Yannis Hamilakis, “The (Re)Making of the Acropolis from the 1830s to the Present”

Saturday, April 18 at 11:00am EST
Smith College, Neilson Library Browsing Room (Room 102)

SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Hamilakis is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He is an archaeologist, writer, and exhibition curator, and a Guggenheim Fellow (Class of 2025). His main research and teaching interests are the socio-politics of the past, the body and bodily senses, the archaeology of eating and drinking, human-animal relationships, the ontology and materiality of photography, archaeology and nationalism, archaeological ethnography, the archaeology of contemporary migration, and critical pedagogy in archaeology. His main geographical research focus has been Greece and the Aegean, and although much of his fieldwork is to do with the prehistoric (Neolithic and Bronze Age) Aegean, he is equally interested in the archaeology of the contemporary. In fact, many of his projects are multi-temporal. Since 2010, he has co-directed the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project in central Greece, and since 2016 he has directed a field project on the archaeology of contemporary migration on Lesvos.

The 32nd Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture is sponsored by the AIA–Western Massachusetts Society and Smith College.