"Monument Architecture and the (De)construction of Memory: Ziggurats in the Ur III Period (c. 2100-2000 BCE) in Ancient Mesopotamia"
Marian Feldman
W. H. Collins Vickers Chair in Archaeology
Professor and Chair of History of Art
Johns Hopkins University
Thursday
May 31, 2018
4:30 PM
Stuart Hall
Room 105
Marian Feldman is the W. H. Collins Vickers Chair of Archaeology, Professor and Chair of the History of Art Department, and Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Her research interests include the role of arts in culture interactions and issues of style, object agency, and materiality. Feldman's first book, Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an 'International Style' in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE (Chicago, 2006), investigates the role of artistic hybridity and luxury arts in international diplomacy during the Late Bronze Age. Her newest book, Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant (Chicago, 2014), examines the ways communities form around -- and by means of -- art objects, focusing on portable luxury items (in particular, ivory and metalwork) in the first half of the first millennium BCE. Feldman has also co-edited several volumes, including Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art (with Brian A. Brown; De Gruyter 2013), and is the author of several articles and catalogue essays.
This lecture is brought to you by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series on the Ancient Middle East.
