I would like to extend a welcome to the Boston University Department of
Archaeology Graduate Student Forum entitled *Breaching Boundaries:
Perspectives on Identity and Conflict.  *This forum is taking place in 675
Commonwealth Ave, room B50, from February 14-16th and is free and open to
the public.  If you have any questions, please contact [log in to unmask]

Kyra


*Friday February 14th*

5-6pm Registration

6-7pm Keynote Address by Dr. Pamela Geller *"Your Obedient Servant: The
Necropolitics of Skull Collecting."*

7-9pm Reception



*Saturday February 15th*

9-9:10-Introduction to Conference

*Session 1a: Material culture and Linguistics*

9:10-9:35 Schurtz "Identifying Empires Without Evidence: The Mitanni Empire
of Second Millennium Mesopotamia"

9:35-10:00 Lanham "Becoming Assyrian: The Agency of Identity in Assyria's
Syro-Anatolian Provinces"

10:00-10:25 Stanton-Roark "Reconciliation and Reversal: Genesis 32:1-33:18
in Perspective"



BREAK 10:25-10:45



*Session 1b: Material Culture and Linguistics*

10:45-11:10 Cole "Conflicting Discourses of Identity: Native Egyptian Elite
in Ptolemaic Egypt"

11:10-11:35 Hegberg "Making Ends Meet in Placitas: Consumer Relationships
and Hispanic Identity in Ninteenth Century New Mexico"

11:35-12:00 Hinhojosa "Who am I?: Border Identities and Clazomenian
Sarcophagi"



LUNCH 12-1 (Provided)



*Session 2: Landscape, Architecture, and Boundaries*

1-1:25 Berryman "Building an Identity in Fourteenth Century England"

1:25-1:50 Bartusewich "The "Un-Colonization" of Idalion, Cyprus:
Architectural Continuity Through Changing Political Administration"

1;50-2:15 Moore "The Fringes of Empire: Hittite Borders and Identity"

2:15-2:40 Zadrazilova "Tempelhof Airport: Digging out the Past"



BREAK 2:40-3:10



*Session 3: Modern Perceptions*

3:10-3:35 Masur "Revisiting American Indian Identities and Boundaries in
Late Woodland Virginia: A View from Repatriation"

3:35-4:00 Taylor "The Politics of Seeing the Scrolls: Imagining Israel and
Palestine Through Archaeological Representations in the United States"

4:00-4:25 Langlitz and Smith "Lessons from a Colonial Islet: Navigating
Hybrid Cultural Identities"

4:25-4:50 Forouzan "Protecting Cultural Property in Iraq: Heritage and
Community Engagement"

4:50-5:15 Heidtman "Conflict, Community and Cultural Heritage in Akko,
Israel"



*Sunday February 16th *

10-12 Roundtable Discussion Room 250