Stephen Collins-Elliot (Tennessee Knoxville): “The Sisyphean Bind of Romanization: Post-Colonial Approaches, Cultural Essentialism, and Grand Narratives in Roman Archaeology” James Newhard (Charleston) and Allison Sterrett-Krause (Charleston): “Consilience and Resilience: Mediterranean Archaeology at an American Undergraduate University” April 15, 2023 Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University go.brown.edu/sotf2023

This lecture is about the Mediterranean culture of the ancient world. In it, Dr. Santos discusses the idea of an interconnected Mediterranean with the Mediterranean societies being like "frogs around a pond." It covers the Hyksos period in Egypt and the debates over the chronology of the Exodus event. He explains the geographic centrality of Israel within the near east with several examples including the Battle of Megiddo in the ancient world as well as the World War I Battle of Megiddo. In addition to the Hyksos, the Sea People - the Philistines are discussed. Finally, languages of the region are discussed including Akkadian and the Rosetta Stone. Within the study of ancient language there is a summary of ancient sources for Egyptian chronology including Manetho and the Kings List of Turin.

This lecture is an introduction to Ancient Egypt.

Kenneth Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches courses in Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader history. He earned his B.A. from Trinity College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Recognized as an outstanding lecturer, Professor Harl has received numerous teaching awards at Tulane, including the coveted Sheldon H. Hackney Award. He has earned Tulane's annual Student Body Award for Excellence in Teaching nine times and is the recipient of Baylor University's nationwide Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers. An expert on classical Anatolia, he has taken students with him into the field on excursions and to assist in excavations of Hellenistic and Roman sites in Turkey. Professor Harl has also published a wide variety of articles and books, including his current work on coins unearthed in an excavation of Gordion, Turkey, and a new book on Rome and her Iranian foes. A fellow and trustee of the American Numismatic Society, Professor Harl is well known for his studies of ancient coinage. He is the author of Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180-275 and Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700. For more information, please visit: http://pier.macmillan.yale.edu/summer-institute

Naor Ben-Yehoyada is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. His work examines unauthorized migration, criminal justice, the aftermath of development, transnational political imaginaries in the central and eastern Mediterranean, and he is specifically interested in the processes through which transnational regions form and dissipate. His forthcoming monograph, The Mediterranean Incarnate: Transnational Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II, offers a historical anthropology of the recent re-emergence of the Mediterranean. This lecture is part of the "Materiality of Migration" series and is co-sponsored by Brown University's Modern Greek Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Brown University February 23, 2017

This class covers the essential elements of studying ancient history. In it, Dr. Santos explains different ways to view ancient history from a Biblical worldview and why the study of history is important. He introduces the historian Herodotus and other primary sources and explains the difference between primary sources and secondary sources. He discusses early writing and points out the earliest writings are before 3000 BC. A brief overview of the history of biblical archaeology https://drsantos.org/2024/09/04/a-brief-overview-of-the-history-of-biblical-archaeology/

The archaeology of the individual in the ancient Mediterranean world – The L'Orange annual lecture 2017. Speaker: Professor Jonathan M. Hall (University of Chicago) An annual lecture is held in memory of Hans Peter L'Orange, the founder of the Institute of Rome. For more information about the annual L'Orange lecture, see https://www.hf.uio.no/dnir/english/research/lorange-lecture/index.html