Archaeology at Michigan | Events 2018

Past Events 2018–2019

Lectures and Brown Bags

April 19, 2019 Museums at Noon: Caitlin Clerkin, Reinstalling Early Greece at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
April 16, 2019 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Katherine Kasdorf, Reinstalling the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Asian Galleries: New Voices and New Perspectives
April 11, 2019 FAST Lecture: Nicola Barham, Theorizing Image and Abstraction in the Roman Villa Farnesina
April 9, 2019 Salima Ikram, Darlings, Delicacies, Deities & Donations: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies as Cultural and Environmental Markers
April 8, 2019 Simon Stoddart, Etruscan State Formation
April 4, 2019 CSEAS Friday Lecture Series: Catherine Raymond, The Thousand Year Old Stolen Burmese Buddha Who Traveled the World and the Saga of Its Return
April 4, 2019 Cheryl Porter, RED: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. A Study of the Red Colors Used for Painting in Manuscripts
April 4, 2019 Lauren Pratt, Using Behavioral Ecology to Understand Mobility among Prehistoric Andean Hunter-Gatherers
April 2, 2019 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Yunshuang Zhang, Constructing Nature and Culture In and Out of the Studio
April 1, 2019 The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: Peter Day, Lemnian Earth and Foreign Forms: Ceramics at Koukonissi in the Late Bronze Age
March 29, 2019 Museums at Noon: Alison Rittershaus, Enhancing Access to Roman Ceramics at the Harvard Art Museums
March 28, 2019 UMMAA Brown Bag: Tamas Polanyi, Political Action in a Bronze Age Community
March 22, 2019 Classical Receptions Workshop: Alex Potts, Winckelmann: Historicity and Multiple Temporalities in the Art of Antiquity
March 21, 2019 Kostis Kourelis, Excavating Home: Archaeologies of the Greek American Experience
March 21, 2019 MAS Lecture: Michael Galaty, Regional Archaeology in the Peja and Istog Districts of Kosova (RAPID-Kosova): Results of the 2018 Field Season
March 20, 2019 Exhibition Opening Discussion: Hilary Becker, Gregory Smith, Mark Abbe, and Christina Biscula, Investigating Ancient Color
March 20, 2019 The Author's Forum: Christiane Gruber and Juan Cole, The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images
March 15, 2019 Museums at Noon: Craig Harvey, Locating and Relocating Lugdunum: Collection Management at Lugdunum — Musée et théâtres romains, Lyon
March 14, 2019 Thomas M. Urban, Campfires and Footprints: Small Geophysical Targets with Big Potential
March 14, 2019 FAST Lecture: Jennifer Larios, Chincha Exchange Systems: A Preliminary Investigation into Patterns of Distribution in the Chincha Valley, Peru, During the Late Intermediate Period and the Late Horizon; James Torpy, Gods in the Landscape: Environmental Context of Rural Cypriot Sanctuaries
March 12, 2019 Samuel J. Redman, A Swift Death and Steady Resurrection: Salvage Anthropology and U.S. Museums
March 1, 2019 Museums at Noon: Timnet Gedar, Interpreting Objects and Exhibitions at the National Museum of Eritrea
February 26, 2019 Cristina Carusi, The Organization of the Construction Industry in Classical Athens
February 21, 2019 FAST Lecture: Nicola Terrenato, Troy Samuels, Tyler Johnson, Zoe Ortiz, University of Michigan's Gabii Project: Excavations of a Central Italian Urban Community
February 21, 2019 MAS Lecture: Martin Menz, The 2018 UMMAA Field School at Gordon Hall, Dexter, Michigan
February 15, 2019 Museums at Noon: James Munene, Dealing with Africa and African Things at the Etnografiska Museet, Stockholm
February 14, 2019 Stanley H. Ambrose, The Transition to Cultural Adaptations in the Middle Stone Age in East Africa
February 4, 2019 The Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Kieran McNulty, Quantitative Analyses of the Early Ape Ekembo with Implications for Hominoid Evolution
January 24, 2019 FAST Lecture: Manuel Fernández-Götz, Mass Violence in the Roman World: Fieldwork Results an Theoretical Debates
January 15, 2019 Ian Moyer, At the Gates of the Temple: Culture, Politics and Public Space in Ptolemaic Egypt
January 17, 2019 Christina DiFabio (1) and Joseph Frankl (2), (1) Contextualizing Research at Notion, Turkey: A Museum and Archival Approach; (2) The Roman Period of the Western Argolid: Initial Analysis and Interpretations of an Intensive, Siteless Field Survey
January 17, 2019 MAS Lecture: Kimberly Swisher, Looking at the Late Woodland and Early Mississippian in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: The Averett Culture
January 18, 2019 Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Cameron Wesson, Mississippian Migration and Polity Formation in Central Alabama: Conflict or Communitas?
December 6, 2018 UMMAA Brown Bag: Thomas LaDuke and Henry T. Wright, Late Glacial Hunters in Michigan
December 4, 2018 Nam Center Colloquium Series: Rory Walsh, Mahan, Baekje, and the Rise of States in South Korea
December 4, 2018 FAST Lecture: Carrie Roberts, Investigating Color: Technical Research Methods for Locating and Identifying Pigments on Ancient Artifacts
November 29, 2018 UMMAA Brown Bag: Blair Rose Zaid, The Bantu Diaspora: Cultural Change in the Central African Early Iron Age
November 15, 2018 MAS Lecture: Raven Garvey, Projectile Points From the US Southwest: Who Learns from Whom, and Why Does It Matter?
November 14, 2018 Heather Clydesdale, A Mysterious Tomb Painting Uncloaks an Ancient Practice
November 12, 2018 Distinguished University Professorship Lecture: Sharon Herbert Snowflakes and Quicksand: A Survey of Hellenistic Sealing Practices
November 12, 2018 Exhibition Opening Lecture: Frank Feder, Alin Suciu Written Culture of Christian Egypt
November 8, 2018 John D. Speth, Archaeological Interpretations of Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways in the Past: Questioning Traditional Assumptions
November 6, 2018 AIA Lecture: Stephanie Budin, Maternity in Antiquity
November 5, 2018 The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: Scott Fitzpatrick, Winds, Currents, and Histories of Seafaring: How Oceanographic Effects Influenced Ancient Voyaging and the European ‘Age of Discovery’
November 1, 2018 Michael Galaty, Regional Archaeology in the Peja and Istog Districts of Kosova (RAPID-K): A New, Regional Archaeological Project in Europe's Newest Nation
November 1, 2018 FAST Lecture: Michael Galaty, Regional Archaeology in the Peja and Istog Districts of Kosova (RAPID-K): Results of the Inaugural 2018 Field Season
October 30, 2018 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Elizabeth Berger, Resource Diversification and Resilience: The Bioarchaeology of Bronze Age Northwest China
October 26, 2018 Chris Fisher and Anna Cohen, The Angamuco Urban Landscape: LiDAR, Survey, and Excavation at a Purépecha City, Michoacán, Mexico
October 25, 2018 Christina Conlee, Beyond the Lines: Exploring Long-Term Cultural Dynamics in Nasca, Peru
October 24, 2018 Christopher Ratté, Lisa Nevett, and Nicola Terrenato, An Evening of Classics
October 11, 2018 FAST Lecture: Linda Gosner, Introducing the Sinis Archaeological Project: Colonial Interaction and Resource Exploitation in West-Central Sardinia
October 4, 2018 AIA Lecture: Jordan Karsten, Bones and Borscht: How Neolithic Human Remains from Ukraine Are Enabling the Reconstruction of European Population History and Our Understanding of Ancient Warfare
October 3, 2018 Margaret Carney, China’s Pompeii: Julu, a Northern Song Ceramic Legacy
September 27, 2018 Bree Doering, Bifaces, Burned Bone, and Other Finds from the 2018 Central Alaskan Field Season
September 27, 2018 Erina Baci, Settlement patterns in Albania from the Iron Age through Greek colonization and Roman integration (1100 BC - AD 395)
September 25, 2018 Exhibition Opening Lecture: Felix Pirson, Ecology and the Ancient City: The Case of Pergamon (Turkey) and Its Microregion
September 20, 2018 FAST Lecture: Jordan Dalton, The Transformations of Complex N1 during the Late Horizon (AD1470-1534), Chincha Valley, Perú
September 20, 2018 FAST Lecture: Nadhira Hill, Andrew Cabaniss, Arianna Zapelloni Pavia, Searching for Standardization in Classical Athens; Sauces or Sacrifices: Small Cooking Pots from Athens and Olynthos, Greece; Interpreting Votive Offerings in Umbria from the 6th to the 1st c. BCE

