The Sixth IEMA Visiting Scholar Conference
Engendering Landscape & Landscaping Gender
13 – 14 April 2013
Greiner Hall, Ground Level
North Campus University at Buffalo, SUNY
Buffalo, NY 14261
Conference Organizer: Dr. Will Meyer
Over the past 20 years, an important development in social theory has been the recognition that all human life is embodied. Part-and-parcel to this embodiment is an inescapable sensual connection to the non-human things of the world, with which the human body is in a state of constant interaction. The stage upon which such interactions occur is the landscape. How we act — and interact — on this stage is influenced by the different categories of identity to which we belong, including sex, gender, age, class, faction, and ethnicity. In other words, people have different experiences of and in the landscape depending upon their gender and other identities. Further, just as societies endow different kinds of body with different expectations, rights, and limitations, places on the landscape might also be gendered in similar ways. Such intersections of landscape and gender have been explored in archaeology’s sister disciplines but remain relatively unexplored within archaeology itself. Where they have been looked at, however, these points of overlap have provided a much richer sense of life in the past, revealing complex heterogeneities in the landscapes and societies that we study. This symposium brings together archaeologists, art and architectural historians, and ancient historians whose expertise spans the length and breadth of Europe in order to build synergy between engendered and landscape perspectives. Drawing on case studies from the Paleolithic to the Modern periods, we examine how people of different genders experienced the landscapes of the past and how specific places or elements within those landscapes became gendered.
Invited Scholars & Presentation Titles:
Staša Babić (University of Belgrade, Department of Archaeology)
“Alterity, Space, Time”
Douglass Bailey (San Francisco State University, Department of Anthropology)
“Cutting the Earth // Cutting the Body”
Sandra Blakely (Emory University, Department of Classics)
“Embodying Samothrace: The Mountain and the Sea”
Margaret Conkey (UC Berkeley, Department of Anthropology and Center for Digital Archaeology)
“Landscape and Gender on the Move”
Thomas Dowson (Independent Scholar)
“At Play in the Baths of the Romans: Queerying the Landscape of Roman-Britain”
Ericka Engelstad (University of Tromsø, Department of Archaeology & Social Anthropology)
“Engendering Arctic Landscapes”
Nena Galanidou (University of Crete, Department of History & Archaeology)
“Engendering the Archaeological Landscapes of Paleolithic Northwestern Greece”
Amy Gazin-Schwartz (Assumption College, Department of Sociology & Anthropology)
“Waulking and Stalking: The Archaeology of Gendered Work in the Scottish Landscape”
Kathryn Gleason (Cornell University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Archaeology Program)
"In Pygmalion's Garden: The Gendered Figure in Motion"
Matthew Johnson (Northwestern University, Department of Anthropology)
“Landscape, Gender, and the Late Medieval Castle”
Julia K. Koch (German Archaeological Institute, Roman-Germanic Commission)
“Gendered Contacts between Early Iron Age Landscapes in Central Europe: The Case of the Magdalenenberg, at the Edge of the Black Forest, Germany”
Sandra Montón-Subías (Pompeu Fabra University, Department of Humanities; with Sandra Lozano Rubio and Apen Ruiz)
“Gender, Mobility, and Landscape in the Ancient Mediterranean: A Prehistoric Example from Southeastern Spain”
Matthew Murray (University of Mississippi, Department of Sociology & Anthropology)
“Gender, Cosmology, and the Organization of Space in Early Iron Age Funerary Monuments and Landscapes: A Maintenance of ‘Balance’?”
