Practicum: how to reconstruct an ancient book-roll from Herculaneum

Seminar: Other UCB Archaeology | April 14 | 3-5 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Room 479 | Note change in location

Speaker: Richard Janko, Gerald F. Else Collegiate Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan

The Astronomers of Uruk: A Case Study of Networking in Seleucid Babylonia

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 14 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dr. Mathieu Ossendrijver, Institute of the Study of the Ancient World at New York University

The Aesthetics and Facture of 'Voodoo Dolls' in Classical Athens

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 14 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 308J Doe Library

Speaker: Rachel Kousser, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center

The Miracle of Mata Ortiz and The Dynamic Legacy of Lydia Quezada in the Pottery Tradition of Mata Ortíz

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 14 | 6-7 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 102 Kroeber Hall

Speakers: Walter Parks; Dr. Kiara Hughes

Opening of Western Han Dynasty: Archaeology@Reality

Exhibit - Multimedia: Other UCB Archaeology | April 15 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Tech Museum, 3rd floor

Promoting Archaeology, Dialog, and Social Justice: Fellowship program in Israel/Palestine

Social Event: Other UCB Archaeology | April 15 | 5:30-7 p.m. |  Badè Museum, Pacific School of Religion

Featured Performer: James Ghaleb, Outliar

The Arts of Mata Ortiz and Oaxaca: Outdoor Art Market

Sale: Other UCB Archaeology | April 16 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Museum Patio

Digital Cuneiform: Cal Day Event: UC Berkeley's Annual open House

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 16 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Professor Niek Veldhuis, University of California, Berkeley

Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs!: Cal Day Event: UC Berkeley's Annual open House

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 16 | 12-2 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Elizabeth Minor, University of California, Berkeley

Avatarizing the Past: an Archaeological Perspective

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 16 | 2:30-4 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor

Speaker/Performer: Maurizio Forte, Professor, UC Merced

The origin of emotionally modern humans: What it means to develop and evolve as a cooperatively breeding ape: Change, Plasticity and Development Colloquium

Colloquium: Other UCB Archaeology | April 18 | 12-2 p.m. | Tolman Hall, The Beach Room (3105)

Speaker/Performer: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, UC Davis

Digital Data Recording and Field GIS in Archaeology

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 21 | 1:10-2 p.m. | 103 Mulford Hall

Speaker: Nicholas Tripcevich, Lab Manager, Research Associate, Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

Warao Cultural Heritage Repatriation Project

Special Event: Other UCB Archaeology | April 27 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)

Speaker: Charles Briggs, Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Bombay Islam: Iran-India-South Africa in the Religious Economy of the Indian Ocean

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | May 4 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles

Materiality and Practices of Feasting in Mycenean Tiryns (Stockhammer, Heidelberg)

Colloquium: Other UCB Archaeology | May 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Philip Stockhammer, University of Heidelberg

Recent excavations in the Horrea Agrippiana, Rome: Time, labor and ideology

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | May 6 | 8 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Jennifer Trimble, Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Stanford University

ARCE Conservation: Projects in Luxor and the ARCE Endowment

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | May 15 | 1:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: John Shearman and Dina Saad, The American Research Center in Egypt

The Tomb of Henu at Deir el Bersha

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | May 15 | 2:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dr. Marleen De Mayer, Catholic University of Leuven

Fort Ross State Park Cultural Heritage Day

Special Event: Other UCB Archaeology | July 30 | 9 a.m. |  Fort Ross Historic State Park

IB Seminar: The great animal orchestra: Finding the origins of music in the world's wild places

Seminar: Other UCB Archaeology | September 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Featured Speaker: Bernie Krause, Wild Sanctuary

Imagining the Past: Historical Fiction in Ancient Egypt

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | September 25 | 2:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dr. Colleen Manassa, Yale University

Pheidias's World: The Berkeley Casts of the Parthenon Frieze and Their Athenian Context

