Archaeological Initiatives at the University of Maryland

Itinerary

9:00-9:10 AM Welcome and Introduction by Mark Leone, Professor of Anthropology, UMCP

9:10-9:40AM"Breaking Bread with the Dead: The Ritual Context of Katumuwa's Stele from Zincirli (Sam'al)"

Matthew Suriano, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, UMCP

9:40-10:10 AM "Griffon, Lion, and Fire: The Great Megaron as Symbolic and Performative Space"

Jarrett Farmer, MLIS, UMCP

10:10-10:40 AM "The Evidence for Ritual Activity in the Hero Shrine of Opheltes at Nemea, Greece"

Jorge Bravo, Assistant Professor of Classics, UMCP

10:40-10:50 AM Break

10:50-11:20 AM "Greek Myth in Monumental Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt"

Marjorie Venit, Professor and Chair of Art History and Archaeology, UMCP

11:20-11:50 AM "The Architect in Archaeology at Stabiae, Pompeii, and Aperlae"

Lindley Vann, Professor of Architecture, UMCP

11:50AM -12:20PM Title TBA

Matthew Bell, Professor of Architecture, UMCP

12:30-1:15 PM Lunch

1:15-1:45 PM "Anastasius, Mud, and Foraminifera: Reevaluating (Again) the Later Harbor at Caesarea"

Kenneth G. Holum, Professor of History, UMCP

1:45-2:15 PM "Archaeology in Annapolis and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore"

Mark Leone, Professor of Anthropology, UMCP

2:15- 2:25 PM Break

2:25-2:55 PM "Environmental Historical Archaeology in the Sub-Arctic North Atlantic"

George Hambrecht, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UMCP

2:55-3:25 PM "Historical Archaeology: Exploring Immigration in the Past and Confronting it in the Present"

Paul A. Shackel, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, UMCP

3:25-3:55 PM "Bridging the Atlantic: Material Evidence of the Irish Diaspora in Ireland and Maryland"

Stephen Brighton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UMCP

3:55-4:00 PM Concluding Remarks by Jorge Bravo, Assistant Professor of Classics, UMCP