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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
Fax: (401) 863-9423
[email protected]

Past Events

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Commencement
Conferring of Archaeology and the Ancient World Degrees
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street
Institute ceremony followed ceremony on the Main Green

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Laura McAtackney (Oxford University)
Discipline and Punish? Long Kesh/Maze Prison as a Critique of the Totalising Institution
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street

Monday, May 4th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Presentation of Undergraduate Thesis Research
Caitlin Howitt: "Recent Reinstallations of Classical Art in American Museums"
Maia Peck: "A Comparative Analysis of the Funerary Complexes of Augustus and Qin Shi Huangdi"
Jonah Rosenberg: "Warrior Departures in Fifth-Century Athens"
Whit Schroder: "Transforming Rhode Island Hall"
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 5:30 PM

Benton Kidd (University of Missouri)
The Bold and the Beautiful: Polychroming and Gilding in Antiquity
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street
Sponsored by the AIA Naragansett Society, the RISD Museum, and the History of Art and Archaeology

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Erin Fairburn (Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies)
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Egyptian Faience in Aegean Contexts
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Keffie Feldman Weiss (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
Gods, Bodies, and Water: Investigating Kapikaya, a Rock-Cut Sanctuary Near Pergamon
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 at 6:30 PM

"If These Walls Could Talk… Archaeology of College Hill"
John Brown House Museum
RSVP required: [email protected]

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Material Worlds Series
Rachel Price (Brown University, Cogut Center for the Humanities)
Object, Non-object, Transobject, Relational Object: Brazilian Concrete Poetics
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 5:30 PM

Muhsin Yusuf (Birzeit University)
Jerusalem in the Muslim Crusader Conflict After Saladin (1216-1260)
Annmary Brown Memorial
Sponsored by the Programs in Middle Eastern Studies and Medieval Studies

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 4:00 PM

Archaeology Concentration Declaration Party!
Want to declare a concentration in Archaeology and the Ancient World? Come to a meeting, and we'll do the paperwork together! Professor Sue Alcock will be available to answer questions about concentration requirements, to advise about courses, and to sign whatever needs signing.
Who: All potential concentrators in Archaeology and the Ancient World
When: 4:00-5:00 pm (drop-ins welcome!)
Where: Joukowsky Institute, 70 Waterman Street

Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Lyra Monteiro (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Hamish Forbes (University of Nottingham)
So What About the Parthenon? Identity, Monumentality, Ethnicity and Nationality in a Greek Rural Community
Co-sponsored by The Mollie B. Mandeville Lectureship
Smith-Buonanno, Room 201

Thursday, April 2 at 12:00 PM

Material Worlds Series
Severin Fowles (Barnard College and Columbia University)
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Monday, March 30th, 2009 at 5:30 PM

Joy McCorriston (Ohio State University)
Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East
Smith-Buonanno, Room 201

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Joan Breton Connelly (New York University)
Ritual Movement Through Sacred Space: Procession, Dance, and Footrace within Greek Landscapes
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Thursday, March 19 at 12:00 PM

Material Worlds Series
James Westcoat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Conserving Water Heritage at a Mughal-Rajput Palace-Garden Complex in Rajasthan
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 5:30 pm

Alison Wylie (University of Washington)
Legacies of Collaboration: Transformative Criticism in Archaeology
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Michael Shanks (Stanford University)
From Walter Scott’s Marmion to William Gell’s Morea: Some Lessons in Topography and Topology for Contemporary Reconstructions of Antiquity
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Monday, March 16th, 2009 at 2:15 PM

Lisa Anderson (Doctoral candidate, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
Dissertation Defense: The Roman Military Community as Expressed in Its Burial Customs During the First-Third Centuries CE
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Michael Galaty (Millsaps College)
Comparative Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Border Zone Archaeology
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Friday, March 6-Sunday, March 8, 2009

Joukowsky Institute Archaeology Colloquium:
Violence and Civilization
Organized by Roderick Campbell (Brown University)
Co-Sponsored with the Cogut Center for the Humanities

Friday, March 6th at 5:30 pm
Keynote Speaker: Bruce Lincoln (University of Chicago)
Sanctified Violence in Ancient Mediterranean Religions: A Typological Overview
MacMillan Hall, Room 115

Saturday, March 7th-Sunday, March 8th
MacMillan Hall, Room 115
Confirmed Speakers:

Catherine Lutz (Brown University)

Severin Fowles (Barnard College)

Edward Swenson (University of Toronto)

Rebecca Molholt (Brown University)

Kerry Smith (Brown University)

Rod Campbell (Brown University)

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Adam Smith (University of Chicago)
The Political Machine: Sense, Sensibility, & Sentiment in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Michelle Berenfeld (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
Nights at Round Tables: Men, Gods, and Dinner in Late Antiquity
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Rebecca Molholt (History of Art and Architecture and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
Roman Mosaics from Tunisia: New Approaches
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Thursday, February 19th at 12:00 PM

Material Worlds Series
Contemporary Art and Materiality: A Workshop of Recent Projects and Exhibitions
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 18th at 3:00 PM

Scholarship in a Time of War: Universities, Associations and the Responsibilities of Citizenship
Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Laurel Bestock (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies)
Bricks, Bones and Birds: The Inaugural Season of the Brown University Abydos Project
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 8:00 PM

Colonel Matthew Bogdanos (United States Marine Reserves, New York County District Attorney’s Office)
Thieves of Baghdad: The Loss of Cultural Heritage
Smith-Buonanno, Room 106
Co-Sponsored with the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities

Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider:
See the Movie, Then Think About It
Salomon Hall, Room 001

