2021 News & Events Archive

Professor Barbara Reeves had two presentations at ASOR’s Virtual Annual Meeting in December 2021, one on “Wall Thickness as a Phase Indicator in Hauarra’s Roman Fort” (see page 30 of the program - link below) and another (co-authored with John Oleson) on “The Role of the Fort at Hauarra (Humayma, Jordan) in Trajan’s Occupation of the Nabataean Kingdom” (see page 103 of the program - link below).


Recent MA graduate presents at conference with Professor Colivicchi
On Wednesday, December 1st @ 6:00-6:30 AM (ET) Professor Colivicchi and recent MA graduate, Anton Strachan, presented at the Universita degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” Conference "Work in progress in Cerveteri between Canada and Europe".


Professor Cristiana Zaccagnino was interviewed by Alan Neal at CBC Radio Ottawa during his All in a Day podcast about Indiana Jones and the figure of the archaeologist 40 years after the film's release. The podcast episode '' aired on June 17th, 2021.  


Professor R. Drew Griffith has been interviewed in  of 'Everything is Alive', a podcast by Radiotopia, to discuss ancient comedy.


Professor Jan-Mathieu Carbon participated in the International Workshop "My Name is Your Name: Anthroponyms as Divine Attributes", presented by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid from June 2nd to 3rd. Professor Carbon was discussing The God of "NN" (in Anatolia): Fossilised Founders or Meaningful Epicleseis? on June 3, 2021.


Two Faculty members gave papers at the 2021 , May 25-28. Professor Barbara Reeves was discussing "ľĹĐăÖ±˛Ą's First Professor: Peter Colin Campbell, Professor of Classical Literature," and Professor Beatrice Poletti was discussing "The Enemy's Brides: Diplomacy and  Female Agency in Dion. Hal. RA 2.30-2.46 (The Abduction of the Sabine Women)".


Professor Jan-Mathieu Carbon spoke at the Mapping Ancient Polytheisms (MAP) Seminar hosted by the UniversitĂ© de Toulouse in France.  His talk, Les associations et leurs bornes funĂ©raires Ă  Cos : Un vaste horizon de dieux et de fĂŞtes, de fondateurs et de “chefs”, was presented on January 11, 2021.