
“Immeasurable Delights: Gardens and Sensory Indulgence in Ancient Egypt”

November 16, 2023
Jordi A. Rivera Prince (Anthropology, Brown University)
“Laying Siege to Violent Narratives for the Final Formative Central Andes (400-1 BCE)“

November 30, 2023
Jada Ko (Institute at Brown University for Environment and Society, Brown)

December 7, 2023
Shanti Morell-Hart (Anthropology, Brown University)
“Culinary Arts and Plant Sciences in the Ancient Maya Lowlands “

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

October 3, 2022October 5, 2023

Brown Bag Talks for Fall 2022

Brown Bag talks are held Thursdays from 12:00-12:50pm in RI Hall 108.
These talks are free and open to the public. Information about each talk will be provided below.

October 13, 2022:
Daniel Everton (Public Humanities, Brown University)
Re-imagining the Predynastic Man Exhibit at Museo Egizio

October 20, 2022:
Amanda Gaggioli (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Decolonialism and Mediterranean Archaeology: the case for the Aegean prehistory/history divide

November 3, 2022:
John F. Cherry & Liza Davis (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Archaeology in the Potter’s Field at Providence’s North Burial Ground

November 17, 2022:
Christina Hodge (Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University)
Desanitizing Provenance: Critical Documentation in Museum Collections

December 1, 2022
Breton Langendorfer (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University)
Achaemenid Syntax: Architecture, Metalware, and Modularity

February 11, 2022October 5, 2023

Brown Bag talks for Spring 2022

Brown Bag talks are held Thursdays from 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM

These hybrid talks are free and open to the public via Zoom. Links and information about attending each talk will be provided below.

February 24:
Nour Munawar | Competing Narratives: Destruction, Reconstruction and Representation of Heritage in Syria (JIAAW, Brown University)
Join via Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/99396452825 | Meeting ID: 99396452825

March 3:
Christopher Ball | Diverse Strategies: Human-Environmental Relationships and Agricultural Origins in Southern Ontario’s Grand River Valley.
Join via Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/94764295590 | Meeting ID: 94764295590

March 24:
Sarah Bell | Chosen Glories vs. Chosen Traumas: Interpreting Post-Abandonment Visitation to LM IIIC Refuge Settlements on Crete through the lens of Social Trauma Theory (JIAAW, Brown University)
Join via Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/91372686702 | Meeting ID: 91372686702

April 7:
Max Peers | Architecture and the Formation of Urban Communities in the Roman Central Mediterranean (JIAAW, Brown University)
Join via Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/95801008050 | Meeting ID: 95801008050

April 28:
Rebecca Marisseau | New Bedford’s Whaling Waterfront: Recovering Historic Places and Viewsheds through a Mobile Walking Tour (JIAAW Interdisciplinary Opportunity)
Join via Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/94426289496 | Meeting ID: 94426289496

May 5:
Nadhira Hill | Kraters in Context: Expanding Our Understanding of Group Drinking in Classical Greece. (University of Michigan)
Join via Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/92451878473 | Meeting ID: 92451878473

May 12:
Kristen Marchetti & Erynn Bentley | Out of the Vault: Lessons and Experiences from the View the Vault Project.
Join via Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/92999513911 | Meeting ID: 92999513911