We are excited to welcome Andrew Koh, of the MIT Center for Materials
Research and the Harvard Semitic Museum, for a Center for Hellenic
Studies Online Open House discussion entitled ‘A Land Called Crete: From
Harriet Boyd Hawes to the Cretan Collections Project’. The event will
be streamed live on Thursday, October 24 at 11 a.m. EDT, and will be
recorded.
To prepare for the event you could read Odyssey 19.172–184, the context for which is provided in the following posts at Classical Inquiries:
The OpernARCHEM project is not a singular archaeological
endeavor, but rather the first step in an exciting new collaborative
interdisciplinary retelling of the entangled post-Bronze Age
Mediterranean and the greater implications it holds for the emergence of
what we now know as the classical world. The characterization of
funerary artifacts from southern Phocis, eastern Crete, and the southern
Levant will thus illuminate the extent to which Greece was wholly cut
off from the greater Mediterranean, or clarify through which channels it
interacted with particular regions as it entered the 1st millennium
BCE.
You can watch the live stream on the day on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube channel. The recording will be added to this blog post afterwards.
Andrew Koh
Andrew
Koh received a B.S. in Biophysics and the Classics from the University
of Illinois, an M.A. in Ancient Near Eastern Studies from Biblical
Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Art & Archaeology of the
Mediterranean World from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a
graduate fellow at the Penn Museum Corinth Computer Project and a
Colburn Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He
initially honed his interdisciplinary approach to the classical world
by characterizing a perfumed oil workshop at the Minoan harbor town of
Mochlos, dissertation research he completed as an exchange scholar at
the Stanford University Department of Classics and the inaugural
Archaeological Institute of America Pomerance Fellow. Koh is currently a
senior research fellow at the MIT Center for Materials Research in
Archaeology & Ethnology and a research associate at the Harvard
Semitic Museum. He founded the ARCHEM Project in 2003 and now serves as
the co-editor-in-chief of its interdisciplinary and collaborative
archaeometric database (http://openarchem.org).
Koh utilizes both traditional and scientific methods to better
understand cross-cultural interactions and complex societies through
their organic commodities and branded goods. This approach integrates
text, material culture, and material science, illuminating previously
invisible data sets to address questions of culture and society. This
blended approach offers exciting new ways forward for Classics and
archaeology by introducing processes, social groups, and practices
absent from other records. This interdisciplinary, longue durée approach
underlies his monograph, Luxury Trade and Social Complexity in the
Ancient Mediterranean World, which is under contract with Cambridge
University Press.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
Andrew Koh received a B.S. in Biophysics and the Classics from the University of Illinois, an M.A. in Ancient Near Eastern Studies from Biblical Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a graduate fellow at the Penn Museum Corinth Computer Project and a Colburn Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He initially honed his interdisciplinary approach to the classical world by characterizing a perfumed oil workshop at the Minoan harbor town of Mochlos, dissertation research he completed as an exchange scholar at the Stanford University Department of Classics and the inaugural Archaeological Institute of America Pomerance Fellow. Koh is currently a senior research fellow at the MIT Center for Materials Research in Archaeology & Ethnology and a research associate at the Harvard Semitic Museum. He founded the ARCHEM Project in 2003 and now serves as the co-editor-in-chief of its interdisciplinary and collaborative archaeometric database (http://openarchem.org).
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