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SUMMARY:Getting Blood from a Stone: Excavations at a Paleolithic Oasis in Azraq\, Northwest Jordan
DESCRIPTION:April Nowell\, Associate Professor\, University of Victoria \n \nOver the millenia\, Azraq\, NW Jordan\, has borne witness to multiple migrations of early human ancestors including Homo erectus and Neandertals\, many of whom left behind clues about their ways of life in an often challenging environment. One particularly rich archaeological locale is the 250\,000 year-old Shishan Marsh site in southern Azraq. Based on studies of the inhabitants’ stone tools (some with blood residue still on them!) and the diverse strategies they used to hunt and scavenge their prey\, it was discovered that these early humans were surprisingly sophisticated technologically\, socially and cognitively. \nDr. April Nowell is a Paleolithic archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. She directs an international team of scientists in the study of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in Jordan She directs an international team of researcher in the study of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in Jordon and is known for her publications on cognitive archaeology\, Paleolithic art\, the Archaeology of children\, and the relationship between science\, pop culture and the media. She is the author of Growing up in the Ice Age (2021) \nZoom link: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/98290723721 \nPresented under the patronage of the Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan\, and in collaboration with the College of the Humanities of Carleton University.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/getting-blood-from-a-stone/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220220T140000
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SUMMARY:The Kingdom of Kadmos: Research at Ancient Eleon in Central Greece
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brendan Burke\, Andrew W. Mellon Professor\, American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Professor Greek and Roman Studies\, University of Victoria \n \nThe talk will present the results of the excavations by the Canadian Institute in Greece in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia from 2012–2018. The site of Eleon had never been explored archaeologically before this work. We have discovered a cemetery of the Early Mycenaean period (ca. 1600 BCE)\, a late Helladic settlement (1200–1100 BCE) and evidence for an Archaic–Classical period sanctuary. \nBrendan Burke is a former interim Academic Director of the Canadian Institute in Greece\, he continues to serve on the Board of Directors and chairs the Survey and Excavation Committee and the Vision and Mission Committee. While completing his PhD at UCLA he spent three years in Greece\, excavating at Corinth\, on Methana\, and working at the Phrygian capital of Gordion in central Turkey\, focussing on the economics of cloth production in the Minoan\, Mycenaean\, Phrygian worlds\, spanning the Bronze Age through the Iron Age. Since 2007\, he has been co–directing the EasternBoeotia Archaeological Project in central Greece\, leading the excavation at ancient Eleon which spans the early Mycenaean period through the Medieval age. This talk will present the most recent results from excavation and survey between 2017–2021. \nZoom link: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/95404311966
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-kingdom-of-kadmos-research-at-ancient-eleon-in-central-greece/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220203T190000
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SUMMARY:Understanding Jerusalem: The Holy City and Why it Matters
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Darby’s presentation will draw upon historical and cultural context to explain the impact of archaeology in Jerusalem on various people groups and religious traditions\, helping to elucidate why archaeological exploration continues to be intertwined with international politics\, nationalism\, and cultural identity. \nErin Darby is an Associate Professor of Early Judaism and Faculty Director of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at the University of Tennessee. She has worked as an archaeologist in Israel since 2003 and in Jordan since 2008\, and her research has taken her to Egypt\, Syria\, and Turkey as well. In addition to her other scholarly work\, Dr. Darby has an interest in the way archaeological sites–like Jerusalem– feature in modern political decision-making and soft diplomacy and how archaeology intersects with nationalism\, tourism\, and local economies. \nOrganised by The Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies and the College of the Humanities of Carleton University. \nOnline Zoom lecture; pre-registration required. \nTo register: https://carleton.ca/jewishstudies/registration-understanding-jerusalem-the-holy-city-and-why-it-matters/
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/understanding-jerusalem-the-holy-city-and-why-it-matters/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220116T140000
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SUMMARY:Incense and the Nativity Cycle on the Sion Treasure Censer
