Past Events


Fall 2012


Thursday September 20th, Barbara Tsakirgis on the Nashville Parthenon

Thursday September 27th, Sarah Tarlow on the powerful corpse

Thursday October 18th, Edward Gonzalez-Tennant on the 1923 Rosewood Race Riot

Friday November 9th, Ross Wilson on the cultural heritage of the Great War in Britain

Tuesday December 11th, Jennifer Wallace will be discussing material relating to her book "Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination"

Selected events from before 2012



The Deep History of the Animal Question
Prof. Brian Boyd (Columbia University). New York Academy of Sciences, Wenner-Gren Foundation.

The Dead Body and its Evidential Traces
Prof. Zoe Crossland (Columbia University). New York Academy of Sciences offices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

After Material Culture (Boas Lecture)
Prof. Julian Thomas (University of Manchester, U.K.).

Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Conference 2008
Professors from numerous domestic and international universities, in the first US-held TAG conference in the group's history.

The Stonehenge Riverside Project: Interrogating the Prehistoric Landscape of Stonehenge
Prof. Julian Thomas (University of Manchester, U.K.).

Using Local Political Economy to Combat Narratives of Indigenous Decline: An Eighteenth Century Seneca Iroquois Example
Prof. Kurt Jordan (Cornell University).

Human and Faunal Osteology Workshops
Prof. Pam Crabtree (NYU).

Modern Human Behavioral Origins and Dispersal: New Perspectives
Prof. Paul Mellars (University of Cambridge).

Finding Fieldwork Workshop
Prof. Zoe Crossland (Columbia University).

Pottery: Manufacture and Analysis Workshop
Jeff Lamia (AIA).

Conservation for Archaeologists Workshop
Julie Unruh, Conservator.

South Brooklyn Archaeology & Cemetery Tour
The Gotham League of Archaeology Majors.

Patina: Temporality and Social Aesthetics (Boas Lecture)
Prof. Shannon Dawdy (University of Chicago).

Celluloid Idylls: Swords, Sandals & Sex
AIA—NYC Society Archaeology & Screen Media Program.

Maya Cosmology
Prof. Lisa Lucero (University of Illinois).

Archaeological survey in Central Yunnan: Documenting the Rise and Fall of the "Dian" Kingdom (Brown Bag Research Seminar)
Prof. Alice Yao (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World).

The Politics of DNA (Brown Bag Research Seminar)
Prof. Nadia Abu el-Haj (Barnard College).

Conferences

Collecting & Gathering: Making Worlds and Staking Claims
A one-day conference and associated exhibit presented by Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy

The Ruination of the Social and the Social Lives of Ruins
An interdisciplinary workshop exploring the social significance and impact of ruins.

Human Worlds / Animal Worlds

Remembering Landscape