Next Week! Adam Smith (3/5), Bruce Lincoln (3/6), and Violence and Civilization Colloquium (3/6-3/7), and Brown Bag talk by Michelle Berenfeld (3/5)

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World will be presenting several events next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday:

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology:
Michelle Berenfeld (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)
“Nights and Round Tables: Men, Gods, and Dinner in Late Antiquity”

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street, Seminar Room

Adam Smith (University of Chicago)
“The Political Machine: Sense, Sensibility, & Sentiment in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus”

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Joukowsky Institute Archaeology Colloquium:
Violence and Civilization
Friday, March 6-Sunday, March 8, 2009
http://proteus.brown.edu/violenceandcivilization/6694

Friday, March 6th at 5:30 pm
MacMillan Hall, Room 115

Violence and Civilization Keynote Speaker:
Bruce Lincoln (University of Chicago)
“Sanctified Violence in Ancient Mediterranean Religions: A Typological Overview”

Saturday, March 7th, 8:45 AM-4:30 PM
MacMillan Hall, Room 115

Speakers:
Rod Campbell (Brown University): "Transformations of Violence: On Humanity and Inhumanity in Early China"
Severin Fowles (Barnard College): "On Torture in Societies Against the State"
Catherine Lutz (Brown University): "The Military Normal: Feeling at Home with Counterinsurgency in the United States"
Rebecca Molholt (Brown University): "Violence and Leisure in Roman North Africa"
Kerry Smith (Brown University): "Punishing Violence: State-Sanctioned Killing and the Destruction of Tokyo, 1923"
Edward Swenson (University of Toronto): “Dramas of the Dialectic: Sacrifice and Power in Ancient Polities”



All events are free and open to the public.


Upcoming Events:

Michael Galaty (Millsaps College)
Comparative Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Border Zone Archaeology
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Michael Shanks (Stanford University)
From Walter Scott’s Marmion to William Gell’s Morea: Some Lessons in Topography and Topology for Contemporary Reconstructions of Antiquity
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Alison Wylie (University of Washington)
Legacies of Collaboration: Transformative Criticism in Archaeology
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

Joan Breton Connelly (New York University)
Ritual Movement Through Sacred Space: Procession, Dance, and Footrace within Greek Landscapes
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

For more upcoming events, visit http://www.brown.edu/joukowskyinstitute/events/