Archaeology News and Announcements

from Brown University's Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

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Excerpt of Luxor Illustrated: with Aswan, Abu Simbel, and the Nile

Luxor stands on the site of ancient Thebes, Egypt’s opulent New Kingdom capital. It encompasses the spectacular temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the Nile, and on the west bank the vast necropolis, which includes the Colossi of Memnon, the famed Ramesseum, Queen Hatshepsut’s magnificent funerary temple, and the Valley of the Kings, riddled with royal tombs, among them the fabled resting place of Tutankhamun. The splendor and profusion of pharaonic monuments at Luxor justifies its reputation as the greatest outdoor museum in the world.

Reaching beyond Luxor, this book also covers all the major sites of Upper Egypt, including Abydos, Dendera, Esna, Edfu, and Kom Ombo. Special attention is given to Aswan, one of the most beautiful places in Egypt, with its nearby island temple of Isis at Philae. The climax of this informed and richly illustrated book comes with the remarkable temples at Abu Simbel, with their colossal figures of Rameses II and his lovely wife Nefertari cut from the living rock.

Luxor Illustrated was written by the late Michael Haag, (1943-2020) a London-based writer and photographer. He is author and photographer of Alexandria Illustrated (AUC Press, 2004) and Cairo Illustrated (AUC Press, 2006), and author of Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City, 1860–1960 (AUC Press, 2008) and Alexandria: City of Memory (2004). His other books include The Templars and The Durrells of Corfu.

Read an excerpt of the book here.

Position Announcement | Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in Ancient Rome and Italy

 

Position Title: Associate/Assistant Professor (2 positions)
Institution Name: ICCS/Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies/Rome, Italy
Position Rank: Assistant Professor
Area of Specialty: See Description
Application Deadline: 2024-11-01 Associate Professor/Assistant Professor for 2025-2026 (2 positions), August through May; Rome, Italy.

Candidates must have good knowledge of Ancient Rome and Italy, eagerness for teaching undergraduates, and enthusiasm for participating flexibly in “The Ancient City,” the program’s core, team-taught course led by the Centro’s 2025-2026 Professor-in-Charge, Andrew Goldman, which combines archaeology, history, topography, literature, and epigraphy. They also must be eager to teach a course of their own design in either intermediate or advanced-level Greek or Latin that will appeal to the Centro’s diverse range of students. “The Ancient City” course will include up to three extended fieldtrips each semester: two of these trips will feature sites around the Bay of Naples and the third will focus on the ancient cities of Turkey. Accordingly, candidates should note their experience in those regions. Basic competence in spoken Italian is also desirable. Because full participation in off-campus excursions for “The Ancient City” course is an essential function of this position, candidates must be able to traverse various types of terrain, including steep slopes and uneven ground, for significant distances, in addition to safely leading students through public transportation systems. The Managing Committee is especially interested in candidates with established careers for appointment to advanced assistant or associate rank; they often appoint one assistant/associate professor whose interests and experience are primarily in material/visual culture and one whose interests and experience are primarily textual, and especially value candidates with teaching competence in both areas.

The Intercollegiate Center does not provide H-1B or other immigration case sponsorship. Those hired must already be legally able to work for an American organization.

Letters detailing specific qualifications, a curriculum vitae, and (separately) two letters of recommendation, should be sent electronically ONLY to: Jessica Short, Administrative and Recruiting Assistant, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome; assist@TheCentroRome.org.

Candidates should submit all application materials to arrive on or before November 1. Virtual interviews will be scheduled for December. The Intercollegiate Center is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in academia.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website. 

Light in Art and Architecture, A Symposium

Light in Art & Architecture, A Symposium
September 27th and 28th, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture and the Brown Arts Institute welcomes you to participate in the second installment of IGNITE events in the History of Art and Architecture Department, a two-day symposium celebrating Leo Villareal’s luminous art installation at the Lindemann Center, Infinite Composition. The Symposium will feature contemporary light artists and architectural lighting designers in conversation with historians, theorists, and critics.

