The Tulane University Center for Archaeology presents an archaeology brownbag lunch talk.

[CANCELLED AS OF 3/12/2020]

"Working on an Old Excavation and Its Fragmented Records: The Case of the House of the Frescoes at Knossos"

Emilia Oddo, Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Tulane University

Friday, 3/13/2020, 12:00PM, Dinwiddie Hall Room 305

The Tulane University Center for Archaeology presents an archaeology brownbag lunch talk.

"Empowering Ruins: An Archaeology of Two Activist Spaces in Detroit, Gordon Park and the Grande Ballroom"

Krysta Ryzewski, Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Friday, 2/28/2020, 12:00PM, Dinwiddie Hall Room 305

Lecture hosted and organized by the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation and Tulane's Middle American Research Institute. The lecture will serve as an inauguration presentation to the 17th Tulane Maya Symposium and will celebrate collaborations between New Orleans and Latin American institutions.

Please join us on Friday, February 28 for the first Anthropology colloquium of the semester. Dr. Christina Torres-Rouff from the University of California, Merced will present a talk titled, "Head Shaping: Shifting Bodies and Shifting Understandings of Self and Culture in Pre-Columbian Northern Chile" in Dinwiddie Hall Room 102. Please see the abstract below.

And A Good Time Was Had By All: Alcohol and Feasting in Mesoamerica

Dorie Reents-Budet

Department of Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

In collaboration with the Annual Tulane Maya Symposium, this workshop focuses on foods of the Maya.  The K-12 Educator Workshop will focus on a basic introduction to Maya archaeology and cultural heritage of the Maya today. Participants will explore the foods of the Maya focusing on the role of food over time. Join us as we hear from chocolate specialists and our Kaqchikel language scholar will discuss the importance of corn.

This collaborative workshop is designed for middle to high school Social Studies educators to enhance the teaching of the Tunica community while highlighting this group as part of a series of ancient civilizations currently taught at the K-12 level. This workshop is the first one in the series aimed at increasing and extending the current teaching of ancient civilizations in the Americas.

This collaborative workshop is designed for K-12 Social Studies educators to enhance the teaching of the Tunica community while highlighting this group as part of a series of ancient civilizations currently taught at the K-12 level. This workshop is the first one in the series aimed at increasing and extending the current teaching of ancient civilizations in the Americas. The local focus on Louisiana indigenous people and culture will enable educators to create deeper connections when teaching about indigenous identity across the Americas such as the Maya, the Aztec and the Inca.

The Tulane Maya Symposium is a weekend of talks and workshops dedicated to the study of the Maya civilization. Since 2002, this yearly meeting has called upon scholars from a wide spectrum of specialties—archaeology, art history, cultural anthropology, epigraphy, history, and linguistics—to elucidate the many facets of Maya culture. The 2020 line-up of speakers and workshops will address food consumption practices over the span of ancient Maya prehistory.

The Tulane University Center for Archaeology presents an archaeology brownbag lunch talk.

"The Poverty Point Earthworks in Louisiana"

Tristram Kidder, Professor of Anthroplogy and Environmental Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Friday, 1/17/2020, 12:00PM, Dinwiddie Hall Room 305

The Tulane University Center for Archaeology hosts periodic brownbag lunch talks about diverse topics in archaeology, of interest to scholars, students, and staff members in several schools, departments, and institutes at Tulane.