Pizza Talk

VIRTUAL PIZZA TALK: Makers’ Space/Making Space: An Interdisciplinary Imagining of the Lived Experiences of Ancient Athenian Potters and Painters

Submitted by kluu on September 29, 2020 - 10:53am

Sanchita Balachandran, Senior Lecturer in Near Eastern Studies & Associate Director, Johns Hopkins University & Museum
Wednesday, October 14th, 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

  

VIRTUAL PIZZA TALK: Archaeology and Conservation: Aphrodisias, Troy, and Gordion, 1980-2020

Submitted by kluu on September 29, 2020 - 10:37am

Dr. C. Brian  Rose, Professor of Archaeology & Curator in Charge, Mediterranean Section, University of Pennsylvania & Museum
Wednesday, October 7th, 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

Drawing on personal experience, this lecture explores the relationship between archaeology and conservation at three sites in Turkey, focusing on both object and architectural conservation. The speaker was co-director at Troy for 25 years (1988-2012), and director of Gordion since 2013.

Virtual Pizza Talk: Shimásání Dóó Shicheii Bi’ólta’ - My Grandmother’s and Grandfather’s School: The Old Leupp Boarding School, a Historic Archaeological Site on the Navajo Reservation

Submitted by dwhitmore on August 3, 2020 - 9:44am

Davina Two Bears' research documents the history of the Old Leupp Boarding School (OLBS), a Federal Indian boarding school on the Navajo Reservation, from 1909 to 1942, as it explores Diné (Navajo) survivance within the context of this school.

VIRTUAL PIZZA TALK: ICONOGRAPHY AND SYMBOLISM OF THE CELESTIAL DOMAIN AND THE PERCEPTION OF SPACE IN THE EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE

Submitted by kluu on April 9, 2020 - 2:21pm

SPEAKER:
Alessandro Vanzetti
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Associate Professor in Pre- & Protohistory
Short-term Visiting Scholar

The lecture will present the main evidence for the symbolic representation of the celestial domain in the European Bronze Age, with some extension to the former Late Neolithic (also named Copper Age) and to the ensuing Iron Age. An iconographic analysis is necessary in order to decode (or try to) the representations.