​From the Archaeology Program at Boston University:

Symposia in Memory of Dr. Mary Beaudry

Both events require registration for in-person and remote attendance.

 1.) “Findings: Material Culture And The Immaterial” 

–April 22, 2022

​-2:30 – 5:00 pm, followed by a reception

-Location: Ladd Room, HAW202, 23 Hawes Street (Fenway Campus)

–Register Here for both remote and in-person

-Guest Speakers:

The Temporary, the Short-Lived, and the Fleeting: Making Sense of the Materiality of the Ephemeral

Carolyn White, University of Nevada, Reno

Witch Bottles: Constituting Self and Other in the Practical Magic of the Early Modern Household

Zoë Crossland, Columbia University

Time and the Materiality of Duration

Ann Stahl, University of Victoria

The Subversive Poetics of Mary C. Beaudry

D0 an Hicks, University of Oxford

 2.) “Pots And Pans, Bodkins And Trowels: Reflections On Mary Beaudry”

-April 30, 2022

-1:00 – 5:00 pm, followed by a reception

 -Location:  Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, RKC101, CILSE

–Register Here for both remote and in-person

-Guest Speakers:

The Interdisciplinary Life of Mary Beaudry 

Rebecca Alssid, BU​Gastronomy

Pots, Pans, and Stills: Millet’s Ancient Journey from Nile, Veneto, and Whole Foods 

James McCann, BU History

Bodkins, Beads, and Buttons: Dressing the Part in 17th-Century Massachusetts 

Diana Loren, Harvard

Pots, Pans, and Labor: A Birds-Eye View of the History of the Kitchen in America 

Nancy Carlisle, Historic New England

Finding Feminist Meaning in Cooking and Its History  

Barbara Haber, Writer, Food Historian

Panelists: David Carballo, Jacques Pépin, Ed Bell, others to be announced
Sponsors: BU Center for the Humanities
Archaeology Program​
Department of Anthropolog​y
College of Arts and Sciences
Metropolitan College
Gastronomy Program
Program in Food & Wine

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Dr. Alicia Odewale is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tulsa. She specializes in African Diaspora archaeology in the Caribbean and Southeastern United States. Since 2014 she has been researching archaeological sites related to Afro-Caribbean heritage on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands but continues to research sites of African heritage in Oklahoma, Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi. While she continues to research both urban and rural sites of enslavement in St. Croix, her latest research project based in Tulsa, OK seeks to reanalyze historical evidence from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, launch new archaeological investigations in the historic Greenwood district, and use radical mapping techniques to visualize the impact of the massacre through time on the landscape of Greenwood, utilizing a slow community-based approach. Her research interests include the archaeology of enslavement and freedom in urban contexts, Caribbean archaeology, rural and urban comparative analyses, community-based archaeology, ceramic analysis, transferware studies, mapping historical trauma from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and investigations into different forms of cultural resistance. Her research has received awards and support from the American Anthropological Association, the National Science Foundation, the Society of Historical Archaeology, the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, and the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS). In addition to her role as faculty, she also serves as the director of the Historical Archaeology and Heritage Studies Laboratory at TU and serves as the co-creator of the Estate Little Princess Archaeological Field School in St. Croix that trains local students in archaeological methods and other STEM related skills for free.

This webinar is part of the series New Directions in Caribbean Archaeology.

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World is proud to host another exhibition of and about fakes, replicas, copies, facsimiles, and forgeries. Everything in our gallery is not what it claims to be. The curated pieces, ranging very widely over diverse cultural domains from art to numismatics and medicines, are intended to prompt the questions: What makes a fake fake? And, how can one really know?

As the late Italian semiologist Umberto Eco argued, “There certainly exist tools, either empirical or conjectural, to prove that something is a fake, but […] every judgment on the question presupposes the existence of an original that is authentic and true, against which the forgery is compared; however, the real cognitive problem consists not only in proving that something is a forgery but in proving that the authentic object is just that: authentic.”

