The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, and Columbia University present the
Larissa Bonfante Workshop of Etruscan and Italic Arts
Ways of Making in Early Italy
Organized by John Hopkins (NYU) and Francesco de Angelis (Columbia)
Thursday-Friday, November 16-17, 2023
In recent years, the peoples, practices, and processes related to making and creative action in early Italy have taken a more central position in scholarship. Multiple books and collected works on artisanal practice and on the mobilities and lifeways of those involved in craftwork have traced the subtleties of the many worlds of makers and their ways of making. This has included multiple aspects of the material contributions of, for example, decoration, fabrication, construction, sourcing, and many kinds of craft output, from weaving to metalworking and from building to fine carving. This workshop brings together scholars working across materials and scales of making to think about these issues.
Please note space is limited for in-person events and reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Thursday, November 16
Columbia University
Schermerhorn Hall
1190 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 807, New York, NY 10027
6:00 p.m. Keynote Address (co-sponsored by the AIA New York Society)
Ways of Making Textiles in Early Italy: Archaeology of Lost Economies
Margarita Gleba (Università di Padova)
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Friday, November 17
New York University
Silver Center for Arts and Science
31 Washington Place, Jurow Lecture Hall, Room 101A, New York, NY 10003
9:30-9:45 a.m. Coffee and Check-in
9:45 a.m. Introduction
John Hopkins (NYU) and Francesco de Angelis (Columbia)
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
The Clay Economy in a Pre-Roman City: The Case of Falerii
Maria Cristina Biella (La Sapienza)
A Caeretan Workshop? About Some Unpublished Architectural Terracottas from Vigna Marini-Vitalini
Laurent Haumesser (Louvre)
Response
Delphine Tonglet (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m.
The Makers' Worlds: Exploring Landscape Experience and Quotidian Mobility in the Albegna Valley through Ceramic Production
Anna Soifer (Brown)
The Perception of the Foreigner in Hellenistic Etruria: The Bruschi Group
Laura Ambrosini (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
3:00-3:30 p.m. Coffee
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Many Hands: Craft and Community of the Etruscan Interior
Anthony Tuck (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Response
Nancy Thomson de Grummond (Florida State University)
Open Discussion
For more information, please visit: bonfanteworkshop.org