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Coroplastic and Small Finds from the Geometric Period to the Roman Era
Colloquium Held in the Memory of Eos Zervoudaki,
Rhodes, November 26-29, 2009
For a list of presented papers in Greek click here
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American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting
New Orleans, LA
Session A21, Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:15 - 6:15
“Figuring Out” the Figurines of the Ancient Near East I
Theme: Focuses on the research and analysis of terracotta figurines from across all regions, sites, and
time periods in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. New perspectives, interdisciplinary
dialogue, and cross-cultural comparisons within figurine studies will be encouraged.
Stephanie Langin-Hooper (University of California, Berkeley), Presiding
1. Adi Erlich (University of Haifa)
Double Faces, Multiple Meanings: the Hellenistic Pillar Figurines
from Maresha, Israel
2. Elizabeth A. Waraksa (University of California, Los Angeles),
Female Figurines from the Mut
Precinct, Karnak: Evidence of Ritual Use
3. Jaimee P. Uhlenbrock (SUNY New Paltz), A Near Easterner at Cyrene: Cross-Cultural Implications at
a Greek City in Libya
4. Erin D. Darby (Duke University) and David Ben-Shlomo (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Sugar
and Spice and Everything Nice: Terracotta Pillar Figurines and Jerusalemite Pottery Production in Iron
II Judea
4. Susan B. Downey (University of California, Los Angeles), Images of Divinities in Terracotta and
Stucco Plaques from the Hellenistic-Roman Period at Dura-Europos, Syria
Session A53, Saturday, November 21, 2009, 4:15-6:15
“Figuring Out” the Figurines of the Ancient Near East II
Andrea Creel (University of California, Berkeley), Presiding
1. Christopher A. Tuttle (American Center of Oriental Research, Amman)
The Nabataean Coroplastic
Arts: A Synthetic Methodology for Addressing a Diverse Corpus
2. Erin Walcek Averett (Creighton University)
The Ritual Contexts of Archaic Cypriote Figurines
3. Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith (St. Joseph’s University)
Nudity is Divine: Southern Levantine Female
Figurines
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Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Second Annual Meeting
Stanford, CA,
May, 1 - 3, 2009
Figurines in Action
John M. Matsunaga (University of California: Berkeley) & Peter Biehl (SUNY Buffalo)
Current figurine studies have attempted to understand the effects that figurines had on the perceptions, lived experiences, and daily practices of the people in the past that created and interacted with them. Traditional interpretations of figurines as mother-goddesses, fertility symbols, or as mere reflections of social and political organization have been replaced by interpretations of figurines as active forms of material culture that played an important role in shaping people’s identities and social relationships. Key questions in this line of research include:
What effects did figurines have on people in the past?
What do figurines do and how do they do it? That is, how do they work?
This session seeks to address these questions and contribute to contemporary figurine studies by exploring the diversity of approaches to figurines that have developed in light of the recent trends in archaeological method and theory. In particular, special emphasis will be given to the study of materiality, especially in regards to aesthetics, semiotics, agency, embodiment, identity, personhood, and the biography of objects. It is desired that participants would not only explore at least one of these theoretical issues through a detailed case study, but also provide clear statements of the methods used to address them.
1. Figurines in Action: An Introduction
John M. Matsunaga (University of California: Berkeley) and Peter Biehl (SUNY Buffalo)
2. Thinking about Differential Body Part Emphasis on Prehistoric Figurines
Douglass Bailey (San Francisco State University)
3. Representing the Body: The Human Figure in the 7th-5th Millennium BC
Peter Biehl (SUNY Buffalo)
4. Creating Bodies through Symbolic Commitment and Compromise: a Cucuteni-Tripolye Case Study
Raymond Whitlow (SUNY Buffalo)
5. Neolithic Materiality: The Technology and Daily Practice of Vinča Culture Anthropomorphic Figurine Production
John M. Matsunaga (University of California: Berkeley)
6. Figurines and Fragmentation: Implications of the Two Paradigms on Southeast Europe Prehistoric Archaeology
Slobodan Mitrović (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
7. Of Sickle and Axe Men: Burials and Figurines in the Late Neolithic Carpathian Basin
Dusan Borić, University of Cambridge
8. Archive Fever: Words, Images and Things in Neo-Assyrian Apotropaic Figurine Deposits
Carolyn Nakamura (Stanford University)
9. Figuring it Out: Figurines and the Body in the Neolithic Near East
Karina Croucher (University of Manchester) & Aurelie Daems (Ghent University)
For a full program with abstracts click here.
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Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
Friday, January 9, 2009, 1:30 - 4:30 pm,
Colloquium:Coroplastic Studies at the Start of the 21st Century: From Collection to Context
Coroplastic Interest Group, Sponsor
Organizer: Caitlin E. Barrett, Yale University
1. The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Marion
Nancy Serwint, Arizona State University
2. Recent Developments in Greek and Roman Coroplastic Research in Asia Minor
Ergün Lafli, Dokuz Eylül University
3. Coroplastic Studies in Greek and Roman Libya
Jaimee P. Uhlenbrock, State University of New York at New Paltz (Professor Emerita)
4. Coroplastic Traditions in the Bosporan Kingdom (Northern Black Sea Area)
Maya Muratov, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Greek and Roman Art
5. Between Sidon and Alexandria: Hellenistic Terracotta Figurines from Israel
Adi Erlich, University of Haifa, Israel (Department of Art History)
6. A Distributed System of Archives for Coroplastic Studies
Paul F. Jacobs, Mississippi State University
7. Figurines in Sanctuary Contexts at Mytilene and Stymphalos: What CAN We Learn?
Kathleen Donahue Sherwood, John Abbott University
Discussant: Marina Albertocchi, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy
