Archaeology at Michigan | Events 2015

Past Events 2015–2016

Lectures and Brown Bags

May 19, 2016 Richard Redding, 20 Years of Excavations at the Pyramids, and Discoveries since 2010
May 6, 2016 Michael L. Thomas, A Tale of Two "Villas": Luxury, Wine, and Water and the Last Years of Oplontis
April 21, 2016 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Colin Quinn, Going for Gold: Mining and Moving Metals in Bronze Age Transylvania
April 14, 2016 Laura Motta and James Gleason, Sourcing Seeds
April 14, 2016 Jerome Lecture Series: Maurizio Bettini, The Invention of a Roman God: Anthropology and Roman Religion. Many Vertumni: Gods, Grammer, and Fractals
April 7, 2016 CSEAS Lecture: Ships and Shippers of Pre-Modern Southeast Asia: A Neglected Link in Eurasian Trade Systems
April 7, 2016 Jerome Lecture Series: Maurizio Bettini, The Invention of a Roman God: Anthropology and Roman Religion. Autobiography of Vertumnus II: The God of Perpetual Metamorphosis
April 5, 2016 Jerome Lecture Series: Maurizio Bettini, The Invention of a Roman God: Anthropology and Roman Religion. Autobiography of Vertumnus I: The God of Change
April 1, 2016 Keynote Lecture for Conference "Reframing Roman Luxury": Massimo Osanna, Pompeii's Great Project: New Life for the Dead City
March 31, 2016 FAST Lecture: Natalie Abell, Middle Bronze Age Exchange and Economy: A Perspective from Ayia Irini on Kea
March 25, 2016 Judaic Classics Series: James Rives, Social Power and Religious Communication in the Roman Empire: Orthopraxy and Orthodoxy
March 24, 2016 Bree Doering, Tim Everhart, and Henry Wright, Three Projects in a Madagascar during the Austral Summer of 2015
March 24, 2016 Archaeological Institute of America Samuel H. Kress Lecture: Daniele Maras, Kings and Tablemates: The Political Role of Comrade Associations in Archaic Rome and Etruria
March 24, 2016 2016 David Noel Freedman Lecture: Jodi Magness, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
March 18, 2016 Paleontology Seminar: Joe El Adli, Proboscidean Life Histories from Analyses of Tusks
March 17, 2016 Christopher A. Papalas, Understanding Copper and Bronze: Notes from Experimental Archaeology
March 17, 2016 Gladys Saborio and Susan Kosky, Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture
March 11, 2016 John Bintliff, The Story of a City over 8,000 Years: Pushing the Frontiers of Non-Invasive Survey
March 10, 2016 Ari Bryen and Katherine Blouin, Papyrology and History: An Informal Discussion
March 9, 2016 Katherine Blouin, Based on True Events: Making Environmental History with Papyri
March 8, 2016 Ari Bryen, A Shared Grammar: Law and Legal Culture in Roman Egypt
February 25, 2016 Michael Collins, North America Before Clovis: The View from Gault Site, Texas
February 25, 2016 FAST Lecture: Andrea Brock, Coring Early Rome: Subsurface Survey in the Forum Boarium, 2013-2015
February 22, 2016 Angele Rosenberg-Dimitracopoulou, Finding the Female Nude between Greece and the Near East
February 19, 2016 Exhibition Opening Lecture: John R. Clarke, Studying the Villas of Oplontis: Archives, Excavation, 3D Modeling, and an Exhibition
February 18, 2016 J. Troy Samuels, Textile-making Tools and Elite Status at Early Gabii
February 18, 2016 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: John D. Speth, Paleoindian Bifaces and Mobility: Questioning Assumptions
February 15, 2016 Kiersten A. Neumann, More Than Meets the Eye: Multisensory Experience in the Neo-Assyrian Temple
February 15, 2016 Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series: Donald M. Reid, Contesting Antiquity in Egypt
February 8, 2016 Jessica Lamont, The Athenian Amphiaraos and the Rise of Attic Healing Cults
February 5, 2016 4 Field Colloquium: Jeremy DeSilva, The Complex Evolutionary History of Bipedalism: What New Fossils from South Africa Are Revealing
February 1, 2016 4 Field Colloquium: Kurt Rademaker, Recent Progress in the Study of Andean Origins
February 1, 2016 Melissa Eppihimer, The Heroes of Khorsabad: Akkadian Allusions or Illusions?
January 28, 2016 Lacey Carpenter, Pre-State Households at Tilcajete: A Preliminary Assessment of Status Differences
January 21, 2016 FAST Lecture: Jordan Pickett, Water in Late Antique Ephesus/Object-based Learning with the Kelsey Experience and TLTC
January 21, 2016 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Michael Cherney, Weaning Age in Late Pleistocene Woolly Mammoths Supports Hunting-induced Extinction
January 14, 2016 FAST Lecture: Emanuele Casagrande Cicci, The So-Called "Little Baths" of Elaiussa Sebaste (Cilicia, Turkey)
December 14, 2015 R.R.R. Smith, The Greek East Under Rome: Art and Cultural Interaction
