RadioCIAMS

RadioCIAMS is pleased to present the third episode of "Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage", a podcast of CIVIC, the Cornell task force for the humanities and the arts. In this episode, a panel of Cornell faculty, all CIVIC fellows, speak with Prof. Jorge Otero-Pailos, Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The discussion centers on Prof. Otero-Pailos’s contributions to the groundbreaking book that he co-edited, Experimental Preservation, exploring how an ethic of care can radically alter our ingrained notions of preservation. This podcast was hosted virtually and everyone participated remotely.

On February 19, 2021, archaeologist Stephen Acabado (UCLA) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Canan Cem, Rebecca Gerdes, Jane Millar, Alice Wolff) and faculty (Maia Dedrick) to discuss three of his recent publications. The first was a 2017 article in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, titled “The Archaeology of Pericolonialism: Responses of the "Unconquered" to Spanish Conquest and Colonialism in Ifugao, Philippines.” The second was, “Zones of refuge: Resisting conquest in the northern Philippine highlands through environmental practice”, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology in 2018. The third was a 2019 article in the Journal of Field Archaeology, “The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: A Local Response to the Spanish Conquest”. This podcast was hosted over Zoom, everyone participated remotely.

RadioCIAMS is pleased to present the second episode of "Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage", a podcast of CIVIC, the Cornell task force for the humanities and the arts. In this episode, a panel of Cornell faculty, all CIVIC fellows, speak with Dr. Trinidad Rico, a professor in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University and Director of Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies. The discussion centers on three of Dr. Rico’s recent publications, exploring the tensions between cultural heritage preservation and religious practices in the Muslim world. This podcast was hosted virtually and everyone participated remotely.

On November 20th, 2020, archaeologist Uzma Rizvi (Pratt Institute) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rafeal Cruz Gil, Rebecca Gerdes, Jaimie Luria, Ayesha Matthan) and faculty (Maia Dedrick, Adam Smith) to discuss decolonizing archaeology, equitable practices, epistemic critique, and the speculative. The conversation centered on two of Dr. Rizvi’s recent publications. The first was a 2015 piece in E-Flux, titled “Theorizing Deposition: Transitional Stratigraphy, Disruptive Layers and the Future,” and the second was a 2019 article in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, “Archaeological Encounters: The Role of the Speculative in Decolonial Archaeology.” This podcast was hosted over Zoom, everyone participated remotely.

On October 30, 2020, biocultural anthropologist Rachel Watkins (American University) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Amanda Domingues, Anna Whittemore) and faculty (Maia Dedrick, Matthew Velasco) to discuss her recent article in Historical Archaeology, “An Alter(ed)native Perspective on Historical Bioarchaeology” and an upcoming publication in Washington History, “Science and Freedom.”

On October 2, 2020, archaeologist Peggy Brunache (University of Glasgow) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Dusti Bridges, Ethan Dickerman, Rebecca Gerdes, Alex Symons and Alice Wolff) and faculty (Maia Dedrick) to discuss two articles from the Fall 2019 special issue of "Transforming Anthropology", a publication of the Association of Black Anthropologists. The special issue was entitled, "The Marathon Continues: New Directions in African Diaspora Archaeology," and was guest edited by Nedra K. Lee and Jannie Nicole Scott. The two articles discussed in this podcast episode include the introduction to the special issue, written by the editors, and Dr. Brunache’s article, “Mainstreaming African Diasporic Foodways When Academia is not Enough.”

In the third of three backlog podcasts, RadioCIAMS presents, Dr. Catherine Cameron (CU Boulder), who on November 2nd, 2018 met a panel of CIAMS faculty (Dana Bardolph) and students (Salpi Bocchieriyan, Dusti Bridges, Sam Disotell, Cristina Juarez) to discuss prehistoric migration and captive labor in small scale societies. We apologize to our listeners for the editing delay.

In the second of our backlogged episodes, RadioCIAMS presents Dr. Stephen Mrozowski (UMass Boston, who on October 12th, 2018, met a panel of CIAMS faculty (Kurt Jordan) and students (Dusti Bridges, Liam Murphy, Samantha Sanft, Alexandra Walton) to discuss political economy and colonialism.

In the first of three backlog episodes, RadioCIAMS presents Jordan Pickett, who came to speak on September 21st, 2018, Dr. Jordan Pickett (University of Georgia) met a panel of CIAMS faculty (Ben Anderson) and students (Kathleen Garland, Jessica Plant, Tyler Wolford) to discuss engergetics in archaeology. We apologize for the editing delay.

RadioCIAMS is pleased to present the inaugural episode of "Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage", a podcast of CIVIC, the Cornell task force for the humanities and the arts. In this episode, a panel of Cornell faculty, all CIVIC fellows, speak with Dr. Caitlin DeSilvey, a professor of cultural geography at the University of Exeter about her most recent book, Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving. Dr. DeSilvey participated remotely.