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Dec154:00pm - 5:00pm
InfoSession: Excavate a Neolithic site in Greece this summer!
Rhode Island Hall, Room 109Brown and Brown-RISD undergraduate students of all backgrounds can now be funded (through I-UTRA) to participate in the excavation of the Neolithic village of Koutroulou Magoula in Greece (c. 6000 BCE) and carry out their own inter-disciplinary research, under the supervision of a team of international leading specialists. The research will be conducted in the summer of 2018, as part of the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project, under the direction of Professor Yannis Hamilakis (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World).More Information
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Dec1512:00pm - 1:30pm
Lindsey Mazurek (Bucknell University) - Experiments in Greekness: the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods at Herodes Atticus’ Villa at Marathon.
List Art Building, Room 110Lindsey Mazurek is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University. She is an art historian and archaeologist of the Roman provinces, whose research applies Second Sophistic literature and religious studies to the study of Greek identity. Dr. Mazurek co-directs the Ostian Connectivity Project, a collaborative digital initiative to study social and migration histories of Rome’s port in the imperial period.More Information -
Dec149:30am - 10:30am
Presentation of Dissertation Research by Pinar Durgun (JIAAW)
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Pinar Durgun, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her dissertation research in a public lecture. All are welcome.More Information -
Dec135:30pm - 7:00pm
Eva Mol (Brown University) - License to Imagine: Representing a Roman Past
List Art Building, Room 110Eva Mol is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. She is a Dutch Mediterranean archaeologist (PhD from Leiden University). Prior to coming to Brown University, she had been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the UChicago Classics Department on the project: ‘The materiality of ancient Mediterranean myth’. Her dissertation focused on the experience and use of Egyptian style and objects in the domestic contexts of Roman Pompeii.More Information -
Dec85:30pm - 7:00pm
Jenny Kreiger (Getty Foundation) - Painters and Social Networks in Catacombs
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Jenny Kreiger received her doctorate in classical art and archaeology from the University of Michigan in 2017. Her research focuses on late antique funerary laborers and the material evidence for their working practices, social relationships, and contributions to urban economies. Dr. Kreiger is now a Graduate Intern at the Getty Foundation where she administers grants related to art historical research and conservation.More Information -
Dec712:00pm - 1:00pm
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology: Graham Oliver (Classics and History)
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Graham Oliver, Professor of Classics and History at Brown University, will share his research in an informal talk titled, “Re-Thinking Things: Archaeological Theory, Words on Objects, and Mediation. Reflections from the Greek Inscriptions in the RISD Museum”. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.More Information
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/. -
Dec65:30pm - 7:00pm
Maggie Popkin (Case Western Reserve University) - Urban Images in Glass from the Late Roman Empire: The Souvenir Flasks of Puteoli and Baiae
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Maggie Popkin, Robson Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University, specializes in ancient Roman art and architecture. Her research interests include the relationship between architecture, spectacle, and ritual in the Roman world and the impact of visual culture on individual and social remembering in the classical world.More Information -
Dec14:30pm
Change and Resilience: The Occupation of Mediterranean Island Systems in Late Antiquity
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108The conference will explore the transformation of Mediterranean islands with a primary focus on settlement patterns and the transformation of landscapes and mindscapes. The idea is to explore how the models of occupation of the islands changed from the Roman to the Medieval Period focusing in change and resilience, in innovation and tradition, in the creation of new settlements and the reoccupation of prehistoric sites. Synthesis on particular large islands or archipelagos will be prioritized as oral presentations by invitation only. Our overarching goal for these workshop is to foster the exchange of ideas between a small number of scholars. Papers delivered are short (20 minutes), and are intended to open up discussion of the state of the field concerning the occupation of Mediterranean islands between the Roman and the Medieval period. We also wish to emphasize the need for discussion of potential cooperative ventures, and of how things might progress in the coming years in the study of Mediterranean island systems in Late Antiquity.More Information
Friday, December 1st 2017
Rhode Island Hall 108
4:30-6:00pm - David Abulafia (Cambridge University): “Early Medieval Maritime Linkages: The Mediterranean and the Oceans Compared”
Rhode Island Hall 108
Saturday, December 2nd, 2017
Rhode Island Hall 108
9:00-12:00pm - Session I: The Western and Central Mediterranean
2:00-4:00pm - Session II: The Eastern Mediterranean
Sunday, December 3rd, 2017
Rhode Island Hall 108
9:00-12:10 - Session III: Island Mindscapes
Full schedule is online at www.brown.edu/go/changeandresilience
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Nov3012:00pm - 1:00pm
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology: Brian Lander (History, Brown University) - Living with Wetlands in the Yangzi Valley
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History and Fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, will discuss his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.More Information
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/. -
Nov29Irina Podgorny (CONICET and Maria Elena Cassiet Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library), Katherine Brunson (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology), Felipe Rojas (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology) examine how archaeological artifacts – and dinosaur bones! – are rightly and wrongly labeled “fake”.More Information
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Nov20Where 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?More Information
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Nov1612:00pm - 1:00pm
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology: Kaitlin McCormick (Anthropology, Brown University)
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Kaitlin McCormick, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Museum Studies at Brown University’s Department of Anthropology, will be discussing her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.More Information
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/. -
Nov145:30pm - 7:00pm
Lecture by Barbara Horejs (OREA of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) - New Models for the Neolithization Process in the Aegean and Western Anatolia
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Dr. Barbara Horejs is Director of the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology (OREA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Dr. Horejs specalizes in prehistoric archeology in south-eastern Europe, the Aegean, and Anatolia, excavations and studies on the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age, including the advanced civilizations of Late Bronze Age. She also has interests in the intersections of different cultural areas, knowledge transfer and communication networks and landscape archaeology and social developments in the context of their environment.More Information -
Katia Schörle, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Roman Archaeology, will be discussing her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.More Information
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit
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Oct30Start your celebration of Halloween with a free screening of the movie “The Mummy” (2017). See Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe battle an ancient princess (played by Sofia Boutella) awakened from a crypt – on a giant screen, with surround sound! Followed by commentaries by Brown professors, examining the themes and historical basis of the movie.More Information
And free popcorn! Free and open to the public.
