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Roger Michel
Executive Director, The Institute for Digital Archaeology
Please submit your questions in advance of the webinar via email to:
hnadworny@support.ucla.edu by Wednesday, October 12 at 12:00 p.m.
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About the program:
The Parthenon Marbles, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by the sculptor Phidias, they were eventually sold to the British government in 1817 and are housed in the British Museum. Public debate about repatriating the marbles is heated and ongoing.Can the creation of exact copies of the originals resolve the repatriation quandary? Roger Michel, executive director of the Institute of Digital Archaeology, at the University of Oxford, believes the repatriation issue can be resolved with the help of 3-D machining. His research team has developed a robot with the ability to create faithful copies of large historical objects. Michel will explore humanity’s connection to culturally significant objects and the emphasis we place on physical possession. Is possession an inherently colonial concept? Are heritage assets particularly susceptible to being exploited for the purposes of historical revisionism? Under what circumstances can copies provide satisfactory substitutes for original material? These questions will be examined against the backdrop of the IDA’s ongoing Elgin repatriation efforts.
About the speaker:
Roger Michel is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA). The IDA operates globally, undertaking a huge variety of heritage projects, many of which are aimed at advancing social justice goals. Its principal partners are the UN, UNESCO and local and national governments. Mr Michel has published and lectured frequently on various heritage conservation topics. He was a member of the faculty at BU Law School for 25 years, is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College (Oxford), and is co-publisher of Arion Magazine. Mr Michel is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities.
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Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
George F. Dales Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Date & time: April 9th, 2022 at 1:00PM PT
A general overview of the Indus Civilization will be presented along with discussions of how archaeologists find sites, how they excavate them and how they study the artifacts that are discovered from the sites. Special focus will be on some of the traditional as well as innovative new techniques that archaeologists use to discover sites. It will also cover some important analytical approaches that are used to study different types of artifacts to gain unique information about the technologies and social organization of the ancient Indus communities.
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, is the George F. Dales Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor of Anthropology, at the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of numerous books and edited volumes on the archaeology of South Asia and the Indus civilization. He has excavated key ancient cities and elucidated contemporary urban patterns in Pakistan and India. He is a leading figure in South Asian archaeology, history, and ancient civilizations.
Contact Michelle Jacobson
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Jorge Coronado
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Northwestern University
Sponsors: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and UCLA Latin American Institute
Contact Alba Menéndez Pereda and Elyse Brusher
Email albamenendez@ucla.edu and ebrusher@ucla.edu
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Willeke Wendrich, MODERATOR
Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology & Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California Los Angeles
Angela McArdle
Senior Historic Preservation Specialist, Department of Veterans Affairs
Albert Gonzalez
Associate Professor of Anthropology & Director of the C.E. Smith Museum of Anthropology, California State University, East Bay
Kristina Douglass
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Penn State University
Stephen Acabado
Associate Professor of Anthropology & Director, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Sarah Herr
President, Desert Archaeology Inc.
Julie Stein
Executive Director of the Burke Museum & Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
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A book release seminar sponsored by STRI, Panama and the Panamanian ministry of culture. This new book, written in Spanish, presents recent archaeological research in Panama. The book is the first tome devoted to Panamanian archaeology published in Spanish in Panama.
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The UCLA Graduate Student Association of Archaeology, an affiliate of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, invites you to attend our 9th UCLA Graduate Archaeology Research Conference. This two day virtual event will take place February 4th (4-5pm PST), and February 5th (9am-4pm PST) 2022.
Titled “ReVisioning the Future of Archaeology,” we ask: who is archaeology for, and what tools will we use to (re)design its future? The keynote speaker and graduate presenters will explore topics that consider various questions about archaeology’s role in the present. Topics that bring new ideas, new resources, and new approaches together into an interdisciplinary dialogue.
“ReVisioning the Future of Archaeology” seeks to engage with the greater community, and take into consideration artistic visions, collective and community memory, and diverse points of view in order to produce more inclusive practices and an equitable discipline.
On the first day, Friday February 4, we will have our keynote speaker, Dr. Uzma Rizvi speak. On Saturday, we will hear from our graduate student presenters., who will present for 20 minutes each, followed by a Q&A and discussion.
View the conference website here.
Schedule of Events
Friday, February 4th: 4-5pm PST
Keynote address, "The Future Was ___________: A time outside this time" by Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Archaeology, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan
With nearly two decades of work on decolonizing methodologies, intersectional and feminist strategies, and transdisciplinary approaches, Rizvi's work has intentionally pushed disciplinary limits, and demanded ethical decolonial praxis at all levels of engagement, from teaching to research.
Saturday, February 5th: 9am-4pm PST
9:00am -10:45am, Session 1: "Multivocal Perspectives on Heritage and Belonging"
11:00am -12:45pm Session 2: "Technological Futures in Archaeology"
2:00-3:45 pm Session 3: "Performing Archaeology: Re-Engaging with Materials and Their Stories"
Register for the conference here.
Contact Taylor Carr-Howard
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Miguel Guzmán Juárez
Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad Ricardo de Palma
Registration Link: http://tinyurl.com/AndArchTalkMG
Note: This talk will be delivered in Spanish.
Sponsors: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and UCLA Latin American Institute
Contact Rachel Schloss & Syon Vasquez
Email rachelschloss@g.ucla.edu & syon@g.ucla.edu
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Leo Garofalo
Department of History, Connecticut College
A discussion of how to study the social history of ethnic groups viewed as marginal in the colonial Andean cities of the 16th and 17th centuries. Studies cases of: indigenous migrants to cities like Lima and Cuzco, including those from Central America and Chile; African and African descendants, including Afro-Iberians, in both cities and present in rural areas production; and people arriving to Peru from in early trans-Pacific diaspora. These constitute three challenging cases for historical study, requiring extra work to detect their traces in the archives and other period sources.
Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/AWGTalk
Contact Alba Menéndez Pereda & Elyse Brusher
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The Teen Friends of Archaeology is excited to invite you to a lecture on the extensive site of Çatalhöyük by Dr. Ian Hodder:
The joys and blunders of 25 years of work at the 9000 year-old town of Çatalhöyük
Register at https://bit.ly/3BBWF0N
Ian Hodder is the Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford, and Director of the Stanford Archaeology Center. He previously taught in the Cambridge Archaeology department. Professor Hodder has also been conducting the excavation of the 9,000 year-old Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey since 1993. He is a well-published author who is known for his numerous books and papers on a wide variety of archaeological subjects.
Photos by Jason Quinlan, courtesy of the Çatalhöyük Research Project.
Contact Michelle Jacobson
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Contact Michelle Jacobson
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