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | September 27 | 7:30-9 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Andrew Stewart, Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, Departments of History of Art and Classics, and Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Shang Archeology -- Achievements, Directions, and Dead-ends: a Festtag for David Keightley in celebration of 80 sui

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | October 1 | 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | IEAS conference room, sixth floor

Panelist/Discussants: Zev Handel, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington; Li Liu, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University; Xueshun Liu, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Kenichi Takashima, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Xiaoneng Yang, Stanford University

Francis Fukuyama "Origins of Political Order": Speaker Series

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | October 6 | 7:30-9 p.m. |  International House

Featured Speaker: Francis Fukuyama

Rick Perry, methane, and an early hominid enter a saloon...: Climate Change, Evolution, (Anti-)Knowledge, Math, and Geopolitics

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | October 7 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall

Speaker/Performer: Michael Ranney, Gradute School of Education

"Rick Perry, methane, and an early hominid enter a saloon...": Climate Change, Evolution, (Anti-)Knowledge, Math, and Geopolitics

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | October 7 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |  5101 Tolman

Speaker/Performer: Michael Ranney, UC Berkeley

Excavations at the Tomb of Queen Tetisheri

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | October 16 | 2:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dr. Stephen Harvey, Independent Scholar

Towards an Anthropology of Traces

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | October 17 | 4-6 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dr. Valentina Napolitano, Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto

Facing the Past: Legacies of Genocide, Grave Looting, and Culture Wars in California

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | October 20 | 1:30-3 p.m. |  Lafayette Library and Learning Center

Speaker: Tony Platt, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, CSU Sacramento

Berkeley Ancient Italy Roundtable: Keynote address and reception

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | October 21 | 7-9:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Featured Speaker: Erich Gruen, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley Ancient Italy Roundtable: Conference

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | October 22 | 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall

Performer Group:

Like Salt or Like Gold?: Obsidian procurement and exchange in the prehispanic highland Andes

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | October 24 | 4-6 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, 221 (Gifford Room)

Speaker: Nicholas Tripcevich, Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

At Home in Archaic Athens: The Archaeology of a House near the Athenian Agora

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | October 24 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Kathleen Lynch, Associate Professor, Dept. of Classics, University of Cincinnati

Moses Memorial Lectures: Everyday Life and Learning

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 3 | 4:10 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Speaker: Jean Lave, Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

The Agora Baby Well: Neonatal Mortality and the Disposal of the Dead in Hellenistic Athens (22nd annual PRITCHETT LECTURE)

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 7 | 8-9:30 p.m. |  Alumni House

Speaker: Susan Rotroff, Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities, Department of Classics, Washington University, St. Louis

The Ever Elusive Etruscan Egg (FACULTY LECTURE SERIES)

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 10 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 308J Doe Library

Speaker: Lisa Pieraccini, History of Art, U.C. Berkeley

Baboons, Stable Isotopes and the Location of Punt

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 13 | 2:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dr. Nathaniel Dominy, Darmouth College

The History of the Map of Israel

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 14 | 4-5 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Professor Rachel Havrelock, University of Chicago, Illinois

The Spectacle of Everyday Life: Presumptions of Power in the Royal Tombs of Ur

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 15 | 4-5 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 254 (NES Lounge)

Speaker: Bruce Routledge, Senior Lecturer, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool

Wall Paintings from Ephesus: New Evidence from the Hellenistic to the Late Roman Period

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 16 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 308J Doe Library

Speaker/Performer: Norbert Zimmermann, Senior Lecturer, Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Antike

A Feast For All at Tall al’Umayri in the Late Bronze/Iron Age I

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 17 | 8:30-10 p.m. |  Badè Museum

Speaker: Gloria London, Ceramic Technologist, Madaba Plains Project -'Umayri

The Archaeology of Extispicy: Modeling Divination in Bronze Age Mesopotamia

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 22 | 4-5 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Matthew Rutz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Assyriology, Brown University

Emily Gowers: "Chasing Pangolins: The Idea of Maecenas in Augustan Culture"

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | November 28 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Professor Emily Gowers, University of Cambridge/Stanford University

Revenge of the Kushites! Egyptianization, Cultural Entanglements, And the Emergence of the Nubian Pharaohson of Punt

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | December 4 | 2:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara

Who was "The Hobbit"?

