April 5, 2025
Location: Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
9:30 Coffee and welcome
10:00 Introduction (Gretel Rodríguez and Meghan Rubenstein)
10:15 Laurel Bestock | “Seeing and Being Seen: Ancient Egyptian serdab Statues and their Contexts.”
11:00 David Kertai | “An Ornamental Monumentality: On the Interplay Between Architecture and Sculpture in Assyrian Royal Palaces.”
11:45 Patricia Eunji Kim | “The Gallery of Shield-Portraits at the Delian Monument to Mithradates VI.”
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 Max Peers | “Buildings Set in Stone: Architecture and Sculpture from Living Bedrock on Punic-Roman Sardinia.”
2:45 Meghan Rubenstein | “Monster Mouth Doorways and the Nature of Maya Architecture.”
3:30 Nancy Steinhardt | “Architectural Sculpture in the Ancient World: the View from China.”
4:15-4:30 Coffee break
4:30 – 5:30 Response by Itohan Osayimwese / Group discussion
5:30 – 6:30 Reception