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SUMMARY:Lothar Von Falkenhausen: "Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale"
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents \nLothar Von Falkenhausen\nProfessor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History\, UCLA \nTrying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage:\nOne Committee Member’s Tale \nFriday\, April 21 at 5:00 p.m.\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFree and open to the public\nRefreshments at 4:30 p.m. and reception to follow the lecture \nProfessor Von Falkenhausen will give an account of his service as a member of President Obama’s\nCultural Property Advisory Committee. He reflects upon the purpose of the committee and its\ncomposition and the nature of its work\, as well as the wider impact of the United States\ngovernment’s efforts to contribute to cultural-heritage preservation worldwide.\nLothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA\, where\nhe heads the East Asian Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. His research\nconcerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age\, focusing on large interdisciplinary and\nhistorical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. He has\npublished copiously on musical instruments; Chinese bronzes and their inscriptions; Chinese\nritual; regional cultures; trans-Asiatic contacts; the history of archaeology in East Asia; and\nmethod and theory in East Asian archaeology. His Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius\n(1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006) received the Society for American\nArchaeology Book Award. Since 2012\, Professor Von Falkenhausen has served on the\nPresidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee\, charged with implementing the 1970\nUNESCO convention in order to curb the illegal inflow of cultural property into the United States. \nFor more information on the lecture\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \nMetered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lothar-von-falkenhausen-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151029T170000
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SUMMARY:Rita Lucarelli: "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt"
DESCRIPTION:EVENT PHOTOS:\n \nRita Lucarelli\nNear Eastern Studies\, UC Berkeley \n“Ghosts and the Restless Dead\nin Ancient Egypt” \nCenter for Ancient Studies at UC Santa Cruz \n  \nThe beliefs in ghosts and spirits of the dead are widespread in world religions. In ancient Egypt\, however\, there is a certain inconsistency when mentioning the manifestations of the dead in magical and religious texts. \nThis paper will present and discuss the various evidence\, which may indicate ghosts\, revenants and evil dead in the spells and objects used in everyday magic as well as in mortuary compositions such as the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. \n-Rita Lucarelli \nRita Lucarelli studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale\,” Italy\, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University\, the Netherlands (2005). Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2006 as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC. \nfrom 2005 to 2010\, Lucarelli held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Verona\, Italy. From 2009 to 2012\, she worked as a Research Scholar on the Book of the Dead Project at the University of Bonn\, Germany. \nShe was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies of Columbia University (2009) and at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) of NYU (2012). \nUntil June 2014 she worked as a Research Scholar and a Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University\, and she held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Bari in Italy. \nRita Lucarelli is currently writing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt and she is one of the coordinators of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: http://www.demonthings.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rita-lucarelli-ghosts-and-the-restless-dead-in-ancient-egypt-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yannis Galanakis: "The Diplomat\, the Dealer and the Digger: Writing the History of the Antiquities Trade in 19th century Greece"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]During the 19th century in Europe\, new states were founded and nationalism and colonialism were strengthened; while some Empires disintegrated\, others managed to maintain or even increase their power. At the same time\, archaeology was transformed into a structured discipline and large-scale excavation projects commenced across the Mediterranean. The stories of the people behind the antiquities trade in Greece during the 19th century—the diplomats stationed in Athens\, the local art dealers and the private diggers—help us write an important chapter in the social\, economic\, and cultural history of Europe and of Mediterranean archaeology as a whole. This lecture explores how the commodification of the past became interwoven with power politics and gave rise both to different attitudes toward collecting and to debates on cultural property\, ownership and the value of things in our modern world. \nYannis Galanakis is Lecturer in Classics (Greek Prehistory)\, Faculty of Classics\, University of Cambridge Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics\, Sidney Sussex College. \nFor more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \n\n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aiakress-lecture-with-yannis-galanakis-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Michael Frachetti: "Uncovering a Nomadic City Along the Medieval Silk Road"
