The Archaeology Centers Coalition and RadioCIAMS present “SAPIENS Talks 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 extended discussions, we explore new perspectives on how Black and Indigenous voices are changing how archaeology tells its stories, and just as importantly, who tells them.

SAPIENS Talk Back

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 Preservation. The discussion centers on Prof. Otero-Pailos’s contributions to the groundbreaking book that he co-edited, Experimental Preservation, exploring how an ethic of care can radically alter our ingrained notions of preservation. This podcast was hosted virtually and everyone participated remotely.

RadioCIAMS presents: CIVIC with Jorge Otero-Pailos

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 coauthored by Dr. Gonzalez: a 2020 article coauthored with Briece Edwards in the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, titled, “The Intersection of Indigenous thought and archaeological practice: The field methods in Indigenous archaeology field school,” and a 2021 chapter coauthored with Ian Kretzler titled, “Unsettling the archaeology of reservations: A view from Grand Ronde, Oregon,” in The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas, a volume that Dr. Gonzalez also co-edited with Lee M. Panich. This podcast was hosted over Zoom.

RadioCIAMS with Sara Gonzalez

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 a conversation on how we can achieve real and lasting change in the stories archaeology tells and, just as importantly, who gets to tell them.   

“SAPIENS Talk Back” was developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and the Society of Black Archaeologists, with special help from Drs. Sara Gonzalez, Justin Dunnavant, and Ayana Flewellen. Special thanks also to Chip Colwell and the production team at SAPIENS, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and House of Pod.   

This episode was made possible by financial support from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Hosts Alma Cortez Alvarez and Liam McDonald from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies join panelists Jarre Hamilton (University of California, Berkeley), Iman Nagy (University of California, Los Angeles), and Javier García Colón (University of California, San Diego) for a conversation on how to reshape the discipline. 
 
SAPIENS Talk Back is a production of the Archaeological Centers Coalition. You can find more information about their work at archaeologycoalition.org.  RadioCIAMS is a member of the American Anthropological Association’s podcast library. Our theme music was composed by Charlee Mandy and performed by Maia Dedrick and Russell Dedrick. This episode was produced at Cornell University by Adam Smith, with Rebecca Gerdes as the engineer and production assistant.

SAPIENS Talk Back: Changing Archaeology's Stories

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 the featured guests of Episode 2 of SAPIENS Season 4: two co-founders of the Society of Black Archaeologists, Dr. Justin Dunnavant, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, and Dr. Ayana Flewellen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside; and Gabrielle Miller, a PhD student studying African Diaspora Archaeology at the University of Tulsa.  

 

“SAPIENS Talk Back” was developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and the Society of Black Archaeologists, with special help from Drs. Sara Gonzalez, Justin Dunnavant, and Ayana Flewellen. Special thanks also to Chip Colwell and the production team at SAPIENS, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and House of Pod.   

 

This episode was made possible by financial support from the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology at the University of California, San Diego. Hosts Maia Dedrick and Ayesha Matthan from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies join panelists Jordan Griffin and Loren Clark from the University of California, San Diego for a conversation on how to reshape the discipline. 
 

SAPIENS Talk Back is a production of the Archaeological Centers Coalition. You can find more information about their work at archaeologycoalition.org.  RadioCIAMS is a member of the American Anthropological Association’s podcast library. Our theme music was composed by Charlee Mandy and performed by Maia Dedrick and Russell Dedrick. This episode was produced at Cornell University by Adam Smith, with Anna Whittemore as engineer and Rebecca Gerdes as production assistant.

SAPIENS Talk Back: Breaking Archaeology's Boundaries

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 the featured guests of Episode 3 of SAPIENS Season 4: Dr. Kisha Supernant, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, and Lenora McQueen, an activist who has worked tirelessly to preserve the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond.  

 

“SAPIENS Talk Back” was developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and the Society of Black Archaeologists, with special help from Drs. Sara Gonzalez, Justin Dunnavant, and Ayana Flewellen. Special thanks also to Chip Colwell and the production team at SAPIENS, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and House of Pod.   

 

This episode was made possible by financial support of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Hosts Rafael Cruz Gil and Carol Anne Barsody from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies join Elspeth Geiger (University of Michigan), Mariela Declet Pérez (University of California, San Diego), and Dan Plekhov (Brown University) for a conversation on how to reshape the discipline. 

