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Brown University's Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology promotes investigation, understanding, and enjoyment of archaeology and art, focusing on the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, and Near East, but connecting with the archaeology of all parts of the globe.
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Full Program | State of the Field 2023 Home | Speakers Abstracts: Leah Bernardo Ciddio (Michigan)
“From Its Depths: Archaeology and Colonialism through the Adriatic Mirror”
This paper explores the silences and gaps of Adriatic archaeology and situates them in an historiographic context. I incorporate inquiry into the Venetian “flavour” of the Adriatic (as remarked upon by Braudel), identify both Venetian and Roman legacies as underpinning Liberal and Fascist Italian claims to the Adriatic space, and demonstrate that those legacies are less frequently extended into th ..read more
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Full Program | State of the Field 2023 Home Biographies for Speakers and Discussants
Cicek Tascioglu Beeby is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. She specializes in the art, archaeology, and social history of Greece. At the center of Cicek’s research lies the human body. She has done extensive work on funerary contexts and the manipulation of the human body after death, including bioarchaeology, funerary adornment, cremation, and secondary practices involving human bones. Her interest in the epistemology of the ..read more
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Archaeologies of the Mediterranean Friday, 14 April 2023 Introductions and Keynotes
16:00-16:30:
Peter van Dommelen (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology) and Tyler Franconi (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology):
Introduction
16:30-17:15:
Lin Foxhall (Liverpool):
Keynote Address
17:15-18:00:
Elizabeth Fentress (UCL):
Keynote Address
Saturday, 15 April 2023 Session 1: Perspectives
9:30-9:50:
Eva Mol (York), Andrew Gardner (UCL), Lindsey Allen (KCL), and Corinna Riva (UCL):
“New Agendas in Decolonised Mediterranean Archaeologies?”
9:50-10:10:
Benjamin Luley (Gettysburg):
“Comparing Colonialism: B ..read more
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CALL FOR PAPERS
State of the Field 2023:
Archaeologies of the Mediterranean Friday, 14 April – Saturday, 15 April 2023
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Abstract deadline: 31 January 2023
Mediterranean Archaeology sits at an often complex intersection of the fields of Archaeology, Classics, Anthropology, History, and Art History. While several of these fields, in particular Classics and Anthropology have begun periods of significant critical self-reflection that explicitly question their present and future, Mediterranean Archa ..read more
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Object Number: 185
Object Title: Ceramic cup
Object Type: cup (drinking vessels)
Material: ceramic (material)
This light brown, buff colored vessel with dark brown geometric designs may seem fairly innocuous at first glance. However, its production, shape, and decoration are all tied to dramatic shifts in trade and exchange in the Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1650-1050 BCE).
The Late Bronze Age Mediterranean, particularly the eastern Mediterranean, was characterized by heightened amounts of contact between different regions. The Hittite and Egyptian empires were vying f ..read more
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Join us Wednesday, November 6 at 6:00 PM EST for an informal conversation and Q&A with Archaeology concentrators, the DigDUG, and Professor Felipe Rojas ..read more
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Please join us Tuesday, November 8 at 4:00 pm EST for a lecture by Katina Lillios (The University of Iowa) titled “The Islamic Lives of Iberian Megaliths: Some Initial Explorations” in Rhode Island Hall, Room 108. Reception to follow.
Katina Lillios is an anthropological archaeologist interested in the ways people used material culture, the remains of the dead, and monuments to create, enhance, and challenge sociopolitical difference and inequality. She is intrigued by the ways that social phenomena and cultural values come to be materialized, and how their materiality triggers social action ..read more
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Please join us on Tuesday, November 15 at 4 PM for a lecture by Philipp Stockhammer (Ludwig-Maximilians University) titled “Bioarchaeology in the Bronze Age Levant: Novel Insights into Mobility, Food, and Philistines.” The lecture will take place in Rhode Island Hall Room 108 with reception to follow ..read more
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Brown Bag talks are held Thursdays from 12:00-12:50pm in RI Hall 108.
These talks are free and open to the public. Information about each talk will be provided below.
October 13, 2022:
Daniel Everton (Public Humanities, Brown University)
Re-imagining the Predynastic Man Exhibit at Museo Egizio
October 20, 2022:
Amanda Gaggioli (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Women’s Agency, Decolonialism, and Mediterranean Archaeology: the case for the Aegean prehistory/history divide
November 17, 2022:
Christina Hodge (Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University)
Title T ..read more
Brown University | Archaeology at Brown
1y ago
Brown Bag talks are held Thursdays from 12:00-12:50pm in RI Hall 108.
These talks are free and open to the public. Information about each talk will be provided below.
October 13, 2022:
Daniel Everton (Public Humanities, Brown University)
Re-imagining the Predynastic Man Exhibit at Museo Egizio
October 20, 2022:
Amanda Gaggioli (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)
Women’s Agency Decolonialism and Mediterranean Archaeology: the case for the Aegean prehistory/history divide
November 17, 2022:
Christina Hodge (Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University)
Title TBA ..read more