DESCRIPTION:Dr. John Osborne\, Distinguished Research Professor and Dean emeritus\, Carleton University \nWhat is incense? Where does it come from? What was its role in early Christianity and why was this considered controversial by contemporary theologians? Why and when did incense burners become important liturgical instruments\, often made from precious metals such as gold and silver? And how does their decoration reflect their function? These and other related questions will be addressed in a talk that takes as its starting point a remarkable gilded silver incense burner discovered at Kumluca in south-western Turkey\, part of the so-called Sion treasure\, datable by its control stamps to approximately the year 565 CE\, and now in the Antalya Museum. The censer is decorated with scenes related to the account of the birth of Jesus contained in a second-century apocryphal text known as the Protoevangelium of James. \nJohn Osborne is Distinguished Research Professor and Dean Emeritus at Carleton University\, and an Associate Fellow and Member of the Academic Council of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. He is currently also a Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art\, University of London\, where he received his doctorate in 1979. His recent publications include Rome in the Eighth Century: a history in art (Cambridge University Press 2020)\, and a co-edited volume Santa Maria Antiqua: The Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages (Brepols/Harvey Miller Press 2021). \nZoom link: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/99256715293
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/incense-and-the-nativity-cycle-on-the-sion-treasure-censer/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211107T140000
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SUMMARY:Heroes on the Move: Greek Heroes in the Hellenistic World
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Herring\, Department of Art and Art History\, Loyola Marymount University \nHeroes were a key part of the cultural imperialism of Alexander and his successors\, who brought the cults and myths of Greek heroes to the territories they conquered\, actively connecting them with local gods and founding sites for their worship. Following their conquests\, heroes\, their cults\, and images were well established across the Hellenistic east. Yet\, the Hellenistic heroes differed from those of earlier periods\, with new methods of depiction and characterization\, and many of the most widely worshipped and depicted heroes of the Hellenistic period were not the same as in earlier periods and in the Greek cities of the mainland. Herakles did maintain his position as the most popular hero. Inscriptions honoring Herakles have been found in Ai Khanoum in Bactria\, and images of the hero have been at a number of sites in central Asia. A relief of Herakles decorated the tumulus at Nemrud Dağ\, and his exploits were popular subjects on architectural sculpture produced elsewhere in Anatolia. It does not appear\, however\, that Herakles was popular because he was the ultimate Greek hero\, but rather because of his status as a wandering hero. His travels and exploits could be connected to various locations\, allowing for the establishment of specifically local cults and myths. Many of the other popular heroes in the period also fit the mould of the wandering hero. For instance\, reliefs commemorating the cult of Bellerophon have been found at Aphrodisias\, and his images have been found in Bactria. Jason\, Medea\, and Ariadne also enjoyed widespread popularity. This lecture will examine how these heroes were depicted in art and the evidence for where and how they were worshipped. It will consider how heroes were transformed from tools of conquest to loci of local identity and cult\, focusing on the changed role of heroes in the Hellenistic period\, and how modifications to the character and stories of the heroes served the local populations of the Hellenistic east. \nAmanda Herring received her BA in Art History and Classical Archaeology from Dartmouth College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA.  At Loyola Marymount she teaches courses on the art and architecture of the ancient world. With a specialization in Hellenistic Greece\, her research explores how architecture and sculpture were used as expression of cultural and ideological identities in a period of rapid social and political change.  In particular\, she has examined the Temple of Hekate at Lagina\, the Temple of Artemis at Magnesia on the Meander\, and the statue of the Barberini Faun.  Her research also examines the reception of the classical past in the modern world\, and recent publications have focused on the history of archaeology in 19th century Ottoman Empire.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/heroes-on-the-move/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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SUMMARY:The Life and Death of Tombs: The Excavation of the Mycenaean Cemetery at Ayia Sotira in the Nemea Valley\, Greece
DESCRIPTION:Dr. R. Angus K. Smith\, Brock University\n\nFrom 2006 to 2008 an international team conducted archaeological excavations at the threatened late Bronze Age site of Ayia Sotira near Nemea\, Greece.  These excavations saved a cemetery of Mycenaean tombs from looting and revealed new information about the complex mortuary rituals that surrounded the use and reuse of communal tombs during the 14th and 13th centuries BCE. This talk will describe the excavations and what these tombs revealed\, and put them in the larger context of death in Mycenaean Greece. \n\n\nDr. R Angus K. Smith is Associate Professor of Greek Archeology with the Classics Department of Brock University; he holds his degrees from Dartmouth College\, Cambridge University (M.Phil) and Bryn Mawr College (MA\, PhD). His research interests are Greek archaeology\, Aegean prehistory\, ceramic analysis and mortuary analysis.  He is currently Associate Director of excavations at the Minoan town of Gournia on Crete\, and he was Co-Director of the recently completed Ayia Sotira excavation project at Nemea.  Professor Smith is the 2018 recipient of the Brock University Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity.  He was President of the Canadian Institute in Greece and is President of the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. \nPresented jointly by the Ottawa and Toronto Chapters.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/life-and-death-of-tombs/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211024T140000
