workshops
Ancient Societies Workshop
Winter Quarter 2025:
Tuesday, January 7 - Samantha Suppes (UChicago, MES PhD)
"Shrewd as Serpents: Snake Imagery on Bronze and Iron Age Ceramics of the Southern Levant"
Tuesday, January 21 (with Rhetoric and Poetics) - Justin Miller (University of Michigan)
"The Stele of Diphilos, Son of Greek [sic]: Rethinking Writing, Language, and Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt"
Tuesday, February 4 - Sheena Finnigan (UChicago, History Lecturer)
"Motherhood and Non-Motherhood in Classical Rome"
Tuesday, February 18 - Brett Kaufman (University of Illinois)
"The Other Democracy: The Phoenician Assembly in Near Eastern and Mediterranean Context"
Tuesday, March 4 - Naomi Harris (UChicago, MES PhD)
TBD
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
Winter Quarter 2025:
29 January
Ludivine Audebert
PhD Student, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Visiting Student, University of Chicago
Miniaturized Vessels, Maximized Expectations? Preliminary Thoughts on Interpretations of Miniature Vessels and Their Manufacturing Techniques Based on Material from Chogha Mish, South-Western Iran, Late Chalcolithic
5 February
Harrison Morin
PhD Student, MES, University of Chicago
CAMEL Lab Workshop
Tech from the Field: A Practical Walkthrough of Total Stations, Emlid RTKs, and LiDAR Photogrammetry on Mobile Devices
19 February
Dr Jonathan Lim
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center For Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas
Nalaquq/It is Found: Protecting Heritage and Co-Creating Knowledge With Technology in Southwest Alaska
26 February
Daniel Hansen
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Heritage and the Structure of the Material Encounter at Pictish Places
5 March
Kelsey Rooney
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago
TBA
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.).