Panel Discussion: Other UCB Archaeology | December 6 | 7-9 p.m. |  California Academy of Sciences

Speakers: Robert D. Martin, Curator of Biological Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History; Ian Tattersall, Curator, American Museum of Natural History

Moderator: Roy Eisenhardt

Andean Studies Conference, Day 1: Institute for Andean Studies

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | January 6 | 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall

Moderator: John Rick, President, Institute for Andean Studies

Andean Studies Conference, Day 2: Institute for Andean Studies

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | January 7 | 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall

Moderator: John Rick, President, Institute for Andean Studies

The God's Wife of Amun

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | January 22 | 2:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Dr. Miriam Ayad, American University in Cairo

Frybread as Indentity: Exploring the relationship between food and self

Presentation: Other UCB Archaeology | January 27 | 2-3 p.m. | 554 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Vanessa Adams, B.A in Anthropology, UC Berkeley Fall 2011

The Lost Sunshade of Queen Nefertiti: royal women in the reign of King Akhenaten

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | January 29 | 2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Jacquelyn Williamson, American Council of Learned Societies Post-Doctoral Faculty Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, U C Berkeley

Current Questions in Authenticity

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | February 3 | 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. |  2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)

Spring 2012 Sather Lecture series: Venal Histories: The Character, Limits, and Historical Importance of Buying and Selling in the Ancient World: Lecture 1: On the strangeness of buying and selling

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 9 | 8-9:15 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room

Speaker/Performer: Nicholas Purcell, Oxford University

The Power and Glory of China's Ming Dynasty

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | February 10 – 11, 2012 every day |  Herbst Theater, San Francisco

Culture and human adaptation

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 10 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall

Speaker: Rob Boyd, Professor, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles

The Power and Glory of China's Ming Dynasty

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | February 10 – 11, 2012 every day |  Herbst Theater, San Francisco

Stonehenge: New Discoveries

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 12 | 2:30-4 p.m. |  Ellis Auditorium

Speaker: Mike Parker Pearson, Professor, Archaeology, University of Sheffield

The J.D. Cooper Center: Dinosaurs, sabre-toothed deer, whales, walruses, and humans — the history of life in southern California / UCMP ostracode biostratigraphy

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 14 | 11:10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, The Fishbowl, 1101

Speakers: Jere Lipps, Professor Emeritus and Director, Cooper Center for Archaeology and Paleontology; Meredith Rivin, Associate Curator of Paleontology, Cooper Center for Archaeology and Paleontology; Ken Finger, Museum Scientist, UC Museum of Paleontology

Managing Historical Collections with IT

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: David de Lorenzo, Associate Director, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Spring 2012 Sather Lecture series: Venal Histories: The Character, Limits, and Historical Importance of Buying and Selling in the Ancient World: Lecture 2: Not for sale

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 16 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Nicholas Purcell, Oxford University

Examining Ancestry and Pathology of King Tutankhamun's Family:

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 19 | 2:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Dr. Tiffany Vora, Stanford University

Spring 2012 Sather Lecture series: Venal Histories: The Character, Limits, and Historical Importance of Buying and Selling in the Ancient World: Lecture 3: Anatomies of the vendor and the purchaser

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 23 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Nicholas Purcell, Oxford University

Epigraphy Workshop: Priceless (ΑΝΕΥ ΤΙΜΗΣ): a new letter of Eumenes II to the settlers of Apollonioucharax in Lydia

Seminar: Other UCB Archaeology | February 24 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Noah Kaye, Berkeley (AHMA)

Greek and Roman Bodies: From Functionality towards Performativity and Disintegration

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 27 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 308J Doe Library