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SUMMARY:Unpicking Dido's Weaving: Aeneas' Carthaginian Cloak
DESCRIPTION:Aven McMaster\, Professor Emerita of Thorneloe University and Instructor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax\n\nThe purple cloak worn by Aeneas\, woven by Dido\, in lines 4.261-4 of the Aeneid\, has connections to Homeric and Hellenistic epic\, Greek tragedy\, Roman lyric and elegiac poetry\, and Horace’s Epodes. This lecture will explore the rich resonances of this passage in the Aeneid\, and show that these connections combine to imply that Dido has woven this cloak as an attempt to play the role of a good Roman wife\, but that her attempt is undercut by mistakes in her choices of literary and mythical models. This both emphasizes her perception of the relationship with Aeneas as a marriage and undermines its legitimacy in the eyes of a Roman reader\, supporting Aeneas’ choice to leave her. \n\n\nDr. Aven McMaster received her B.A.\, M.A.\, and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Toronto. She was an Associate Professor in the Ancient Studies Department at Thorneloe University\, federated with Laurentian University\, until the university was forced to close this spring because of Laurentian’s financial difficulties. She is currently teaching courses at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. Her specialization is Latin poetry\, especially of the late Republic and Augustan periods\, and its connections to the patron-client system of Rome and related concerns over gratitude\, obligation\, and status. She has also published on ancient sexuality and modern reception of the classical world. She is an active public scholar: she is the co-host of a podcast on language and history (The Endless Knot Podcast) and helps produce videos for a related YouTube channel on etymology. Most recently\, she has been considering issues around Indigenization and Classics. \nPDF poster
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/unpicking-dido/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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SUMMARY:Dante and Theology in Vico’s Philosophy of History
DESCRIPTION:Domenico Pietropaolo\, Professor Emeritus\, University of Toronto \n \nIn Vico’s theory of the Ideal Eternal History of civilization\, Dante appears as the Homer of the late Middle-Ages\, which Vico regarded as a typological return of the heroic age of the ancient Mediterranean in Christian Europe. A central principle of Vico’s philosophy of history is that\, in the creative imagination of every age\, poetry and metaphysics\, including theology\, are inversely related. Vico knew that this principle was at odds with Dante’s Commedia\, in which one could not easily separate poetry from theology or metaphysics without dissolving away the text itself. He struggled with the problem for a long time\, periodically revisiting details of it as he elaborated both his philosophy of history and his theory of the creative imagination. In this lecture we shall examine salient aspects of his ongoing reflection on the Commedia and his chief arguments for a general hermeneutic grounded in the idea of a Christian ricorso of the poetic age of the ancient Mediterranean. \nProfessor Domenico Pietropaolo was President of CIMS for several years.  He is professor of Italian literature and theatrical studies at the University of Toronto\,  where he was also director of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama and the Department of Italian Studies as well as Dean of St. Michael’s College. His main interests are the dramaturgy of staging and the study of theatrical processes\, medieval Italian literature\, modern theatre and Futurism.  His main publications include the volumes Semiotics of the Christian Imagination\, Semiotics and Pragmatic of Stage Improvisations and Dante studies in the Age of Vico and numerous essays on literary and theatrical history.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/dante-and-theology/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210429T190000
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SUMMARY:Who Created Florence? Making a Renaissance City
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Terpstra\, University of Toronto \n \nFlorence stands out for many as embodying the peak of Italian Renaissance creativity.  But what made it the artistic centre that we see today? Many Renaissance cities had artists\, architects\, authors\, and musicians\, but few have the reputation that Florence continues to enjoy as the place to go in order to immerse yourself in the culture of the Renaissance.  To understand why\, we have to go beyond the artists themselves and look at those who later collected\, conserved\, and (re)created the art and architecture we see today.  This lecture will move form a fifteenth century creator\, to a sixteenth century collector\, an eighteenth century conservor\, and a group of nineteenth century expatriates in order to answer the question of “who created Florence” as the modern Renaissance capital that we see today. \nGenerously funded by Joe Di Geso. Presented jointly by CIMS Ottawa and CIMS Toronto.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/who-created-florence-making-a-renaissance-city/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210418T150000
