Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Justin Leidwanger (Stanford University). The Marzamemi “church wreck” (as it has been labeled) — a 6th-century CE shipwreck found off the southeastern tip of Sicily, has long been interpreted as a symbol of the emperor Justinian’s ‘revival’ of a […]

Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Alison Futrell (University of Arizona). In ancient-Roman ‘arenas’ — structures and spaces like the Colosseum in Rome — mass events were staged that exaggerated, aestheticized, and then normalized extreme and shocking forms of violence, deploying a twisted, voyeuristic ‘pleasure’ […]