The Archaeology of Italy: Symposium Schedule

Friday, March 18

5:30 PM – Keynote session

• Welcome and introduction – Susan E. Alcock Director, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World; Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology; Professor of Classics; Professor of Anthropology

• “Italian Archaeology 2011: Where Is It and Where Is It Going?” – Dr. John Robb Reader in European Prehistory, University of Cambridge

7:30 PM – Reception in Rhode Island Hall atrium

Saturday, March 19

• 9:00 am – coffee

• 9:30 am – Introduction to the sessions

• 9:45 – 10:45 Session I – the state of today’s field moderator: Steven Ellis, University of Cincinnati

• • “Breaking the boundaries of proto-history and Etruscology” – Corinna Riva University College London

• • “Digging the past, building the future: a research agenda for 1st millennium BC Italy” – Jeffrey Becker Joukowsky Institute, Brown University

• • “‘The Land without History’: forever?” – Marco Maiuro Columbia University

• • “The Later Roman period” – Richard Hodges University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

• 10:45 – 11:00 am – coffee break

• 11:00 – 12:15 Session II – Graduate Student Research forum, part I moderator: Jessica Nowlin, Joukowsky Institute, Brown University

• • “New Methods and Theories for the Study of Domestic Space in the South Italian Bronze Age” – Nicholas Wolff </>Boston University

• • “Sacred Matter: Sacrifice and the Altars of Republican Rome and Latium” – Claudia Moser Joukowsky Institute, Brown University

• • “The tombs of Roman Campania: Reconstructing regional ties through funerary culture” – Allison Emmerson University of Cincinnati

• 12:15 – 2:00 pm – Lunch

• 2:00 – 3:15 Session III – Graduate Student Research forum, part II moderator: Clive Vella, Joukowsky Institute, Brown University

• • “Digging Digitally: New excavation recording methodologies and why they matter” – Jessica Nowlin Joukowsky Institute, Brown University

• • “The archaeology of rural production in central Tyrrhenian Italy” – Abigail Crawford Boston University

• • “The Roads at the Latin City of Gabii” – Andrew Johnston Harvard University

• • “Studying ‘Italian’ archaeology at UT Austin” – Jenny Muslin University of Texas at Austin

• 3:15 – 3:30 pm – coffee break

• 3:30 – 4:30 Session IV – the state of tomorrow’s field moderator: Nick DePace, Rhode Island School of Design

• • “Italian Archaeology and Social History: Future Directions” – Annalisa Marzano University of Reading / ISAW at NYU

• • “Purity and Danger: On the Study of the Art of Ancient Italy” – Francesco de Angelis Columbia University

• • “Archaeological Remote Sensing to Visualization: a focus on Stabiae” – Margaret Watters Joukowsky Institute, Brown University

• 4:30 – 5:30 pm – Final Discussion