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CREATED:20210519T191204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T035235Z
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SUMMARY:Digging Homer: The Mycenaean Palace at Iklaina and the Birth of Greek Epic Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael B. Cosmopoulos\, Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Professor of Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology\, University of Missouri-St. Louis \nFor thousands of years Homer’s Iliad has remained the classic tale of love\, honor\, and war. Exciting archaeological discoveries in the past 150 years have unearthed the great palaces of the Homeric heroes and revived the fascinating society of the Mycenaeans. In antiquity itself\, and in our memory of antiquity\, the great palaces at Mycenae\, Tiryns\, Pylos\, and Troy stand at the crossroads between myths and historical reality. The world of the Mycenaeans still holds\, however\, many surprises. Recent excavations at the site of Iklaina have brought to light one of the capitals of the Mycenaean state of Pylos. Massive Cyclopean structures\, monumental buildings decorated with beautiful wall paintings\, advanced urban infrastructure\, and the earliest known records of state bureaucracy challenge current knowledge about the origins and operation of Mycenaean states and allow us a glimpse into previously unknown aspects of the Homeric epics. In this illustrated lecture Professor Cosmopoulos will present the exciting archaeological discoveries at Iklaina and discuss their significance for the historical foundation of Homer’s epics. \nDr. Michael B. Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Professor of Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology\, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Before coming to UMSL\, he was Professor of Classics at the University of Manitoba. His research interests are the culture\, religion\, and political organization of ancient Greece\, about which he was published 16 books and over 100 scholarly articles and papers. He has excavated at several ancient sites in Greece and Ukraine and is currently directing the Iklaina Archaeological Project. For his teaching he has been awarded several teaching awards\, including the Archaeological Institute of America Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, of the Academy of Science St. Louis\, of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts\, a Corresponding Member of the Athens Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and a National Geographic Society Explorer. For more information please visit www.michaelcosmopoulos.org
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/digging-homer-the-mycenaean-palace-at-iklaina-and-the-birth-of-greek-epic-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210321T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210321T150000
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SUMMARY:Anatomy as Religion: The Body in Ancient Italian Votive Practice
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rebecca Flemming\, Jesus College\, Cambridge University. \n \nTens of thousands of votive objects\, mostly in terracotta\, survive from religious sanctuaries across Republican central Italy (from the fourth to the first centuries BC). Many are in the shape of body parts\, external and internal\, single and multiple\, even displayed within a whole human torso or figure\, and they are usually interpreted as representing engagements with the divine about health and healing\, broadly construed. They offer key insights into both religion in early Italy and ideas about the human body. This lecture first offers an overview of the extant material and the cult practice\, the address and thanks to the gods that these artefacts embody\, summarizing both recent finds and new scholarship on the phenomenon of the anatomical ex-voto. The focus then turns to the ‘polyviscera’\, the objects which depict multiple organs\, in a range of presentational styles\, and to the meanings they might have\, both in terms of the ways the human body was understood in antiquity\, and the ways divinities might be invited to intervene in it. \nCo-sponsored by the Ottawa Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/anatomy-as-religion-the-body-in-ancient-italian-votive-practice/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210307T140000
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CREATED:20210622T212631Z
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SUMMARY:Renaissance Readers and Their Books: Representations of a Fugitive Act
DESCRIPTION:Antonio Ricci\, York University \n \nThe image of a person holding a book appears frequently in Renaissance art and literature. The privileged status of texts in humanist culture and their proliferation after the coming of print technology contributed to the motif’s popularity. This lecture will examine depictions of readers in paintings and poems of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The intention is to recover aspects of the experience of reading during the period and\, at the same time\, to gain a measure of insight into what remains an elusive phenomenon. What does reading mean? What is it\, really\, that we are doing when we engage in this fundamentally human act? The Renaissance offers us intriguing answers. \nGenerously funded by Joe Di Geso. \nPresented jointly by CIMS Ottawa and CIMS Toronto.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/renaissance-readers-and-their-books-representations-of-a-fugitive-act/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210221T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210221T150000
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SUMMARY:The Beauty and Enigma of Roman Crete