December 10, 2015 FAST Lecture: Geoff Emberling, Eruption of Memory: Commemoration as Politics in the Empire of Kush
December 4, 2015 Alice Goff, The God Behind the Marble: Transcending the Object in the German Museum of Art
November 30, 2015 4 Field Colloquium: Tiffiny Tung, Fighting and Foodways: A Bioarchaeological Study of Violence and Diet during Imperial Decline and Drought in the Peruvian Andes
November 30, 2015 Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series: Panel Discussion, The "Calculated Frightfulness" of ISIS: Threats to Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage in Historical Perspective
November 19, 2015 Andrew Cabaniss, Households and Civic Institutions at Archaic Azoria in East Crete
November 19, 2015 Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting: Brandon Gabler, Archaeology in Practice: The Intersection of Progress and Preservation
November 12, 2015 Anna Boozer, The Urbanization of Egypt's Western Desert Under Roman Rule
November 12, 2015 Jason De León and Michael Wells, The Land of Open Graves: Photographs from the Undocumented Migration Project
November 10, 2015 Despina Margomenou, To Amphipolis and Back Again: Crisis Management, Heritage Politics and Grassroots Activism as "New Heritage" in Greece
November 5, 2015 John D. Speth, PaleoIndian Lifeways: Questioning Assumptions
November 5, 2015 FAST Lecture: Julia Habetzeder, Intertextuality and Roman Visual Culture. A New Approach to Roman Ideal Sculpture
November 3, 2015 Shraddha Bhatawadekar, Cultural Heritage in Sites and Museums in India: Challenges and Opportunities
October 29, 2015 Anna Antoniou, Views from a Kayak – Two Seasons of Survey in Willapa Bay, Washington
October 29, 2015 The Gerald F. Else Lecture in the Humanities: Mark Griffith, The Gender of Ancient Greek Music
October 22, 2015 Brown Bag: Ronald K. Faulseit, Mixing Business with Pleasure: Excavations of a Late Classic (A.D. 500 – 900) Elite Residential Compound on Cerro Danush, Oaxaca, Mexico
October 21, 2015 Igor Dukhan, Architecture, Image, and Living Body in Jewish and Classical Traditions
October 15, 2015 Gwyn Madden, Bioarchaeology of the Trypolye, Verteba Cave, Western Ukraine
October 15, 2015 FAST Lecture: Jess Beck, Bioarchaeological Approaches to Copper Age Complexity
October 13, 2015 Geoffrey Emberling, The "Calculated Frightfulness" of ISIS: Threats to Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage in Historical Perspective
October 8, 2015 Robert Kelly, Radiocarbon Dates, Hunter-Gatherer Population Growth, Climate Change, Warfare, and High Altitude Archaeology in Wyoming
October 5, 2015 David B. Small, The Curious Case of Iron Age Crete: Unusual Communities in the Greek World
October 3, 2015 (off campus) Detroit Institute of Arts: Norman Yoffee, The History of the City of Kish, Mesopotamia
October 3, 2015 (off campus) Detroit Institute of Arts: Piotr Michalowski, Very Ancient Stories from Iraq: The Sumerian and Babylonian Tablet Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts
October 2, 2015 (off campus) Detroit Institute of Arts: Wayne T. Pitard, Miniature Masterpieces: The Art and Culture of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals
October 2, 2015 (off campus) Detroit Institute of Arts: Geoff Emberling, Art and Technology in the Ancient Middle East: A Curator's Perspective
October 1, 2015 Brown Bag: Bree Doering, The Effects of Cooking on the Isotopic Composition of Alaskan Fauna - Preliminary Results
October 1, 2015 Brown Bag: Jess Beck, Piecing Together the Puzzle: The Bioarchaeology of Early Complex Societies in Iberia
September 30, 2015 AIA Lecture: Dimitri Nakassis, Rethinking the Mycenean World
September 26, 2015 François Richard, Archaeologies of Ethnographic Knowledge in Colonial Siin, Senegal
September 25, 2015 Exhibition Opening Event: Conversation with artist Wendy Artin and curator Christopher Ratté
September 24, 2015 FAST Lecture: Dan Diffendale, Craig Harvey, and Troy Samuels, IPCAA in the Field
September 18, 2015 4 Field Colloquium: Carl J. Wendt, Olmec Archaeology in the Arroyo Pesquero Region
September 18, 2015 Margaret Cool Root, People, Things, Entangled Lives: Collecting in Egypt & the Holy Land
September 17, 2015 Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting: Jess Beck, Skeleton Keys: Using Bioarchaeology to Reconstruct the Prehistoric Past
September 10, 2015 Brown Bag: Dan Harrison, Frontier Arms Race: An Archaeological Perspective on the Militarization of the Great Lakes
September 10, 2015 EIHS Lecture: Raymond Van Dam, Big Cities, Food, and Migration in the Later Roman Empire: A Simple Model
June 26, 2015 Conversation between Artist Wendy Artin and Curator Christopher Ratté

