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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
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Week 1: Sept 8. On Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Week 2: Sept. 15. Body in recent critical/social theory
Week 3: Sept. 22. Body and the archaeological discourse
Week 4: Sept. 29. Performance, performativity and ritual
Week 5: Oct 6. Çatalhöyük: social memory and everyday performance
Week 6: Materiality and performativity: artifacts and their performance in the social sphere
Week 8: The body of the able ruler
Week 9: The polemical gendered body
Week 10: Situated bodies: phenomenology of space, place and landscape
Week 11: Production of social space: gesture and royal rhetoric in Assyrian architectural programs
Week 12: The Akitu Festival: ritual action, bodily performance, socio-spatial politics