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On February 28, 2020, Dr. Chip Colwell of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss his most recent book, Objects of Survivance: A Material History of the American Indian School Experience, co-authored with Lindsay M. Montgomery.

On October 9, 2019, Dr. Carl Knappett of the University of Toronto met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss the first two chapters of his forthcoming book, "Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making". Their discussion touched upon themes of artifact form, typologies, models and miniatures, and the media ecology of art in the Aegean bronze Age. Grad student discussants were Sophia Taborski and Rebecca Gerdes, Department of Classics. The faculty host was Dr. Verity Platt, History of Art.

On Sept. 20, 2019, Dr. Claudia Brittenham, University of Chicago, met a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss her ongoing work on unseen imagery in ancient Mesoamerican art, specifically the hidden undersides of Mayan lintels. Their discussion touched upon themes of hidden art, privileged knowledge, and the politics of object curation. Student discussants included Sam Disotell and Anna Whittemore. The faculty host was Dr. Verity Platt, History of Art.

On March 22nd, 2019, archaeologist Dr. Allison Mickel (Lehigh University) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Alexandria Albano, Kathleen Garland, Alice Wolff) and faculty (Adam Smith) to discuss archaeological knowledge production, the potential of narrative fiction in archaeological writing, and social network analysis. The discussion centers on two of Dr. Mickel’s recent publications. The first was a 2012 article in Public Archaeology, titled “The Novel-ty of Responsible Archaeological Site Reporting: How Writing Fictive Narrative Contributes to Ethical Archaeological Practice”, and the second was her 2016 article in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, “Tracing Teams, Texts, and Topics: Applying Social Network Analysis to Understand Archaeological Knowledge Production at Çatalhöyük”.

On February 20th, 2019, archaeologist Dr. Alison Wylie from the University of British Columbia met a panel of CIAMS students (Taylor Carr-Howard, Liam Murphy, Annapaola Passerini, and Jessica Plant) and faculty (Dana Bardolph) to discuss two of her recently published works on collaborative practice in archaeology. The first reading is a chapter from a 2015 edited volume Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies titled, “A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology”. The second is the concluding chapter from Dr. Wylie’s 2016 co-authored monograph, Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology titled, “Conclusions: Reflexivity Made Concrete”. During this podcast, Dr. Wylie also provides helpful advice for young scholars conducting collaborative research within the academy.

On May 2nd, 2019, archaeologist Dr. Eleanor Casella (University of Tasmania) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Sarah McCully and Taylor Carr-Howard) and faculty (Dana Bardolph, Sherene Baugher, and Nerissa Russell) to discuss the archaeology of institutional confinement, the material dynamics of social relationships, and the role of historical archaeology in both the academy and also contemporary Tasmanian society. The discussion centered on three of Dr. Casella’s publications. The first was a 2000 article in World Archaeology, titled “‘Doing Trade’: a Sexual Economy of Nineteenth-century Australian Female Convict Prisons”, the second was her 2012 chapter in her co-edited (with Barbara Voss) volume The Archaeology of Colonialism: Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects, “Little Bastard Felons: Childhood, Affect, and Labor in the Penal Colonies of Nineteenth-Century Australia”, and the third was her 2016 article in Historical Archaeology, “Horizons beyond the Perimeter Wall: Relational Materiality, Institutional Confinement, and the Archaeology of Being Global”. Dr. Casella joined us from across the globe, participating in the podcast via video call from Tasmania.

On April 16th, 2018 archaeologist John Creese from North Dakota State University gave a lecture at Cornell University titled, “Reassembling the Longhouse: The Iroquoian Longhouse as sociotechnical system.” The next day he met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss his talk, and two of his publications: The first was a 2012 article in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, titled “The Domestication of Personhood: a view from the Iroquoian Longhouse,” and the second was his 2016 article in World Archaeology, “Emotion Work and the Archaeology of Consensus: the Northern Iroquoian case."

On February 16th, 2018, Yannis Hamilakis, a professor of archaeology and modern greek studies at Brown University, met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss two of his recent written works. The first was a 2017 article in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, titled “Sensorial Assemblages: Affect, Memory and Temporality in Assemblage Thinking.” The discussion of sensoriality, affectivity and time in this reading color our subsequent discussion of Prof. Hamilakis’ ongoing research on the archaeology of forced migration on the Island of Lesvos, and our other reading, the introduction to the 2016 issue of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology that he guest-edited on the topic of the archaeologies of forced and undocumented migration.

On October 6th, 2017 archaeologist Anne Porter from the University of Toronto met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty (Prof. Adam T. Smith, Amy Cromartie, Lizzy Bews, Salpi Bocchieriyan, and Annapaola Passerini) to discuss pastoral nomadism and kinship in the ancient Near East. This episode was a long time in the making,because our regular team wasn’t available to record it. Apologies are due to the participants for the delay, and our thanks go to Gabrielle Borenstein for filling in as recording engineer last year!

On March 9th, 2018, Matthew Liebmann, a professor of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss his work at Jemez Pueblo, and two of his recent published works. The first was his 2017 article discussing application of semiotic theory in landscape archaeology in American Antiquity, “From Landscapes of Meaning to Landscapes of Signification in the American Southwest." The second was "The Mickey Mouse kachina and other "Double Objects": Hybridity in the material culture of colonial encounters," in a 2015 issue of the Journal of Social Archaeology.