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SUMMARY:Breaking Bronze for Demeter: Indigenous Religion and the Making of Greek Sicily
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Alex Moskowitz – Breaking Bronze for Demeter: Indigenous Religion and the Making of Greek Sicily \nTuesday\, March 24\, at 5:30pm\nMount Holyoke College\nSkinner Hall\, Room 216 \nAlex Moskowitz is a classical archaeologist and historian interested in rewriting conventional narratives of colonization in the Archaic Mediterranean through the lens of the experiences of communities indigenous to the sites subject to Greek and Phoenician settlement. His current research focuses on Sicily and explores the development of metallurgical knowledge and craft communities throughout the first half of the first millennium BCE. With a theoretical perspective underpinned by postcolonial studies and anthropological approaches to the study of craft production and community\, he investigates how metal tools and artisanal practices document the choices made by populations navigating changing social\, political\, and economic conditions. Alex is currently preparing a monograph based on his dissertation work\, entitled The Origins of Greek Sicily: Communities\, Metals\, and Colonization. Beyond the material culture of Sicily and the Greek world\, Alex is also interested in studying articulations of cultural identity within Archaic lyric poetry and Greek historiography. \nAlex received a PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Before that\, he completed an MA at the University of Georgia and a BA at Swarthmore College. Alex is an active field archaeologist who has conducted fieldwork with various projects in Greece\, Italy\, and Kosova. He is a long-time staff member of the American Excavations at Morgantina\, where he co-directs the Khora of Archaic Morgantina Project and supervises fieldwork for the Agora Valley Project. He is excited to talk with students interested in learning about archaeology and participating in archaeological field projects. \nThis year’s Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture is sponsored by the Western Massachusetts Society of the AIA and the Mt. Holyoke College Department of Classics and Italian.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/breaking-bronze-for-demeter-indigenous-religion-and-the-making-of-greek-sicily/
LOCATION:Mount Holyoke College\, Skinner Hall\, Room 216\, 9 Blanchard Circle\, South Hadley\, MA\, 01075\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Life\, Death\, and Disease: Insights form Petra’s Tombs and Cemeteries
DESCRIPTION:Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology \nDr. Megan Perry\, “Life\, Death\, and Disease: Insights from Petra’s Tombs and Cemeteries” \nThursday\, February 26 at 5:00pm Eastern\nUMass Amherst\, Herter Hall 301\nFor Zoom attendance\, register here: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/GD44nDLmTwKs_QZUh44AFw \nABSTRACT\nEnsconced within the sandstone hills of southern Jordan\, evidence from mortuary structures in the ancient Nabataean city of Petra tells powerful stories about life\, illness\, death\, and commemoration of its residents. This talk will focus on their experiences across the life course through bioarchaeological evidence of disease\, diet\, and immigration from the skeletal remains recovered from tombs within the city. In addition\, evidence of mortuary behaviors within these tombs will reveal the rich and varied forms of remembrance after their deaths. This integrated approach\, shifting away from Petra’s temples and monuments\, offers new perspectives on resilience\, identity\, and memory in a dynamic ancient city. \nSPEAKER BIO\nDr. Perry is a Professor of Biological Anthropology at East Carolina University. She teaches courses on human osteology\, death and disease in Classical antiquity\, and human diseases and ancient environments. Most of her research focuses on 1st century B.C. – 7th century A.D. Jordan\, but she supervises graduate students interested in numerous aspects of bioarchaeology. She has been working on archaeological projects in Jordan for 30 years and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Center of Research (ACOR) in Amman\, Jordan. She is currently Director of the Petra North Ridge Project\, which focuses on the excavation of 1st century A.D. tombs and 1st – 4th century domestic structures. \nThis year’s AIA National Lecture (Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology) is co-sponsored by the AIA–Western Massachusetts Society and the UMass Amherst Department of Classics.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/life-death-and-disease-insights-form-petras-tombs-and-cemeteries-4/
LOCATION:UMass Amherst\, Herter Hall 301\, 161 Presidents Drive\, Amherst\, MA\, 01003\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Western Massachusetts IAD Archaeology Fair
DESCRIPTION:In honor of International Archaeology Day\, please join us for an archaeology fair on Saturday\, October 18\, 12:00-2:00 pm. \nVisit activity tables to learn about the past: learn about the history of fortune telling\, explore archaeological discoveries from Pompeii\, hold replicas of ancient vases and coins\, and more!