Speakers include Anthony McCall, Paul Goldberger, Grimanesa Amorós, Jamie Carpenter, Jean Sundin & Enrique Peiniger of Office for Visual Interaction (OVI), and Joshua Ramus.

Learn more, and register via the links below (*note: you must register for each day separately):

Position Announcement | Assistant or Associate professor in the Archaeology of Liberation

Position Title: Assistant or Associate professor in the Archaeology of Liberation
Institution Name: Cornell University
Position Rank: Other
Area of Specialty: Anthropology
Application Deadline: 2024-10-15

The Cornell University Department of Anthropology invites applications for an assistant or associate professor in the archaeology of liberation, with all its promises, possibilities, and complexities. They seek an archaeologist whose practice includes collaborative approaches that contribute to public and descendant community engagement with the past and our collective imagination of a just future. Research interests might include, but are not limited to, archaeologies of exploitation and resistance; forced migration; enslavement and emancipation; the materiality of coloniality and anti-colonial movements; heritage and its contestations; Indigenous survivance and resurgence; archaeological landscapes of violence, racialization, and refusal; and reparative engagements with material collections. Geographical area and technical specializations are open. The Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS), a supporting unit for this search, is eager to welcome to campus candidates who contribute to public engagement in the practice of archaeological research.

This search is being undertaken under the auspices of Cornell’s Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination, and Culture (CIVIC) initiative, the Provost’s Taskforce for Radical Collaboration in the Arts and Humanities. CIVIC’s “Humanities and Public Life” focus emphasizes humanistic approaches to the critical questions of democracy, representation, expression, individuality, difference, citizenship, and inequality (information can be found here).

Interested applicants should have a PhD prior to the appointment start date and should upload the following materials to this link:

  • Cover letter
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Applicants for all faculty positions must share their experiences and/or approaches (past, current, or future) to fostering learning, research, service, and/or outreach in a diverse community. Applicants may choose to submit a stand-alone statement or embed the information in other parts of their application materials.

Additional materials may be requested at a later date.

The deadline for submission of applications is October 15, 2024.

Pay Range: $79,400 – $180,000

Actual salary offers in the College of Arts and Sciences will be based on education, experience, discipline, and relevant skills.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website.

Sofie Ramos Artist Talk

Join the Department of Visual Arts at Brown for next month’s Artist Talk featuring Sofie Ramos. Ramos is a full-time artist based in LA and is best known for large-scale sculptural installations of vibrantly painted household forms and textures that flatten hierarchies and boundaries between art and everyday objects and playfully confront material excess. Ramos’s work has been included in many exhibitions mostly in California, but also across the country and abroad. Major past solo exhibitions include Bread & Salt in San Diego, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, CO, Fort Mason and Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, Johansson Projects in Oakland, Berkeley Civic Arts and the San Jose ICA. She has several permanent installations at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, CA and recently completed her first permanent outdoor public sculpture in Christie Park in Emeryville, CA. She is from Cincinnati, Ohio, and holds a BA in Visual Art from Brown University and an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley.

Location: List Art Building, Room 120

69 College St Providence, RI 02912

Date: Wednesday October 2, 2024

Time: 6pm – 7pm EST

Register here. 

Image provided by artist. 

Position Announcement | Assistant Professor in Byzantine Greek Studies

Position Title: Assistant Professor in Byzantine Greek Studies
Institution Name: Brown University
Position Rank: Assistant Professor
Area of Specialty: Byzantine Greek Studies
Application Deadline: 2024-11-01

The Department of Classics at Brown University is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Byzantine Greek Studies. They seek a scholar whose work centers on the languages and literatures of the Eastern Roman Empire, and who has demonstrated competencies in one or more technical sub-disciplines, such as paleography and codicology, textual criticism, and/or epigraphy. The ability to teach in Byzantine Studies comes with the expectation that the successful candidate can also offer courses in Ancient Greek and Latin as necessary. Experience in university-level teaching and a strong research trajectory are prerequisites for this position. The Ph.D. must be in hand before July 1, 2025, the starting date of this appointment.

Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae and cover letter, a brief statement of their experience and/or ideas for prioritizing diversity and inclusion in their teaching and research, at least three letters of recommendation, and a writing sample. Applications received by November 1, 2024 are assured of full review.

Please submit application materials online at at this link. For further information please contact the chair of the search committee, Prof. Joseph Pucci, at Joseph_Pucci@brown.edu.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website.

ARIT Hybrid Lectures

The American Research Institute in Turkey is hosting two hybrid lectures in May. Please see the information on each one below.


An Empire of Individuals: Ottoman Antioch, 1703 to 1764

A hybrid lecture by David Meza, University of California, Riverside

Monday, May 6, 2024, 6:00 pm, 11:00 am EDT at ARIT ANAMED, Istanbul

Register here.


Hungarian Architects in Early Republican Türkiye

A hybrid lecture by Gergő Máté Kovács, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in conjunction with the Hungarian-Turkish Cultural Year

Monday, May 20, 2024, 6:00 pm, 11:00 am EDT at ARIT ANAMED, Istanbul

Register here. 

2024 World Neolithic Congress

The 2024 World Neolithic Congress is set to take place in November at Şanlıurfa (Türkiye), and is currently open for paper submissions to be presented at the conference. The congress aims to foster debate on the development of sedentism, agriculture, domestication, and broader topics on Neolithization through global perspectives. There are numerous exciting sessions aiming to bring together archaeologists working in diverse geographic regions. These sessions may be seen here.

Paper abstracts are due May 20, 2024. For information on guidelines as well as how to submit, please see the submission form here.

Job Opportunity: Visiting Assistant Professor in Archaeological Science

Wesleyan University’s Archaeology Program invites applications for a one year full-time Visiting Assistant Professor in Archaeological Science with a focus on Ancient Technologies or Archaeological Materials, to begin September 1, 2024. The initial appointment is for one year and is renewable for a second year based on performance.

They are seeking candidates with expertise in the study of archaeological materials, including analytical methods and theoretical frameworks, whose research demonstrates the ways in which technological study of artifacts can offer insights into the communities, economies, and ecologies which produced them. The region and area of specialization is open; it may include metals, ceramics, glass, lithics, or any other material substrate. Candidates should be teacher-scholars able to blend creative and innovative pedagogy with rigorous methodological approaches to the interpretation of material remains. Strongest preference will be given to candidates with experience in experimental archaeology, and whose research and teaching address how archaeological evidence plays a part in current conversations about sustainability, ethnicity, inequity, environmental justice, or cultural property.

The candidate would be expected to teach survey courses with broad appeal such as a history of ancient technology, technological responses to climate change in antiquity, or a general introduction to archaeological science, as well as more narrowly focused lab or seminar courses in experimental archaeology and/or analytical methods in their area of specialization.

For more information of minimum qualifications as well as position details, please view the job posting here.

2024 ARCE Virtual Annual Meeting

 

The American Research Center in Egypt is hosting a virtual annual meeting for those who were not able to attend the meeting in Pittsburgh. The virtual meeting will be held on May 17-19, 2024, via Zoom. Attendees have the opportunity to view live presentations from leading scholars on topics related to Egyptian history, recent fieldwork, technological advances, and much more. Register today for just $125.

Virtual registrants will have access to ARCE’s live virtual tour of Journey Through Time: Exploring the Coptic Museum’s Rich Legacy with Mary Missak on May 18th at 12 PM EST.

View the *Virtual Schedule and more information will be sent to speakers and registrants soon.

For assistance and inquiries, please email AMHelp@arce.org. Fee waivers are available for student members and early career scholars in financial need.

*Schedule Subject to change

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