What Our Faculty Are Doing (2011-12)

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Jennifer Moore, Chair

Invited Lecture:

April 2011. “Burying People in Pots in Roman North Africa”, lecture for the Trent Oshawa Anthropology Lecture Series, Trent University Oshawa (Thornton Rd.) campus, Monday, April 4, 2011.

Publications Appearing in 2010/11:

2010. “Naked Bull-Riding on Ceramic Products from Roman Africa”, in L’Africa Romana XVIII: I luoghi e le forme dei mestieri e della produzione nelle province africane, Olbia 2008, eds. M. Milanese, P. Ruggeri, and C. Vismara (Rome: Carocci editore 2010), 713-724.

2010. “Carthage”, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. M. Gagarin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 53-55.

Article at Press:

Forthcoming. “The Caduceus in the Second Punic War”, to be published in the proceedings of the Colloque international, L’iconographie et Religions dans le Maghreb antique et medieval, Tunis, February 2008.

 


 

Hugh Elton

In Press:
"Late Roman Churches in the Göksu Valley", for Rough Cilicia: New Archaeological and Historical Approaches, ed Hoff, M. and Townsend, R., (New Haven, David Brown Books)
"Imperial Campaigning from Diocletian to Honorius", The Archaeology of War in Late Antiquity, eds. L. Lavan and A. Sarantis (Brill)

Forthcoming conference presentations:
'Avkat Archaeological Project, Avkat colloquium, Istanbul, Turkey July 2011 (Co-organiser + presenter)
"Making Emperors in the Eastern Roman Empire in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries"
Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity IX, Penn State University, USA, June 2011

 


Rodney Fitzsimons

Publications to Appear in 2011:

R. D. Fitzsimons. 2011. “Monumental Architecture and the Construction of the Mycenaean State.” In State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm, edited by N. Terrenato and D. C. Haggis, 75-118. Oxford: Oxbow.

D. C. Haggis, M. S. Mook, R. D. Fitzsimons, C. M. Scarry, L. M.Snyder and W. C. West. 2011. “Excavations in the Archaic Civic Buildings at Azoria in 2005-2006.” Hesperia 80: 431-489.

D. C. Haggis, M. S. Mook, R. D. Fitzsimons, C. M. Scarry and L. M.Snyder. 2011. “The Excavation of Archaic Houses at Azoria in 2005-2006.” Hesperia 80: 1-70.

Conference Papers in 2011:

2011. Fitzsimons, R. D. and E. Gorogianni. “Dining on the Fringe? A Possible Minoan-Style Banquet Hall at Ayia Irini, Kea.” Paper read at the 112th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, 6-9 January, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.

2011 Fitzsimons, R. D., E. Gorogianni and J. Cutler. “Something Borrowed, Something New: Possible Archaeological Evidence for Foreign Brides as Catalysts for Acculturation at Ayia Irini, Kea.” Paper read at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 30 March-3 April, Sacramento, California, U.S.A.

2011. Gorogianni, E., J. Cutler and R. D. Fitzsimons. “Weaving a Pan-Aegean Fabric: Travelling Brides as Agents of Cultural Exchange in the Late Bronze Age Aegean.” Paper read at a conference entitled, Nostoi: Indigenous Cultures, Migration and Integration in the Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, 31 March-3 April, Istanbul, Turkey.

2011.  “A Tale of Three Cities: Urbanisation and Socio-Political Development at Archaic Azoria, Crete,” to be presented at Urban Dreams and Realities: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the City in Ancient Cultures, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, October 21-22, 2011.

Invited Lectures in 2010/2011:

2010.“Monumental Architecture and the Construction of the Mycenaean State.” Paper presented at the Canadian Institute in Greece, 3 November, 2010, Athens, Greece.

2010. “Spomenici za žive, spomenici za mrtve: Kamen po kamen vodič kroz mikenske državne formacije (Monuments for the Living, Monuments for the Dead: A Stone-by-Stone Guide to Mycenaean State Formation.” Aegean Seminar presented to the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, 7 December, 2010, Zagreb, Croatia.