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/western-massachusetts-iad-archaeology-fair/
LOCATION:UMass Amherst\, Bromery Arts Center Plaza\, 151 Presidents Drive\, Amherst\, MA\, 01301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archaeology Fair,International Archaeology Day
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SUMMARY:Archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire: Domesticity of Governance & Politics of Dependency\, 1600-1836
DESCRIPTION:Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships \nDr. Akin Ogundiran\, “Archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire: Domesticity of Governance and Politics of Dependency\, 1600-1836” \nThursday\, April 10 at 5:30pm EST\nUMass Amherst\, Integrated Learning Center S211\nFor Zoom attendance\, register here: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/UU0SqUeGS8mVuL6k98vAnA \nBetween ca. 1650 and 1800\, the Ọyọ Empire was the largest political formation in West Africa\, south of the River Niger. Over the past twenty years\, Akin Ogundiran has conducted archaeological research in the capital\, colonies\, and provinces of the empire to understand the strategies of Ọyọ expansion and the everyday lives of different segments of its population. In this talk\, Ogundiran juxtaposes the materialities of military conquest\, colonization strategies\, and household politics to tell an intimate story of one of the most important imperial formations in Africa during the Early Modern Period. Here\, the regional and multi-sited scope and the residential contexts of the archaeological research allow for a fine-scale understanding of how domesticity\, gender\, class\, labor\, technology\, mobility\, and the landscape were manipulated to fashion the Ọyọ Empire. In the process\, ideas about personhood\, family\, and sexuality were also transformed. The archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire contributes to a truly global understanding of the Early Modern Period. \nAbout the Speaker\nAkin Ogundiran is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences\, Professor of History\, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology and of Black Studies at Northwestern University. He is the current President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists. His research interests include the topics of empire and community formation in West Africa and the African Diaspora over the past 2\,500 years\, with emphasis on the archaeology and cultural history of the Yoruba World. Professor Ogundiran’s publications include The Yoruba: A New History (Indiana University Press\, 2020)\, recipient of the 2022 Vinson Sutlive Book Prize and the 2022 Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize for Yoruba Studies. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. \nThis year’s AIA National Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture is co-sponsored by the AIA–Western Massachusetts Society\, UMass Amherst Department of Classics\, UMass Amherst Department of Anthropology\, and W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/archaeology-of-the-oyo-empire-domesticity-of-governance-politics-of-dependency-1600-1836/
LOCATION:UMass Amherst\, Integrated Learning Center S211\, 650 N Pleasant St\, Amherst\, 01003\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Power and Palace at Pylos\, Southwestern Greece: The Relationship between the Living and the Dead in Late Bronze Age Greece
DESCRIPTION:The 31st annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture will take place on Saturday\, March 8\, at 11:00 am at Graham Hall\, Smith College. Our speaker will be Joanne Murphy\, Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Archaeology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and Director of the Irish Institute for Hellenic Studies at Athens. \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow in the Brown Fine Arts Center Atrium. For disability access information or accommodations requests\, please call 413-585-2407. To request a sign language interpreter\, call 413-585-2071 (voice or TTY) or send an email to ods@smith.edu at least 10 days before the event. \nThe 31st annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture is sponsored by the Western Massachusetts Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/power-and-palace-at-pylos-southwestern-greece-the-relationship-between-the-living-and-the-dead-in-late-bronze-age-greece-2/
LOCATION:Graham Hall\, Smith College\, 22 Elm St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Towards an Archaeology of Cult in a Greek Colony in the West: New Excavations in the Main Urban Sanctuary of Selinunte
DESCRIPTION:Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture \nDr. Clemente Marconi: “Towards an Archaeology of Cult in a Greek Colony in the West: New Excavations in the Main Urban Sanctuary of Selinunte” \nIn-person lecture\nTuesday\, October 8 at 5:00 pm EST\nAmherst College\, Paino Lecture Hall (Beneski 107) \nA short reception will follow the lecture \nAbstract:\nThis presentation focuses on some of the most significant finds from the Institute of Fine Arts–NYU excavations in the main urban sanctuary of Selinunte. Although investigations in this area date back to the early nineteenth century\, our new excavations are bringing to light a wealth of new data\, including a complete stratigraphic sequence from the late fourth century BCE all the way down to Prehistory. Of particular significance are the finds in Temple R\, built for a goddess ca. 570 BCE. Sealed by a thick layer of fill in ca. 300 BCE\, the temple is entirely preserved in its original phases\, including the previous use of