Shiyanthi Thavapalan, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Brown University's Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, will present her research in an informal talk titled, "Counterfeiting Nature: Developments in Glass-Making and Glass-Working in the Late Bronze Age Near East." Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch. For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.