Lisa Nevett (University of Michigan, Department of Classical Studies and Interdepartmental Program in Greek & Roman History)
“Engendering the Landscapes of Classical Greek Cities: Athens in Context”
Eoín O'Donoghue (NUI Galway, Department of Classics)
“Performing Gender and Experiencing Death in the Etruscan Landscape”
John E. Robb (University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology)
“Journeys to (and with) Bodies”
Suzanne Spencer-Wood (Oakland University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work & Criminal Justice, and Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology)
“Sex and European Gardens: Medieval to Post-Medieval”
Silvia Tomášková (UNC Chapel Hill, Departments of Anthropology and Women’s & Gender Studies)
“Land, Humans, and Animals in the Making of Gender, in Rock Art for Example”
Ruth Tringham (UC Berkeley, Department of Anthropology and Center for Digital Archaeology)
“Pivoting and Jumping through the Fabric of Çatalhöyük to an Imagined World of People with Faces, Histories, Voices, and Stories to Tell”
Nancy Wicker (University of Mississippi, Department of Art)
“Halls, Hoards, and Graves: The Gendered Places and Placement of Bracteates”
Attendance & Registration:
The IEMA Visiting Scholar Conferences are open to all who are interested. We ask that all attendees register, either in advance or on the day of the conference. The Advance Registration form can be downloaded here.
Registration is free to all University at Buffalo faculty, staff, and students with a valid UB ID. (If registering on the day of the conference, please bring ID with you.)
Registration fees apply for all other attendees. Fees can be paid on site at the conference or can be sent in advance. We regret that, at the present time, we can only accept payments in cash or by check (please make checks payable to “Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology”).
Student Registration Fees
Advance (on or before 30 March 2013) .......................... $20
On Site ............................................................................. $25
Waged Attendee Registration Fees
Advance (on or before 30 March 2013) .......................... $35
On Site ............................................................................. $45
Please note that advance registration for the conference has been extended to 30 March 2013. After this date, normal registration fees apply and registrants are no longer eligible for the meals / events below.
Final Program (.pdf):
Saturday, 13 April 2013
8:00 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome to IEMA
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Peter F. Biehl, Director of IEMA, Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology
Stephen L. Dyson, Associate Director of IEMA, Park Professor of Classics
Laura Harrison, Anthropology Graduate Students, Editor-in-Chief of Chronika
9:30 – 10:00 Introduction to “Engendering Landscape & Landscaping Gender”
Will Meyer, 2012-2013 IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Morning Session
10:00 – 10:30 Journeys to (and with) Bodies
John E. Robb, Reader in European Prehistory, University of Cambridge
10:30 – 11:00 Cutting the Earth // Cutting the Body
Douglass Bailey, Professor of Anthropology, San Francisco State University
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 11:45 Landscape and Gender on the Move
Margaret Conkey, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Executive Producer of the Center for Digital Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley
11:45 – 12:15 Engendering Arctic Landscapes
Ericka Engelstad, Professor of Archaeology, University of Tromsø
12:15 – 12:45 Land, Humans, and Animals in the Making of Gender, in Rock Art for Example
Silvia Tomášková, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s & Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:45 – 1:15 Discussion
1:15 – 2:15 Lunch
Afternoon Session
2:15 – 2:45 Engendering the Archaeological Landscapes of Palaeolithic Northwest Greece
Nena Galanidou, Associate Professor of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
2:45 – 3:15 Gender, Mobility, and Landscape in the Ancient Mediterranean: A Prehistoric Example from Southeast Spain
Sandra Montón Subías, ICREA Research Professor, Pompeu Fabra University
3:15 – 3:45 Engendering the Landscapes of Classical Greek Cities: Athens in Context
Lisa Nevett, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 4:30 Waulking and Stalking: The Archaeology of Gendered Work in the Scottish Landscape
Amy Gazin-Schwartz, Associate Professor of Archaeology and Chair of Sociology & Anthropology, Assumption College
4:30 – 5:00 Pivoting and Jumping through the Fabric of Çatalhöyük to an Imagined World of People with Faces, Histories, Voices, and Stories to Tell
Ruth Tringham, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Creative Director of the Center for Digital Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley
5:00 – 5:30 Discussion
7:00 – 10:00 Welcome Reception (Totem Pole Room, Marian E. White Anthropology Research Museum, Department of Anthropology)
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Morning Session
9:00 – 9:30 Alterity, Space, Time
Staša Babić, Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Belgrade
9:30 – 10:00 Embodying Samothrace: The Mountain and the Sea
Sandra Blakely, Associate Professor of Classics, Emory University
10:00 – 10:30 In Pygmalion’s Garden: The Gendered Figure in Motion
Kathryn Gleason, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Classics, Cornell University
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:15 Medieval Gardens of Love: A Feminist Perspective
Suzanne Spencer-Wood, Professor of Anthropology, Oakland University, and Associate of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University
11:15 – 11:45 Landscape, Gender, and the Late Medieval Castle
Matthew Johnson, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
11:45 – 12:15 Discussion
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:15 – 1:45 Halls, Hoards, and Graves: The Gendered Places and Placement of Bracteates
Nancy Wicker, Professor of Art History, University of Mississippi
1:45 – 2:15 Gendered Contacts between Early Iron Age Landscapes in Central Europe: The Case of the Magdalenenberg, at the Edge of the Black Forest, Germany
Julia K. Koch, Scientific Staff of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute
2:15 – 2:45 Gender, Cosmology, and the Organization of Space in Early Iron Age Funerary Monuments and Landscapes—A Maintenance of “Balance?”
Matthew L. Murray, Instructional Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Mississippi
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 3:30 Performing Gender and Experiencing Death in the Etruscan Landscape
Eóin O’Donoghue, Research Associate in Classics, National University of Ireland, Galway
3:30 – 4:00 At Play in the Baths of the Romans: Queerying the Landscape of Roman-Britain
Thomas Dowson, Independent Scholar
4:00 – 5:00 Discussion & Closing Comments
7:30 – 10:30 Farewell Dinner (Atrium, Anderson Gallery)
Meals & Events:
The North Campus of the UB provides a number of dining venues at which to eat lunch during the conference. However, many of these venues are located at some distance from Greiner Hall. Conference attendees who register in advance have the option to request catered lunches, allowing them to dine easily with the presenters in the conference venue. The cost of catered lunches is $8.50 / meal.
Two additional events are open to conference attendees who register in advance:
Welcome Reception
Saturday, 13 April 2013, 7 – 10 pm
The reception and buffet dinner will be held in the Totem Pole Room of the Marian E. White Anthropology Research Museum at the Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo. (The building is adjacent to Greiner Hall.)
Welcome Reception & Buffet .......................................... $25 / person
Farewell Dinner
Sunday, 14 April 2013, 7:30 – 10:30 pm
The dinner will be held in the atrium of the Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo. (This building is located in the University Heights neighborhood of Buffalo, at 1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214.)
Farewell Dinner ............................................................. $45 / person
Please remember that catered lunches and attendance at these events are only available to people who register for the conference in advance. Meal fees can be paid at the same time as registration.
Nearby Accommodations:
Invited speakers will stay at:
Ramada Amherst Conference Center
2402 North Forest Rd, Amherst, NY 14226
(716) 636-7500
<1 mi. from the conference venue, easily accessible by bike and foot trails
Space at the Ramada is limited on the conference weekend. Attendees who are unable to obtain a room at the Ramada might wish to try the following hotels (all of which are located in a cluster, about 1 mi. from the conference venue):
Comfort Inn University
1 Flint Rd., Amherst, NY 14226
(716) 688-0811
Candlewood Inn & Suites
20 Flint Rd., Amherst, NY 14226
(716) 688-2100
Doubletree by Hilton Buffalo-Amherst
10 Flint Rd., Amherst, NY 14226
(716) 689-4414
Red Roof Inn
42 Flint Rd., Amherst, NY 14226
(716) 689-7474
Buffalo Niagara Marriott
1340 Millersport Hwy., Amherst, NY 14226
(716) 689-6900