 

SAPIENS Talk Back is a production of the Archaeological Centers Coalition. You can find more information about their work at archaeologycoalition.org.  RadioCIAMS is a member of the American Anthropological Association’s podcast library. Our theme music was composed by Charlee Mandy and performed by Maia Dedrick and Russell Dedrick. This episode was produced at Cornell University by Adam Smith, with Alex Symons as engineer and Rebecca Gerdes as production assistant.

SAPIENS Talk Back: Archaeology and Social Justice

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 the featured guests of Episode 4 of SAPIENS Season 4: Dr. Tiffany Fryer, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton University Society of Fellows and a lecturer in Princeton’s Department of Anthropology, and Dr. Sven Haakanson, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Curator of Native American Anthropology at the Burke Museum, and a former MacArthur Fellow. 

 

“SAPIENS Talk Back” was developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and the Society of Black Archaeologists, with special help from Drs. Sara Gonzalez, Justin Dunnavant, and Ayana Flewellen. Special thanks also to Chip Colwell and the production team at SAPIENS, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and House of Pod.   

 

This episode was made possible by financial support of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology at Brown University and Columbia University’s Center for Archaeology. Hosts Olivia Graves and Henry Ziegler from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies join Erynn Bentley and Ana González San Martín from Brown University for a conversation on how to reshape the discipline. 

 

SAPIENS Talk Back is a production of the Archaeological Centers Coalition. You can find more information about their work at archaeologycoalition.org.  RadioCIAMS is a member of the American Anthropological Association’s podcast library. Our theme music was composed by Charlee Mandy and performed by Maia Dedrick and Russell Dedrick. This episode was produced at Cornell University by Adam Smith, with Sam Disotell as engineer and Rebecca Gerdes as production assistant.

SAPIENS Talk Back: Decolonizing Heritage And Curation

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 continue the discussion that began in episode 5 of season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast, a conversation that examines how archaeologists study sacred sites, and when they don’t. Our guests for this episode are Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University and Director of the Office of Native American Initiatives, and co-host of the SAPIENS podcast this season, and Dr. Nicholas Laluk, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. 

 

“SAPIENS Talk Back” was developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and the Society of Black Archaeologists, with special help from Drs. Sara Gonzalez, Justin Dunnavant, and Ayana Flewellen. Special thanks also to Chip Colwell and the production team at SAPIENS, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and House of Pod.   

 

This episode was made possible by financial support from The Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Hosts Anna Whittemore and Alex Symons from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies join Gabby Hartemann (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Eric Mazariegos (Columbia University), and Maryan Ragheb (UCLA) for a conversation on how to reshape the discipline. 
 

SAPIENS Talk Back is a production of the Archaeological Centers Coalition. You can find more information about their work at archaeologycoalition.org.  RadioCIAMS is a member of the American Anthropological Association’s podcast library. Our theme music was composed by Charlee Mandy and performed by Maia Dedrick and Russell Dedrick. This episode was produced at Cornell University by Adam Smith, with Olivia Graves as engineer and Rebecca Gerdes as production assistant.

SAPIENS Talk Back: Studying (& Not Studying) Sacred Sites

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 continue the discussion that began in episode 6 of season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast, a conversation that examines “Slavery, Sustenance, and Resistance,” or what we might think of as “Setting the Table for an Archaeology of Resistance.” Our guests for this episode are Dr. Peggy Brunache, Lecturer of the History of Atlantic Slavery at the University of Glasgow and the first director of the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies; and Dr. Kelly Fanto Deetz, Director of Collections and Visitor Engagement at Stratford Hall Plantation, and visiting Scholar in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.  

 

“SAPIENS Talk Back” was developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and the Society of Black Archaeologists, with special help from Drs. Sara Gonzalez, Justin Dunnavant, and Ayana Flewellen. Special thanks also to Chip Colwell and the production team at SAPIENS, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and House of Pod.   

 

This episode was made possible by financial support from the Archaeological Research Facility at the University of California at Berkeley. Hosts Rebecca Gerdes and Sam Disotell from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies join Sara Ann Knutson (University of California, Berkeley), Jess Johnson (University of California, Berkeley), José Julián Garay Vázquez (University College London), and Helen Wong (University of Pennsylvania) for a conversation on how to reshape the discipline. 
 

