New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
Tell Edfu, Egypt
Cyprus
Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
fieldwork projects
New Orleans
Tell Edfu, Egypt
Cyprus
Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
fieldwork projects
New Orleans
Cyprus
New Orleans
Cyprus Project
Cyprus Project
Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus
Dian Lake Region, China
workshops
Ancient Societies Workshop
Autumn Quarter 2022:
11 October – Anthony Kaldellis (UChicago, Classics)
“A thousand pages for a thousand years: Merging the granular and the macroscopic”
25 October – Luiza Osorio Guimaraes da Silva (UChicago, NELC)
“Was Pharaoh Egypt?: The Monumentalization of Kingship in the Past and Present”
15 November – Sunwoo Lee (UChicago, NELC)
“What does Pharaoh have to do with Medicine?”
29 November – Sophia Alkhoury (UChicago, Classics)
“Addressing the Gods: Language and Strategies in the Metrical Logoi of GEM 57”
The workshop meets at 3:30pm.
Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
Autumn Quarter 2022:
Theme for 2022-23 is: Archaeology in and of the Present
12th October
"Notes from the Field -- Panel Discussion: Understanding Archaeology as an International Field"
with Dr. Adrian Chase, PhD Candidate Didi El-Behaedi, and Dr. Estefanía Vidal Montero
Social hour to follow
18th October – Joint with African Studies Workshop
5pm in Foster 107 with welcome-back event to follow (Note non-canonical time and place)
Kelsey Rooney (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
"Senegambian Harbors of the Atlantic trade: A Maritime Archaeology Approach"
26th October
Ari Au (Recent M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago)
“Pazyryk Art in Context”
2nd November
Harrison Morin (PhD Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
“Movement, Power, and Visibility at the Kushan Dynastic Temple of Surkh Kotal: A Geospatial Approach”
11th November – Classics Department Danziger Lecture Follow-Up Event
4pm (Note non-canonical time)
Dr. David Wengrow (Professor of Comparative Archaeology, University College London)
A continuing conversation with students about Dr. Wengrow’s Danziger Lecture on November 10th (Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 107)
16th November – Joint with African Studies Workshop
(Date is tentative)
Dr. Matthew Knisley (Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
“TBD”
To be added to our mailing list, and for copies of papers, please email us at balc@uchicago.edu and urban@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.).