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Monday, November 16, 2009
AIA Joukowsky Lecture -
"Some Went Down to the Sea in Ships:
Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age, 3000-1200 BC"
Shelley Wachsmann, Meadows Professor of Biblical Archaeology, Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University
Time: 7:30 pm, Location: Dwight 101, Mount Holyoke College
Professor Wachsmann received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University and his areas of specialization are Biblical archaeology, nautical archaeology, the Near East, trade, and archery. He has done extensive fieldwork, and his publications include "The Sea of Galilee Boat" (3rd edition 2009) and "Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant" (1998, 2nd printing 2009). He is an active member of the AIA Underwater Archaeology Committee/Interest Group, and the 2009-2010 Joukowsky Lecturer.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
"Telling Earth Time: Dating and Explaining Geologic Processes"
Michael L. Williams, Professor of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
Time: 4:30 pm Location: Seelye Hall 201, Smith College
Presented by the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute project “Telling Time: Its Meaning and Measurement.”
Professor Williams lecture explores how the timing and repeat frequency of earthquakes and volcanoes, the pace of global warming, the age of mountain-belts, and the evolution of life are enabling a new understanding of our planet, its history, and its future. In addition, he will discuss how critical it is for the general population to gain an understanding of the scales of time over which our planet is shaped, from the billion-year evolution of continents to the nanosecond rupture of an earthquake fault. This understanding is central to debates about evolution, earthquake and volcano prediction, and the record of climate change. He explains how a major new exhibition he is involved in developing at the Grand Canyon will help build such understanding. Called the "Trail of Time," the exhibition will allow visitors to walk through time, one meter per million years, and experience the geologic record of the Grand Canyon in a tangible format that will facilitate their understanding of the nature of time, especially deep time, in the context of Earth processes. Mike Williams’ research is focused at the cross-roads of ductile structural geology, metamorphic petrology, igneous petrology, and tectonics. Much of his research has involved Precambrian rocks (southwestern U.S.A. or northern Canada) but he has been increasingly involved with rocks of western New England. Mike is particularly interested in finding better ways to "read" the P-T-t-D (i.e. Pressure-Temperature-time-Deformation) paths from deformed and metamorphosed rocks, and interpreting the paths in terms of the tectonic history that produced them. He loves field work but also loves working with the electron microprobe and computer models. Get the flyer.
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