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SUMMARY:Archaeology's Dirty Little Secrets
DTSTART:20141112T140000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sue Alcock\nBrown Universityhttp://www.brown.edu/Departm
 ents/Joukowsky_Institute/people/alcock.html\nJoin star archeologist Sue Al
 cock of Brown University for a special session on the future of Archeology
 . \nOver the past few years leading archeologists and their colleagues fr
 om the Science have been wrestling with how archaeology — as a innately 
 integrative discipline and as one with a high recognition factor and popul
 ar appeal — might be employed as a catalyst for other problems and possi
 bilities.  Archeology provides an excellent example of how all manner of 
 texts and technologies can\, and indeed must\, combine to investigate and 
 interpret findings in responsible fashion. That has interesting implicatio
 ns for research\, as well as for education\, especially as we ponder poten
 tial Science\, Tech\, Engineering and Maths (STEM) applications at tertiar
 y and secondary level. Moreover\, Archeology has turned out as a very appe
 aling domain to students of online courses from universities and other bac
 kground.\nSue is a a classical archaeologist\, with interests in the mater
 ial culture of the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia\, particularly i
 n Hellenistic and Roman times. Much of her research to date has revolved a
 round themes of landscape\, imperialism\, sacred space\, and memory. She i
 s currently conducting fieldwork at and around the site of Petra in the Ha
 shemite Kingdom of Jordan. Sue’s top rated Coursera MOOC has more than 3
 0’000 participating students worldwide. She will provide some metrics of
  how it worked and share reflections as to how to leverage future such opp
 ortunities to create more active 'real world' participation and contributi
 on from the global class: either by teaching in turn\, participating in on
 line research activities\, or other outreach efforts (archaeological docum
 entation\, etc.).\nThis is a unique opportunity to know more about the evo
 lution of a classical discipline as it evolves in the digital era. Sue is 
 a world-class speaker\, having presented her work to multiple audiences\, 
 including at the World Economic Forum in Davos.\nCoffee will be served aft
 er the talk.
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