Spring 2008

Archaeology Lectures and Other Events Hosted by the ARF and Affiliated Departments and Organizations

Brown Bag Lecture

Jan 23

"Neolithic Architecture and 1960s Art: Ground, surface, dissection, and allocentric frames of reference."

Douglass Bailey, Professor of European Prehistory at Cardiff University

Anthropology 290 Lecture

Jan 28

"'All nature is but art...': Created Landscapes of the Hohokam"

Rebecca Dean, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Morris

Brown Bag Lecture

Jan 30

"Digging Digitally: Mobile GIS in Archaeological Fieldwork"

Nico Tripcevich, Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

ARF Workshop

Feb 1

Using a GPS for Archaeology, presented by Pat Kirch and James Flexner (Dept of Anthropology). Limit: 9. This workshop is full.

Anthropology 290 Lecture

Feb 4

Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, Arizona State Museum/Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona

Brown Bag Lecture

Feb 6

"Making place, doing tradition. An example from Çatalhöyük, Turkey"

Burcu Tung, Dept of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

ARF Workshop

Feb 11

Introduction to relational databases using Filemaker, presented by Rus Sheptak. Contact Rus directly to sign up.

Anthropology 290 Lecture

Feb 11

Emily Jones, Department of Sociology, Dine College, Arizona

Brown Bag Lecture

Feb 13

"Preserving Earthen Architecture: Between traditional building culture and seismic safety"

Mohammed Hamdouni Alami, Research Associate, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Anthropology 290 Lecture

Feb 19

Naomi Cleghorn, Smithsonian Institution

Brown Bag Lecture

Feb 20

"The Brain as a Cultural Artefact"

Professor Steven Mithen, School of Environmental and Human Sciences, Univ of Reading, United Kingdom

ARF Workshop

Feb 22

ArcGIS: Digital data acquisition and map production for archaeologists, presented by Nico Tripcevich. Limit: 13. This workshop is full.

Anthropology 290 Lecture

Feb 25

Matthew Hill, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Brown Bag Lecture

Feb 27

"Moviemaking at Çatalhöyük"

Colleen Morgan and Ruth Tringham, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Brown Bag Lecture

Mar 5

"GIS/cultural landscape project in Levuka, Fiji"

Margie Purser, Sonoma State University

Anthropology Lecture

Mar 10

"Things, Processes, Knowledge: Some Thoughts on People and Material Culture"

Joanna Sofaer, Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton

Brown Bag Lecture

Mar 12

"Annapolis: Why is a Small Southern Town Important?"

Mark Leone, University of Maryland

Brown Bag Lecture

Mar 19

"China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Culture"

Haicheng Wang, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley

Brown Bag Lecture

Mar 26

Spring Break

Brown Bag Lecture

Apr 2

"Colonial Encounters and Entanglements in the Ancient Western Mediterranean: The View from Lattara"

Michael Dietler, University of Chicago

Brown Bag Lecture

Apr 9

Shanti Morell-Hart and Doris Maldonado, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Brown Bag Lecture

Apr 16

"Digging Up West Oakland: Archaeology Meets The Black Panthers"

Mary and Adrian Praetzellis, ARC, Sonoma State University

ARF Spring Lecture

Apr 18

"Models of Pueblo Prehistory"

Tim A. Kohler, Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman

Brown Bag Lecture

Apr 23

"Rescue archaeology: same recipe different cakes Comparative analysis of Taiwanese and Japanese Rescue Archaeologies"

Chi-Hua Chiang and Theresa Molino, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Brown Bag Lecture

Apr 30

"The Archaeology of a Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic"

Bjørnar Olsen, Institute of Archaeology, University of Tromsø, Norway

Brown Bag Lecture

May 5

John Matsunaga, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Berkeley