The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Human Origins, presents
The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
The Origins of the Arts: Expressive Culture of Early Homo sapiens
Thursday and Friday, April 26-27, 2018
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Hemmerdinger Hall
32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place (for wheelchair access)
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2018
5:30 p.m. WELCOME
Matthew S. Santirocco, NYU
5:45 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Expressive Culture of Early Humans: Archaeological Evidence for the Origins of the Arts
Randall White, NYU
7:00 p.m. RECEPTION
FRIDAY, April 27, 2018
MORNING SESSION
9:00 a.m. Art and the Early Modern Brain
Dahlia Zaidel, UCLA
9:45 a.m. African Origins
Benjamin Smith, The University of Western Australia
10:30 a.m. Arts of the Neandertals
Marco Peresani, University of Ferrara, Italy
11:15 a.m. Aurignacian Arts in the the Grotte Chauvet
Carole Fritz and Gilles Tosello, Université de Toulouse, France
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:00 p.m. Personal Ornamentation: The Allure of Mammoth Ivory
Claire Heckel, The American Museum of Natural History
1:45 p.m. 42,000 Years of Marine Shell Bead Use in Timor-Leste
Sue O’Connor, The Australian National University
Michelle Langley, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
2:30 p.m. Earliest Arts of Australia
Bruno David, Monash University, Australia
3:15 p.m. Aurignacian Instrumental Music (lecture and demonstration)
Anna Friederike Potengowskski, Berlin, Germany
4:00 p.m. Film Presentation: When Homo sapiens Invented Cinema
Marc Azéma, Université de Toulouse, France
This event is generously supported and co-sponsored by by the NYU Deans of FAS, CAS, and Social Science, the Institute of Fine Arts, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the Tisch School of the Arts, the University Arts Council, and the Departments of Anthropology and Art History.
This conference is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, please visit: cshonyu.org/originsarts. For more information, contact the NYU Center for Ancient Studies at 212.992.7978 or at ancient.studies@nyu.edu