DESCRIPTION:Professor George W. M. Harrison\, Carleton University \nTourists are attracted to Crete for the splendours of Minoan Knossos and other Bronze Age sites. The architecture of Roma Crete is as substantial as the earlier periods and the importance of Crete to the Roman Empire rivals the earlier periods. Dr. Harrison looks at the key sites but also presents material from sites tourists rarely see. The paper balances information with interpretation of the data and limitations of the evidence\, particularly as applied to Romanization. Comparisons with Ottoman Crete/Crete during enosis with Greece are made especially in two areas: the micro-economies of thrift and the crucial influence of new technologies on culture. \nDr. Harrison first started working on Crete in 1980 as a graduate student and in 2008 was elected to the Société internationale des amis de Nikos Kazantzakis.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-beauty-and-enigma-of-roman-crete/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201118T190000
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SUMMARY:Portraits of a Forgotten Kingdom: Tayanat Sculptures and Other Recent Discoveries on the Plain of Antioch in Southeastern Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Timothy Harrison\, Professor\, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations\, University of Toronto \n \nThe remains of a series of majestic sculptures have been uncovered during the University of Toronto’s ongoing excavations at Tell Tayinat (ancient Kunulua)\, royal city of the Neo–Hittite Kingdom of Palastin/Walastin\, located in the North Orontes Valley\, southeastern Turkey. The sculptures\, found carefully deposited in the vicinity of a monumental gate leading to the site’s upper mound\, or citadel\, include the head and torsos of male and female figures\, the latter intentionally—possibly ritually—defaced in antiquity\, a winged bull andsphinx\, and a magnificently carved lion figure. The sculptures date to the early 9th century BCE\, and they are identified in inscriptions as the representations of important royal figures in the ruling Neo–Hittite dynasty at Tayinat\, contemporary rivals of the Phoenicians and biblical Israelites to the south. The discovery of the Tayinat sculptures accentuates the remarkable sculptural tradition of the Iron Age communities of Syro–Anatolia\, and highlights the innovative role these communities played in thebroader cultural and political ferment witnessed in the eastern Mediterranean during the early centuries of the first millennium BCE. This illustrated lecture will present these extraordinary sculptures and other recent discoveries of the Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) excavations and contextualize these discoveries within the broader cultural milieu of the early first millennium eastern Mediterranean world.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/portraits-of-a-forgotten-kingdom-tayanat-sculptures-and-other-recent-discoveries-on-the-plain-of-antioch-in-southeastern-turkey/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201115T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201115T150000
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SUMMARY:New Sappho and Digital Forensics: Technology in the Service of Scholarly Integrity
DESCRIPTION:Professor C. Michael Sampson\,\, University of Manitoba. \nSappho\, the enigmatic Greek poet from the Island of Lesbos\, was praised for her poetic style and ridiculed for her supposed immorality even in antiquity. Subject to controversies about her life\, her family\, and of course\, her sexuality\, her poetry continues to be a focus of fascination and study. Her work survives almost entirely in small but precious fragments. \nIn 2014 a surprise announcement that two new fragmentary poems preserved on papyrus had been discovered\, one of which was five stanzas long\, made international headlines and excited scholars around the world. Soon thereafter\, however\, details of the discovery began to raise eyebrows: the provenance of the fragments—their origins\, acquisition\, and ownership history—were all very murky. \nResearch has subsequently shown that the history of the fragments is entangled in the sensational allegations\, featured repeatedly in major media outlets since 2019\, of the removal of and illicit trade in Oxyrhynchus papyri from the collection of the Egypt Exploration Society at Oxford. \nBiographical notes: \nProfessor Sampson is Associate Professor\, Faculty of Arts\, Department of Classics at the University of Manitoba. He obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan\, his MA from Dalhousie University and his BA from University of King’s College.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/new-sappho-and-digital-forensics-technology-in-the-service-of-scholarly-integrity/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201108T150000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20210622T213418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T003610Z
UID:129-1604844000-1604847600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Creativity in Aegean Bronze Art
