Friday Seminar: “Mines, Fields, Hillforts: Challenging the Marginality of the Jawa Hinterland (NE-Jordan) in the 4th Millennium”
Speaker: Dr. Bernd Mueller-Neuhof, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
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Pizza Talk: “The Temple of Dendur in Context: Nubia, the Met, and Virtual Reality”
Speakers: Noemi Mafrici and Michela Mezzano, Ph.D. Candidates, Architecture and Landscape Heritage, Politecnico di TorinoThis talk will present the first outcomes of the ongoing joint research project between POLITO and UCLA. The project "Cultural Heritage in context: digital technologies for the humanities" concerns the UNESCO campaign of the 1960s for the rescue of the Nubian […]
Friends of Archaeology Dinner: Academic Excellence
Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner on April 25, 2017 where three excellent students will present their research. The reception will begin at 6:00pm and be followed by dinner at 6:45pm. Ellen HsiehArchaeology of the Boxer Codex: Spanish, Chinese, and Indigenous reactions […]
Pizza Talk: “Building Futures, Saving Pasts: An Examination of the Approach of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative”
Speaker: Dr. Paul Burtenshaw, Director, Projects, Sustainable Preservation InitiativeThe Sustainable Preservation Initiative (SPI) attempts to "Build Futures and Save Pasts"-simultaneously protecting tangible cultural heritage and enhancing the lives of the people who live around it. To do this, we develop sustainable local businesses, which are connected to archaeology and provide real and long term incomes […]
Friday Seminar: “Partnering with Pots: The Work of Objects in the Imperial Inca Project”
Speaker: Dr. Tamara L. Bray, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State UniversityNew understandings of matter and materiality are being driven by recent theoretical developments in the realm of science, particularly physics and ecology. These evolving orientations are, in turn, contributing to new philosophical thinking on the nature of being and reality. The trickle-down effects of these developments are, […]
Pizza Talk: “How Many People Do You Really Need to Understand a Maya Pot? The Maya Vase Research Project at LACMA”
Speakers: Dr. Megan O'Neil, Associate Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, LACMA; Laura Maccarelli, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Conservation Science, LACMA"This presentation features the Maya Vase Research Project, a collaboration of LACMA's (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Conservation Center and the Art of the Ancient Americas Program, which is studying Classic-period Maya ceramics […]
Friday Seminar: “Cremation Practices and Personhood among the Pre-Hispanic Hohokam of Southern Arizona”
Speaker: Dr. Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Cal Poly PomonaChanging perspectives on concepts of personhood are explored by deconstructing cremation mortuary customs among the Prehispanic Hohokam of the Tucson Basin, southern Arizona, from the Preclassic to Classic periods (AD 475-1450/1500). The approach used analyzes how people were represented in mortuary rituals […]
Pizza Talk: “Trying to Do the Right Things to Protect the World’s Archaeological Heritage: A Committee Member’s Tale”
Speaker: Dr. Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor of Art History, UCLAThe Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee is charged with implementing the 1970 UNESCO convention in order to curb the illegal inflow of cultural property into the United States. Lothar von Falkenhausen has served on this Committee since 2012. He will report on the legal framework under […]
Friday Seminar: “The Synthesis of Archaeology and World Systems Analysis and its Application to the Region of Southern Caucasia”
Speaker: Dr. Pavel Avetisyan, Director, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of ArmeniaThis talk is dedicated to the investigation of the main concepts in World-system analysis such as border, border-line, frontier, and contact zone. Taking in to account the privileges of World-system analysis in archaeological investigations, this contribution, through demonstration of concrete […]
