meetings
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
4:00 pm, 254 Barrows
"Style as Material Memory in Early Iron Age North Syria"
Marian Feldman , University of California, Berkeley
Like the four venues ritual behaviors, narratives, objects and representations, and places, artistic stylistic traits can also contribute to social memory making. Several such examples are evident in North Syrian motifs of the first millennium BCE which present direct cultural links to the former Hittite empire.
Readings:
R. Van Dyke and S. Alcock, eds. (2003) Archaeologies of Memory
Discussants:
Jennifer E. Jacobs, Sultan Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
John Chenoweth, graduate student in Historical Archaeology, Dept. of Anthropology