Ways of Making in Early Italy
In recent years, the peoples, practices, and processes related to making and creative action in early Italy have taken a more central position in scholarship. Multiple books and collected works on artisanal practice and on the mobilities and lifeways of those involved in craftwork have traced the subtleties of the many worlds of makers and their ways of making. This has included multiple aspects of the material contributions of, for example, decoration, fabrication, construction, sourcing, and many kinds of craft output, from weaving to metalworking and from building to fine carving. This workshop brings together scholars working across materials and scales of making to think about these issues.
November 16-17, 2023
Thursday, November 16
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall, Room 807
6:00 PM: Keynote
“Ways of Making Textiles in Early Italy: Archaeology of Lost Economies”
Margarita Gleba (Università di Padova)
It is not necessary to register if you plan to attend the keynote in person. In order to watch the keynote live by Zoom, please REGISTER HERE
Friday, November 17
NYU, Silver Center for Arts and Science, Jurow Lecture Hall
To attend the day of talks in person, you must REGISTER HERE. Because our speakers are presenting ongoing, unfinished research (which is the core of our workshop) we are not streaming or recording them.
9:30-9:45 AM: Coffee and Check-in
9:45-10:00 AM: Introduction
John Hopkins (NYU) & Francesco de Angelis (Columbia )
10:00-12:00
“The Clay Economy in a Pre-Roman City: the Case of Falerii”
Maria Cristina Biella (La Sapienza)
“A Caeretan Workshop? About Some Unpublished Architectural Terracottas from Vigna Marini-Vitalini”
Laurent Haumesser (Louvre)
Response
Delphine Tonglet (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00
“The Makers’ Worlds: Exploring Landscape Experience and Quotidian Mobility in the Albegna Valley through Ceramic Production”
Anna Soifer (Brown University)
“The Perception of the Foreigner in Hellenistic Etruria: the Bruschi Group”
Laura Ambrosini (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
3:00-3:30: Coffee
3:30-5:30
“Many Hands: Craft and Community of the Etruscan Interior”
Anthony Tuck (The University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Response
Nancy Thomson de Grummond (FSU )
Open Discussion
Larissa Bonfante Workshop 