Speaker: Johanna Fabricius, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin

Towards Infinity and Beyond: Big Universe, Little Universe in the Ancient Near East

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | February 29 | 5-6 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Professor Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University

Heaven: New Thoughts of the Universe of Enuma Elish

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | March 1 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Professor Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University

Spring 2012 Sather Lecture series: Venal Histories: The Character, Limits, and Historical Importance of Buying and Selling in the Ancient World: Lecture 4: Transactions in space and time

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | March 1 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Nicholas Purcell, Oxford University

Sharpening the Tools of Radioisotope Dating: Progress in 40K-based Geochronology

Colloquium: Other UCB Archaeology | March 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 3105 Etcheverry Hall

Speaker: Dr. Paul R. Renne, Director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center, and a Professor in Residence in the Earth and Planetary Science Dept. at UC Berkeley

Contested Images, Contested Lands: The Politics of Space in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Sacred Water

Colloquium: Other UCB Archaeology | March 6 | 12-1:20 p.m. | Wildavsky Conference Room, 2538 Channing Way, Wildavsky Conference Room

Featured Speaker: Shari Huhndorf Professor of Native American Studies, UC Berkeley

Speaker: Hertha Sweet Wong Associate Professor in the Department of English and Chair of the Department of Art Practice, UC Berkele

Sky: A Mesopotamian View of the Stars at Night

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | March 8 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Professor Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University

Anthropology in the World Symposium: In honor of Laura Nader: 50 years in Anthropology

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | March 8 | 4-9 p.m. | International House, Auditorium

Speaker: Laura Nader, Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology, UC Berkeley Dept. of Anthropology

Spring 2012 Sather Lecture series: Venal Histories: The Character, Limits, and Historical Importance of Buying and Selling in the Ancient World: Lecture 5: Constructing the go-between

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | March 8 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Nicholas Purcell, Oxford University

Anthropology in the World Symposium: In honor of Laura Nader: 50 years in Anthropology

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | March 9 | 4-7:30 p.m. | International House, Auditorium

Speaker: Laura Nader, Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology, UC Berkeley Dept. of Anthropology

Anthropology in the World: In honor of Laura Nader- 50 years in Anthropology

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | March 10 | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | 221 Kroeber Hall

Colonial Irrigation and Egypt's Imagined Past: a presentation by Brendan Haug

Seminar: Other UCB Archaeology | March 12 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 3401 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Brendan Haug, UC Berkeley, AHMA

Earth: The Babylonian Map of the World and the Wind

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | March 15 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Professor Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University

Spring 2012 Sather Lecture series: Venal Histories: The Character, Limits, and Historical Importance of Buying and Selling in the Ancient World: Lecture 6: Buying people

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | March 15 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Nicholas Purcell, Oxford University

"Old Things": Reflections on the Study of the Past

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | March 16 | 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room [220]

Speakers: Daniel Boyarin; Niklaus Largier; Ramona Naddaff; Erich Gruen

Speaker/Performer: Michael Nylan

Apsu and Underworld: Worlds Beneath our Feet

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | March 22 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker/Performer: Professor Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University

Food Security in the Prehispanic Southwest and Its Implications for Today: Anthropology 290 Lecture Series

Seminar: Other UCB Archaeology | April 2 | 4:10-6 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, 221 (Gifford Room)

Speaker: Katherine A. Spielmann, Professor, Arizona State University

Neyman Seminar: Self adjusting MCMC applied to Gamma autoregressive monotonous age-depth modeling in paleoecology

Seminar: Other UCB Archaeology | April 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall

Speaker/Performer: J. Andrés Christen, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Guanajuato, Mexico

In Search Of The Origins Of Domestic Water Buffalo In China

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 6 | 12:05-1 p.m. | 3401 Dwinelle Hall

Featured Speaker: Li Liu, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University

Chinese Miners, the "Coolie" Question, and the Propaganda of History: Prof. Mae Ngai, Columbia University

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 9 | 5:30-8 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Una's Lecturer 2011-2012: Lisbet Rausing

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 9 | 6 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

AHMA Noon Colloquium: Attic Marble for the Ancient World: Pentelicon, Hymettos, and Life in Ancient Attica

Colloquium: Other UCB Archaeology | April 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Hans Rupprecht Goette (German Archaeological Institute)

Big History – A Bridge between Humanities and Sciences

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 11 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. |  Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Speaker: Professor Walter Alvarez

Coin Hoards and Hoarding in Britain: Buried with the Intention of Recovery or Votive Deposits?