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Exhibitions

November 10, 2015–January 13, 2016 The Land of Open Graves: Photographs from the Undocumented Migration Project
Until December 17, 2015 Parsons Papyrology Exhibit Case: Epistles of St. Paul: Romans XV:20 – XVI:3
August 28–November 29, 2015 Passionate Curiosities: Collecting in Egypt & the Near East, 1880s–1950s
October 27–November 13, 2015 This, too, is Iran: An Exhibition by Photographer Sally Bjork
Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures Phase I: June 5-July 26, 2015 Phase II: September 25-October 25, 2015

U-M Fieldwork Opportunities

July 3-August 12, 2015 Olynthos Project
June 28-August 1, 2015 The Gabii Project Field Program
May 7-June 10, 2015 Lesotho - Sehonghong Field School

Competitions

2015-2016 Jackier Prize Competition

Conferences and Workshops

April 15, 2016 Near Eastern Studies Symposium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cuneiform Studies and Ancient Societies: The Impact of the Work of Piotr Michalowski
April 1–2, 2016 Reframing Roman Luxury
March 18-19, 2016 Graduate Conference Sponsored by the Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup: Migration and Mobility: Permanent and Persistent Movements of People
February 20, 2016 Advances in Eastern European Prehistory Symposium
February 12, 2016 From Seleucia to Delos by way of Uruk and Kedesh: A Panel Discussion on Hellenistic Archives
October 21, 2015 In conjunction with Phase II of "Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures": A Workshop on Wendy Artin's Engagement with the Classical Past
September 30-October 2, 2015 Michigan Museums 2025: Planning for Change
September 26, 2015 Materiality Across Disciplines: How and Why Are We Talking about Stuff?
October 21, 2015 In conjunction with Phase II of "Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures": A Workshop on Wendy Artin's Engagement with the Classical Past
September 30-October 2, 2015 Michigan Museums 2025: Planning for Change
September 26, 2015 Materiality Across Disciplines: How and Why Are We Talking about Stuff?

Movies and Performances

November 30, 2015 Frank Waln and Samsoche Sampson, Native American Heritage Month Key Note Performance
October 30, 2015 Film Screening: Al Momia or The Night of Counting Years (Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969)
September 29, 2015 Seamus Heaney and the Art of Ekphrasis: Poets Read Heaney's Poems
May 5, 2016 Film Screening: Last Days of Pompeii

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