DESCRIPTION:From at least 200 BC to the 16th century CE\, the Eurasian Silk Road formed the most extensive network of trade and commerce the world had ever seen. Its pathways linked populations from Beijing to Jerusalem in one of the first global networks. Much of what we know about the Silk Road is defined by archaeology from lowland oases\, but mountainous regions occupied by nomads offer new insights. The newly discovered city of Tashbulak\, unearthed in 2011 in the highlands of Uzbekistan\, is one of the most recent and exciting discoveries along the Medieval Silk Road. Tashbulak pushes us to question our common understanding of the role of nomads in shaping the history and technology of medieval empires across Central Asia and sparks many questions about political\, religious and economic change in the 11th century CE. \nDr. Michael Frachetti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His work addresses the ancient nomadic societies of Central and Eastern Eurasia and how these shaped inter-regional networks from as early as 2000 BCE (the Mid-Bronze Age) down to the time of the later Silk Roads. He is the author of Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia (UCPress\, 2008). He currently conducts archaeological field research in Eastern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. \n\n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-frachetti-uncovering-a-nomadic-city-along-the-medieval-skill-road-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales”
DESCRIPTION:Helen\, the Spartan queen whose abduction by Paris the prince of Troy ignited the ten-year-long Trojan War\, may be regarded as the femme fatale par excellence. The prominence of Helen’s images in the Greek tradition is as notable as their complexity and ambiguity. Alongside commonplace condemnations of Helen as the cause of a devastating war\, there are also enduring efforts to exonerate\, to redeem\, and even to exalt her act. Ancient China had its own lore of femmes fatales. The fall of each of the three earliest Chinese dynasties is blamed on a woman\, the evil consort of the last monarch. The judgment passed on the three women in the sources is invariably negative\, and their stories are routinely invoked as cautionary lessons for later rulers and noble houses about the potential dangers of female beauty. Whereas the indeterminacy of Helen’s images perpetuated over time and became ever more elusive with the proliferation of representations\, the portrayals of the three classical Chinese femmes fatales conformed to one broad pattern that was only clarified and reinforced with the multiplication of texts. In this talk\, I shall illustrate the contrast just laid out and attempt to explain how it came into being\, thereby illuminating some important differences between the conceptions of beauty and the contexts and functions of literary and historical writings in the two ancient societies. \nYiqun Zhou is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (and\, by courtesy\, of Classics) at Stanford University. Her research interests include comparative studies of China and Greece as well as Chinese and comparative women’s history\, early Chinese literature and history\, and Chinese and English fiction (1600-1900). Her recent publications include Festivals\, Feasts\, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece (New York: Cambridge University Press\, 2010) and “Spatial Metaphors and Women’s Religious Activities in Ancient China and Greece\,” in Shubha Pathak\, ed. Figuring Religions: Comparing Ideas\, Images\, and Activities (Albany: SUNY Press\, 2013). \nRefreshments at 4:30pm with reception to follow lecture.\nFree parking for lecture in the lower Cowell-Stevenson parking lot.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yiqun-zhou-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christopher Krebs: "What Makes Books Dangerous? The Case of Tacitus' Germania"
DESCRIPTION:Tacitus’ Germania\, a brief ethnography of the peoples the Romans called Germani\, exerted a profound impact on the European History of ideas. By no fault of its author\, it ended up as an ideological cornerstone of the National Socialist regime. This talk will trace the influence of the Germania and reflect more generally on what it is that makes books “dangerous.” \nChristopher B. Krebs is associate professor of classics at Stanford university. He has also held appointments at Harvard university\, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences\, the École Normale Supérieure (Paris)\, and the University of Oxford. His research interests are in ancient historiography\, Latin lexicography\, and the classical tradition. His most recent monograph is A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich\, which won the 2012 Christian Gauss Award. He is currently engaged in studies of Caesar and the intellectual life of the first century BCE. He also enjoys writing for wider audiences to communicate his fascination with the ancient world and its long and lasting reach. \nRefreshments at 4:30 and reception to follow the lecture. \nLecture presented by UCSC’s Classical Studies\, and the Departments of History and Literature. For more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-krebs-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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