DESCRIPTION:Professor Carl Knappett\, Department of Art\, University of Toronto \nProfessor Knappett brings novel perspectives to Aegean Bronze Age art that are inspired by theory drawn from art\, archaeology and anthropology. He identifies distinct actions such as modelling\, combining and imprinting whereby meaning is scaffolded through the materials themselves. By showing how these actions work\, Knappett brings life to the fascinating art of Minoan Crete. He makes an argument for not just how creativity emerges through specific material engagements but also why creativity might be especially valued at particular moments. \nBiographical Notes \nProfessor Knappett obtained his PhD in Archaeology at Cambridge University\, UK\, in 1997 and his BA/MA in Archaeology at St. John’s College\, Cambridge. He has been Professor at the University of Toronto since 2012 (Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory). \nHe had several appointments in both the Department of Art and Anthropology and Classics at the University of Toronto\, as well as member of several Committees in Paris\, Leuven\, Belgium\, London UK and was a Getty Scholar at the Research Institute in Los Angeles. He obtained several grants from SSHRC for his excavation projects in the Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro\, a Minoan harbour town in eastern Crete (PALAP). He is the author and editor of An Archaeology of Interaction (2011)\, Network Analysis in Archaeology (2013) and Thinking through Material Culture (2005).
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/creativity-in-aegean-bronze-art/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201004T150000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20210622T213221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211005T022927Z
UID:127-1601820000-1601823600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Exhibiting Nubia in Today's World
DESCRIPTION:Rita Freed\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. \n“Black Lives Matter\,” “colonialism\,” “institutionalized racism\,”…these are but a few of the issues confronting us today. Can archaeology – and specifically Nubian archaeology and culture make a positive contribution? I will argue a definitive “yes!” in this presentation\, which will showcase the superb Nubian collection of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, while owning up to past mistakes and addressing possible ways of correcting them to make ancient Nubia relevant in the world of the 21st Century. \nBiographical notes: \nRita Freed obtained her at BA from Wellesley College and her PhD in Near Eastern Art and Archaeology from New York University. She is currently Curator\, Department of Ancient Egyptian\, Nubian and Near Eastern Art\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1989-present) and Adjunct Professor\, Wellesley College (1991-present). Her previous positions included: Exhibition assistant of Egyptian Art\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1978-1982); Curator\, University of Memphis (1983); Founding Director\, Egyptian Gallery\, University of Memphis (1984); research assistant at the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Selected publications include: Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten\, Nefertiti\, Tutankhamen (co-authored\, 1999)\, Ramses II: The Great Pharaoh and His Time (1987)\, and numerous exhibition catalogues.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/exhibiting-nubia-in-todays-world/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200927T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200927T150000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20210622T213014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220106T063738Z
UID:123-1601215200-1601218800@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Imagining the Sights and Sounds of Ancient Ritual at the Yale University Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Carolyn Laferrière\, Yale University Art Gallery \nIn the ancient world\, religious rituals were multisensory experiences\, filled with vibrantly colored representations of supernatural beings\, resonant musical sounds\, billowing clouds of incense\, and the taste of food and drink. This lecture considers the ways in which these rituals appealed to the senses through objects that would have drawn worshippers into closer proximity to divine forces. \nDr. Carolyn M. Laferrière is a Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California’s new Center for the Premodern World. Previously\, she was a Postdoctoral Associate with Archaia\, Yale University’s program for the interdisciplinary study of the ancient world. \nShe earned her Ph.D. in 2017 from Yale in the Department of the History of Art. Her current book project\, Seeing the Songs of the Gods: Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art\, examines the significance of divine music in ancient Greek art\, exploring how musical sounds are communicated in a visual medium and the effect that images of the gods’ performance had upon ancient viewers. In 2018-19 she curated Sights and Sounds of Ancient Ritual\, an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery\, which took a cross-cultural approach to its investigation into the sensory experience of ancient ritual practice by focusing upon objects created and used by premodern worshippers in the Mediterranean\, China\, the Americas\, and the Indo-Pacific region.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/imagining-the-sights-ad-sounds-of-ancient-ritual-at-the-yale-university-art-galery/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120501
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20220325T142520Z
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UID:748-1335744000-1335830399@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Turkish Tulip: Its History and International Ties
DESCRIPTION:Füsun Ören
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/turkish-tulip-its-history-and-international-ties/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120501
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20220325T142416Z
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UID:746-1335744000-1335830399@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:The Turkish Exquisite Art of Ceramics and Its Impact in the Mediterranean Region
