RSS FeedUpcoming EventsDisability Justice and Community Archaeology at a 20th Century Eugenic Institution in Western Massachusetts (Laura Heath-Stout, Stanford University), March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/237236-disability-justice-and-community-archaeology-at-a-20t

This talk will take place in person at the ARF and on Zoom (you must have a Zoom account to attend). Register for online attendance here.

Abstract: “Nothing about us without us” has been a key rallying cry of the disability rights movement for decades, yet archaeologists regularly interpret past disabled people’s lives while excluding modern disabled people from archaeology careers. In my upcoming project, I seek to address both the epistemic limitations of an archaeology of disability done by nondisabled people and the injustices of systemic ableism in archaeology as a discipline. In collaboration with disabled activists in Massachusetts, I will be investigating the history of the Belchertown State School, where people with intellectual disabilities and others were institutionalized from 1922–1992, and contributing to the Belchertown community’s and Massachusetts’s state-wide reckonings with the histories of eugenics and abuse. In this talk, I will present the foundations of this new project and invite discussion of how to create a truly disability-justice-oriented archaeology project that contributes to both disability activism and archaeological knowledge production in meaningful ways.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/237236-disability-justice-and-community-archaeology-at-a-20t
Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Empire during the Ur III Period (c. 2100-2000 BCE), March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/242557-remembering-and-forgetting-in-ancient-mesopotamia

The AIA San Francisco Society is pleased to welcome Dr. Marian Feldman to give the Ellen & Charles S. La Follette Lecture. This event will be held over Zoom. To register, please visit the following link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcO6tqj4pG9ebjGjMx2sNvh6_EsGVN-i2#/registration

Abstract: 

This talk investigates the destruction and reconstruction of sacred space by the rulers of the so-called Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100-2000 BCE), as well as their contrasting preservation and curation of royal monuments from the Akkadian dynasty that preceded them (c. 2350-2150 BCE). It proposes the imbricated nature of the Akkadian and Ur III periods, especially as we have come to understand each of them today, while also making an argument for the way architectural spaces generate bodily experiences that are central to collective identity and memory in contrast to representational monuments of a discursive nature. In doing so, I explore how people engage variously with spatial and representational experiences and the effects on shared memory thus generated in order to analyze how the two modes of memory making intertwined with one another in the sacred precincts of the Ur III rulers, and especially that of the temple complex of the god Enlil, known as the Ekur, at Nippur.

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Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture (Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran), March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219463-punic-women-as-ritual-agents-evidence-from

This lecture is part of the series Women and Gender in the Phoenician Homeland and Diaspora. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from October 2023 through May 2024. See the list of lectures and dates below.

Watch on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.

 

November 2, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Bärbel Morstadt - “Ashtart and Co. as female role models in Phoenician society”

 

December 7, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Wissam Khalil and Karim Fadlallah - “The cult of Astarte within the coastal grottos of Adloun and Kharayeb in southern Lebanon”

 

January 25, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Becky Martin - “Gender representation on anthropoid coffins”

 

February 22, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Jessica Nitschke - “Dress and representation of women in Phoenician visual culture”

 

March 7, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Agnès Garcia Ventura and Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “On Phoenician/Punic music and musicians: a gender approach”

 

March 21, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture”

 

March 28, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Maroun Khreich - “Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary)”

 

April 18, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi - “Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia”

 

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Adriano Orsingher - “Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens”

 

May 16, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Ida Oggiano - “Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities”

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219463-punic-women-as-ritual-agents-evidence-from
Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary) (Dr. Maroun Khreich), March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242462-phoenician-women-in-textual-documentation-epigraphica

This lecture is part of the series Women and Gender in the Phoenician Homeland and Diaspora. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from October 2023 through May 2024. See the list of lectures and dates below.

Watch on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.

