Archaeology News and Announcements

To mark EAA 2024, enjoy collections of free-access research from Cambridge’s leading Archaeology journals. Click on this link for recent highlights in Roman, Italian and (more broadly) European archaeology from The European Journal of Archaeology, Antiquity and The Journal of Roman Archaeology – plus many others! Read a selection of the latest Cambridge blogs and explore their various routes to publishing open access.

Cambridge also shares exciting news about their new open access journal Computational Humanities Research! Find out more here.

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

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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

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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