SAPIENS Talk Back is a production of the Archaeological Centers Coalition. You can find more information about their work at archaeologycoalition.org.  RadioCIAMS is a member of the American Anthropological Association’s podcast library. Our theme music was composed by Charlee Mandy and performed by Maia Dedrick and Russell Dedrick. This episode was produced at Cornell University by Adam Smith, with Ruth Portes as engineer and Rebecca Gerdes as production assistant.

SAPIENS Talk Back: Setting The Table: Archaeology And Resistance

On March 25, 2022, bioarchaeologist Pamela Geller (University of Miami) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Amanda Domingues, Sophia Taborski, Grace Hermes, Anna Whittemore, and Emily Sharp) and faculty host Matthew Velasco to discuss the politics of human remains, the objectification of bodies in anatomical collections, and the importance of studying the historical contexts that shaped these collections. The conversation centered on two works by Dr. Geller: a 2020 article in the journal "Historical Archaeology” titled “Building Nation, Becoming Object: The Biopolitics of the Samuel G. Morton Crania Collection,” and a chapter from her 2021 book “Theorizing Bioarchaeology,” titled, “What is Necropolitics?” published by Springer Press. This RadioCIAMS podcast was recorded in-person.

Please note that this episode contains isolated references to genocide and the Holocaust.

RadioCIAMS with Pamela Geller

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 the final episode of our series, we look back on both the SAPIENS series and the conversations we have had here on SAPIENS Talk Back in order to look ahead to the future of archaeology. Our guests this episode represent new professional organizations that are pushing the discipline of archaeology in consequential new directions: Dr. Ayana Omilade Flewellen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside and co-founder and current president of the Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA); Dr. Sara Gonzalez, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington and Curator of Archaeology at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and a co-founder of the Indigenous Archaeology Collective (IAC); and Dr. Lewis Borck, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at New Mexico Highlands University and a founding member of the Black Trowel Collective.  

You can support the Black Trowel Collective microgrants program at blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com and follow them on Twitter @BlackTrowel. To join the SBA, go to societyofblackarchaeologists.com and follow their work on Twitter @SbaArch. You can follow the Indigenous Archaeology Collective on FaceBook and Twitter @indigarchs. 

“SAPIENS Talk Back” was developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and the Society of Black Archaeologists, with special help from Drs. Sara Gonzalez, Justin Dunnavant, and Ayana Flewellen. Special thanks also to Chip Colwell and the production team at SAPIENS, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and House of Pod.   

This episode was made possible by financial support from Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Denver. Hosts Sophia Taborski and Alice Wolff from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies join graduate student members from the SBA, IAC, and Black Trowel Collective: Ashleigh Thompson (University of Arizona), Elliot Helmer (Washington State University), and Yoli Ngandali (University of Washington) for a conversation on how to reshape the discipline. 
 
SAPIENS Talk Back is a production of the Archaeological Centers Coalition. You can find more information about their work at archaeologycoalition.org.  RadioCIAMS is a member of the American Anthropological Association’s podcast library. Our theme music was composed by Charlee Mandy and performed by Maia Dedrick and Russell Dedrick. This episode was produced at Cornell University by Adam Smith, with Liam McDonald as engineer and Rebecca Gerdes as production assistant.

SAPIENS Talk Back: Looking Forward Looking Back

RadioCIAMS is pleased to present a follow-up discussion from -Frontiers- in Archaeological Sciences 3: Rethinking the Paradigm conference hosted at Cornell University in the Fall of 2022. This discussion was hosted by CIAMS graduate students Rebecca Gerdes and Alice Wolff and included a panel of graduate students and early career researchers, including Rachel Kalisher, Chiamaka Anyanwu, Emily Milton, Hollis K. Miller.

Panel: -Frontiers- in Archaeological Sciences 3: Rethinking the Paradigm

On November 2, 2023,  Dr. Jacob Damm, from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS), met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rebecca Gerdes, Liam McDonald, and Jamie Ellis) and faculty (Sturt Manning) to discuss his research on foodways and material identities focusing on case studies in the southern Levant.

