Walter Benjamin
Compiled Written Work
(PDFs)
Working Bibliography for dissertation research.
Paper presented at the CAA (College Art Association) 94th Annual Conference on February 22-25, 2006 in Boston MA "Spatial narratives: social memory and architectural practice in Early Iron Age Karkamis." in the Art History Open Session: Western Asian Art. Chair: Prof John M Russell.
Paper presented at the AIA (Archaeological Institute of America) Annual Meeting on January 6-9, 2005 in Boston MA "Architectonic aspects and cultural significance of raising orthostats in the Ancient Near East: formation of a shared architectural practice." in Session 5B: Architecture in the Near East and Mesopotamia. Chair: Prof Paul Zimansky.
Paper presented at the ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research) Annual Meeting on November 17-21, 2004, in San Antonio TX: "Source of the Tigris: royal rhetoric and commemorative monuments in the Upper Mesopotamian landscapes of the Early Iron Age" in Session A44. "Theoretical & Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology," chaired by Sarah Kielt Costello (Binghamton University, SUNY) Louise A. Hitchcock (Universty of Melbourne) Andrew McCarthy (University of Edinburgh).
Penn Graduate Humanities Forum "Suspending (dis)belief" on March 27th, 2004: "The shepherd, the cattle-pen and the cedar forest: ideals of divine kingship, mythical city and fecund landscapes in early Mesopotamian literature." The Graduate Humanities Forum's website is here.
Department of Art History Dissertation Colloquium on October 18, 2003: "New cities and commemorative landscapes in the Upper Mesopotamian Iron Age: between social practices and cultural representations."
AAMW Lunch talk on Nov 16, 2001: "New Foundations in the Ancient Near East: the preliminary results of fieldwork at Urartian sites in the Lake Van Basin, Eastern Turkey."
"DECLINE: All good things must come to an end?" A graduate symposium at Bryn Mawr College, which was organized by Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology. You can see an abstract of the paper I submitted here, and download the full paper here.