<Friday, March 26th, 6:00pm, Schermerhorn 465 >
Lynn Meskell (Columbia)--Welcome Address
<Saturday, March 27th, Schermerhorn963 >
9:00 - 9:20, Breakfast
9:20 - 9:30, Nan Rothchild (Columbia)--Welcoming Remarks
9:35 - 9:55, Sharon Moses (Cornell)--Multiplicity of Meaning: Life and Death in Material Culture at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Turkey; 10:00 -10:20, Carolyn Nakamura (Columbia) -- Mastering Matters: Neo- Assyrian Apotropaic Figurine Worlds; 10:20-10:30 , Discussion
10:45 -11:05, James Boyle (NYU)--Wearing the feast: The social role of bone and antler dress pins in early medieval Ireland; 11:10 -11:30, Krysta Ryzewski (Brown)--Close Encounters between Material Culture and Lifeways in 18th century Rhode Island; 11:35 -11:55, Tina Harris (CUNY Graduate Center)--Mediators in the Transnational Marketplace: Wholesalers of Tibetan Ceremonial Scarves and the Marketing of Meaning; 11:55-12:10, Discussion
1:20 -1:40, Leslie Klein (Columbia)--Preserving the Artifact/Preserving the Artificer; 1:45 - 2:05, Meredith Linn (Columbia)--Soda Water: The Official Drink of the Irish Diaspora?; 2:10 - 2:30, Zeynep Turan (CUNY Graduate Center)--Personal Objects from the Homeland: Reconstructing Cultural and Personal Identities; 2:30-2:40, Discussion
2:50 - 3:10, Lizzie Martin (CUNY) --Owning Identity: The Contestation over the African Burial Ground, NYC;
3:15 - 3:35, Kirsten Olson (Columbia) --In the Nursery: Households and Mortuary Practice in the SW Andes, AD 1000-1440;
3:35-3:45, Discussion
<3:55 - 4:40,Schermerhorn963 > Bob Preucel (UPenn), Keynote Speaker-- Words and Things
<4:45 - 5:00,Schermerhorn963 > Terence D'Altroy (Columbia)-- Closing Remarks
