State of the Field 2023: Archaeologies of the Mediterranean, will be held Friday, April 14-Saturday, April 15, 2023, at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, Providence, RI.
Mediterranean archaeology has struggled to identify its own priorities and find its own voice for challenging traditional narratives and approaches and, as a result, risks being subsumed by adjacent disciplines with louder voices, despite many possible valuable contributions.
State of the Field 2023: Archaeologies of the Mediterranean discusses the place of Mediterranean archaeology in the modern world in North America, Europe, and the Mediterranean. We intend to examine academic traditions and assumptions, as well as contemporary institutional and political structures that frame our theoretical and methodological engagement with the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean and adjacent regions, in order to ensure that the field maintains relevance into the future.
See more, including speakers and the full schedule, at www.brown.edu/go/sotf2023.
Free and open to the public. No registration required. This conference will be held in person on the campus of Brown University.
Of note, two U-M people are presenting: Giulia Saltini Semerari and Leah Bernardo Ciddio.
Their panels:
Giulia Saltini Semerari (Michigan), Meritzell Ferrer (Pompeu Fabra), and Mireia Lopez-Bertran (Valencia): “Gender Archaeology and the Ancient Mediterranean”
Leah Bernardo Ciddio (Michigan): “From Its Depths: Archaeology and Colonialism through the Adriatic Mirror”
Although the conference will not be offered online in a hybrid format, they plan to film the proceedings and make as many of the talks as possible available for viewing online several weeks after the conference’s conclusion.
Read more here: brown.edu/go/sotf2023
