Archaeology at Michigan | Events 2013

Past Events 2013–2014

Lectures and Brown Bags

June 27, 2014 Donna Braden, Exhibition Opening Lecture: Ancient, Modern, or Somewhere in Between?
May 29, 2014 Eiman Elgewely, Reviving Karanis in 3D
May 9, 2014 Nicola Terrenato, Recent Excavations at the Latin City of Gabii
April 10, 2014 Leah Burgin, Managing the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Analyzing Access to and Preservation of Lake Huron's Underwater Heritage
April 7, 2014 Adrian Forty, Is Concrete Modern? (PDF)
April 3, 2014 Jana Mokrisova, When Kings Ruled Lydia: From the Late Bronze Age Citadels to the Rise of Sardis (PDF)
April 1, 2014 Steven Fine, Menorahs in Color: Polychromy in Jewish Visual Culture of Roman Antiquity (PDF)
April 1, 2014 Giulia Saltini Semerari, Disentangling Contacts Between Greece and Italy at the End of the Bronze Age (PDF)
March 27, 2014 Gina Konstantopoulos, Digitizing the Library of Ashurbanipal at the British Museum
March 27, 2014 Ashley Lemke, Converging Lines of Evidence: Clovis diets at the Gault Site, Texas
March 24, 2014 Leslie Preston Day, From Palace to Polis on Crete
March 20, 2014 Lizzie Nabney, Wet-Nursing Contracts as Evidence for Child Exposure and Slavery in Roman Egypt
March 20, 2014 Carla Sinopoli, The Himalayan Journey of Walter Norman Koelz: The University of Michigan Himalayan Expedition, 1932-1934
March 20, 2014 Christopher Ratté, Investigating the Greek-City-State in Ionia: A New program of Archaeological Research at Notion
March 13, 2014 Mark Schwartz, Between Isolation and Integration: Ritual and Community in the Middle Bronze Age Upper Tigris River Valley
March 13, 2014 Roger Bagnall, Materializing Papyrology
March 13, 2014 Sharon Herbert, Jenny Kreiger Seleucia-on-the-Tigris: From Miniature to Metropolis
February 24, 2014 Bryan Hanks, Late Prehistoric Social Transformations in the Central Eurasian Steppes: Warfare, Metallurgy and Ritual Practice
February 23, 2014 J.P. Dessel, Just Who Are the Israelites: The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis, Grand Rapids
February 21, 2014 Bjoern Ewald, Roman Painting: Art and Subjectivity
February 21, 2014 Douglass Bailey, The Power of the Miniature: Small Things with Big Consequences
February 13, 2014 Carla Sinopoli, Iron Age Landscapes of South India: The Tungabhadra Corridor Archaeological Project
February 10, 2014 Steven A. Rosen, Revolution in the Desert: The Rise of Desert Pastoralism and Cult in the Negev
February 6, 2014 Irene Lemos, Lefkandi: Xeropolis Recent Excavations and Research
January 24, 2014 When the Dignity of the Dead Runs Out: The Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues Surrounding a Dead Body's Transition from Corpse to Archaeological Resource
January 24, 2014 Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Miniatures in Life: The Role of Tiny Objects in Everyday Worlds

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Exhibitions

May-June 2014 Contract with Castanet Dancers and Rules for Musical Contests, The Parsons Papyrology Exhibit Case, UM Library
January-April, 2014 Epistles of St. Paul and The Shepherd of Hermas, The Parsons Papyrology Exhibit Case, UM Library
December 20, 2013-April 2014 Life in Miniature: Identity and Display at Ancient Seleucia-on-the-Tigris (PDF)
November 30–April 13, 2014 Fragments from the Past: Islamic Art from the Collection of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

U-M Fieldwork Opportunities

Competitions

Deadline: April 11, 2014 An Essay Competition for the course The Land of Israel/Palestine through the Ages, taught by Yaron Eliav

Conferences and Workshops

June 16-27, 2014 Papyrus Conservation Seminar, Papyrus Collection, University of Michigan Library
April 7, 2014 Conversations about Exhibiting Archaeology (PDF)
April 4, 2014 Instituting Archaeology: Goals and Challenges in Creating Centers for Interdisciplinary Inquiry (PDF)
March 14, 2014 Museum Technologies/Museum Transformations (PDF)
March 14, 2014 EIHS Workshop: Papyri, Parchment, Potsherds

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