Boston Area Classics Calendar
May 2022
Post-Pandemic Update: What has the Science of the Human Past discovered
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Thu., May 12, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Zoom and CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (Lower Level), 1730
Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Introduction:
Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University;
Chair, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP); Director at
Harvard, Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient
Mediterranean (MHAAM).
Speakers:
“Reviving ancient brews: genetically reconstructing Tibetan beers and Roman wines”
Christina Warinner, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Sally
Starling Seaver Associate Professor, Radcliffe Institute; Group Leader, Dept. of
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany.
“The Second Generation of Declassified Intelligence Satellites and Landscape Archaeology”
Jason Ur, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
“When did the Celts come to Britain? Ancient DNA answers”
Michael Isakov, A.B. Mathematics, Harvard College, A.M. Statistics, Harvard University
(exp. ’22).
“What is Documentary Archaeology? Creating big data from medieval Europe’s material
culture”
Daniel Lord Smail, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Harvard University, and
Gabriel Pizzorno, Preceptor on Digital History, Harvard University.
“Anomalous Burials: The archaeology of death in early medieval France”
Solenn Troadec, Postdoctoral Fellow, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, Harvard
University
“1000 years ago: climate change and globalization?”
Alexander More, Associate Professor of Public Health, LIU Brooklyn; Research Associate,
SoHP, Harvard University.
“South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region”
David Reich, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human
Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.
With comments by: Margaret Andrews, Assistant Professor of Classics, Harvard University.
Q&A to follow, and public reception!
Remote Participation
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