Past Events



AAMW Lunch Talk - Simulation and Storytelling: 3D Modeling of Ancient Sundials as a Digital Humanities Exercise

Dr. Sebastian Heath (NYU)
Nov 10, 2017 at



AAMW Lunch Talk - Crafting History: Reflections on Some Sculpture from Roman Corinth

Dr. Catherine Vanderpool (Princeton)
Nov 3, 2017 at



AAMW Lunch Talk - Non-destructive dating of ancient inks from Egypt using micro-Raman spectroscopy

Drs. David Ratzan and Jim Yardley (NYU ISAW/Columbia)
Oct 27, 2017 at



AAMW Lunch Talk - FBI Art Theft Program and other Alternatives to Academic Careers

Dr. Bonnie Magness-Gardiner (FBI)
Oct 20, 2017 at



AAMW Lunch Talk - The Role of the Subject Expert in the 21st Century Library

Dr. Deb Stewart
Oct 13, 2017 at



AAMW Lunch Talk - Structuring the LBA Western Anatolia

Dr. Peter Pavúk (Charles University)
Sep 29, 2017 at



AAMW Lunch Talk - The Role of Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Diplomacy

Dr. Andrew Cohen (State Department)
Sep 22, 2017 at



AAMW Lunch Talk - Summer Fieldwork Reports

2nd/3rd Year Student Presentations
Sep 8, 2017 at



The Primitive Mind, Anthropology, Peasants, and the Ancient Economy

Dr. Michael Leese, University of New Hampshire
Apr 14, 2017 at



Water and Wittfogel, Exclusionary and Corporate Strategies

Dr. Rita Wright, New York University
Apr 7, 2017 at

The results of cross-cultural and comparative studies of early states have revolutionized anthropological and archaeological conceptions of pathways to complexity. The paper draws on this rising scholarship and re-…