Victoria Moses
Meat and the Birth of Rome

In the ninth to fifth centuries BCE, Rome changed rapidly from a small settlement of huts into a fortified urban center. The physical reorganization of the city is inseparable from the social transformations that went along with it, including changes in social roles, economics, and religion. In this talk Victoria Moses will investigate the emergence of urbanism in Rome and its environs through zooarchaeology, or the study of animal remains from archaeological sites, to demonstrate what early Romans ate and what they sacrificed during this time of transition and how meat relates to the foundation of Rome. She will also show that the early Romans conserved their foodways and religious rituals through this time of change.

Moses is the Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff - Archaeological Institute of America Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies and a PhD candidate in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.

John Jesurun
Partial View

A short survey of a multidimensional journey. Moving from the linear form toward speaking in curves.

John Jesurun is the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts and a playwright, director, and media artist based in New York.

The shoptalks will be held in English.