Past Events 2021–2022
Lectures
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April 14, 2022
EIHS Lecture: Akinwumi Ogundiran, Little Ice Age and the Oyo Empire: An Unfinished Process of Recovery in West Africa, ca. 1420-1840
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April 14, 2022
Hybrid FAST Lecture: Nicola Barham, Encrusted in Ancestors: Formal Reflections on the Funerary Reliefs of Palmyra
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April 8, 2022
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: Habiba Chirchir, Evolution of Gracility: Perspectives from Hominins and Extant Mammals
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April 7, 2022
Bénédicte Savoy, Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat 1965-1985
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April 6, 2022
Roundtable: Raymond Silverman, Deirdre Hennebury, Valentina Rozas-Krause, Heritage Preservation and Ethics During Upheavals
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April 4, 2022
2022 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Lynn Meskell, A Future in Ruins - Ethics of Archaeology and Heritage | Developing Petra: UNESCO, the World Bank, and America in the Desert
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April 1, 2022
Kelsey Flash Talk: Nicola Barham, Moqimu’s Cultural Commitments: Constructing Identity on the Romano-Syrian Border
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April 1, 2022
2022 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Lynn Meskell, A Future in Ruins - Ethics of Archaeology and Heritage | Saving the World? Reflections on UNESCO’s Mid Century Mission in Conflict
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March 30, 2022
2022 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Lynn Meskell, A Future in Ruins - Ethics of Archaeology and Heritage | Imperialism, Internationalism and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East
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March 28, 2022
2022 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Lynn Meskell, A Future in Ruins - Ethics of Archaeology and Heritage | Engineering Internationalism: Colonialism, the Cold War and UNESCO’s Victory in Nubia
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March 25, 2022
Gabriela Cervantes Quequezana, Demography and Segmentary Sociopolitical Integration in the city of Sicán, Peru
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March 18, 2022
The Jeffrey Parsons 2022 Lecture: Ora Marek-Martinez, Refusal of Colonialism in Nihookaa Dine’e’ Bila’Ashdla’ii Archaeology: Creating Pathways to Indigenous Futures
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March 17, 2022
AIA Lecture: Michael Dietler, Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
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March 11, 2022
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Charles M. Musiba, In Retrospection: Conservation Challenges of Laetoli Fossil Hominin Footprints and Archaeological World Heritage Sites of Human Origins
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March 4, 2022
Kelsey Flash Talk: Laura Motta, Cities, Crops, and Chemistry
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March 4, 2022
Leah Bernardo-Ciddio, Ceramic Production in Iron Age Salento: A Communities of Practice Approach to Material Cultural Change
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February 25, 2022
Andrea Valedón-Trapote, Rethinking the Yuan “Chinese” Imperial City: Building Ordo Spatial Logic into the Mongol Great Capital
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February 25, 2022
Golriz Farshi, Gateways of Charity: Mongol Sacred Kingship in Fourteenth Century Iran
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February 25, 2022
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, Miqqutiit: Revitalizing Inuit Knowledge of Bird Bone Needles
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February 22, 2022
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Michele Matteini, Glitches in Art Historical Flow, ca. 1750
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February 18, 2022
Chao Zhao, Neolithic Pathways in East Mongolian Plateau: Early Sedentism and Subsistence Strategy
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February 18, 2022
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Davina Two Bears, Indian Boarding Schools and Indigenous Archaeology
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February 4, 2022
Flash Talk: Amelia Eichengreen, From Huts to Palaces: Understanding the Architecture of Rome's First Houses
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January 28, 2022
Sarah Richardson, Digitizing Non-digital Data: Time, Issues, and Monotony in the Process of Digitizing PhD Data
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January 27, 2022
Virtual FAST Lecture: Mike Galaty, Erina Baci, Zhani Gjyshja, Preliminary Interpretations of Settlement in Prehistoric Kosova: Results of the RAPID-K Survey (2018–2021)
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January 24, 2022
Panelists: Angela Janelli, Adam Levine, Samir Meghelli, Museums and their Communities: Curatorial Practices in Germany and the US
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January 21, 2022
Aleksa Alaica, Food, Trade, and Ritual: Human-Animal Interactions among the Moche of North Coastal Peru
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December 7, 2021
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Jin Xu, A Vineyard Garden in the Afterlife: The Shi Jun/Wirkak Tomb (580 CE) and Viticulture on the Silk Road
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December 3, 2021
Kelsey Flash Talk: Arianna Zapelloni Pavia, Archaeology with the Department of Defense
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December 3, 2021
Jordan Galczynski, Masculine Ideals and Dress in New Kingdom Elite Tombs
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December 3, 2021
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: Noel Amano, A Tale of Two Islands: Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Sri Lanka and Java (Indonesia)
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December 2, 2021
Hybrid FAST Lecture: Marco Cavalazzi, Living around a Byzantine Capital: Ravenna and Its Hinterland after the End of the Roman Period; Landscape, Settlements, and Environment
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November 19, 2021
Erina Baci, A Tale of Three Hillforts: The Multiple Roles of Hillforts in Influencing the Settlement and Land Use in the Plains of Dukagjin in Prehistory
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November 12, 2021
Rachel Dewan, Miniaturizing Meaning: Miniature Pottery on Bronze Age Crete
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November 12, 2021
Birgit Meyer, Religion and Materiality: Re-thinking a Complex Relation from the Angle of Food
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November 5, 2021
Kelsey Flash Talk: Richard Redding, Live from Giza! Life in the Field
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November 2, 2021
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Alice Yao, At What Scales Can Water Be Measured: An Inquiry into Environmental Knowledge Production During the Han Dynasty
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October 29, 2021
Museums at Noon: Zoe Ortiz, At the Intersection of Time and Culture: Reflections on Researching Ancient Sculpture in the Present-day Louvre
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October 29, 2021
Julia Earle, Building the Sacred Valley: Landscape transformation during the Killke Period (ca. 1000–1400 CE)
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October 28, 2021
Hybrid FAST Lecture: Giulia Saltini Semerari, The Greek Colonization of Southern Italy: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Cultural Encounters
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October 22, 2021
Zachary Thomas, An Emic Anthropological Approach to the Polities of the Early Iron Age Southern Levant
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October 15, 2021
Ergys Hasa, Analysis of Eneolithic (4600-3200 B.C.) Pottery from the Maliq Settlement, Albania
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October 8, 2021
Jhon Percy Cruz Quiñones, Where Do Hunters and Gatherers Live? Evidence from Archaic Period (ca. 10,000-3,000 BP) High-Altitude Settlements in the North-Central Peruvian Andes
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October 1, 2021
Kelsey Flash Talk: Laura Motta, Once Upon a Time, There Was a River: The Environmental History of the Tiber Valley before Rome, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
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September 30, 2021
Hybrid FAST Lecture: Christopher Ratté, The Archaeology of Western Anatolia, ca. 1200–133 BCE
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September 29, 2021
The Gerald F. Else Lecture in the Humanities: Barbara Graziosi, Classics, Love, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini
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September 16, 2021
AIA Lecture: Thomas Paradise, The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: Thirty Years of Research in Petra, Jordan
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September 10, 2021
Kelsey Flash Talk: Christopher Ratté, The Bouleuterion at Notion