DESCRIPTION:Ersen Cogulu\, Docent\, National Gallery of Canada
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-turkish-exquisite-art-of-ceramics-and-its-impact-in-the-mediterranean-region/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20120316T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20120316T000000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20220325T141810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220325T141810Z
UID:743-1331856000-1331856000@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:DVD Screening of “Mozart in Turkey” featuring the opera “Abduction from the Seraglio”
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/dvd-screening-of-mozart-in-turkey-featuring-the-opera-abduction-from-the-seraglio/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20120219T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20120219T150000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20220325T141645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220325T142207Z
UID:741-1329660000-1329663600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Trojan War as Myth and History: An Anatolian Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Shane Hawkins\, Carleton University
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/trojan-war-as-myth-and-history-an-anatolian-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20111210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20111210T203000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20220208T052451Z
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UID:678-1323545400-1323549000@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:A Concert by Mauro Bertoli\, at the piano
DESCRIPTION:Mauro Bertoli\, Associate Performance Faculty Member\, Department of Music\, Carleton University. \nI. Music by composers of the 18th century: Paradisi\,Cimarosa\, Scarlatti\, ClementiII Dedicated to children \, with music by Rossini; Casella; RotaIII. LizstIV The Moderns: Pizzetti; Martucci\, Wolf Ferrari.Mauro Bertoli\, pianist\, born in Italy\, winner of many International Piano Competitions\, has established himself on the international stage and has been praised by the press for his formidable technique and his exceptional sensitivity. He has performed as soloist\, chamber music and with orchestra for important Festivals and in major concert halls throughout Europe\, North America\, Israel\, Brazil and China. He presently lives in Ottawa where he is Associate Performance Faculty Member\, Department of Music\, at Carleton University.\n \nPresented in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/a-concert-by-mauro-bertoli-at-the-piano/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20111205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20111205T203000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
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UID:676-1323113400-1323117000@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:The Christianization of the Roman Forum in the Early Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:John Osborne\, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences\, Carleton University \nThe Roman Forum stood at the heart of the ancient city\, replete with temples\, basilicas\, and numerous other buildings\, both public and private. But visitors to the city in the 19th century describe it as a cow pasture\, devoid of habitation. This talk will explore what happened to the Roman Forum in the centuries after the emperors moved to Constantinople\, and responsibility for the upkeep of the city slowly devolved from the state to the Christian church\, in the person of Rome’s bishop\, the pope. What was the effect of this transformation on the physical space at the centre of the city? And how long did the Roman Forum remain in use before it fell into decay?John Osborne is a medievalist and cultural historian\, with a special focus on the art and archaeology of the cities of Rome and Venice in the period between the sixth and thirteenth centuries. His numerous publications cover topics as varied as the Roman catacombs\, the fragmentary mural paintings from excavated churches such as San Clemente and S. MariaAntiqua\, the decorative program of the church of San Marco in Venice\, 17th-century antiquarian drawings of medieval monuments\, and the medieval understanding and use of Rome’s heritage of ancient buildings and statuary. He is also interested in problems of cultural transmission between Western Europe and Byzantium. A graduate of Carleton University\, the University of Toronto\, and the University of London\, he has held faculty and administrative positions at theUniversity of Victoria (1979-2001) and Queen’s University (2001-2005)\, and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton. Promoted to the rank of full professor in 1989\, he has held visiting fellowships at Corpus Christi College\, Cambridge; the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini\, Venice; and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies\, Washington. In 2006 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the British School at Rome.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-christianization-of-the-roman-forum-in-the-early-middle-ages/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20111019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20111019T190000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20220208T051730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T052803Z
UID:673-1319047200-1319050800@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:New Light on the Etruscans