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Oct266:30pm - 8:00pm
Lecture by Scott MacEachern (Bowdoin College): African Crossroads: The Rise of States around Lake Chad
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Scott MacEachern is Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College. He specializes in African archaeology and ethnoarchaeology; and his research involves the study of state formation and ethnicity in Iron Age Central Africa. He is the Director of DGB Archaeological Project, an archaeological research project in northern Cameroon.More Information
This lecture, “African Crossroads: The Rise of States around Lake Chad,” is co-sponsored with the Narragansett Society, the Rhode Island chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America. For more information, visit https://aianarragansett.org. -
Oct2612:00pm - 1:00pm
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology: Nicholas Laluk (Anthropology, Brown University) - Ndee (Apache) Archaeology: Cultural Tenets as Best Practice
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Nicholas Laluk, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Native American Studies at Brown University’s Department of Anthropology, will present his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.More Information
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/. -
Oct256:00pm - 7:30pm
Byron Hamann, Irina Podgorny, and Felipe Rojas - Fake New World: Skulls, Fossils, Frauds and the Archaeological Imagination in the Americas
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Byron Hamann (The Ohio State University), Irina Podgorny (CONICET and Maria Elena Cassiet Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library), and Felipe Rojas (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology) examine how archaeological artifacts rightly and wrongly labeled “fake” are part of the production of knowledge about the past in the Americas. Short presentations will be followed by open discussion.More Information -
Oct1912:00pm - 1:00pm
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology: Eva Mol (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University) - Making Myth Real: Objects in Herodotus’ Histories and Material Epistemology
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Eva Mol, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.More Information
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/. -
Oct174:30pm - 6:00pm
Lecture by Anthony Tuck (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - Palace Politics: The Evolution of Elite Domestic Architecture at Poggio Civitate
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Dr. Anthony Tuck is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He serves as Director of Excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), an Etruscan site dating to the 8th to 6th centuries BCE. His research focuses on social, economic, and political development in early urban Italy.More Information -
Oct1411:00am - 3:00pm
Archaeology of College Hill Community Archaeology Day
>> OFF CAMPUS LOCATION: see description for detailsWatch Brown students digging (yes, really digging)! This year, students will be excavating at the Moses Brown School. Stop by the corner of Hope Street and Lloyd Avenue(with your family or on your own) during the dig between 11am and 2pm to see what we’re up to or try your hand at digging.More Information -
Oct14Come visit the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World in Rhode Island Hall. Faculty and students will be on hand to tour you through the building, as well as to show you artifacts and images, both from some of our current fieldwork (in the Caribbean, Italy, Turkey, and Rhode Island) and from the Institute’s collections.More Information
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Shiyanthi Thavapalan, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Brown University’s Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, will present her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.More Information
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/. -
Oct34:00pm - 5:00pm
Information Session on Applying to Graduate School and Searching for Jobs in Archaeology and Classics
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108A discussion, led by faculty and graduate students, for current undergraduates planning for life after Brown. We will discuss applying to graduate schools in Archaeology and Classics, as well as types of jobs students with Archaeology and Classics concentrations might consider.More Information
View additional information on Life After Graduating from Brown with an Archaeology Degree here: https://www.brown.edu/academics/archaeology/undergraduate/life-after-brown -
Sep29We’d like to invite female identifying or presenting undergrads, grads, postdocs and professors to our first meeting, scheduled for Friday, September 29th at around 4:45 (following ‘Field Dirt Part II’). In this gathering we’ll discuss amongst each other whatever comes to mind - whether summer experiences, general concerns, things we’re looking forward to this year or in the near future, any ideas we might have for events etc.More Information
Sponsored by the DigDUG (Archaeology and the Ancient World Department Undergraduate Group)
*If there are any considerable conflicts, do let us know and we’ll try to find a more accommodating time/date* -
Sep293:00pm - 4:30pm
Field Dirt, Part II: More Insider Stories and Results from Brown’s 2017 Archaeological Field Seasons
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Can’t get enough Field Dirt? We can’t either! Brown University faculty members Katherine Brunson, Miguel Cau Ontiveros, Catalina Mas Florit, Sophie Moore, and Katia Schorle will share the latest news from their archaeological fieldwork this summer in China, Menorca, Turkey, and Croatia.More Information
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Itohan Osayimwese, Assistant Professor in Brown University’s History of Art and Architecture and current Joukowsky Institute Faculty Fellow, will present her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.More Information
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/. -
Sep21Carl Walsh, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.More Information
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/. -
Sep206:00pm - 7:30pm
Field Dirt: Insider Stories and Results from Brown’s 2017 Archaeological Field Seasons
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108Brown University’s Professors Sheila Bonde, John F. Cherry, Yannis Hamilakis, Itohan Osayimwese, Felipe Rojas, and Peter van DommelenMore Information
will share the latest news from their archaeological fieldwork this summer in France, Montserrat, Greece, Barbados, Turkey, and Italy.
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Sep20Archaeological Illustration Club, led by Brown faculty member Dr. Sophie Moore, meets every Wednesday afternoon from 3:30-5:00. Drop by the Common Room in Rhode Island Hall (room 109) and have some tea -- and do a bit of drawing. Meetings are informal, and all are welcome. No commitment, talent, skill, materials, experience, or aptitude necessary.More Information