The third season of our field school at the site of Akko, in Israel, will take place during the month of July 2013. This is a joint project coordinated by archaeologists at UMass Amherst, Penn State, Haifa University, Trinity College, Claremont University, and the Pacific College of Religion. Along with field excavation techniques, students in this field school have the opportunity to take part in courses of artifact and architectural conservation, as well as engaged heritage studies in the local communities.
Akko (historical Acre) is a coastal city that was first settled about 5000 years ago and has been continuously inhabited ever since. At various times the site has been home to Canaanites, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Mamluks, Crusaders, Ottomans, and just about everyone else who sailed the east Mediterranean sea in antiquity or recent history.
When enrolling in this field school, students will be able to select a course that focuses on training in archaeological fieldwork or a course that emphasizes both fieldwork and conservation of archaeological and architectural materials.
Our field training course focuses on methods of stratigraphic excavation, recording, and interpretation, and the study of ceramic typology and its applications. Staff specialists hold workshops on surveying, photography, ceramics, geology, faunal analysis, GIS analysis, and conservation of artifacts. Fieldwork is complemented by a series of lectures by staff and visiting or guest scholars.
Students in the conservation course work on projects ranging from the Bronze Age remains from the site, to the Crusader castle that is emerging from the rubble under the Old City, and on architectural features built during the period of Ottoman Imperial rule in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Along with the field and lab training, students in both of the class will take part in a month-long series of lectures and seminars focussing on: (1) the archaeology of Israel and the east Mediterranean coast; (2) the emergence of urbanism, states, and empires in the region; and (3) political economy and trade.
Issues of cultural heritage are woven in throughout the course. Students will be able to work with professionals (archaeologists, architectural historians, and conservators) and with members of the contemporary communities of Akko to develop plans for identifying, conserving, and presenting material and intangible cultural heritage.
Students at the field school live in the dormitory of the Akko Nautical Academy, an air-conditioned building in a walled campus with its own beach. Meals will be served both in the dining hall of the Nautical Academy and on the excavation site.
The field school will take place from June 30th to July 27th 2013, and will cost about $5200 (though we may be able to lower that cost if enough students apply). This is a 6 credit class.
The program is directed jointly by faculty from UMass Amherst, Trinity College, Penn State, Claremont University, and the Pacific School of Religion.
I am the director of the UMass program, so feel free to write back to me with questions.
You can find out about the field school and the site at http://people.umass.edu/sugerman/Akko
Enrollment information can be found at http://www.ipo.umass.edu/?go=IsraelFieldSchool
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Michael O. Sugerman
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003
t: 413 577 0783
f: 413-545-9494
http://people.umass.edu/sugerman/Home.html
Month: March 2013
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Program in Early Cultures
Brown University, Providence, RI
The Program in Early Cultures at Brown University (PEC) invites applications for a post-doctoral fellow to participate in a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar, “Animal Magnetism: The Emotional Ecology of Animals and Humans.” This will be a one-year position, beginning on July 1, 2013.
Funded by the Mellon Foundation, this Sawyer Seminar addresses the emotional, symbolic, and social dimensions of past human relations with animals. Three themes inform the year-long program—animals as symbolic resources for the human imagination, the emotional bond between humans and animals, and the nature of such bonds as both extensions and complications of human society. The applicant’s specific research and teaching interests, geographical and temporal specializations and areas of expertise are left open, although—consistent with the mission of the PEC—these should focus on pre-modern cultures in the Old or New Worlds.
The successful candidate will probably be housed in the Departments of Anthropology or Classics or in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. The successful candidate will teach two courses—one each term—on topics related to the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar. The fellow will also help coordinate the activities of the Seminar during the academic year. In their applications, candidates should submit a proposal describing research to be done over the course of the fellowship. Applicants must normally have received their Ph.D. within the last five years, from an institution other than Brown.
All candidates should submit a letter of application, a list and brief description of proposed courses, and curriculum vitae by April 1, 2013. Applicants should arrange for three letters of reference to be submitted by the application deadline. Applications received by that date will receive full consideration, but the search will remain open until the position is closed or filled.
Application materials must be submitted online at https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/21245.
For further information:
Chair, Mellon-Sawyer Post-doctoral Search
Program in Early Cultures
Brown University
Box 1837, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
PEC@brown.edu
Brown is an EEO/AA employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeology
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications for post-doctoral fellowships.
We invite applications in four spheres, looking particularly for original and innovative work in:
1) the archaeology and art of the Late Antique and Islamic worlds;
2) environmental archaeology;
3) visual culture of the ancient world;
4) the material culture of the Brown University campus and of Providence, RI.
Other fields that complement the present strengths of the Joukowsky Institute community will also be considered.
