Recent Lectures and Workshops
Links to videos of lectures hosted since September 2017 are provided in the Events@Brown calendar entry for each lecture or workshop. Many of the lectures filmed from January 2013 through the present can also be seen on our YouTube playlist.
Please follow the links below to view lectures and conferences organized by the Joukowsky Institute between 2006 and 2013, or view our YouTube playlist or our Vimeo page.
Lectures and Workshops 2012/13
Robert W. Chapman (University of Reading)
'Mediterranean Prehistory from the Periphery'
November 28, 2012
A. Bernard Knapp (University of Glasgow)
'Materiality, Identity and Connectivity in the Prehistoric Mediterranean'
November 19, 2012
Corinna Riva (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
'The Origins of Urban Etruria between Rome and Colonization'
November 7, 2012
Tesse D. Stek (Leiden University)
'State Organization and Cult Places in Latin Colonies'
October 11, 2012
Curtis Runnels and Chad DiGregorio † (Boston University)
'An Acheulean Assemblage from Crete and Its Implications for the Palaeolithic of the Aegean Islands'
October 3, 2012
Lectures and Workshops 2011/12
Benjamin Porter (University of California, Berkeley)
'Assembling Resilience on the Fertile Crescent's Margins'
March 5, 2012
Emily Hammer (Harvard University)
'Pastoral Nomadism and Modification of 'Peripheral' Landscapes in the Middle East'
February 29, 2012
Matthew P. Canepa (University of Minnesota)
'The Transformation of Persia and the Ancient Iranian World: Archaeologies of Rupture and Renovation'
February 22, 2012
Felipe Rojas (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
'Gergas, Nannas, Semiramis: Picturing the Past in Roman Asia Minor'
February 16, 2012
Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania)
'The Life and Afterlife of Constantine's Column'
November 10, 2011
Peter van Dommelen (University of Glasgow)
'Rural Connections: Migration, Technology and Agrarian Production in the Classical Mediterranean'
November 8, 2011
Nathan Arrington (Princeton University)
'Heroes, Generals, and the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens'
September 29, 2011
Lectures and Workshops 2010/11
John Robb (Cambridge)
'Italian Archaeology 2011: Where Is It and Where Is It Going?'
March 18, 2011
Sturt Manning (Cornell University)
'Archaeology, Science and the East Mediterranean'
March 10, 2011
Lisa Fentress (Director, the Villa Magna Project)
'Treading the Grapes at Villa Magna'
February 14, 2011
Tim Taylor (Time Team)
'3-Day Digs and 200 Adventures in Archaeology'
February 8, 2011
Cyprian Broodbank (University College London)
'The Mediterranean in Microcosm: Island Dynamics and 'Minoanisation' on the Aegean Island of Kythera'
January 28, 2011
Moawiyah M. Ibrahim (Representative of Jordan to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee President)
'The Archaeology of the Jordan Valley'
November 16, 2010
Cyprian Broodbank (University College London)
'Before Corruption? The Making of the Mediterranean'
November 4, 2010
Scott M. Fitzpatrick (North Carolina State University and Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology)
'Pre-Columbian Archaeology on Carriacou: The Island of Many Reefs'
October 29, 2010
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University and Columbia University)
'Does Ancient History Matter? The Rise and Demise of Universal Empire in Rome, Europe and China'
October 26, 2010
Steven Ellis (University of Cincinnati)
'Pompeii from the Bottom Up: Excavations into the History of Pompeii's Working-Class Families'
October 7, 2010
Lectures and Workshops 2009/2010
Derek Counts (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Anthony Tuck (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
'Lost in Translation? The Local Context of the Master of Animals in Cyprus and Etruria'
December 3, 2009
Ioanna Kakoulli (University of California, Los Angeles)
'Materiality Matters: Research at the Interface between Archaeology and Science'
November 30, 2009
Kim Bowes (Cornell University)
'House and Society: Rethinking the Later Roman Empire'
November 9, 2009
Lectures and Workshops 2008/2009
Hamish Forbes (University of Nottingham)
'So What About the Parthenon? Identity, Monumentality, Ethnicity and Nationality in a Greek Rural Community'
April 7, 2009
Joy McCorriston (Ohio State University)
'Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East'
March 30, 2009
Joan Breton Connelly (New York University)
'Ritual Movement Through Sacred Space: Procession, Dance, and Footrace within Greek Landscapes'
March 19, 2009
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'
March 17, 2009
Michael Galaty (Millsaps College)
'Comparative Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Border Zone Archaeology'
March 10, 2009
Adam Smith (University of Chicago)
'The Political Machine: Sense, Sensibility, & Sentiment in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus'
March 5, 2009
Pamela Vandiver (University of Arizona)
'An Academic Alloy: Archaeology + Science in the 21st Century'
January 23, 2009
Lectures and Workshops 2007/2008
Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
'Bringing Things Back to Life: Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials'
April 18, 2008
Douglass W. Bailey (Cardiff University)
'Prehistoric Figurines: Barbie Dolls, Walt Disney and Sex Abuse'
April 16, 2008
Drawing on rocks, gathering by the water: archaeological fieldwork at rock reliefs, sacred springs and other places
Presentations and discussion responses from a JIAAW workshop/conference
March 1-2, 2008
Joanne Rowland (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)
'Making Mounds out of Sherd Heaps: Piecing together the Evidence for Ancient Settlement in the Central Nile Delta'
February 25, 2008
Laurel Bestock (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
'Discoveries at Abydos: New Perspectives on Early Kingship and Cult'
February 21, 2008
Deborah Vischak (Columbia University)
'Shaping Space into Place and Idea: Community Identity at Qubbet el-HAwa'
February 12, 2008
Steven Shennan (University College London)
'The Archaeology of Cultural Evolution'
October 26, 2007
Stephen L. Dyson (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)
'Archaeology and Ideology in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Rome'
October 18, 2007
Lectures and Workshops 2006/2007
Marian Feldman (University of California, Berkeley)
'Art in Action: Luxury Arts and Interconnections in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages'
April 17, 2007
Ann Gunter (Smithsonian Institution)
'Tribute, Gifts, and Kingship in the Assyrian Empire'
April 19, 2007
Sarah Graff (University of Chicago)
'Impressions on the Economy: Economic Interaction in Western Syria During the Early Bronze Age'
April 10, 2007
Ömür Harmansah (Joukowsky Instutute of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)
'Event Place Performance: The Making of the Urban Space in Early Iron Age Karkamish'
April 6, 2007
David Macaulay (Author and Artist)
'Toying with History'
March 16, 2007
Gil Stein (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Social Identity, Mixed Marriages, and Foodways in an Ancient Mesopotamian Colony'
February 13, 2007
Michael Shanks (Stanford University)
'Archaeology and the Posthuman'
December 7, 2006
Michael Shanks (Stanford University)
'Landscape, Archaeology, Chorography: Encounters in the Scottish Borders'
December 6, 2006