2011. “Making an Archaic City: The Social, Political and Architectural Correlates of Urbanisation at Azoria, East Crete.” Paper presented at the Canadian Institute in Greece, 9 March, 2011, Athens, Greece.

2011. Fitzsimons, R.D. and E. Gorogianni. "Feasting on Minoan Culture: The Northeast Bastion at Ayia Irini, Kea, and its Significance for Understanding Minoanization in the Aegean". Paper presented at the INSTAP-SCEC, 1 July 2011, Pacheia Ammos, Crete, Greece.

2011.  “How to Build an Archaic Greek City: Architecture and Urbanisation at Azoria, East Crete,” to be presented to the Department of Classics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 11, 2011.

Grants Received in 2010/2011:

Institute for Aegean Prehistory New Research Grant ($20,000) for the Ayia Irini Northern Sector Archaeological Project.

SSHRC Standard Research Grant ($76,032) for the Ayia Irini Northern Sector Archaeological Project.

Institute for Aegean Prehistory New Research Grant ($15,000) for the Ayia Irini Northern Sector Archaeological Project.

Institute for Aegean Prehistory Publication Team Grant ($600) for the Ayia Irini Northern Sector Archaeological Project.

 


 

Sean Lockwood

Invited Lectures:

January 2012: Lycian Tombs and Political Change in the Elmalı Basin in the Fourth Century B.C.E.,” to be presented as part of “Recent Research in the Elmalı Basin: A Memorial Colloquium for Machteld J. Mellink,” at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, PA.

March 12, 2011: Invited to speak at The Brock University Archaeological Society's 22nd Annual Scholarly Symposium (St. Catherine's, ON) and will present a paper entitled “Urban and Rural Funerary Monuments in the Upper Göksu Valley, Turkey.”

Sept 25-26, 2010:  Invited to speak at a symposium entitled "Dining and Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the ‘Funerary Banquet’ in Art, Burial and Belief," at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK), and presented a paper entitled “Family Matters: The Interpretation of Lycian ‘Funerary Banquet’ Reliefs.”

May, 2010:  “Avkat Archaeological Project 2009” at the 32nd Annual Symposium on Excavations, Surveys and Archaeometry (Istanbul, Turkey)

Publications:

Rahman, Momin and Sean Lockwood. 2011. “How to ‘Use Your Olympian’: the Paradox of Athletic Authenticity and Commericalization in the Contemporary Olympic Games.” Sociology 45 (Special Edition on the Olympics).

 


Ian StoreyIan C. Storey

Recent Publications

The Fragments of Old Comedy, 3 volumes, Loeb Classical Library 513

-515 (May 2011) Click here for article on the Book Launch.

 

“Origins and Fifth-Century Comedy”, in G. Dobrov (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy (Leiden 2010) 179-225

REVIEW of R. Drew Griffiths & Robert Marks, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: Ancient Greek and Roman Humour (Kingston 2007), University of Toronto Quarterly 79.1 (2010) 483-4

Publications in the Press

 

“Comedy and the Crises”, to appear in Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Fifth-Century Athens, Trends in Classics 3, ed. M. Markantonatoset al.

Andromache”, to appear in Blackwell Companion to Euripides, ed. R. Mitchell-Boyask.

SuppliantWomen”, to appear in Encyclopaedia of Greek Tragedy, ed. H. Roisman.

 

Activities

June 2010 – “Comedy and the Crises”, paper at the colloquium, “Laughter in the Library”, Balliol College Oxford.

October 2010 – “Dating a dead musician: Phrynis of Athens”, paper at the Southern Section, Classical Association of the Midwest & South (CAMWS)

December 2010 – “Dating a dead musician: Phrynis of Athens”, paper at the Humanities Research Day (Trent University)

Upcoming activities

April 2011 – “Euhemerism in the Classical Novels of Mary Renault”, paper at the annual meeting of CAMWS (Grand Rapids MI)

May 2011 – “Euhemerism in the Classical Novels of Mary Renault”, paper at the annual meeting of Classical Association of Canada (Halifax NS) – part of a panel on “The Classical Novels of Mary Renault”.