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Exhibitions

February 8–July 28, 2019 Ancient Color
November 12, 2018–February 17, 2019 Written Culture of Christian Egypt: Coptic Manuscripts from the University of Michigan Collection
September 29, 2018–February 3, 2019 Proof: The Ryoichi Excavations
August 24, 2018–January 6, 2019 Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
August 1–September 27, 2018 You Must Judge a Book by Its Cover: Highlights from the Julia Miller Collection of Bookbinding Models

Tours

July 28, 2019 Curator Tour: Caroline Roberts and Cathy Person, Ancient Color
May 5, 2019 Curator Tour: Cathy Person and Caroline Roberts, Ancient Color
February 10, 2019 Curator Tour: Cathy Person, Ancient Color
February 7, 2019 Coffee with the Curators: Evyn Kropf and Pablo Alvarez, Written Culture of Christian Egypt
December 1, 2018 Exhibition Curator Tour: Kathy Velikov, Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
October 20, 2018 Public Archaeology Day

U-M Fieldwork Opportunities

Program dates: June 25–August 4, 2018 Olynthos Project
Field School - U-M Training Program in Archaeology
Program dates: June 17–July 21, 2018 Gabii Field Program

Competitions

2018-2019 Jackier Prize Competition

Conferences and Workshops

March 16, 2019 Early Career Scientists Symposium: Stable Isotopes in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation
February 8–9, 2019 De-centering the Global Middle Ages
February 8–9, 2019 LRCCS Conference: Environments and Adaptation in Ancient China: Recent Advances and Global Context
November 12, 2018 White Monastery Fragments in the University of Michigan Collection
November 1, 2018 Ethnicity, Gender, and Ethics in the History of Papyrology: An International Workshop
October 26–27, 2018 Mediterranean Seminar. Margins of the Mediterranean
September 29, 2018 Expansive Realities: A Longer History of the “Virtual” in Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture
September 28–29, 2018 Comparing Roman Hellenisms
September 14, 2018 EIHS Symposium: Museum Stories: The Ethics of Collecting

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