The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Archaeology of Neighborhood Life
Concepts, Communities, and Change
Conference organized by J. Andrew Dufton (ISAW) and Katherine Harrington (Florida State University)
Please note that this event is currently at capacity and ISAW is only accepting names for the waitlist.
Friday, December 14, 2018
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Second Floor Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
212.992.7800
Session 1: Concepts
9:00am Welcome
9:15am Between Rich and Poor in the Roman City: Delineating the Socio-economic Texture of a Pompeian Sub-elite Neighbourhood
Steven Ellis (University of Cincinnati)
9:45am Ancient Neighbors: Reconstructing Social Relationships in Pre-Columbian Residential Communities
David Pacifico (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
10:45am Engaging the State, Past and Present: A Neighborhood Perspective from Copán, Honduras
Kristin Landau (Alma College)
11:15am Imagining the Black Neighborhood: Race, Materiality, and 20th-Century African-American Space
Paul R. Mullins (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)
12:15pm Lunch Break
Session 2: Communities
1:15pm Craft, Community, and Ritual Practice in Classical Greek Industrial Neighborhoods
Katherine Harrington (Florida State University)
1:45pm Bioarchaeological Contributions to the Study of Community at the Late Shang Site of Yinxu
Daniela Wolin (ISAW)
2:15pm Communities and Neighborhoods at Harappa and in the Indus Valley
Mary A. Davis (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Session 3: Change
3:45pm Neighborhood (Re)Formation in Early Medieval Rome
Margaret M. Andrews (University of Chicago)
4:15pm Modelling Processes of Neighborhood Change in Urban Babylonia)
Heather D. Baker (University of Toronto)
4:45pm Processing Processes: A Longue Durée Look at the Neighborhoods of Ancient North Africa
J. Andrew Dufton (ISAW)
5:15pm Discussion
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at: isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp
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