| SCHEDULE ~ subject to
change ~
Fall
October 9: Joshua Trampier (UChicago, NELC)
Title: "Ancient Rivers, New Methods: Reconstituting the Western Nile Delta Landscape through Remote Sensing and Survey"
October 14 (Tuesday): Mary Leighton (UChicago, Anthropology)
Title: "Personifying Objects/Objectifying People:
The Ambiguity of Human Remains in the Practice of Contemporary Archaeologists"
This event will be co-sponsored with the Medicine, Body and Practice Workshop.
Please note the different day, time, and place.
Tuesday, October 14th from 4:30 - 6:00pm
at Judd 313
October 16: Matthew Johnson (University of Southampton, Archaeology)
Title: "The Fall and Rise of Empiricism in Archaeology"
October 30: Katia Cytryn-Silverman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Title: "Traveling in Search of God, Knowledge and Mammon: Some Stopovers"
November 13: Kristoffer Damgaard (University of Copenhagen)
Title: "Syncretic Hinterlands: The Cultural Horizon of Early Islamic Aqaba (650-1100 CE)"
November 19 (Wednesday): Ferdinand de Jong (University of East Anglia Norwich)
Topic: Sociocultural/visual anthropology of Senegal
This event will be co-sponsored with the Empires and Colonies Workshop.
Please note the different day, time, and place.
Wednesday, November 19th from 5:00 - 6:30pm at Cobb Lecture Hall Room 403
November 20: Carme Belarte (ICREA Researcher at Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica)
Title: "Domestic Architecture and Social Differences in North-Eastern Iberia During the Iron Age (c.525-200 BC)"
This paper is available as a
PDF for
download.
December 4: Geoff Emberling (Oriental Institute)
Tile: Nomads and States in Ancient Kush: Recent Excavations in Northern Sudan
Winter
January 22: Shannon Lee Dawdy (UChicago, Anthropology)
Title: "Man-things, or What I found at the Rising Sun Hotel"
January 29: David Pacifico (UChicago, Anthropology)
Title: "First Summer in Purgatory: 2008 Field Investigations at Sector B, El Purgatorio, Casma, Peru"
February 12:
Eudora Struble (UChicago, NELC)
Title: "Destruction and Preservation: An examination of how and why archaeological sites are being damaged and how we can curb the loss of information"
March 5: Nadine Moeller (Oriental Institute)
Topic: Archaeology of Urban Development in Ancient Egypt
March 12: D. Ryan Gray (UChicago, Anthropology)
Topic: The Archaeology of Overseas Chinese in New Orleans, LA
This event will be co-sponsored with the East Asia Trans Regional Histories Workshop.
March 19: Jane Baxter (DePaul University, Anthropology)
Topic: 19th century Bahamian ship graffiti and community formation in
San Salvador
Spring
April 2:
IAW 2009-2010 workshop renewal meeting
April 16: Kate Franklin (UChicago, Anthropology)
Title: "Materialities of movement, Structures of exchange: Mobility
and Landscape in the Medieval Armenian Highlands"
April 30: Maureen Marshall (UChicago, Anthropology)
Title: "Bodies, Burials, and Boundaries: Variability in Late Bronze Age (1500-1200 BC) Mortuary Practices in the South Caucasus"
May 14: Virgnia Rimmer (UChicago, NELC)
Title: "Socio-Spatial Dimensions of Syro-Hittite Mortuary Cult in Light of the KTMW Stele from Zincirli"
May 15-16:
IAW Conference
"Encounters: Conversations on Society, Materiality, and the Politics of the Past and Present"
CALL FOR PAPERS is available
here for
download
Conference SCHEDULE is available here for download
Paper/panel ABSTRACTS are
available here for download
May 21: Cécile Fromont (University of Michigan, Art History)
"Kongo Warriors and Christian Knights:
Defining and Performing Power in Early Modern Central Africa"
The paper is available here for download
May 28:
Bill Parkinson (Field Museum)
"Early Village Social Dynamics in Southeastern Europe"
June 4:
Mary Weismantel (Northwestern University, Anthropology)
"Obstinate Things"
The paper is available here for download
PAPERS
The IAW is a forum that welcomes diverse presentation formats, including discussions of pre-circulated papers. Whenever appropriate, papers will be made available a short time before the meeting. |