In addition to pursuing their research, successful candidates will be expected to teach half time — i.e., one course per semester. Teaching will be at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; interdisciplinary offerings are desirable. Applicants must normally have received their Ph.D. from an institution other than Brown within the last five years. Successful candidates will be expected to make substantive contributions to the ongoing development of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, such as the organization of reading or working groups, a topical symposium, or another project intended to foster a stimulating intellectual environment in which to pursue research and to develop new interdisciplinary connections. This will be a one-year position, with the possibility of a one-year renewal, beginning on July 1, 2013.
All candidates should submit a letter of application, a list and brief description of proposed courses, and curriculum vitae by April 1, 2013. Applicants should arrange for three letters of reference to be submitted by the application deadline. Applications received by April 1, 2013 will receive full consideration, but the search will remain open until the position is closed or filled.
Please submit application materials online at https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/21243.
For further information:
Professor Susan E. Alcock
Chair, Search Committee
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
joukowsky_institute@brown.edu
Brown is an EEO/AA employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Mapping the Mediterranean: Space, Memory, and the Long Road to Modernity”
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
11-12 October 2013
Keynote Panel: “The Present and Future of Mediterranean Studies”
Yasser Ellhariry, Dartmouth College
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Karla Mallette, University of Michigan (chair)
The Mediterranean served as a site of transit, exchange, and interaction for well over two millennia, demonstrating tendencies towards both unification and dispersion. With the onset of modernity, however, linguistic, ethnic, and national boundaries solidified across the region. Language, history, memory, and space itself were literally reshaped by the tools of archaeology, architecture, tourism, mass print, national education, and transportation.
In recent years, scholarship has begun to excavate past connections and exchanges that belie our modern conception of the region, mapping out a diverse – yet united – series of Mediterranean identities centered on the connecting sea.
Mediterranean Topographies, the University of Michigan’s Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mediterranean Studies, is pleased to announce its second conference for graduate students and young faculty. Our symposium attempts to bring this new model – one that is deeply transnational and cross-cultural, yet situated primarily within the ancient, pre- and early-modern periods – into meaningful dialogue with modernity. We will engage the space of the Mediterranean through the cityscape, as seen through the lenses of literature, history, anthropology, cultural studies, architecture, and urban planning. Areas of focus will include (but not be restricted to):
* cartography and spatiality, city planning and historical narrative, architecture and collective memory;
* ideologies of the urban, relationships between city and peripheries (hinterlands, islands, deserts etc.);
* mobility, emigration, immigration, class-stratification, ghettoization, tourism;
* material history, consumption, trade, manufacturing, commodification, fashion;
* remembering the city, memoir, nostalgia;
* gendering and queering the city;
* (de)/(re)colonizing the city;
* and, in general, the destruction, re-construction, and re-imagining of the Mediterranean city space after the spread of nationalism.
Using these foci, we will explore the multiple Mediterraneans that have been built up and torn down since the onset of modernity. In short, this symposium will attempt to address the ways in which pre- and early-modern interconnectivities – both real and imagined – were destroyed, kept alive, or modulated over the long passage into modernity. Although our focus will be upon transitions stretching from the early modern to modernity (c. 1500 to today), we nonetheless encourage work that treats these same issues of urban transformation in the ancient world, especially within a diachronic, comparative framework. We also encourage contributions that focus on methodological debates and innovations for mapping and studying Mediterranean cities.
We seek to bring together work in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. We invite abstracts ranging from 200-250 words that relate to or expand upon the topics suggested above. Submissions are especially encouraged from disciplines such as literature, the history of art, history, anthropology, sociology, architecture and urbanism, gender and women’s studies, queer studies, African studies, and religious studies. Along with your abstract please suggest the category or categories to which you feel your submission is best suited. Please provide your institutional affiliation and mailing address, as well as telephone number. Indicate whether a/v equipment will be needed.
The presentation should be in English, twenty minutes in length (i.e., 10 double-spaced pages) and may address a topic from any relevant period(s) or discipline(s). Deadline for abstract submission: May 15, 2013.
Please direct questions and submissions to the Meditopos symposium co-chairs, Harry Kashdan and Will Stroebel, at kashdan@umich.edu and stroebel@umich.edu.
Athens: Heritage and Modernity June 23 – July 4, 2013
Exploration of the coexistence between historic and modern Athens
Dear Colleague,
I would like to inform you about our program in Athens, Greece, this summer. This 12 day visit of Athens will be a thoughtful exploration of the history and preservation and conservation issues facing the city, organized around a series of lectures and visits lead by some of the top Athenian archaeologists, architects, historians, conservators and planners who have been dealing with the problem of preserving monuments and cultural heritage in the midst of a growing modern city. Our deadline for applying is April 30, 2013.
The faculty of our program includes Dr. Manolis Korres, Chief Architect on the Acropolis Restoration Project, who will lead lectures and visits to the Acropolis area. Please visit our website and syllabus to see a complete list of faculty, lectures and visits.
