workshops
Ancient Societies Workshop
Autumn Quarter 2024:
October 17th - Alexa Herlands (PhD Candidate, History)
"Reading Tetrabiblos in Medieval Iberia: Race, Climate & Astrological Geography"
October 24th - Maddie Ouimet (PhD Student, NELC)
"Can GIS Model Ancient Nomadic Movement? A Case Study Among the Qashqa'i Nomads of Southwest Iran in the 20th Century CE"
November 7th - Sofía Torallas-Tovar (Professor, Classics and NELC) , Jordan Johansen (Teaching Fellow, Classics), Sophia Alkhoury (PhD Student, Classics)
"In the Dungeons of the Louvre: Material Research on a Magical Papyrus Roll"
November 14th - James Wolfe (Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan)
"Rethinking the Historiography of Syriac and Armenian Liminality in Late Antiquity"
The workshop meets Tuesdays at 3:30pm in Classics 21.
Contact Christian Borgen at cborgen@uchicago.edu if you have any questions or are interested in presenting in future quarters.
Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
Autumn Quarter 2024:
16 October
Archaeology Social
5:30 pm, The Pub @ Ida Noyes Hall
23 October
Prof Sarah Newman
Assistant Professor in Anthropology, University of Chicago
Invisible Landscapes: Infrastructure and Temporality in Amazonia and Arabia
30 October
Aqiil Gopee
PhD Student, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Aphasic Landscapes: An Archaeology of Non-Events in Colonial Mauritius
6 November
Harrison Morin
PhD Student, NELC, University of Chicago
The Kushan Superposition: Approaching Empire and Imperialism in Kushan Central and South Asia
13 November
Dr Ester Rodríguez Gonzáles
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Archaeology in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) andNeubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow
Earth Architecture as a Social Product: The Case Studies of Casas del Turuñuelo (Spain) and the M‘hamid Oasis(Morocco)
20 November
Nikki Grigg
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Save the Past for the Future!": Collections Research in Washington, D.C.
All workshop sessions will be held, unless otherwise noted, on Wednesdays from 3:30 – 5 pm in the Lasalle Banks Room of the ISAC Museum or in room 315 in Haskell Hall.
To be added to our mailing list, and for copies of papers, please email us at willshine@uchicago.edu and llollkova@uchicago.edu. IAW continues to accept proposals on a rolling basis for Winter and Spring quarters. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Other UChicago Workshops of Interest
The University of Chicago sponsors over 70 interdisciplinary workshops on a wide range of themes. These venues bring together graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars from multiple disciplines to discuss cutting edge work in progress (book or dissertation chapters, journal articles, etc.).