Past Events 2014–2015
Lectures and Brown Bags
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April 23, 2015
FAST Lecture:
Jeffrey D. Lerner, The Heavenly Archer: Graeco-Iranian Iconography in Hellenistic Baktria
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April 20, 2015
IPGRH Brown Bag:
Jonathan McLaughlin, Diversity in the Desert: Everyday Writing and Cross-Cultural Interactions at Roman Military Stations in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
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April 16, 2015
60th Annual Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture:
Susan M. Kidwell, Dead Shells Do Tell Tales: Evaluating Human Impacts Using the Youngest Fossil Record
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April 16, 2015
FAST Lecture:
Neville McFarrin, The Sangro Valley Project: New Excavations at Aquachiara
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April 9, 2015
AIA Lecture:
Morag Kersel, The Politics of Public Display: Archaeology, Museums and Artifacts from the Holy Land
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March 26, 2015
Scott Beld, The Arthurburg Hill Earthwork Enclosure and the Early Woodland Period in Central Michigan
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March 24, 2015
Irina Demetradze, A New Look at the City of Armazi: Patterns of Roman Urbanization in Ancient Georgia?
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March 19, 2015
Dan Diffendale, Broken Bones, Broken Pots - and Solar Cult? - on the Mountaintop
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March 19, 2015
FAST Lecture:
Kate Larson, Glass for the People! Craft Production, Elite Consumption, and Technological Innovation in the Hellenistic Period
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March 18, 2015
Jerome Lecture 4:
Maria Wyke, Ancient Rome in Silent Cinema: America 1910s to 1920s: Morality and Subversion
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March 16, 2015
Jerome Lecture 3:
Maria Wyke, Ancient Rome in Silent Cinema: Italy 1910s: National Consciousness
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March 13, 2015
Jerome Lecture 2:
Maria Wyke, Ancient Rome in Silent Cinema: France 1890s to 1910s: Aesthetics
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March 12, 2015
Lisa Young, Creating Connections: Archaeologists and Local Communities
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March 11, 2015
Jerome Lecture 1:
Maria Wyke, Ancient Rome in Silent Cinema: Antiquity and Modernity
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February 26, 2015
Barry Brillantes, The Mortuary Rites of Preclassic and Classic Period Kaminaljuyú
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February 26, 2015
IPGRH Brown Bag:
Kelly Wrenhaven, A Comedy of Errors: the Comic Slave in Greek Art
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February 26, 2015
Guy Stiebel, It's Good to be the King - A Fresh Look at King Herod the Great
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February 23, 2015
4 Field Colloquium:
Zeresenay "Zeray" Alemseged, An Update on Australopithecus Based on New Lab and Field Work
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February 19, 2015
Jarrod Burks, Archaeology's Geophysical Survey Revolution: Rediscovering Ancient Earthworks in the Ohio Valley
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February 19, 2015
FAST Lecture:
Nicola Terrenato, The New Excavations at Gabii: At the Roots of Central Italian Urbanism
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February 6, 2015
Exhibition Opening:
Terry Wilfong, From Death Dogs to Jackal Kings: The Canine Gods of Ancient Egypt
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February 5, 2015
Jeffrey Parsons, Reflections on the Valley of Mexico Surveys, 1960-1975
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January 29, 2015
Raven Garvey, Cultural Transmission and Artifact Variation: Projectile Points as Ethnic Markers?