 

November 2, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Bärbel Morstadt - “Ashtart and Co. as female role models in Phoenician society”

 

December 7, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Wissam Khalil and Karim Fadlallah - “The cult of Astarte within the coastal grottos of Adloun and Kharayeb in southern Lebanon”

 

January 25, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Becky Martin - “Gender representation on anthropoid coffins”

 

February 22, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Jessica Nitschke - “Dress and representation of women in Phoenician visual culture”

 

March 7, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Agnès Garcia Ventura and Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “On Phoenician/Punic music and musicians: a gender approach”

 

March 21, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture”

 

March 28, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Maroun Khreich - “Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary)”

 

April 18, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi - “Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia”

 

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Adriano Orsingher - “Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens”

 

May 16, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Ida Oggiano - “Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities”

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242462-phoenician-women-in-textual-documentation-epigraphica
From Farming to Importing Food: Colonial Racial Capitalism, Sovereignty, and Cuisine in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico from 1919 to the present (Natasha Fernández-Preston), April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242597-from-farming-to-importing-food-colonial-racial-capita

This talk will take place in person at the ARF and on Zoom (you must have a Zoom account to attend). Register for online attendance here.

Abstract: 

The purpose of this research is to trace food practices, landscape changes, and cuisine changes in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico for the last century (1919-2018) relating them to the processes of colonial racial capitalism and sovereignty. Since the mid-twentieth century, Puerto Rico went from being a mostly agricultural archipelago to an archipelago where there is barely any agriculture and that imports 85% of the food it consumes. This transformation was led by the development strategies that were initiated in 1947, under the political banner of bringing a better quality of life to the archipelago. However, there is a lack of specific knowledge of how agriculture was abandoned, and political narratives tend to blame individuals who did not want to continue farming. Most people are familiar with the result, which is the 85% importation of food, but not how these changesrelate to sociopolitical and economic decisions, broadscale inequities, and day-to-day cooking practices. Preliminary data from this dissertation illustrates how the abandonment of subsistence agriculture and development strategies such as industrialization by invitation could have been purposeful and necessary steps for establishing a secure market for U.S. food products in Puerto Rico. This is especially so since after World War II, U.S. agriculture experienced an increased growth in the production of surplus products due to Green Revolution technologies. While this was happening in the U.S. mainland, agriculture was being abandoned in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, and national identities and “traditional” dishes (cuisine), many of which are composed of imported ingredients, were becoming emblemized and institutionalized as part of “Puerto Rican culture.” Thus, the central questions that will guide this research are: How do food practices and cuisine relate to the processes of colonial racial capitalism? How do food practices and cuisine relate to ideas and enactments of sovereignty? I will explore the material traces left of past food practices in archival records (censuses, importation and exportation records, and cookbooks) to understand agricultural landscape uses, food trade, and cooking practices. These food practices will be visualized in GIS maps, as well as graphs and tables. With cuisine enacted through these food practices, I will then analyze what is the role of cuisine in the perpetuation or breaking of broader political-economic systems with the concepts of colonial racial capitalism and sovereignty.

 

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242597-from-farming-to-importing-food-colonial-racial-capita
Nemea 100: from Blegen to Berkeley and Beyond, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/229484-nemea-100-from-blegen-to-berkeley-and-beyond

The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is pleased to present an international conference in honor of the 100th anniversary of the first excavation at Nemea AND the 50th anniversary of UC Berkeley’s involvement at the site: Nemea 100: From Blegen to Berkeley and Beyond! The event brings together speakers from the United States and Greece who have a history of interest and expertise in the archaeology of Nemea and its surrounding region. Presentations will highlight past, present, and future research.

On April 15, 1924, the young American archaeologist Carl Blegen initiated excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, Greece. The work he began 100 years ago was renewed fifty years later, in 1974, by Stephen G. Miller and the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2005, restoration and excavation work at the site continues under the leadership of Dr. Kim Shelton (DAGRS).

On April 15, 2024, our international conference will celebrate much more of Nemea’s unique and multifaceted history in the company of archaeologists, students, colleagues, supporters, friends, and donors. We cannot wait to share all we have in store with you! We will gather in person on the UC Berkeley campus to mark the occasion (370 Dwinelle Hall) together for two days (continuing on Tuesday, April 16, beginning at 9:00am). For those of you far and wide who cannot join us in person, however, we invite you to join us virtually! To register: https://nemeacenter.berkeley.edu/nemea-100/

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Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia (Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi), April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219464-sitting-on-a-throne-or-working-with-vases-from

This lecture is part of the series Women and Gender in the Phoenician Homeland and Diaspora. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from October 2023 through May 2024. See the list of lectures and dates below.

Watch on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.

