The 2nd Hampartzoum and Ovsanna Chitjian Conference in Armenian Studies
Featured Speakers: Dr. Marco Brambilla, Prof. Touraj Daryaee, Ms. Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky, Prof. Bert Vaux
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Pizza Talk: “A Study in Plaster: Archaeology, Conservation, and Late Roman Visual Culture in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis”
Speaker: Susanna McFadden, Assistant Professor, Fordham University; Getty Museum Scholar
Friday Seminar: “Historical Counterfactuals in Archaeological Reasoning”
Speaker: Dr. Derek Turner, Connecticut CollegeOver the last fifteen years or so, philosophers of science have made a lot of progress toward understanding how researchers in fields such as paleontology, geology, and archaeology re-construct the past. One neglected issue, however, is counter-factual reasoning. An historical counterfactual claim has the form: “If condition C had been […]
Pizza Talk: “The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project: The First Two Years”
Speakers: John Papadopoulos, Professor, Department of Classics, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLASarah Morris, Professor, Department of Classics, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Indo-European Origins Revisited: New Data, New Problems
Professor Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge The image of mounted nomad warriors from the steppe lands of Russia bringing the Proto-Indo-European language to Europe has been displaced in recent years by new models; the early spread of farming from Anatolia became a preferred explanation for language replacement. Recent work […]
Pizza Talk: “Q&A with Lord and Lady Renfrew”
Speaker: Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Friday Seminar: “Plant-based Subsistence Strategies and Development of Complex Societies in Neolithic Northeast China: Evidence from Grinding Stones”
Speaker:Li Liu, Stanford UniversityIn China, grinding stones first appeared during the Upper Paleolithic period, and were one of the dominant tool types in many early Neolithic sites. Grinding stones were primarily used for processing plant foods and other materials. They gradually disappear in the archaeological record after 5000 BC in the Yellow River region at […]
Pizza Talk: “Uncovering a Lost City of the Qarakhanid Empire: Alpine Urbanism in Medieval Uzbekistan”
Speaker:Michael Frachetti, Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Pizza Talk: “In the Eye of the Storm: The Resilience of the Urkesh Project in the midst of the Syrian War”
Speaker:Giorgio Buccellati, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Friday Seminar: “Comanche Visual Culture and the Theater of War”
Speaker:Severin Fowles, Barnard College, ColumbiaThe colonial history of the American Southwest looks quite a bit dierent today than it did only a decade ago. We used to know who the empires were: the Spanish imperial project began in the sixteenth century, held back the advance of the French imperial project for the better part of a century, before […]
