Past Events 2017–2018
Lectures and Brown Bags
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May 17, 2018
MAS Lecture: Daniel Harrison, Frontier Arms Race: The Story of the Cannons from the Detroit River
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April 18, 2018
Francesco Tiradritti, Excavations in the Cenotaph of Harwa: Mystery Cults, Resurrection and Plague in an Egyptian Monument (7th century BCE – 3rd century CE)
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April 13, 2018
Jas’ Elsner and Annabel Wharton, Materialities: Ancient and Modern
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April 13, 2018
Jas’ Elsner, The Embodied Object: Recensions of the Dead on Roman Sarcophagi
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April 4, 2018
Jianxin Jiang, Study and Appreciation of Guan Yao Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty
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April 5, 2018
Stacey L. Camp, The Archaeology of Japanese American Internment during World War II
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April 5, 2018
FAST Lecture: Adam Rabinowitz, Between the Steppe and the Sea: Scythians, Taurians, and Greeks in Crimea
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April 2, 2018
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: Tim Weaver, Why Does the Modern Human Skull Look the Way It Does?
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April 2, 2018
Eduardo Escobar, Lost Knowledge: The Babylonian Mode of Thought
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March 29, 2018
Kyra Pazan, Population Disconnectedness and Regional Adaptation During the Last Interglacial in Highland Lesotho
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March 29, 2018
FAST Lecture: Betsey A. Robinson, From Topography to Imaginary: Greek Landscapes of Inspiration
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March 27, 2018
Steven Lubar, What do Curators Know?
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March 23, 2018
Michael S. Nassaney, Cultural Identity and Materiality at French Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), Niles, Michigan
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March 22, 2018
Anna Slaczka, The Challenges and Opportunities of Exhibiting Asian Art in the 21st Century: A View from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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March 22, 2018
AIA Lecture: Sethuraman Suresh, West Meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia
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March 18, 2018
WCEE Lecture: Michael Galaty and Sylvia Deskaj, Recounting Twenty Years of Archaeological Research in Albania and Kosovo: Apollonia, Theth, Shkodra, and Peja
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March 15, 2018
William A. Lovis, Current Research Status of the Hipwater Locale: A Parkhill Phase Paleoindian Retooling Location
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March 15, 2018
MAS Lecture: Ethan Epstein, Can Late Paleo-Indian Response to Changing Resource Availability Inform Modern Political Policy?
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March 8, 2018
Bree Doering, Measuring the Isotopic Effects of Fermentation on Carbon and Nitrogen in Central Alaskan Chinook Salmon AND The Speleological Fallacy: Exploring Archaeological Biases in the Use of Hunter-Gatherer Cave Sites
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March 8, 2018
FAST Lecture: Bradley Ault, Halieis: City of Fishermen
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February 15, 2018
FAST Lecture: Lisa Nevett, Drew Cabaniss, Machal Gradoz, Nadhira Hill, and Michael Koletsos, Analysing a Classical Greek Urban Community: The Olynthos Project
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February 8, 2018
Jaclyn Neel, Between Swords and a Mountain: Tarpeia, the Gauls, and Elaborations of Roman Myth
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February 1, 2018
Cristiano Nicosia, Multiscalar Geoarchaeology
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January 25, 2018
Elizabeth Berger, Bioarchaeology of Migration and Conquest in Warring States, China
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January 18, 2018
Lynne Goldstein, Landscape Modifications at a Large Scale at AD 1000 at the Aztalan Site, Wisconsin
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January 18, 2018
MAS Lecture: Daryl Wright, Beneath the Great Lakes
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January 16, 2018
Gregg Gardner, Money in Classical Jewish Law
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January 11, 2018
FAST Lecture: Lauren Pratt, Kyra Pazan, Brendan Nash, Three Presentations by Anthropology Students
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January 8, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series: Nayanjot Lahiri, India's Archaeological Heritage Since Independence: Challenges and Dilemmas
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December 12, 2017
Terry G. Wilfong and Christopher Woods, Museums of the Past into the Future: The Oriental Institute and the Kelsey Museum
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December 8, 2017
Conference Keynote Lecture: Lisa Çakmak, Uncovering Archaeology in American Museums
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December 5, 2017
FAST Lecture: Sean P. Burrus, The Sarcophagi of Beth She'arim: Jewish Patrons and the Roman Stone Trade
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November 20, 2017
TLTC Ancient World Project Lecture: Yigal Sitry, A Drive Center from the 6th Century AD Yassi Ada Wreck and the Turning of Open Bowls in Antiquity
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November 16, 2017
Elizabeth Berger, Bioarchaeology of Adaptation to Climate Change in Ancient Northwest China