RadioCIAMS with Jacob Damm

As part of the 40th Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, on November 3, 2023, Prof. Frank Salomon from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison met with a panel of students (Anna Whittemore) and faculty (Matthew Velasco and Vanessa Gubbins) to discuss his research in the Andes.

RadioCIAMS with Frank Salomon

On February 19, 2016, Dr. Barbara Mills (University of Arizona) met with the graduate and undergraduate students taking the course Ceramic Analysis, which is taught by CIAMS professor Lori Khatchadourian. Their discussion of about 45 minutes–which considers how technological style and choice relate to the archaeological analysis of ceramic material–opens below.

RadioCIAMS Barbara Mills 02-19-2016

On March 8, 2024, Prof. Lindsay Montgomery from the University of Toronto met with a panel of CIAMS students (Amanda Domingues, Arnav Tandon, Marcela Goeller, and Emma Zilke) and faculty (Adam Smith) to discuss her research on the archaeology of collective trauma and colonial violence.

RadioCIAMS with Lindsay Montgomery

On March 22, 2024, Prof. Marine Frouin from Stony Brook University met with a panel of CIAMS students (Kate Bajorek, Rebecca Gerdes, Marcela Goeller, and Alex Symons) to discuss her research on Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating.

RadioCIAMS with Marine Frouin

On April 12, 2024, Prof. José Capriles from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Marcela Goeller, Annapaola Passerini, Casey Snyder, and Arnav Tandon) and Jacob Damm (Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow) to discuss his research on the Bolivian Radiocarbon Database.
Podcast Engineer: Nikhil Arolkhar

RadioCIAMS with José Capriles

On November 15, 2024, Sarah Beckmann (Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, UCLA) met with a panel of CIAMS-affiliated students (Priscilla Dantas de Moraes, Li Hayes, and Carson Riggs), and Verity Platt (Professor, Department of Classics) to discuss her work on representations of enslaved children in the Roman world.
Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes (CIAMS Assistant Director)

CONTENT WARNING: Listeners are advised that this episode discusses evidence for the sexualization and sexual exploitation of minors, especially enslaved minors.

The articles discussed in this episode are:

Beckmann, Sarah E. "The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco." American Journal of Archaeology 127, no. 1 (2023): 55-83.

and her forthcoming chapter: "Alterity, Enslavement, and Empire in a Roman Genre Sculpture: The Oplontis-Borghese Boy with a Duck" in U. Roth (ed.), Enslaved Childhoods in the Roman Imperial World. Alienation, Accommodation, Approbation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

RadioCIAMS with Sarah Beckmann

On March 21, 2025, Ellen Morris (Professor of Ancient Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rafael Cruz Gil, Quinn Stickley, David Dishman, Li Hayes) and Caitlín Barrett (Professor, Department of Classics, Cornell University) to discuss her work on telling the stories of female captives and prisoners of war in the ancient world.
Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes

The article discussed in this episode is titled: "How to tell "moving" stories of female captivity in the ancient world," published in "Migration and Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt -- The Crossroads IV." Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Prague. edited by Mynářová, Jana, Ludovica Bertolini, and Federico Zangani. 2022.

RadioCIAMS with Ellen Morris

On October 10, 2024, Nathan Acebo (Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rafael Cruz Gil, Daniel Osborne, and Julio RuizDiaz) and Kurt Jordan (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University) to discuss his research on Survivance Storytelling in Archaeology.
Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes (CIAMS Assistant Director)

Articles discussed in this conversation:
Acebo, Nathan P. "Survivance storytelling in archaeology." In Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas, pp. 468-485. Routledge, 2021.
Montgomery LM, Fryer TC. "The future of archaeology is (still) community collaboration." Antiquity. 2023;97(394):795-809. doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.98

RadioCIAMS with Nathan Acebo

On April 22, 2025, Dr. Lauren McCormick (Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton's Center for Culture, Society, and Religion) met with a panel of CIAMS-affiliated students (Haley Stuckey, Alice Wolff (Ph.D.), and Ruth Portes) and Lauren Monroe (Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies) to discuss her work on Judean Pillar Figurines (JPFs).