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Smith\, Director\, British School in Rome \nProfessor Smith’s lecture on the Etruscans will cover new theories on the mysterious Etruscans who retain their fascination for modern audiences – the combination of stunning artwork\, and the alleged ‘mystery’ of their language and origins are enticing. In this lecture\, recent work in Etruria will be discussed which begins to change the ways we think about the Etruscans – and to make them at the same time somewhat less mysterious\, but perhaps even more interesting. \nChristopher Smith was educated at Oxford University\, and is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. He is currently Director of the British School at Rome\, a leading research centre for archaeology\, art history\, history and the fine arts\, which has also been a centre for Canadian scholarship. His work embraces the archaeology of early Rome\, and the traditions about the early city\, and he is also the editor of a major new edition of the fragmentary Roman historians. \nOrganized by the Greek and Roman Studies\, Department at Carleton University\, in partnership with CIMS and the Archaeological Institute of America.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/new-light-on-the-etruscans/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20111018T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20111018T203000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20220208T051259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T052706Z
UID:668-1318966200-1318969800@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Thinking About Kings
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Smith\, Director\, British School in Rome \nThe tradition of the Roman kings is firmly fixed in the canonical accounts of the early history of Rome. Although we know that much of the tradition must be invented\, the processes by which this invention took place have seldom been analyzed in detail. Profesor Smith will look at what modern scholars have done with the tradition of the kings\, and also will discuss how and when the tradition of Roman kingship came to be formed. \nChristopher Smith was educated at Oxford University\, and is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. He is currently Director of the British School at Rome\, a leading research centre for archaeology\, art history\, history and the fine arts\, which has also been a centre for Canadian scholarship. His work embraces the archaeology of early Rome\, and the traditions about the early city\, and he is also the editor of a major new edition of the fragmentary Roman historians.\n \nOrganized by the Greek and Roman Studies\, Department at Carleton University\, in partnership with CIMS and the Archaeological Institute of America.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/thinking-about-kings/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20110921T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20110921T203000
DTSTAMP:20240515T083447
CREATED:20220208T050957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T051323Z
UID:666-1316633400-1316637000@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Beauty\, Victory\, Death\, and Marriage in Archaic Athens: Phrasikleia and the Merenda Kouros
DESCRIPTION:Susan Rotroff\, Washington University in St. Louis \nIn 1972 Greek archaeologists unearthed two nearly complete Archaic (800 to 480 BC) statues a foot below the modern surface of an olive grove in the countryside of Attica\, outside the city of Athens. They represent a young man and a young woman of the second half of the 6th century BC\, carved in the traditional static pose of the time. They had been erected as grave markers in a nearby family cemetery. But\, after standing guard over the deceased for only a short period of time\, they had been deliberately removed and buried. \nWho are the deceased? What\, precisely\, do the statues represent? Why were they chosen to mark these particular graves? What achievements or qualities of the deceased – either real or desired – do they commemorate\, and what funeral practices may they document? And what threat impelled family members to bury these splendid grave monuments so soon after their erection? In her lecture\, Professor Susan Rotroff will address these questions\, and explore the ways in which the statues reflect the interconnected themes of youth\, beauty\, athletic prowess\, marriage and death in the society of 6th-century Athens. \nSusan Rotroff is a Classical archaeologist who specializes in the archaeology of Athens and in Greek ceramics. Educated at Bryn Mawr College and Princeton University\, she has worked at several sites in Greece (Lefkandi\, Corinth\, Karystos\, Samothrace) and Turkey (Troy\, Sardis\, Cilicia). Her primary association\, however\, has been with the Agora Excavations\, where archaeologists are investigating the ancient civic center of Athens. Her research focuses on the ways in which ceramic evidence informs us about the activities and behavior of ancient peoples. She has taught at Mount Allison University\, in Canada\, and at Hunter College; currently she is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She has published three volumes on the Hellenistic ceramics of the Athenian Agora and has recently been working in Turkey on an underwater survey at Kaledran\, and on the excavation of a Roman ship at Kizilburun. \nThis is a Norton Lecture\, named for Charles Eliot Norton\, the founder and first President of the AIA and former Professor of the History of Art at Harvard University. The Norton Lectureship is part of the AIA’s National Lecture Program
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/eauty-victory-death-and-marriage-in-archaic-athens-phrasikleia-and-the-merenda-kouros/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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