The program is intended for people studying, or professionally involved in, the fields of: History, Archaeology, Architecture Art History, Architecture, Urban Planning, Anthropology, Conservation and Historic Preservation, but is also open for people with a general interest in preservation.
If you, or someone you know, are interested in this program you can get further information at our website. Thank you.
You may also be interested in our other field school programs this summer in Italy, in particular our classes and workshop on the Conservation of Archaeological Ceramics (May 26 thru June 22nd). The deadline for this program has been extended to April 15th, 2013. Please visit our website for more information.
Cordially,
Prof. Nikos Vakalis
Director Athens Program
International Institute for Restoration & Preservation Studies
nvakal@athensprog.org
AUC proudly hosts around 50 graduate programs in various fields, including MA/Msc. programs, PhD, and graduate diplomas, all of which are of value to Egyptian and international students.
We are especially proud to promote our graduate programs in:
Middle East Studies, MA.
Arabic Studies, M.A.
Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, M.A.
International Human Rights Law, M.A.
Egyptology, M.A.
Gender and Women Studies, M.A.
Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, M.A.
Sociology/Anthropology, M.A
International Counseling and Community Psychology, M.A.
All information on programs are viewable at https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics
More information on , is available at https://www.aucegypt.edu/admissions
More information on tuition and fees and the various financial assistance opportunities, is available at https://www.aucegypt.edu/admissions/tuition-and-fees
Information on graduate student life, services, and available opportunities, is accessed from within the following https://www.aucegypt.edu/campus-life
For more information, please contact Yasmine Ibrahim at y.ibrahim@aucegypt.edu
Dear all,
We are very pleased to announce the Archaeological Field School of Plaza de Ármas 2013 located at Écija, Seville, Spain. This Field School will be held from the 21st of June until the 14th of July 2013.
It is our pleasure to welcome students from different countries to get a valuable experience in European archaeology with the possibility to excavate remains from the Roman period up to the Medieval Ages at Plaza de Armas, Écija, Sevilla, Spain. Different seminars in relation to archaeological methodology in different fields as GIS, Bioarchaeology, Material Culture and Restoration will be also taught.
The activities will consist on:
MORNING SESSIONS
Fieldwork: archaeological excavation (8am-2pm, Monday to Friday).
AFTERNOONS SESSIONS:
Labwork: post excavation laboratory analysis (5pm-8pm, Monday and Wednesday) and Seminars (5pm-8pm, Tuesday and Thursday).
There is also a tour each Saturday to a key historical city in Andalusia like Granada, Seville or Córdoba.
Students interested in taking part in the Field School are required to register BEFORE THE 10th OF APRIL 2013. We also attach some background information about the Field School and the dates of the summer 2013 season, together with an application form. This form must be filled in and sent along with an updated CV to: fieldschool@bioarqueologia.
Please visit www.bioarqueologia.es/fieldschool for further information. To download all the documents, please go to: www.bioarqueologia.es/downloads.html
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hear from you!
Best Wishes,
Professional Association of Bioarchaeology (APB)
ASOCIACIÓN PROFESIONAL DE BIOARQUEOLOGÍA
C/Cánovas del Castillo nº4
41400 - Écija, Sevilla
Email: socios@bioarqueologia.es
Web: www.bioarqueologia.es
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Bioarqueologia
Twitter: @Bioarqueologia
We would like to announce that two $1,000 scholarships have become available for students from any American university attending the 2012 “Villa of the Antonines” archaeological field school that we direct in Genzano di Roma, Italy, in the Alban Hills just outside of Rome.
We are still accepting applicants for the field school, which runs from June 30- July 27. We would appreciate it if you would pass this information on to your students.
For further information about the scholarships, go to
http://www.montclair.edu/chss/center-heritage-archaeological-studies/projects/italy/ralphjtorracoscholarship/
As we mentioned in an announcement in January, the site includes a monumental bath complex and evidence of decoration with precious marbles from around the Mediterranean—features which suit the site’s traditional description as an imperial villa. This year we will devote special attention to the building that we were able to identify as amphitheater in 2012 and that we believe may be the setting where emperor Commodus earned the nickname “Roman Hercules” after killing wild animals in the arena.
For further information about the program in general, go to
http://www.montclair.edu/chss/center-heritage-archaeological-studies/students/thevillaoftheantonines2013/
or
https://montclair.studioabroad.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=45376&Type=O
Please do not hesitate to contact us for further clarification. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration, and best wishes for the end of the semester.
Sincerely,
Deborah Chatr Aryamontri and Timothy Renner
Dept. of Classics and Center for Heritage & Archaeological Studies
Montclair State University
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Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies
Montclair State University
973-655-3479
chas@mail.montclair.edu