The articles discussed in this episode are:
Ben-Shlomo, David, and Lauren K. McCormick. "Judean Pillar Figurines and “Bed Models” from Tell en-Naṣbeh: Typology and Petrographic Analysis." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 386, no. 1 (2021): 23-46.
McCormick, Lauren K. "Paint: A Fourth Dimension of Sculpture." Expedition Magazine, vol. 64 no. 3 (2023): 92-93.

Let there be Light web exhibit: https://laurmcco.github.io/judeanpillarfigurineexhibit/

Dr. Lauren McCormick's podcast: https://laurmcco.github.io/judeanpillarfigurineexhibit/podcast.html

RadioCIAMS with Lauren McCormick

A special episode featuring AD White Professor at Large Dr. Lynn Meskell, along with a panel of Cornell Faculty. 

RadioCIAMS with Lynn Meskell

Dr. Seth Estrin from Harvard University joins a panel of Cornell students, to discuss his most recent book; Grief Made Marble. 

RadioCIAMS with Seth Estrin

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 Pompeii: artifact distributions as eidence for the various social groups," which appeared as the fifth chapter in Prof. Nevett's 2010 book from Cambridge University Press, Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity. The second reading is Ärtifact assemblages in Classical Greek contexts: toward a new approach," which appeared in Household Studies in Complex Society: Micro-Archaeological and Textual Approaches.  This volume was published by the University of Chicago Oriental Institute in 2015.

RadioCIAMS Lisa Nevett 9 - 15 - 17

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 Landscapes of Signification in the American Southwest." The second was "The Mickey Mouse kachina and other "Double Objects": Hybridity in the material culture of colonial encounters," in a 2015 issue of the Journal of Social Archaeology.

RadioCIAMS Matthew Liebmann 3/9/2018

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, affectivity and time in this reading color our subsequent discussion of Prof. Hamilakis’ ongoing research on the archaeology of forced migration on the Island of Lesvos, and our other reading, the introduction to the 2016 issue of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology that he guest-edited on the topic of the archaeologies of forced and undocumented migration.

RadioCIAMS Yannis Hamilakis 2 - 16 - 18

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 Domestication of Personhood: a view from the Iroquoian Longhouse,” and the second was his 2016 article in World Archaeology, “Emotion Work and the Archaeology of Consensus: the Northern Iroquoian case."

RadioCIAMS John Creese 4 - 16 - 18

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 contemporary Tasmanian society. The discussion centered on three of Dr. Casella’s publications. The first was a 2000 article in World Archaeology, titled “‘Doing Trade’: a Sexual Economy of Nineteenth-century Australian Female Convict Prisons”, the second was her 2012 chapter in her co-edited (with Barbara Voss) volume The Archaeology of Colonialism: Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects, “Little Bastard Felons: Childhood, Affect, and Labor in the Penal Colonies of Nineteenth-Century Australia”, and the third was her 2016 article in Historical Archaeology, “Horizons beyond the Perimeter Wall: Relational Materiality, Institutional Confinement, and the Archaeology of Being Global”. Dr. Casella joined us from across the globe, participating in the podcast via video call from Tasmania.

RadioCIAMS Eleanor Casella 5-2-2019

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 was a 2012 article in Public Archaeology, titled “The Novel-ty of Responsible Archaeological Site Reporting: How Writing Fictive Narrative Contributes to Ethical Archaeological Practice”, and the second was her 2016 article in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, “Tracing Teams, Texts, and Topics: Applying Social Network Analysis to Understand Archaeological Knowledge Production at Çatalhöyük”.

RadioCIAMS with Allison Mickel

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 Whittemore. The faculty host was Dr. Verity Platt, History of Art.

RadioCIAMS with Claudia Brittenham

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.

RadioCIAMS  with Chip Colwell

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 Saving. Dr. DeSilvey participated remotely.

RadioCIAMS presents: "Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage", Episode 1: Dr. Caitlin DeSilvey

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 with Jordan Pickett

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 Marathon Continues: New Directions in African Diaspora Archaeology," and was guest edited by Nedra K. Lee and Jannie Nicole Scott. The two articles discussed in this podcast episode include the introduction to the special issue, written by the editors, and Dr. Brunache’s article, “Mainstreaming African Diasporic Foodways When Academia is not Enough.”

RadioCIAMS with Peggy Brunache, October 2, 2020

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