Showing posts with label AIA 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIA 2012. Show all posts

Monday, 9 January 2012

AIA presentation in brief: In ancient Pompeii, trash and tombs went hand in hand

From University of Cincinnati news:

Trash and tombs went hand in hand in ancient Pompeii. That’s according to UC research that provides new insights into the daily life of that city before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.

Cemeteries in ancient Pompeii were “mixed-use developments” with a variety of purposes that included serving as an appropriate site to toss out the trash. That’s according to findings from University of Cincinnati research at Pompeii to be presented Jan. 7, 2012, at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America by UC doctoral student Allison Emmerson. She has worked on site as part of UC’s Pompeii Archaeological Research Project.

More here, video there.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

AIA Philadelphia

The APA/AIA is almost upon us again, and as usual there are a bunch of Pompeii-related sessions and papers:

Friday 6th January, 8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m: 1F Gold Medal Session: Monuments and Topography: Pompeii and Rome
9:20 Some Roman Architectural Influences at Pompeii. John J. Dobbins, University of Virgina (15 min.)
10:30 The House of Sallust, 1970–1971, 2005–2011: Excavations and Some Surprising
Results. Anne Laidlaw, Johns Hopkins University (15 min.)
10:50 Lawrence Richardson, jr. and the Painters of the Pompeian Fourth Style. Eleanor W. Leach, Indiana University (15 min.)
11:10 The Nymphaeum in the Praedia Iuliae Felicis in Pompeii. Christopher Parslow, Wesleyan University (15 min.)

Saturday 7th January, 12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m: 5A Pompeii and Ostia
12:30 Unpacking Construction Fill: Archaeological Formation Processes of Activity,
Refuse, and Construction in an Urban Environment. W. Flint Dibble, University of Cincinnati (15 min.)
12:50 Repopulating an “Abandoned” Suburb: The Case of Pompeii’s Tombs. Allison Emmerson, University of Cincinnati (20 min.)
1:15 Toward A Social Network Analysis of Pompeian Wall Painting. David Fredrick, University of Arkansas, Keenan Cole, University of Arkansas, Jackson Cothren, University of Arkansas, Russell Deaton, University of Arkansas, Frederick Limp, University of Arkansas, and Jasmine Merced, University of Arkansas (20 min.)
1:35 Break (15 min.)
1:50 Urban Layout as an Agent of Romanization: A Comparison of Urban Space at
Ostia, Pompeii, Silchester, and Empúries. Alan Kaiser, University of Evansville (15 min.)
2:10 Stratigraphic Analysis and the Economics of Reuse at Later Ostia: Field Study of the Palazzo Imperiale, 2011. Joanne M. Spurza, Hunter College, City University of New York (15 min.)

The full programme is available here.

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

David Gill awarded the 2012 AIA Outstanding Public Service Award

It's not strictly Pompeii-related, but I want to spread the news that David Gill, one of my colleagues at Swansea, will be the 2012 recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America’s (AIA) Outstanding Public Service Award. The award recognises David's "ongoing efforts to educate both professional archaeologists and the public at large on the threats posed by the international antiquities trade".

Anyone who doesn't yet follow David's blog, Looting Matters, really should!
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