Friday, January 23-Sunday, January 25, 2009

Material Matters Symposium:
Making Material Culture: Technologies of Production, Concepts of Design, and Properties of Materials
Organized by Krysta Ryzewski (Brown University)

Friday, January 23 at 5:30 pm
Plenary Address:
Pamela Vandiver (University of Arizona)
"An Academic Alloy: Archaeology + Science in the 21st Century"
MacMillan Hall, Room 115

Saturday, January 24, 9:30 am-3:30 pm
MacMillan Hall, Room 115
Confirmed Speakers:

Christopher Bull (Brown University)

Ioanna Kakoulli (University of California, Los Angeles)

Jeroen Poblome (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Krysta Ryzewski (Brown University)

Timothy Scarlett (Michigan Technological University)

Lynnette Widder (Rhode Island School of Design)

Christopher Witmore (Brown University)

THURSDAY, December 4, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Material Worlds Series
Benjamin Alberti (Framingham State College)
Why Karen Barad Matters to Archaeology
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 12:00 pM

Christopher Tuttle's Dissertation Defense
The Nabataean Coroplastic Arts: A New Approach for Studying Figurines, Plaques, Vessels, and other Clay Objects
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street

Friday, November 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM

Matthew Johnson (University of Southampton)
The Fall and Rise of Empiricism in Archaeology
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

THURSDAY, November 20, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Oscar Aldred (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
An Archaeology of Movement: Seasonality and Cycles of Transhumance in Iceland
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 4:30 PM

Careers in Archaeology InfoSession
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Common Room

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 10:00 AM

Rhode Island Hall Time Capsule Ceremony
Rhode Island Hall

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM

Naomi Miller (University of Pennsylvania)
Landscapes of Gordion: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Saturday, NOVEMBER 15, 2008 at 10:30 am

New England Graduate Archaeology Workshop
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street
Schools Attending:

Brown University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Harvard University
Tufts University
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Rhode Island

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Timothy Beach (Georgetown University)
Environmental Change and Wetland Field Formation and Use in the Ancient Maya Lowlands
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach (George Mason University)
Hydraulic Society and Water Quality: Constraints and Possibilities in the Ancient and Contemporary Maya Worlds
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2008 AT 11:00 am

Archaeology DUG Trip: Behind the Scenes at RISD Museum
RISD Museum of Art, 224 Benefit Street
By RSVP to [email protected] only
Sponsored by the Archaeology Department Undergraduate Group

Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Emma Blake (Tufts University)
The Second R. Ross Holloway Lecture
"Sardinia's Bronze Age Towers: 4000 Years of Use and Reuse"
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

THURSDAY, November 6, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
UTRA Student Presentation by Andrew Bearnot, Ashley Greene, Jonathan Migliori, and Noah Wiener
Unlocking the Material Past through Materials Science: Preliminary Archaeometric Investigations of Coins and Weathering of Historical Glasses
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

THURSDAY, October 30, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Elisa Foster (History of Art and Architecture)
Moveable Feasts: Investigating the Visual Culture of Medieval Religious Processions in Le Puy-en-Velay, France
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Archaeology DUG Faculty Meet and Greet
Students are invited to meet the faculty of the Institute, and find out more about their research, fieldwork, and courses for spring.
5:00 pm, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street
Sponsored by the Archaeology Department Undergraduate Group
For more information, email [email protected]

Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 1:30-3:30 pm

Community Archaeology Day at John Brown House
Students of "The Archaeology of College Hill" will be digging and discussing their works in progress to visitors from Brown and the local community
John Brown House, 52 Power Street (at Benefit Street)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Material Worlds Series
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Fieldwork Information Session
Where can you do fieldwork this summer? How can you pay for it? How do you apply? What’s an UTRA grant? Should you enroll in a field school or volunteer? What courses should you take to prepare? Do you have to be an archaeology concentrator? What is fieldwork, anyway? And what about study abroad?
5:30 pm, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street
Sponsored by the Archaeology Department Undergraduate Group
For more information, email [email protected]
Download Fieldwork Resources Handout (2007)

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8:00 pm

George L. Huxley (Queen's University Belfast)
Ulixes Redux: Why the Ithaki of Today is Homer’s Ithaca
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Classics

THURSDAY, October 16, 2008 AT 6:00 PM

Roasting Houston
To celebrate Professor Stephen Houston's MacArthur Foundation fellowship, JIAAW is hosting a roast, Friars Club style
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street

THURSDAY, October 16, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Thomas Urban
Electromagnetic Surveying an Icelandic Farmstead: a case study in data acquisition, processing, and interpretation
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Thursday, October 9, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Graduate Student Professionalization Seminar
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Bettina Arnold (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
"Beasts of the Forest and Beasts of the Field": Animal Sacrifice in Pre-Roman Iron Age Europe
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Thursday, October 2, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Graduate Student Professionalization Seminar
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 AT 5:30 PM

Information Session on Applying to Graduate School
A discussion, led by faculty and graduate students, for current undergraduates thinking of applying to graduate schools
View "Thinking of Graduate School" here.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Rod Campbell (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
Ritual Killing: Death, Alterity and the Sacred
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

WednesDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2008 AT 5:30 PM

First Archaeology DUG Meeting of the Year
A casual meeting for archaeology students, concentrators, or other undergraduates interested in archaeology -- with good food!
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 AT 12:00 PM

Material Worlds Series
Planning Meeting
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
See the movie... Then think about it...
Salomon Hall, Room 001
Sponsored by the Archaeology Department Undergraduate Group

Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Welcome Back (to the Trenches) Reception
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street

Monday, June 9-Thursday, June 12, 2008

International Summer Institute Pilot Program
Archaeologies of Memory
Co-organized by Sue Alcock (JIAAW) and Steven Lubar (John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilzation)
Funded by the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs