Spring 2011

February 10

Meg Watters (Brown University)
Current and Developing Methods for Archaeological Data Visualization

February 17

Emily Button (Brown University)
Cutting Edge Technology: Ulus as Vehicles of Cultural Exchange

February 24

Eben Gay (Brown University)
REVEAL - Excavating in 3D

March 3

Laurel Bestock (Brown University)
Bookends: Early Dynastic and Ptolemaic finds from the recent Brown University Abydos Project excavations

March 17

Andrew Cochrane (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
Composing a past in north west Europe

March 24

Sarah Newman (Brown University)
The Last Supper: The Role of Ceramic Serving Vessels in Ancient Maya Mortuary Practice

April 7

Kevin Fisher (Brown University)
New Approaches to Past Built Environments: Current Research from Kalavasos to Cusco

April 14

Geralyn Hoffman and Jessica Unger (Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology)
Mariani Lefas-Tetenes and Laura Atchins (RISD Museum)
Katherine Harrington, Emanuela Bocancea, and Claudia Moser (Brown University)
Think Like an Archaeologist: Using Concepts of Archaeology to Teach Critical Thinking Skills

April 21

Claudia Moser (Brown University)
Viewing the Remains: Sacred Topography and Sacrificial Deposits at Republican Sanctuaries in Rome and Ostia

April 28

Betsey Biggs (Brown University)
The Waking-Dreamness of Sound

May 5

Jordan Pickett (University of Pennsylvania)
The Transformation of Baths as Sculptural and Epigraphic Environment During Late Antiquity: Regional Comparisons