News & Events

Science in Archaeology at Jamestown Rediscovery

Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Noon

Dr. David Givens, Director of Archaeology, Jamestown Rediscovery

ME Conference Room, Hopeman 224

Heritage Interrupted: The Future of Ghana's Past

Thursday, February 13, 2020
5 p.m.

Raymond Silverman, Professor, History of Art and Afroamerican and African Studies; Director, Museum Studies

Humanities Center, Conference Room D 2nd Floor, Rush Rhees Library

Buildings for the Dead: Constructing Social Order and Concealing Social Change in the Late Prehispanic Andes

Thursday, November 14, 2019
5 p.m.–6:30 p.m.

Matthew C. Velasco PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library

“Beyond” the Grid of Labor Control: Salvaged, Persisting and Leaky Assemblages in Colonial Guatemala"

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
5 p.m.–6 p.m.

Public Lecture by Guido Pezzarossi PhD, Syracuse University

Humanities Center Conference Room D

Archaeology of Danish Plantation Agriculture in Dodowa, Ghana

Friday, April 19, 2019
Noon–1:30 p.m.

David Akwasi Mensah Abrampah, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, University of Ghana

Gamble Room, 3rd Floor Rush Rhees Library

History and Archaeology in Cape Verde: The Rise of a Global World

Wednesday, November 7, 2018
5 p.m.

Professor Jorge De Juan Ares

Hawkins-Carlson Reading Room

Applying Digital and Engineering Method for Understanding Religion and Authority at Chavín de Huántar, Peru

Thursday, October 25, 2018
5 p.m.

Professor John W. Rick

Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library 3rd Floor

Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Research in Ghana

Wednesday, April 11, 2018
3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Lectures will be given by Renato Perucchio (University of Rochester), Samuel Amartey (University of Syracuse), and Samuel Nkumbaan (University of Ghana)

Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library

“From Paracas to Nasca? Diversity and Genesis on the south coast of ancient Peru"

Wednesday, December 13, 2017
5 p.m.

Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Center Conference Room D

"Cross Cultural Encounters Along the Dixcove Coastline, Ghana: The Archaeological Evidence"

Monday, April 24, 2017
5 p.m.

Rush Rhees Library, Room 416 (Robbins Library)

"Resilience and Opportunism in Dynamic Landscapes: Evidence of Prehispanic Runoff Irrigation in Nasca, Peru"

Wednesday, November 9, 2016
5 p.m.

Rush Rhees Library, Room 416 (Robbins Library)

"Mausoleum of Hadrian Rediscovered: Architecture, Function, Symbolism"

Thursday, March 31, 2016
7:30 p.m.–9 p.m.

The Memorial Art Gallery, M&T Bank Ballroom

"Analysis and Conservation of Cultural Heritage Monuments: Challenges and Approaches Across Disciplines"

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
3 p.m.–6:30 p.m.

Rush Rhees Library, Welles-Brown Room

Slave Castles and Forts of West Africa: West Africa, Europeans, and the Atlantic World

Thursday, December 3, 2015
5 p.m.

Rush Rhees Library, Hawkins-Carlson Reading Room

"Sectarianism and Architecture: The Foundation and Destruction of Shi'i Shrines in Syria and Iraq in the 21st Century"

Tuesday, April 7, 2015
5 p.m.

Rush Rhees Library, Room 416 (Robbins Library)

"The Challenge of Preserving Heritage Buildings in Earthquake-Prone Areas: Applications to Peru"

Thursday, December 4, 2014
5 p.m.

Rush Rhees Library, Gamble Room

"THE BALANCED SKILL: Pseudo Vaults and the Vaults in the Ancient Mediterranean"

Thursday, April 24, 2014
4 p.m.

Rush Rhees Library, Gamble Room