the area for an open-air cult around the time of Greek settlement\, the phase of construction with a rich foundation deposit\, partial burning and looting on the occasion of the Carthaginian conquest of Selinus in 409 BCE\, and a restoration by the Selinuntine exiles returning home a few years later. Our finds make it possible to fully reconstruct\, for the first time\, the biography of a temple in Selinunte. More important\, the fully preserved\, rich assemblage of faunal remains and artifacts allows us to reconstruct a significant part of the ritual activities in this area of the sanctuary. \nBiography:\nClemente Marconi earned his B.A. at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (1990) and his Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (1997). Since 2006\, he is the James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology and University Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts–NYU\, and since 2017 he is also Full Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali of the Università degli Studi di Milano. He is the director of the archaeological mission on the acropolis of Selinunte of the Institute of Fine Arts–NYU and the Università degli Studi di Milano. Among his books\, he is the author of Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World (Cambridge and New York\, 2007); co-author of “Sicile Ancienne:” Hittorff and the Architecture of Classical Sicily (Cologne\, 2017); editor of The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture (Oxford and New York\, 2014); and co-editor of Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome (Los Angeles\, 2013). A Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute\, he is the director of The Journal of Ancient Architecture\, and in the editorial board of the journals Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics\, Sicilia Antiqua\, and Prospettiva. [From Oxford Bibliographies]
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/towards-an-archaeology-of-cult-in-a-greek-colony-in-the-west-new-excavations-in-the-main-urban-sanctuary-of-selinunte/
LOCATION:Amherst College\, Paino Lecture Hall (Beneski 107)\, Barrett Hill Drive\, Amherst\, MA\, 01002\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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SUMMARY:“We Are Shaped by Space”: Some Archaeological Perspectives of the Materiality of Black Life
DESCRIPTION:Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture \nFor Zoom attendance\, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/2xcu7ntk \nDr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste (UMass Amherst) will present a hybrid lecture on the topic “’We Are Shaped by Space’: Some Archaeological Perspectives of the Materiality of Black Life.”
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/we-are-shaped-by-space-some-archaeological-perspectives-of-the-materiality-of-black-life/
LOCATION:UMass Amherst\, Herter Hall 227\, 161 Presidents Drive\, Amherst\, MA\, 01003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Archaeology\, Museums\, and War
DESCRIPTION:30th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture \nLecture by C. Brian Rose\, the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Past President of the Archaeological Institute of America. \nThe wars in Iraq\, Afghanistan\, and Syria during the last two decades have profoundly influenced scholars and how they deal with the art and material culture of antiquity. In this lecture\, archaeologist C. Brian Rose draws on his own experiences with museums\, foreign wars\, and archaeology to discuss the ways in which the past now dominates the present. He gives an overview of cultural heritage destruction and preservation programs in conflict zones and considers the subject of museums and repatriation requests in an age of increasing nationalism.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/archaeology-museums-and-war/
LOCATION:Graham Hall\, Smith College\, 22 Elm St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T170000
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SUMMARY:Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii
DESCRIPTION:Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture \nFor Zoom attendance\, please register here: https://bit.ly/3R8sJBY \nDr. Catherine Baker (Mount Holyoke College) will present a hybrid lecture on the topic “Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii.” \nAbstract: From the chipped corners of an ancient die to the mortar on a reused inscription\, artifacts tell stories. Archaeologists reconstruct these object biographies\, tracing the lives of ancient artifacts from their creation to their final deposition. In this talk\, I explore the stories of some of the artifacts excavated by the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (University of Cincinnati)\, including dice and gaming pieces\, statuettes\, tools of potters\, and even nails. These object biographies shed light not only on the way people first used these objects\, but on their afterlives – the ways in which objects were discarded\, recycled\, and reused. These lives and afterlives of objects\, in turn\, shape the archaeology of a site\, allowing us to trace the complex patterns of use\, reuse\, and discard which characterized the history of one neighborhood in the Roman city of Pompeii.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/artifacts-and-archaeological-processes-the-lives-and-afterlives-of-objects-at-pompeii/
LOCATION:UMass Amherst\, Herter Hall 601\, 161 Presidents Drive\, Amherst\, MA\, 01003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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