PAW Noon Hour Talks

Unless otherwise noted, talks and seminars are held in Room 209 Scheide-Caldwell House and begin at 12:00 noon.

Special Speaker

Susan Alcock
April 30 – May 3, 2007

Susan Alcock (BA Yale; BA, MA, PhD Cambridge) has taught at the Universities of Reading and Michigan, and since 2006 has been Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. Her interests include the material culture of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, landscape archaeology, and the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean and southern Caucasus. She writes, "In a nutshell much of my work to date revolves around themes of landscape, imperialism, sacred space, and memory."

Her archaeological fieldwork has taken the form of regional investigations in Greece, most recently, the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. She is now involved with the Vorotan Project, an international collaborative effort in southern Armenia.

In addition to numerous articles and some eight edited books, her major works are Graecia Capta: The Landscapes of Roman Greece (Cambridge, 1993), and Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments and Memory (Cambridge, 2001). The latter book, based on the W. B. Stanford Lectures delivered at Trinity College, Dublin, won the Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. In 2001 she was honored with a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.