THIRD COTSEN ADVANCED SEMINAR
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF RITUAL

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Provisional Program of the 3rd Cotsen Advanced Seminar

 

Day 1: Thursday 8th of January 2004
Morning

9:00      Evangelos Kyriakidis, UCLA
             Introduction: Ritual and the Problems of the Archaeological Record
9:45     Alessandra Lopez y Royo, SOAS
             The reinvention of Odissi classical dance as a temple ritual
10:45   Christine Hastorf , UC Berkeley
             South American (Andean) ritual- in landscape, in architecture, in passage, and in consumption
12:15- 14:30 Visit to the Getty for the speakers and the discussants

Afternoon

15:00   Lars Fogelin, Michigan
             History, Ethnography, and Essentialism: The Archaeology of Ritual in South Asia
16:00    Colin Renfrew, Cambridge
             Problems in theorising an archaeology of ritual: the Aegean case
18:30    Dinner (at 19:00) for the Speakers and the Discussants in the Fowler Seminar Room


Day 2: Friday 9th of January 2004
Morning

9:00     Mary Beard, Cambridge
             The archaeology of ritual in the city of Rome:
             mapping a sanctuary, plotting a procession
10:00    Caroline Humphrey, Cambridge
             The Archaeology of Ritual: A Response
11:00    Robert McCauley, Emory
             Ritual and Cognitive Science
12:00 - 14:00 Visit to the Fowler

Afternoon

14:00  Catherine Bell, UC Santa Clara
            The Archaeology of Ritual: A Response
15:00-17:00  Terence Ranger, Oxford and Zimbabwe Discussion
           Don McCalum, UCLA
           Speculation on Ritual: Some Japanese Examples
18:30  Dinner (at 19:30) for the speakers and the discussants at the house of Charlie Steinmetz