Archaeologists and heritage professionals whose work overlays histories of colonialism, exploitation, collective violence, and genocide are increasingly aware that they cannot simply take refuge in prehistory to avoid troubling pasts; nor is it sufficient to merely acknowledge historical wrongs. And yet scholars often struggle to identify ways that archaeological and heritage work can make a meaningful impact. In this webinar, we explore how archaeology can not only identify the legacies of inequity, injustice, and violence that have shaped historical and contemporary communities, but also to open the possibility of redress for the continuing systemic inequities these legacies reveal (i.e. environmental racism, racialized disenfranchisement, heritage erasure). Panelists will discuss how they blend archaeology and heritage work with principles of redress and restorative justice.

Panelists:
Mary Elliott, Curator of Slavery, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
Sada Mire, PhD, Director, Horn Heritage Organisation
Kisha Supernant, PhD, Director, Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, University of Alberta
Michael Wilcox, PhD, Associate Professor, Stanford University

Moderated by Margaret Bruchac, PhD, Coordinator, Native American & Indigenous Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Free and open to the public. Register here: https://bit.ly/32QAiG4

This event is hosted by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and is part of a webinar series “From the Margins to the Mainstream: Black and Indigenous Futures in Archaeology” organized through a partnership with the Society of Black Archaeologists, Indigenous Archaeology Collective, Cornell Institute of Archaeology & Material Studies, SAPIENS, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

More information about this webinar series can be found here: https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/black-and-indigenous-futures-in-archaeology/

This event is part of the four-part webinar series Pandemics and Plagues in Antiquity. The series is free and open to the public, registration is required. Visit http://brown.edu/go/AncientPandemics for more information.

Kyle Harper is Professor of Classics and Letters and Provost Emeritus at The University of Oklahoma. Dr. Harper is a historian of the ancient world whose work has spanned economic, environmental, and social history. He is the author of three books Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425 (2011) which was awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize by the American Historical Association and the Outstanding Publication Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South; From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality (2013) which won the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion; and The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (2017) which has been translated into twelve languages. He is currently writing a global history of infectious disease.

This event is part of the four-part webinar series Pandemics and Plagues in Antiquity. The series is free and open to the public, registration is required. Visit http://brown.edu/go/AncientPandemics for more information.

Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire in the Faculty of Classics and a Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford. Professor Wilson’s research interests include the economy of the Roman Empire, ancient technology, ancient water supply and usage, Roman North Africa and archaeological field survey. He co-directs, with Alan Bowman, the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP) and edits the Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy series with Oxford University Press. He also co-directs the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project with Chris Howgego. He also leads, together with Bob Bewley, Graham Philip, and David Mattingly, the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) Project, using satellite imagery to assess threats to archaeological sites. He has excavated numerous sites in Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, and Cyprus, and is currently involved in excavations at Aphrodisias (Turkey) and Utica (Tunisia).

This event is part of the four-part webinar series Pandemics and Plagues in Antiquity. The series is free and open to the public, registration is required. Visit http://brown.edu/go/AncientPandemics for more information.

Hunter Gardner is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of South Carolina. She is an affiliate of Women’s and Gender Studies and recently joined the core faculty of both the Comparative Literature Program and the South Carolina Honors College. Dr. Gardner is the author of two monographs, Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy (2013) and Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature (2019). This most recent book explores the development of plague narratives in the western tradition and, in particular, looks to Roman epic poets writing in the late Republic and early Principate as significant contributors to depictions of contagion. Like her work on Latin love elegy, the project draws in part from an understanding of the social upheavals and civil discord that characterized this period of Roman history, with its shift from aristocratic governance to quasi-monarchy under Augustus.

Dr. Gardner also regularly teaches and publishes in the area of reception studies. She recently co-edited a collection of essays on adaptations of the Odysseus myth in various media (novels, visual arts, television) and teaches a course on the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in cinema and popular culture.

Juliane Schlag, a Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environment and Society at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), will be discussing her research in an informal talk. 

For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit
https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/2020/09/10/brown-bag-talks-for-fall-2020/

This event is part of the four-part webinar series Pandemics and Plagues in Antiquity. The series is free and open to the public, registration is required. Visit http://brown.edu/go/AncientPandemics for more information.

Marcel Keller is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Estonia. He received his PhD in Archaeogenetics from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History where he focused his research on the first and second historically documented pandemics caused by Yersinia pestis: the ‘Justinianic Plague’ at the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (541-750) and the Late Medieval ‘Black Death’ (1347-1353) followed by reoccurring epidemics in Europe until the 18th century. With genomic and phylogenetic approaches on ancient DNA from skeletal remains, he explores the biology and dispersal in space and time of this exemplary human pathogen. His recent publications include the widespread identification of victims of the First Pandemic utilizing ancient DNA across Western Europe, and analyzing the phylogeography of the Second Pandemic using DNA from the 14th-18th centuries.

Julia Hurley, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, will be discussing her research in an informal talk. 

For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit
https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/2020/09/10/brown-bag-talks-for-fall-2020/