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November 16, 2017
Farrand Memorial Lecture: Carla M. Sinopoli, Object Lessons Continued: The Second (and Third) Century of University of Michigan Museums and Collections
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November 16, 2017
MAS Lecture: Emily Mueller Epstein, Nobi-ni Tse'tse'ede (House on the Cold One), an Original Occupation
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November 14, 2017
Kerstin Barndt, Collecting for the Academy: University Museums and the Production of Knowledge
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November 9, 2017
Ken Sasaki, Early State Formation in Japan: View from Eastern Periphery
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November 9, 2017
FAST Lecture: Christopher Ratté, Notion Archaeological Survey, 2014–2017
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November 7, 2017
Mark Leuchter, Beyond the Book: How We Know the Exodus Didn't Happen… and How We Know It Did
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November 2, 2017
EIHS Lecture: Ian Moyer, At the Gates of the Temple: Tracing the Boundaries of Political Culture in Ptolemaic Egypt
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October 30, 2017
Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: Patrick V. Kirch, From Chiefdoms to Archaic States in Hawai'i and Tonga: Differential Pathways to Sociopolitical Transformation
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October 26, 2017
AIA Lecture: Joanne M. Murphy, Death Around the Palace of Nestor
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October 24, 2017
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Thomas Kelly, The Literary Inscription of Things in Early Modern China
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October 20, 2017
Museums at Noon: Suzanne Davis, The Museum Further Afield: Conservation, Art, and Archaeology
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October 19, 2017
David Hurst Thomas, Romance and Reality in the Mythical Mission Past: How We Found the Long-lost Spanish Mission on St. Catherines Island
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October 18, 2017
Exhibition Opening Lecture: Susan Alcock, Guaranteed a 99.3% Survival Rate: The Archaeological Futures of U-M Museums
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October 13, 2017
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: Adam King, Gradiometers, Copper Plates, and the History of Etowah
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October 12, 2017
FAST Lecture: Geoff Emberling, Suzanne Davis, Ray Silverman, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, Gregory Tucker, Archaeology and Heritage of Ancient Kush: El Kurru, Sudan and Beyond
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October 11, 2017
Lynne A. Kogel, Biblical and Classical Influences in the Bayeux Tapestry
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September 28, 2017
Peter R. Mills, Tracing the Movement of Ancient Hawaiian Adzes Through the Islands with Non-destructive Geochemical Analysis
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September 25, 2017
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: María Nieves Zedeño, Cooperation and Order Among Communal Bison Hunters in the North American Plains
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September 22, 2017
LACS Lecture: Gary Urton, Record Keeping Without Writing: Khipu Accounting in the Inka Empire
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September 21, 2017
John D. Speth, Deliberately Rotted Meat and Fish in the Eurasian Middle and Upper Paleolithic: Are We Missing a Key Part of Neanderthal and Modern Human Diet?
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September 21, 2017
Book Signing: Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli, Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge
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September 19, 2017
FAST Lecture: Sheira Cohen; Machal Gradoz; Tyler Johnson and Matt Naglak, Presentations by IPCAA Students
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September 13, 2017
Fay Glinister, Diana and the Nature of Deity at Rome
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September 7, 2017
An UMMA + Kelsey Dialogue: Transmissions Across the Gap: 'Cosmogonic Tattoos' with Artist Jim Cogswell
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Exhibitions
U-M Fieldwork Opportunities
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Program dates: June 17-July 31, 2017
Archaeology in Greece
Competitions
Conferences and Workshops
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April 17–18, 2018
Andean Circle Conference: Everyday Practice in the Andes
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April 9–10, 2018
Symposium: Materializing Ancient Judaism
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April 6, 2018
Symposium: Sacred Scriptures in a Secular Society: Hand-copying Buddhist Texts in Japan
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December 8–9, 2017
Into the Third Century: The Past, Present, and Future of Michigan’s Archaeological Museums
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November 28, 2017
Frankel + Kelsey: Jews and Artifacts at the Museum
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November 20–22, 2017
UM-WiSER Mellon Workshop: Decolonizing Sites of Culture in Africa and Beyond
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November 9–10, 2017
LACS Workshop and Exhibit: Crafting Communities in Oaxaca: Drawing Inspiration from Ancient Artifacts
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October 13–14, 2017
Numa Numa: The Life and Afterlife of the Second King of Rome
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October 2, 2017
Non/Human Materials Before Modernity
Movies and Performances
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