Debuting next month, Archaeology Abridged Premium, is bringing back some of your favorite Archaeology Abridged speakers for a series of exclusive lectures.

In 218 BC, Hannibal marched over the Alps and went on to win several decisive battles in Italy despite being outnumbered by the Romans. Join Patrick Hunt on Thursday, December 2 at 1:00 pm EST for a very special Archaeology Abridged Premium appearance where he will reveal Hannibal’s real secret weapon. And, no, it wasn’t the elephants. Tune in to find out what it was!

Archaeology Abridged Premium is FREE for AIA members and $5 for non-members to attend. 

Register here.

Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown, will be launching his book The King’s Harvest on Dec. 9 at 4:00 PM in the Pavilion Room at Peter Green House. The conversation will feature professors Tamara Chin, Bathsheba Demuth, and Graham Oliver, and light refreshments will be served from 5:00 to 5:30.

Yale University Press description of The King’s Harvest:

“This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China’s early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China’s agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states in ancient China, and elsewhere, was based on their ability to exploit the labor and resources of those who harnessed photosynthetic energy from domesticated plants and animals. Focusing on the state of Qin, Lander amalgamates abundant new scientific, archaeological, and excavated documentary sources to argue that the human domination of the central Yellow River region, and the rest of the planet, was made possible by the development of complex political structures that managed and expanded agroecosystems.”

ARCE December Workshop with Julia Troche, Rachel Leslie, Chance Coughenour, Julia Hsieh, Elizabeth Waraksa, and Nigel J. Hetherington.

Did you know that in addition to academic jobs your degree in Egyptology can get you high paying, stimulating, and prestigious careers in a wide range of fields in some of the country’s top institutions and companies? While the R-I academic job might be ideal for some, it is not the only path, and many other paths, at “lower status” institutions or outside of academia entirely can offer more benefits, flexibility, higher salaries, and as much cachet as an R-I position. These are not “second-best” or “fall back” options and require their own set of skills and preparations. This ARCE panel includes a wide range of participants who will share practical advice as to how you can turn your Egyptology (or Egyptology adjacent) degree into a successful career.

Public Access on December 4, 2021 at 1PM ET/ 8PM EET

Register here.

Friday, December 10th & Saturday, December 11th
(see schedule below)

“Holding off…on Interpretation” is a two-day virtual symposium designed to foster collaboration concerning the question of understanding among thinkers from diverse ranks of the academy.

Before any attempt to understand another text, voice, language, or gesture—or simply: before any attempt to understand another, who may also be “oneself” —there are more initial questions, which no project of interpretation could circumvent: namely, what “understanding” could mean in each singular context, and what relation to alterity will have been supposed with the very aim to understand.

These persistent questions, especially in an age of unprecedented dissemination through digital technologies, call for halting once more to pose the question of understanding as such, from its early articulations in Greco-Roman antiquity through to more recent critical interventions, with the slowness and restraint that Friedrich Nietzsche had invoked when he wrote of philology as “ephexis in interpretation.”

FEATURING:
Isabelle Alfandary (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Michèle Cohen-Halimi (Université Paris 8)
Andrea Krauss (NYU)
Brown University faculty and graduate students:
Kristina Mendicino
Marc Redfield
Gerhard Richter
Zachary Sng
Sneha Chowdhury
Simon Horn
Ethan Lussky

SCHEDULE:
December 10th
8am–8:05am Welcoming Remarks

Panel 1
8:05am–11:20am (EST)
with a 15-minute break between the second and third presentation

Panel 2
12pm–2:10pm (EST)
with a 10-minute break between the first and second presentation

December 11th
Panel 3

8am–11:15am (EST)
with a 15-minute break between the second and third presentation

Panel 4
12pm–2:10pm (EST)
with a 10-minute break between the first and second presentation

Join Zoom Meeting
https://brown.zoom.us/j/93885174027
Meeting ID: 938 8517 4027

Digital Archaeology and the Heroon at Erythrae:  A Data-Driven Conservation Action Plan with Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM)
Dr. Tuğba Sarıcaoğlu, Architecture,  Dokuz Eylul University
Wednesday November 24, 2021 at 7 P.M. (UTC+3)
More information and registration

Defining Tin Ore Provenance for the Bronze Age Mediterranean with Sn and Pb Isotopes: a New Look 
Prof. Dr. K. Aslıhan Yener Research Affiliate, ISAW, New York University
Thursday December 2, 2021 at 7 P.M. (UTC+3)
For more information and registration

Don’t miss this opportunity for meaningful and useful professional development! We are heading to New Jersey with workshops that highlight the Choices Program’s approach to teaching about contested historical and current issues. Register now to join us for one or both workshops at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Our workshops are interactive, so be ready to be engaged and inspired with materials you can easily integrate into your classroom!

The workshops are filling up! Please register soon to secure your spot.

Bringing All Voices to the U.S. History Classroom:
An Introduction to the Choices Program’s U.S. History Series

How can you bring African-American, Native, and Latinx voices and perspectives into the “story” of U.S. history? Join us as we examine the lesson plans, student readings, and videos found in the Choices Program’s U.S. History Series. We’ll explore two units in detail—Westward Expansion: A New History and The Civil War and the Meaning of Liberty—as well as lessons from selected other units.

Thursday, December 2, 2021
8:30 am – 3 pm
Register here (pre-registration is required, early registration is recommended)

Teaching About Climate Change, Genocide, and Other Global Topics with the Choices Program’s Current Issues Series

Workshop participants will be introduced to the Choices Program’s award-winning resources and approach to teaching about contested issues and exploring multiple perspectives. We will provide an overview of the Choices Program’s Current Issues Series, with a focus on the Climate Change and Questions of Justice unit and the Confronting Genocide: Never Again? unit.

Friday, December 3, 2021
8:30 am – 3 pm
Register here (pre-registration is required, early registration is recommended)

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Cost: $145 per workshop. Each registration fee includes a print unit AND a one-year license to the Digital Editions format for the two curriculum units (see above) featured at the session. Coffee, lunch, and a certificate of completion will also be provided.

Who Should Attend: These interactive workshops are appropriate for middle and high school teachers and curriculum instructors. Teachers addressing the New Jersey state standards on climate change and/or the Holocaust/genocide education law (N.J.S.A. 18A:35-28) and anyone teaching about contemporary issues at a secondary level are especially welcome to attend the workshop on Current Issues.

To register with a purchase order, please email the signed purchase order with the name of attendee(s) and the date of workshop(s) to choices@brown.edu.

Join us for a book talk with world renowned egyptologists Dr. Bob Brier to discuss his recently published book “The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris” (AUC Press, 2021).

About the book: Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. No obelisk this size (two hundred and fifty tons) had left Egypt in nearly two thousand years, and the task of bringing it fell to a young engineer, Apollinaire Lebas, a man of extraordinary resolve and ability. His is a tale of adventure, excitement, and drama, but one hardly known to the English-speaking world. Now this first-ever translation of Lebas’ account, including digitally enhanced copies of his beautiful drawings, makes his remarkable story available to a wide audience.

Register here: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/webinar/register/2916363618545/WN_SZXOgepaTOquGVeJ7oGRvg