The curated pieces are intended to prompt also the more troubling questions: “What makes the authentic authentic? Who gets to decide? And why?”

On view in the first floor of Rhode Island Hall from April 15th-May 30th, 2022.

This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers, musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public, every Thursday at 6 pm. A short presentation will be followed by Q&A and a convivial gathering in a fairly intimate setting. 

Today: RISD Museum curators, Jan Howard and Gina Borromeo, will share the RISD Museum’s process for deaccessioning a bronze head of an oba from Benin in preparation for its return to Nigeria.

The Conversations Series is funded by the Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of the Fine Arts.

*All individuals – regardless of vaccination status – must wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. In addition, social distancing of at least six feet must be maintained when unmasked. Unvaccinated individuals must continue to wear a mask outdoors when social distancing of at least six feet is not possible. Event attendees, including visitors and guests, must comply with all COVID-19 University policies and protocols in place at the time of the event.

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Please join us in welcoming James Quinn, the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, and Jay Levy, the Archaeology Field Supervisor for the Mohegan Tribe, as they introduce their methods to decolonize archaeology through the Mohegan Tribe Field School. The Tribe introduces cultural practices and traditional knowledge to students during their first years of archaeological studies hoping to develop a sensitive and respectful way for them to engage Indigenous people.

About the speakers:

Jay Levy has been working for the Mohegan Tribe for 23 years. He has been involved with many subfields of anthropology for the tribe, Linguistic, Cultural, and currently Archaeology for the Mohegan Tribal Historic Preservation Office. He is a Native American Tribal Representative monitoring federally funded projects protecting cultural and natural resources. He identifies, documents, and preserves archaeological sites and sacred places on Mohegan lands. He also develops educational programs for the tribal community that include integrating Indigenous ideology, tribal tradition, and cultural protocol into land conservation. He is an Indigenous person from Colombia, South America and resides on his wife’s (Pequot/Narragansett Indian) ancestral territory in Connecticut.

James Quinn is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) and Archaeology Program Manager for the Mohegan Tribe. He is a Mohegan tribal member and has been working for the Tribe since 2006. His work as THPO focuses on working with federal and state agencies, local governments, and land and environmental conservations groups to identify, document, and preserve historic, archaeological, and sacred Mohegan sites throughout the Mohegan ancestral homelands. His work as the archaeological manager includes co-directing the semi-annual Mohegan Archaeological Field School, surveying tribal lands, and conducting archaeological research for the Tribe. He also works with tribal youth educating them about the importance of preservation and maintaining connections to Mohegan lands.

Supported by generous donors to Shepard Krech III Lecture Fund.

Join us on April 7th, 2022 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm EDT for a hybrid lecture from Max Peers, “Architecture and the Formation of Urban Communities in the Roman Central Mediterranean.”

Join Zoom Meeting at link listed on Brown event page.

What can we learn from ancient art and architecture?

From wing-shaped vessels to dancing figurines, archaeology has a story to tell us about the lives and imaginations of people who lived thousands of years ago.

“The Stories Objects Tell” is a campus-wide artshow organized by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, and curated by Kristen Marchetti ’22 with assistance from Erynn Bentley ’25 Ph.D. Works included in the show may be a response to archaeology in general or to objects in the Joukowsky Institute’s collection of art and artifacts.

The exhibit’s opening reception will take place from 4-5 PM on Thursday, March 24th, 2022.

The show can be viewed from Monday, March 14-Thursday, April 14 throughout Rhode Island Hall.

From the Archaeological Institute of America:

Join us Thursday, April 7 at 1:00 pm ET, for an Archaeology Abridged presentation by Dr. Heather McKillop on her fascinating work with ancient Maya wooden structures discovered underwater off the coast of Belize. Wooden artifacts typically do not survive in the tropical Central American environment. These structures were preserved because they were buried below the sea floor in red mangrove peat. The discoveries provide a rare look at ordinary wooden buildings in a region of the ancient world that is dominated by stone buildings. McKillop will discuss the discovery, mapping, and excavation of these structures and describe how traditional field techniques had to be modified and adapted for use with the underwater sites.

