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The Archaeology Centers Coalition and RadioCIAMS present “SAPIENS Talk Back”: eight conversations with students and scholars that expand upon the insights of Season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast entitled “Our Past is the Future.” In this episode, we welcome Yoli Ngandali, one of the hosts of the SAPIENS series and a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, for...

On November 12th, 2021, archaeologist Sara Gonzalez (University of Washington) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rafael Cruz Gil, Ece Erlat, and Veronica Kilanowski-Doroh) and faculty (Maia Dedrick, John Henderson) to discuss community archaeology, capacity building in Indigenous archaeology, and how these inform the running of archaeological field schools. The conversation centered on two works...

On October 8th, 2021, bioarchaeologist Carlina de la Cova (University of South Carolina at Columbia) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Carol Anne Barsody, Claire Challancin, Ayesha Matthan, Emily Sharp, Alex Symons, and Anna Whittemore) and faculty member Matthew Velasco to discuss the history of anatomical collections in the United States and how to ethically engage with the marginalized indivi...

RadioCIAMS is pleased to present the third episode of "Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage", a podcast of CIVIC, the Cornell task force for the humanities and the arts. In this episode, a panel of Cornell faculty, all CIVIC fellows, speak with Prof. Jorge Otero-Pailos, Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Pres...

On February 19, 2021, archaeologist Stephen Acabado (UCLA) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Canan Cem, Rebecca Gerdes, Jane Millar, Alice Wolff) and faculty (Maia Dedrick) to discuss three of his recent publications. The first was a 2017 article in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, titled “The Archaeology of Pericolonialism: Responses of the "Unconquered" to Spanish Conquest...

RadioCIAMS is pleased to present the second episode of "Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage", a podcast of CIVIC, the Cornell task force for the humanities and the arts. In this episode, a panel of Cornell faculty, all CIVIC fellows, speak with Dr. Trinidad Rico, a professor in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University and Director of Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies. The...

On November 20th, 2020, archaeologist Uzma Rizvi (Pratt Institute) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rafeal Cruz Gil, Rebecca Gerdes, Jaimie Luria, Ayesha Matthan) and faculty (Maia Dedrick, Adam Smith) to discuss decolonizing archaeology, equitable practices, epistemic critique, and the speculative. The conversation centered on two of Dr. Rizvi’s recent publications. The first was a 2015 piece...

On October 30, 2020, biocultural anthropologist Rachel Watkins (American University) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Amanda Domingues, Anna Whittemore) and faculty (Maia Dedrick, Matthew Velasco) to discuss her recent article in Historical Archaeology, “An Alter(ed)native Perspective on Historical Bioarchaeology” and an upcoming publication in Washington History, “Science and Freedom.”

On October 2, 2020, archaeologist Peggy Brunache (University of Glasgow) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Dusti Bridges, Ethan Dickerman, Rebecca Gerdes, Alex Symons and Alice Wolff) and faculty (Maia Dedrick) to discuss two articles from the Fall 2019 special issue of "Transforming Anthropology", a publication of the Association of Black Anthropologists. The special issue was entitled, "The Ma...

In the third of three backlog podcasts, RadioCIAMS presents, Dr. Catherine Cameron (CU Boulder), who on November 2nd, 2018 met a panel of CIAMS faculty (Dana Bardolph) and students (Salpi Bocchieriyan, Dusti Bridges, Sam Disotell, Cristina Juarez) to discuss prehistoric migration and captive labor in small scale societies. We apologize to our listeners for the editing delay.

In the second of our backlogged episodes, RadioCIAMS presents Dr. Stephen Mrozowski (UMass Boston, who on October 12th, 2018, met a panel of CIAMS faculty (Kurt Jordan) and students (Dusti Bridges, Liam Murphy, Samantha Sanft, Alexandra Walton) to discuss political economy and colonialism.

In the first of three backlog episodes, RadioCIAMS presents Jordan Pickett, who came to speak on September 21st, 2018, Dr. Jordan Pickett (University of Georgia) met a panel of CIAMS faculty (Ben Anderson) and students (Kathleen Garland, Jessica Plant, Tyler Wolford) to discuss engergetics in archaeology. We apologize for the editing delay.