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 11 | 7:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Roger Bland, AIA National Lecturer

Speciesism and the Future of Humanity: Biology, Culture, Sociopolitics: Register Now

Seminar: Other UCB Archaeology | April 12 |  Boalt Hall, School of Law

Computing and the Practice of History

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 12 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker: Peter Bol, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University

Free Film Screening of the Documentary: In the Light of Reverance

Film - Documentary: Other UCB Archaeology | April 13 | 1 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multi Cultural Center

Dioskoros of Aphrodite: Reading the Hellenic culture of late antique Egypt with Antiquity's "worst poet": CTP Distinguished Lecturer event

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 17 | 5-7 p.m. | Doe Library, 101 (Morrison Library) | Note change in date

Speaker: Jean-Luc Fournet, Directeur d'etudes, Ecole pratique des hautes etudes (IVe section)

A 2nd-Century BC Shipwreck in the Indian Ocean and the Role of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara as the Protector of Mariners

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 18 | 5:15-6:30 p.m. | 308J Doe Library

Speaker/Performer: Osmund Bopearachchi

Qur'an, Amthal, and Geometry on the Iranian Plateau in the 11th and 12th Centuries of Our Era

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 19 | 5-6 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Carol Bier, Visiting Scholar, Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union

Towards Long-term Sustainability: In Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | April 20 – 21, 2012 every day | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor), IEAS Conference Room

Women on the Verge of the Hittite Empire: Challenging the House of the Father at Ugarit

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 20 | 12:30-1 p.m. |  Room 102, Mudd Building; Pacific School of Religion

Speaker/Performer: Christine Thomas Freedberg, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Towards Long-term Sustainability: In Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | April 20 – 21, 2012 every day | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor), IEAS Conference Room

Revolution or Redefinition: The Role of Tradition in the Reign of Akhenaten

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 22 | 2:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson, University of California, Berkeley

On Iconography, Agency, Ritual: The Case of Dona Sebastiana

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 23 | 4-6 p.m. | 221 Kroeber Hall

Speaker/Performer: CARLO SEVERI, Carlo Severi is Professor of Social Anthropology at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. A member of the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France since 1985, he has been Getty Scholar at the Getty I

Edible Origins: Finding Food, Symbols and Society in Early East Asia

Panel Discussion: ARF Special & Workshops: Other UCB Archaeology | April 23 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. |  Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Featured Speaker: June-Jeong Lee, Anthropology, Seoul National University

Panelist/Discussants: Lisa Janz, University of Arizona; Seungki Kwak, University of Washington

Moderator and Panelist: Junko Habu, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Fossil Coffee: Behavior and possible evolutionary importance to hominids of the African clawless otters

Lecture: Other UCB Archaeology | April 24 | 11:10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, The Fishbowl, 1101

Speaker: Alan Shabel, Grad student, UC Museum of Paleontology and Department of Integrative Biology

Shamans, Buddhists and Muslim Saints: The Layered History of the Desert Mazar

Conference/Symposium: Other UCB Archaeology | April 24 | 3-7 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speakers: Alexandre Papas, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris; Rahile Dawut, Xinjiang University, China; Sanjyot Mehendele, Vice-Chair Center for Buddhist Studies, Lecturer in Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley

Panelist/Discussants: Beth Citron, Rubin Museum of Art; Lisa Ross, Photographer

Speaker/Performer: Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University; Visiting Fellow, Stanford University