Making Material Culture:
Technologies of Production, Concepts of Design, and Properties of Materials
Organized by Krysta Ryzewski
Friday, January 23-Sunday, January 25th
Archaeologists share many questions and analytical techniques with engineers, designers, anthropologists, and artists. “Making Material Culture” brings researchers from these various disciplines into conversation about the technical practices, actors, technologies, raw materials and objects involved in the creation of material culture, and the multiple social and material relationships that influence and are influenced by materials. This symposium explores the manufacturing processes of ancient pigments, the structural properties of recently engineered nanomaterials, the chaîne opératoire of ceramic vessels in an Athenian potters’ quarter, the transmission of ironworking knowledge from smith to apprentice, and the conceptualization of a chair’s design.
Friday, January 23 at 5:30 pm
MacMillan Hall, Room 115
Plenary Address:
Pamela Vandiver (University of Arizona)
"An Academic Alloy: Archaeology + Science in the 21st Century"
Saturday, January 24, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
MacMillan Hall, Room 115
Christopher Bull (Brown University, Engineering)
Ioanna Kakoulli (UCLA & Getty Museum, Archaeology & Engineering)
Jeroen Poblome (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Archaeology)
Krysta Ryzewski (Brown University, Archaeology & Engineering)
Timothy Scarlett (Michigan Technological University, Industrial History and Archaeology)
Lynnette Widder (Rhode Island School of Design, Architecture)
Christopher Witmore (Brown University, Archaeology)
Sunday, January 25, 9:30-11:30 am
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street
Workshop Discussion with All Presenters and Discussants
For more information and the complete schedule, visit http://proteus.brown.edu/materialsscience/6760
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