RadioCIAMS is pleased to present the inaugural episode of "Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage", a podcast of CIVIC, the Cornell task force for the humanities and the arts. In this episode, a panel of Cornell faculty, all CIVIC fellows, speak with Dr. Caitlin DeSilvey, a professor of cultural geography at the University of Exeter about her most recent book, Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Savi...

On February 28, 2020, Dr. Chip Colwell of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss his most recent book, Objects of Survivance: A Material History of the American Indian School Experience, co-authored with Lindsay M. Montgomery.

On October 9, 2019, Dr. Carl Knappett of the University of Toronto met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss the first two chapters of his forthcoming book, "Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making". Their discussion touched upon themes of artifact form, typologies, models and miniatures, and the media ecology of art in the Aegean bronze Age. Grad student discussants were Soph...

On Sept. 20, 2019, Dr. Claudia Brittenham, University of Chicago, met a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss her ongoing work on unseen imagery in ancient Mesoamerican art, specifically the hidden undersides of Mayan lintels. Their discussion touched upon themes of hidden art, privileged knowledge, and the politics of object curation. Student discussants included Sam Disotell and Anna Wh...

On March 22nd, 2019, archaeologist Dr. Allison Mickel (Lehigh University) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Alexandria Albano, Kathleen Garland, Alice Wolff) and faculty (Adam Smith) to discuss archaeological knowledge production, the potential of narrative fiction in archaeological writing, and social network analysis. The discussion centers on two of Dr. Mickel’s recent publications. The first...

On February 20th, 2019, archaeologist Dr. Alison Wylie from the University of British Columbia met a panel of CIAMS students (Taylor Carr-Howard, Liam Murphy, Annapaola Passerini, and Jessica Plant) and faculty (Dana Bardolph) to discuss two of her recently published works on collaborative practice in archaeology. The first reading is a chapter from a 2015 edited volume Objectivity in Science: New...

On May 2nd, 2019, archaeologist Dr. Eleanor Casella (University of Tasmania) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Sarah McCully and Taylor Carr-Howard) and faculty (Dana Bardolph, Sherene Baugher, and Nerissa Russell) to discuss the archaeology of institutional confinement, the material dynamics of social relationships, and the role of historical archaeology in both the academy and also contemporar...

On April 16th, 2018 archaeologist John Creese from North Dakota State University gave a lecture at Cornell University titled, “Reassembling the Longhouse: The Iroquoian Longhouse as sociotechnical system.” The next day he met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss his talk, and two of his publications: The first was a 2012 article in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, titled “The...

On February 16th, 2018, Yannis Hamilakis, a professor of archaeology and modern greek studies at Brown University, met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss two of his recent written works. The first was a 2017 article in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, titled “Sensorial Assemblages: Affect, Memory and Temporality in Assemblage Thinking.” The discussion of sensoriality, affec...

On October 6th, 2017 archaeologist Anne Porter from the University of Toronto met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty (Prof. Adam T. Smith, Amy Cromartie, Lizzy Bews, Salpi Bocchieriyan, and Annapaola Passerini) to discuss pastoral nomadism and kinship in the ancient Near East. This episode was a long time in the making,because our regular team wasn’t available to record it. Apologies are d...

On March 9th, 2018, Matthew Liebmann, a professor of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, met with a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss his work at Jemez Pueblo, and two of his recent published works. The first was his 2017 article discussing application of semiotic theory in landscape archaeology in American Antiquity, “From Landscapes of Meaning to Lan...

On September 22nd, 2017 archaeologist and anthropologist, Prof. Jason De Léon met a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss his ongoing Undocumented Migration Project and his award-winning 2015 book, “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail.” Just two weeks after visiting us at Cornell, Jason was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, also known as a Genius Grant,...

On September 15th, 2017, archaeologist Lisa Nevett from the University of Michigan met a panel of CIAMS graduate students (Kathleen Garland, Tyler Wolford, Blake Taylor, Danielle Vander Horst, and Sophia Taborski) and faculty (Profs. Caitlin Barrett and Astrid Van Oyen) to discuss two of her works on Classical household archaeology. The first is "Seeking the domus behind the dominus in Roman Pompe...