This lecture will also be available in American Sign Language. ASL interpretation will be provided by Trail Blazing Interpreters. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.

Dr. Heather McKillop is the Thomas & Lillian Landrum Alumni Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She earned her B.Sc. and M.A. in Anthropology at Trent University and her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. McKillop has carried out fieldwork along the coast of Belize since 1979. She has focused on the Paynes Creek Salt Works site since the 2004 discovery of the only known ancient Maya canoe paddle and preserved wooden buildings. In 2020 she received the Research Master Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Louisiana State University. Her publications include Maya Salt Works (2019), In Search of Maya Sea Traders (2005), Salt: White Gold of the Ancient Maya (2002), The Ancient Maya (2004), and Coastal Maya Trade (with co-editor Paul F. Healy). Dr. McKillop was interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday in 2018.

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From the Society for Archaeological Sciences:

The Society for Archaeological Sciences invites applications for the R.E. Taylor Poster Award at the 87th Annual Meeting of SAA and the 43rd International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA), 2022 (postponed from 2020). 

The award consists of $200 US, a one-year SAS membership and subscription to the SAS Bulletin. Entries will be judged on the significance of the archaeological problem, appropriateness of the methods used, soundness of conclusions, quality of the poster display, and oral presentation of the poster by the student, who should be the first author in order to be considered. 

Students should submit an email application to Tatsuya Murakami (tmurakam@tulane.edu) by March 18 for SAA and May 1 for ISA. Applications must include the title and abstract of the poster, evidence that you have registered for the meeting, and proof of your status as an undergraduate or graduate student. Email confirmation that your application has been received will be sent to you.

From SICSS-Howard/Mathematica:

Do you have a drive to use social science, data science, data analytics, and evidence to improve public well-being within underrepresented communities? From June 18th to July 1st, 2022, Howard University and Mathematica will once again partner on the only Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at a Historically Black College and University. 

SICSS-Howard/Mathematica invites both social scientists and data scientists (broadly conceived) who are graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and pre-tenure faculty to apply for this *free* two-week institute (and accompanying 2-day prep institute).  

SICSS-Howard/Mathematica is groundbreaking for a number of reasons: 1) we were the first (2021) and continue to be the only Summer Institute held at a Historically Black College or University (HBCU), 2) we have the benefit of a deeply invested partner, Mathematica, and finally 3) we have a topical focus on antiblack racism and inequity. Participants will benefit from opportunities and resources that are unique due to our host, Howard University, our connection to the nation’s capital at a unique moment in our nation’s history, and given the generous support and deep engagement of Mathematica.

Our interactive and instructional program will involve lectures, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects. There will also be outside speakers who conduct and use computational social science research in a variety of settings, such as academia, industry, and government. Topics covered include text as data, website scraping, digital field experiments, non-probability sampling, mass collaboration, and ethics. There will be ample opportunities for students to discuss their ideas and research with the organizers, other participants, and visiting speakers. Because we are committed to open and reproducible research, all materials created by faculty and students for the Summer Institute will be released open source.

SICSS-Howard/Mathematica is available at no cost to participants thanks to Howard University and Mathematica. SICSS-Howard/Mathematica is particularly committed to the participation of individuals from diverse backgrounds. As such, participants from underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. Academically, we are looking for participants with a broad range of expertise, backgrounds in the social sciences, and interests-especially those with demonstrable interest in topics related to enhancing, developing or working on future projects that will address or intersect with issues of anti-Black racism and inequity.

If you want to learn more about SICSS-Howard/Mathematica check out the 9-part series co-written by our founder Naniette Coleman in Sage Publishing’s MethodSpace blog “The Future of Computational Social Science is Black”  or listen to Mathematica’s On the Evidence podcast “Inside an Initiative to Diversify the Field of Computational Social Science.” We also invite you to print and hang up our promotional poster, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and join our email list!