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• Listen to von Stackelberg on podcast, Antiquity in Gotham

  Tuesday, February 19, 2019 | By egreene

  Click here to listen to Katharine von Stackelberg in discussion with Elizabeth Macauley-Lewis (CUNY Graduate Center) on her podcast, Antiquity in Gotham. Episode 7, “Designing Roman Villas and Gardens for the Gilded Age,” explores ancient gardens alongside the Pompeia in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA, two highly innovative and original reinterpretations of ancient houses, villas and gardens.

  Expanding her exploration of ancient reception, von Stackelberg also delivered a lecture to the Department of Classical Studies at Western University in January, “Contentious Classics in the Achilleion: Homeric Receptions, Elisabeth of Austria, and Kaiser Wilhelm II.”

  

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• Two new publications on fieldwork at Burgaz, Turkey

  Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | By egreene

  Take a look at these two new articles on Elizabeth Greene’s fieldwork in the harbors at Burgaz, Turkey, conducted in collaboration with Middle East Technical University, Stanford University, and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. Many Brock students participated in the fieldwork and post-excavation research.

  Greene, E.S., J. Leidwanger, and N. Tuna. 2019. “Archaeological Investigations in the Harbors of Burgaz, Turkey: 2011-2015 Field Seasons.” International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 48.1.

  Greene, E.S. and J. Leidwanger. 2019. “Knidian ‘Anyports’: A Model of Coastal Adaptation and Socioeconomic Connectivity from Southwest Turkey.”Mediterranean Historical Review 33.2.

  

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• Classics Department at the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting

  Monday, January 07, 2019 | By egreene

  The Department of Classics was well represented at the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies by faculty and graduates from our M.A. program. The conference took place from 3-6 January in San Diego, California.

  Papers were delivered by Carrie Murray (Brock University), “Gathering at the Lake’s Edge: Report for the 2017 and 2018 Seasons at the Lago di Venere, Pantelleria (Italy),” and Allison Glazebrook (Brock University), “(Dis)Placing Timarchos: The Use of Place in Aeschines 1.” Elizabeth S. Greene (Brock University) and Brian I. Daniels (Penn Cultural Heritage Center) organized a roundtable titled, “Best Practices for the Treatment of Human Remains: A Mediterranean Regional Perspective.”

  M.A. program alumni also shone with a paper by Elliott Fuller (University of Toronto), “Performing Death: Gender, Bodily Adornment, and Ideology at Grave Circle B at Mycenae.” and a poster by Lana J. Radloff (Bishop’s University), “Seafarers and Urban Networks: Mapping Maritime Movement in Mediterranean Settlements.

  

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• Smith receives Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence

  Wednesday, December 19, 2018 | By egreene

  Congratulations to Angus Smith, who was recognized with the Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity at the annual Humanities Research Institute (HRI) fall symposium Tuesday, Dec. 11.

  Read about Smith’s research in the Brock News.

  Prof recognized for archaeological research

   

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• Cypriote Museum evacuation drill in the Brock News

  Thursday, December 06, 2018 | By egreene

  Alison Innes from the Brock News covers a simulated evacuation drill in the Department’s Cypriote Museum, staged as part of Elizabeth Greene’s Archaeological Ethics class (CLAS 4P28 / 5V28).

  “When natural disaster or military conflict strikes, irreplaceable cultural heritage is put at risk.

  Conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria, as well as September’s fire at the Brazil National Museum, are just a few recent examples of events that have caused cultural workers and community volunteers to mobilize in an effort to rescue irreplaceable artifacts.

  Brock Classics students got a taste of the work involved in a museum evacuation during a simulation run Friday, Nov. 30 by internationally-recognized expert Brian Daniels.”

  Evacuation drill teaches artifact preservation

   

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• Archaeology and Makerspace in the Brock News

  Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | By egreene

  Check out the Brock News’ feature on Carrie Murray’s innovative use of Makerspace in CLAS 2P32 (Introduction to Archaeology).

  “The 3D printing of real archaeological artifacts brings a new dimension of experiential learning to our Art and Archaeology courses in the Classics Department,” [Murray] said. “Students are researching artifacts from major international museums that have been 3D scanned and made available online. We will be printing one or more of the artifact replicas that the students propose in order to increase the experiential education opportunities in other Classics courses.”

  Makerspace technology enhances student experiences

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• Dolansky chapter in Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual

  Monday, November 19, 2018 | By egreene

  Kudos to Prof. Fanny Dolansky for her contribution, “Household and Family,” in the newly released Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual, edited by R. Uro, J. J. Day, R. Demaris, and R. Roitto. 

  

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• Archaeology Day event featured in Brock News

  Thursday, October 25, 2018 | By egreene

  Check out the Brock news for a writeup of the Department’s International Archaeology Day event, planned by Dr. Murray!

  Celebrating International Archaeology Day

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• Nickel and Rappold on why Antigone matters, Oct. 31

  Thursday, October 25, 2018 | By egreene

  Save the date for an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the Department of Dramatic Arts’ production of Sophocles’ Antigone and the play’s contemporary relevance. Featuring Dr. Nickel and Dr. Rappold as panelists, the discussion will take place on Wednesday, October 31 from 3:00-4:15 pm in the Cairns Atrium.

  See the writeup in the Brock News.

  

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• BMCR review of Smith et al. volume on Ayia Sotira

  Thursday, October 18, 2018 | By egreene

  

  Don’t miss Yannis Galanakis’ (University of Cambridge) review of R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, James C. Wright, Ayia Sotira. A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece, Prehistory Monographs 56. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2017. Pp. xxviii, 202; 54 p. of plates. ISBN 9781931534901. $80.00.

  Galanakis writes: …the Ayia Sotira publication of these six small and modestly furnished Mycenaean chamber tombs is the best of its kind yet available in Aegean archaeology. It confirmed a number of aspects previously suspected or hypothesized in scholarship, while also adding extra layers of knowledge with regard to the use of Mycenaean tombs and their associated practices. One can only reiterate the wish of the authors of this volume (pp. 181–182) that similarly rigorous methodologies will be extended in the future to “all Mycenaean cemetery excavations” so that these results can be compared, contextualized, and scrutinized, and so that they may stand as the foundation for further discussion and debate.

  Read the rest of the review here or buy a copy by clicking this link.

   

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