[MGSA-L] Yannis Hamilakis, Archaeologies of Contemporary Migration. Annual Pallas Lecture

Artemis Leontis aleontis at umich.edu
Fri Jan 31 03:57:57 PST 2020


Professor Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University)
will give the 18th Annual Dimitri and Irmgard Pallas Lecture


*Archaeologies of Contemporary Migration: Border Assemblages, Global
Apartheid, and the Decolonial Potential  *
Monday, February 3, 2020
4pm
Michigan League, Hussey Room (2nd floor)
911 N. University Avenue, Ann Arbor
(Visitor parking in the Fletcher or Thayer street garage)
Free and open to the public, reception follows
*Details: *https://events.umich.edu/event/70522

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*Summary:*"Since 2016, I have been carrying out an archaeological
ethnography project on contemporary migration, focusing on the border
island of Lesvos. In this talk, I will report on some of the findings of
this project, showing how a sustained and detailed attention to the
materiality and temporality of the phenomenon, to the sensorial, affective,
and temporal properties of things, can offer insights that elude other
kinds of research. Objects, spaces, buildings and landscapes are essential
components in the formation of border assemblages, together with border
crossers, volunteers, as well as border guards and security apparatuses. I
will explore how the attention to such assemblages can not only help us
understand what some scholars have described as the new Global Apartheid,
but more positively, allow us to imagine a decolonial present and future."


*Biography:*Yannis Hamilakis is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology
and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He worked
previously at the Universities of Wales Lampeter (1996-2000) and the
University of Southampton (2000-2016), and he has held research fellowships
at Princeton University, Getty Research Institute, Cincinnati University,
The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, and the Remarque Institute
at NYU. His research interests include Aegean prehistory, the
socio-politics of the past, the bodily senses, archaeology and photography,
contemporary archaeology, and the materiality of contemporary migration.
His books include, The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and
National Imagination in Greece (OUP, 2007, Edmund Keeley Book Prize 2009),
and Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect (CUP,
2013). His most recent book is the edited volume, The New Nomadic Age:
Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration. (Equinox, 2018). He
co-directs the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological
Ethnography Project, and in 2020 he will be curating an exhibition at the
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University, entitled,
Transient Matter: Border Assemblages in the Mediterranean.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please
email classics.lectures at umich.edu -- we are eager to help ensure that this
event is inclusive and welcoming to you. The building, event space, and
restrooms are wheelchair accessible.

Many thanks to the Pallas family for supporting this event!
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