 

November 2, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Bärbel Morstadt - “Ashtart and Co. as female role models in Phoenician society”

 

December 7, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Wissam Khalil and Karim Fadlallah - “The cult of Astarte within the coastal grottos of Adloun and Kharayeb in southern Lebanon”

 

January 25, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Becky Martin - “Gender representation on anthropoid coffins”

 

February 22, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Jessica Nitschke - “Dress and representation of women in Phoenician visual culture”

 

March 7, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Agnès Garcia Ventura and Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “On Phoenician/Punic music and musicians: a gender approach”

 

March 21, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture”

 

March 28, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Maroun Khreich - “Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary)”

 

April 18, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi - “Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia”

 

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Adriano Orsingher - “Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens”

 

May 16, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Ida Oggiano - “Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities”

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219464-sitting-on-a-throne-or-working-with-vases-from
Forests and Foods of Ancient Arenal, Costa Rica (Venicia Slotten), April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242599-forests-and-foods-of-ancient-arenal-costa-rica-venici

This talk will take place in person at the ARF and on Zoom (you must have a Zoom account to attend). Register for online attendance here.

Abstract: 

Paleoethnobotanical investigations at multiple domestic structures in Arenal, Costa Rica, reveal the plant resources utilized by past peoples living in this volcanically active setting from 1500 BCE to 600 CE. Roughly 200 different genera of plants have been recovered and identified between the two sites (G-995 La Chiripa and G-164 Sitio Bolivar) from the preserved seeds, fruits, and wood charcoal including cacao, maize, beans, manioc, achiote, avocado, cashew, cherry, fig, guava, guanabana, jocote, mamey, nance, palms, ramon, sapodilla, and tobacco. These preserved plant remains represent the diverse assemblage of edible fruits, leaves, or vegetative material that the ancient inhabitants would have incorporated into their daily cuisine. The people of ancient Arenal were knowledgeable arboriculturalists who did not rely heavily on agriculture, but rather would have collected from a variety of trees and root crops for their subsistence needs. The macrobotanical results suggest that the ancient inhabitants employed mixed strategies for subsistence and may have preferred food resources that would have remained accessible during times of ecological stress.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242599-forests-and-foods-of-ancient-arenal-costa-rica-venici
Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens (Dr. Adriano Orsingher), May 2https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219465-gender-and-masks-a-look-through-the

This lecture is part of the series Women and Gender in the Phoenician Homeland and Diaspora. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from October 2023 through May 2024. See the list of lectures and dates below.

Watch on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.

 

November 2, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Bärbel Morstadt - “Ashtart and Co. as female role models in Phoenician society”

 

December 7, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Wissam Khalil and Karim Fadlallah - “The cult of Astarte within the coastal grottos of Adloun and Kharayeb in southern Lebanon”

 

January 25, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Becky Martin - “Gender representation on anthropoid coffins”

 

February 22, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Jessica Nitschke - “Dress and representation of women in Phoenician visual culture”

 

March 7, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Agnès Garcia Ventura and Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “On Phoenician/Punic music and musicians: a gender approach”

 

March 21, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture”

 

March 28, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Maroun Khreich - “Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary)”

 

April 18, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi - “Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia”

 

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Adriano Orsingher - “Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens”

 

May 16, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Ida Oggiano - “Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities”

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219465-gender-and-masks-a-look-through-the
Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities (Dr. Ida Oggiano), May 16https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219466-ritual-actions-of-phoenician-women-in-the-levant

This lecture is part of the series Women and Gender in the Phoenician Homeland and Diaspora. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from October 2023 through May 2024. See the list of lectures and dates below.

Watch on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.

 

November 2, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Bärbel Morstadt - “Ashtart and Co. as female role models in Phoenician society”

 

December 7, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Wissam Khalil and Karim Fadlallah - “The cult of Astarte within the coastal grottos of Adloun and Kharayeb in southern Lebanon”

 

January 25, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Becky Martin - “Gender representation on anthropoid coffins”

 

February 22, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Jessica Nitschke - “Dress and representation of women in Phoenician visual culture”

 

March 7, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Agnès Garcia Ventura and Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “On Phoenician/Punic music and musicians: a gender approach”

 

March 21, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture”

 

March 28, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Maroun Khreich - “Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary)”

 

April 18, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi - “Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia”

 

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Adriano Orsingher - “Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens”

 

May 16, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Ida Oggiano - “Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities”

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219466-ritual-actions-of-phoenician-women-in-the-levant