Past Events
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Commencement Ceremony
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Presentation of Doctoral Research: Sarah Dawson
Social Memory and Propaganda in Fifth Century Rome
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Friday, April 30th to Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2010
Brown University, Providence, RI
Registration required
Plenary Session: The Location of Theory - A Discussion with Homi Bhabha
MacMillan Hall, Room 117
Moderator and Chair of the Panel:
Nick Shepherd (University of Cape Town)
Discussants:
Alejandro F. Haber (National University at Catamarca)
Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton)
Uzma Z. Rizvi (Pratt Institute)
Response:
Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 1:30
Reenactment of the Battle of Qadesh
Volunteers welcome! Arrive at 1:00 pm for weapons training. Registration appreciated but not required.
Contact: [email protected]
Brown University Main Green (see detailed map)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at Noon
Fluid Thinking Workshop
Daniel Shoup (University of Bologna)
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at Noon
Fluid Thinking Workshop
Eric Poehler (UMass Amherst)
The Urban Artifact: Drainage Infrastructure and the Organization of Space at Pompeii
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Fluid Thinking Workshop
Zena Kamash (Oxford University)
Tides of Change? Exploring the Relationship between Changing Behaviour and New Water Technologies in the Roman Near East
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Monday, April 12th, 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, Rhode Island Hall, Room 109
Monday, April 12, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Presentation of Doctoral Research: Kate Marino
Setting the Womb in Its Place: Toward a Contextual Archaeology of Graeco-Egyptian Uterine Amulets
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Fluid Thinking Workshop
Kirk D. French (Pennsylvania State University)
The Waters of the Ancient Maya and the Hydroarchaeological Approach
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Karen Holmberg (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
Embarrassments of Riches, Perceptions of Paucity: Collecting the Chiriquí Area of Western Panamá
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Fluid Thinking Workshop
Bryan Brinkman (Brown University)
The Cool Waters of Osiris: Water and Egyptian Religion in the Roman Empire
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Yorke Rowan (University of Chicago)
Crossing the Nile: Early Evidence for Levantine and Egyptian Interactions
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Monica Smith (University of California, Los Angeles)
Individuals vs. Infrastructure: Negotiating Consensus in Ancient Cities
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Co-sponsored with the Year of India
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Monica Smith (University of California, Los Angeles)
Text and Context: The Archaeology of Ancient India
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Co-sponsored with the Year of India
Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Nick Carter (Department of Anthropology)
Linguistic Processes and Spelling Reform in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Ian Russell (John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage)
Art to Archaeology [] Archaeology to Art
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Ioanna Kakoulli (University of California, Los Angeles)
Multi-scale Analysis of Material Culture: Tools to Investigate Structure and Composition
Barus and Holley (182 Hope Street, entrance on Brook Street at George Street), Room 190
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
John Cherry, Thomas Leppard, Elizabeth Murphy, and Krysta Ryzewski (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
Archaeology Versus the Volcano:
Survey and Landscape Archaeology in Montserrat, 2010
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Friday, February 12, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
See the Movie...Then Think About It
A free screening of the film followed by commentaries by Professors Susan Alcock and Laurel Bestock, Terry Scott (Director of Hasbro's Creative Services and Studios), and Christopher Tuttle (American Center of Oriental Research)
Salomon Center, Room 001
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Fluid Thinking Workshop
Caroline A. Karp (Environmental Studies)
From Rome to Mono Lake: The Law of Running Water
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 at 2:00 - 4:00 pm
"The World of Museums: Logistics, Laws and Loans" Student Poster Session
Students discussed the repatriations of the Bust of Nefertiti, Nok Art and the Getty Bronze; the Arboretum as museum; the Bellagio Hotel; Marion True; the modern architect; Priam's Treasure; the US National Slavery museum; the Icklingham Bronzes; NAGPRA; natural history museum dioramas; and museum deaccessioning
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 109
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Jesse Casana (University of Arkansas)
Deconstructing the Tell: Landscapes of Settlement in the Northern Fertile Crescent
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Monday, December 7th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Peter Biehl (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Climate Change and Human Agency: The ‘8.200 Cal BP Event’ and the Neolithic-Chalcolithic Transition in Central Anatolia
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Friday, December 4th-Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Joukowsky Institute Archaeology Colloquium:
Terra Mobilis: Fire and Ice
Organized by Karen Holmberg (Brown University)
Friday, December 4th at 5:30 pm
Keynote Speaker: Julie Cruikshank (University of British Columbia)
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Saturday, December 5th, 8:45 am-4:30 pm
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
David Chester (University of Liverpool)
Girolamo F. De Simone (St. John’s College, Oxford)
John Grattan (Aberystwyth University)
Ilana Halperin (artist, Glasgow)
Susan Keitumetse (Brown University and Okavango Research Center, Botswana)
Thomas A. Lewis (Brown University)
Andrew Patrizio (Edinburgh College of Art)
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Derek Counts (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Anthony Tuck (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
The Third R. Ross Holloway Lecture:
Lost in Translation?
The Local Context of the Master of Animals in Cyprus and Etruria
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Presentation and reception to follow
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Fluid Thinking Workshop
Film Screening: Flow: the Movie (by invitation only)
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 109
Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Ioanna Kakoulli (University of California, Los Angeles)
Materiality Matters: Research at the Interface between Archaeology and Science
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Fluid Thinking Workshop
Pat Malone (Urban Studies and American Civilization)
Discussion of water and industry: the case of the Lowell Mills
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 008
Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Kimberly Bowes (Cornell University)
House and Society: Rethinking the Later Roman Empire
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Saturday, NOVEMBER 7th, 2009
North East Graduate Archaeology Workshop
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Susan Keitumetse (Watson Institute for International Studies)
Cultural Heritage Research Opportunities and Challenges in Botswana: Science, the Public and Policy Interactions
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Catalin Pavel (University of Bucharest)
If Homer Could Excavate In Troy
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Fluid Thinking Workshop
Rebecca Molholt (History of Art and Architecture)
Art historical approaches to the investigation of water and mosaics in the Roman world
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 008
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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?
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Lecture Hall, Room 108
Sponsored by the Archaeology Department Undergraduate Group
Download Fieldwork Resources Handout
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Susan Alcock, Michelle Berenfeld and Ian Straughn (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
What to Do with a Wonder of the World? The Puzzles of Petra (Jordan)
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Archaeology of College Hill Community Archaeology Day
Come watch Brown undergraduates digging (yes, really digging) at the John Brown House, located at the corner of Power and Benefit Street
John Brown House, 52 Power Street
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology
Morag Kersel (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
Archaeology, Ethnography and Law: Methodological Considerations
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Year One
See the movie... Then think about it...
Salomon Hall, Room 001
Sponsored by the Archaeology Department Undergraduate Group
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Richard Lesure (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Texture of Long-term Structures: Should a Prehistory of Figurine Making in the Near East be a History of Goddesses?
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Welcome Back (to the Trenches) Reception
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall
More Events:
Click on the links below for additional events held between September 2006 and May 2009.
Additional Links and Resources:
The Joukowsky Institute is closely affiliated with the Narragansett Society (The Rhode Island Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America)
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