The Mediterranean Archaeology Collaborative Specialization (MACS) Program
This new specialization brings together the skills and experiences of faculty from Classics, Art, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Anthropology and Religion to forge a unique blend of expertise and guidance for those pursuing advanced study in Mediterranean Archaeology. Students will obtain a degree in one of the collaborating departments with additional coursework focused on interdisciplinary approaches to the archaeological record and participation in field projects. More information is available the MACS Website.
For the 2020-2021 semesters, various talks and events will highlight research in Mediterranean Archaeology. You can find any changes to the schedule on the Arch Centre Calendar page.
Past MACS Lectures:
September 20th, 2019
Prof. Ian Hodder (Stanford)
The House as a Wave: Fields and Forces and the Production of “thingness”
(Note Alternate Venue: Woodsworth College Residence, Room WO35)
October 25th, 2019
ROM lecture – the Power of Cypriot Art (Dr. William Childs)
https://www.rom.on.ca/en/whats-on/ancient-art-of-the-mediterrannean-the-power-of-cypriot-art
October 26th, 2019
Ancient Art of the Mediterranean – ROM/MACS symposium
Prof. Verity Platt (Cornell)
Prof. Nathan Arrington (Princeton)
Prof. Erin Averett (Creighton)
[and from Toronto: Bjoern Ewald, Tim Harrison, SeungJung Kim, Kate Cooper]
December 5th, 2019 Prof. Caroline Cheung (Princeton)
January 16th, 2020 Prof. John Kloppenborg (Toronto)
January 30th. 2020 Prof. Fotini Kondyli (Virginia)
City-making and city-makers in Byzantine Athens
February 27th, 2020 Prof. Tom Leppard (Florida State)
March 26th, 2020 Prof. Irad Malkin (Oxford / Tel Aviv)
April, 2020 Prof. Stefano Camporeale (Siena)
September 21, 2017
Dr. Elisabetta Boaretto – “Timing the arrival of the Philistines in the Southern Levant: the field to lab radiocarbon dating approach”
October 19, 2017
Dr. Michael Chazan – “Paleolithic Perspectives on the Mediterranean”
November 24, 2017
Dr. Theotokis Theodoulou – “The Antikythera Shipwreck. History, Archaeology, Technology”
2:30pm – Room AP 246, 19 Russell Street, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
November 25, 2017
Thalassa: Underwater Archaeology in the Ancient East Mediterranean – ROM Symposium
December 7, 2017
Dr. Ted Banning – “The emergence of Neolithic households”
January 18, 2018
Dr. Carl Knappett – “Connectivity in the Bronze Age Aegean”
February 15, 2018
Dr. Sarah Murray – “Dark Age in the Mediterranean”
March 8, 2018
Dr. Tim Harrison – “Small Scale Socio-Political Complexity and Imperial Interaction in the Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean”?
November 1, 2018
4-6pm
Dr. Bjoern Ewald (Department of Art, UofT)
Art, society and context in antiquity: a complicated relation
December 6, 2018
4-6pm
Dr. Phil Sapirstein (Department of Art, UofT)
Digital Autopsy and the Temple of Hera at Olympia: rethinking the origins of Greek monumental architecture
February 7, 2019
Dr. Alessandro Sebastiani (SUNY Buffalo)
Title: TBA
March 7,2019
Dr. Naoise MacSweeney (University of Leicester)
Title: TBA
April 4 or 11 2019
Dr. Jerry Rutter (Dartmouth College)
Title: TBA
