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Lecture
Events for September 27, 2021
Violence against the Enslaved in Ancient Rome
A number of publications have criticized the motif of the “happy slave” in antiquity. This presentation by John Gruber-Miller of Cornell College is meant to provide a corrective to that representation, and take a deeper look at the evidence for how the enslaved experienced “social death” (Patterson). As Kamen (2010), Trimble (2016), and others have pointed […]
Whim Rules the Child: The Archaeology of Childhood in Scandinavian Scotland
Please contact Llazar@assumption.edu or pclement@assumption.edu for the Zoom link. Lecture to be followed by question and answers and virtual wine & cheese. Co-sponsored by the Human Arts Series, the History Program, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program, and the Office of the Provost of Assumption University.
The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
Joukowsky Lecture