Event Host: Department of Classics
Short Description: The 22nd Annual Carl C. Schlam Memorial Lecture featuring Susan E. Alcock (University of Michigan), on "Green Petra: Adding Colors to the Past in Southern Jordan"
The 22nd Annual Carl C. Schlam Memorial Lecture featuring Susan E. Alcock (University of Michigan), on "Green Petra: Adding Colors to the Past in Southern Jordan."
The Lecture
The romance of Petra, ‘a rose-red city half as old as time’, presents a glorious site of tombs and temples, softly painted in a desert palette. In our imaginary, the city appears, like the rocks of its name, as dry as a bone. Accurate? We think not.
The Speaker
Susan E. Alcock (Ph.D. 1989, University of Cambridge) is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics and Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement at the University of Michigan. Until very recently, she served as Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. A classical archaeologist, with interests in the material culture of the Hellenistic and Roman eastern Mediterranean, much of Alcock’s research to date has revolved around themes of landscape, imperialism, sacred space, and memory. She is presently co-directing the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP), exploring numerous aspects of the urban site and rural hinterland of Petra in southern Jordan. Alcock is a 2000 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
For more information about the lecture series, visit the Department of Classics.