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January 29, 2015
EIHS Lecture:
Ra'anan Boustan, Matter of Contention: Relics of the Biblical Past Between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
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January 22, 2015
Chelsea Fisher, Water and the Formative Homesteaders of Central Yucatán
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January 22, 2015
FAST Lecture:
Laura Motta, Cultural Choices and Exchange Networks: Cereals in Iron Age and Archaic Italy
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January 15, 2015
Lacey Carpenter, Households During the Time of State Formation: New Excavations from El Mogote
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December 10, 2014
Brown Bag: Bruce Frier, Roman Law and the Marriage of Underage Girls
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December 5, 2014
Marisa Szpytman, The Importance of Objects, Technology and Space within the Museum Context: Reflections on Working at the Detroit Institute of Arts
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December 4, 2014
Suzanne Davis, Kelsey Museum Conservation in the Field:
Recent Work at El Kurru, Sudan, and Abydos, Egypt
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December 4, 2014
Henry Wright, The Erythraean Sea: Studying Early Maritime Exchanges across the Indian Ocean
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November 20, 2014
Jessi Halligan, Digging in the Dark: How Submerged Paleoindian Sites in the Aucilla River of Florida Are Illuminating First Americans Studies
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November 20, 2014
FAST Lecture: Salvatore Vitale, Cultural Entanglements and Identities on Kos during the Late Bronze Age: The Results of SELAP's 2009-2014 Study Seasons and Their Implications
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November 19, 2014
Brown Bag: Arianna Zapelloni Pavia, The Large Substructure of the Ancient Town of Ocriculum in Umbria
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November 19, 2014
Francis Pierce-McManamon, Managing Your Once and Future Archaeological Data
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November 19, 2014
Sumru Belger Krody, Islamic Textiles as Political Tools: Conspicuous Display of Wealth, Power, and Authority through Textile Displays and Gift-Giving
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November 13, 2014
Colin P. Quinn, The Rocky Road to Inequality: New Insights from Bronze Age Transylvania
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November 6, 2014
FAST Lecture: Dan Diffendale, Of Marble and Mud: The Sant'Omobono Project, 2009-2014
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November 6, 2014
Krysta Ryzewski, An Archaeology of Displaced Communities in Detroit
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November 5, 2014
Literature Brown Bag: Richard Janko, New Readings in the Derveni Papyrus
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November 3, 2014
Jane Moon, Back in Babylonia: Recent Archaeological Work in Southern Iraq
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October 30, 2014
Brown Bag Series: Gregory Tucker, Confronting Scale in Signal and Image Processing of Remotely Sensed Data: The Canterbury Hinterland Project 2014
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October 27, 2014
4 Field Colloquium: Jason Ur, Landscapes of Early States and Empires in Mesopotamia
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October 23, 2014
Archaeological Institute of America Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture: Thomas H. Carpenter, Unexpected Choices: Greek Myth in Italic Imagery in the 4th century BCE
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October 16, 2014
Ken Ames, Parsons Lecture: What's up on the Northwest Coast? Revising\Rethinking Complex Hunter-Gatherers.
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October 16, 2014
FAST Lecture: Lisa Nevett, Kate Larson, Greg Tucker, David Stone,
New Multi-disciplinary Investigations at an Ancient Greek City: the Olynthos Project 2014
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October 15, 2014
Exhibition Opening: Sheila Canby, Islamic Art at the Met: New Galleries, New Challenges
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October 9, 2014
Brown Bag Series: Sammy Nkumbaan, Archaeological Investigations at Tando Fagusa, Komaland, Northern Ghana
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October 8, 2014
Nic Terrenato, The New Excavations at Gabii: at the Roots of Central Italian Urbanism
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September 29, 2014
4 Field Colloquium: Vernon Knight, Investigating Moundville's Sociogram
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September 29, 2014
Armand D'Angour, What Do We Mean by Ancient Greek Music?
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September 25, 2014
FAST Lecture: Caitlin Clerkin, Craig Harvey, Shannon Ness, Gregory Tucker and Matt Naglak, IPCAA in the Field: 2014 Summer Fieldwork Reports
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September 25, 2014
Brown Bag Series: Michael J. Shott, Testing the Field-Processing Model at the Modena Obsidian Quarry in the North American Great Basin
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September 19, 2014
Sanam Arab, Uninterpreted Access: Museums' Endeavors to Provide Visitor-Generated Learning Experiences
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September 18, 2014
UMMAA Brown Bag: Lisa Sonnenburg, Finding Archaeological Sites on Submerged Landscapes in the Great Lakes Basin
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September 11, 2014
Christina Sampson, Subsistence and Settlement on Tampa Bay: 2014 Excavations at Weeden Island
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September 11, 2014
Bree Doering, Ritual and Rock Art in the Desert: Excavations in Katjarra, Australia
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September 10, 2014
Discussion: Brendan Haug, The Book in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Evidence from the Papyri
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September 8, 2014
4 Field Colloquium: David Anthony, Horses, Wheels, and Chariots: The Effects of Innovations in Transportation in the Ancient World
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September 4, 2014
Robin Beck, Finding Fort San Juan: New Discoveries at the Berry site, North Carolina
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June 27, 2014
Donna Braden, Exhibition Opening Lecture: Ancient, Modern, or Somewhere in Between?
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Exhibitions
U-M Fieldwork Opportunities
Competitions
Conferences and Workshops
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June 5-6, 2015
A two-day, interdisciplinary workshop on material evidence and the rewriting of the English Middle Ages:
A Thing of the Past
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May 15-17, 2015
North American Papyrology Seminar
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April 3, 2015
EIHS Symposium:
Museums as a Site of Knowledge-Production
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February 9, 2015
Jews and the Roman Empire: Beyond Resistance/Accommodation Paradigm Symposium
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November 7, 2014
What's it Like in Museums? Exploring Career Paths in Museums
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Workshop on Mound Builders
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June 16-27, 2014
Papyrus Conservation Seminar, Papyrus Collection, University of Michigan Library
Movies and Performances
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