Professor Anne Porter on the move
Professor Anne Porter’s research into the way people lived and especially the way they governed themselves in the Near East five thousand years ago, is receiving much attention. Recently in Lyon, France, she spoke on the relationship between chronology, social collapse and the emergence of the Amorites. She has been invited to give lectures on burial practices at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, La Sapienza University in Rome, Stanford University and more locally at the Los Angeles Biblical Archaeology Society and the California Museum of Ancient Art. She has also spoken on modern politics, exploring the implications of evolutionary archaeology and the rhetoric of civilization for foreign policy in presentations at Princeton, the University of Virginia and the College of the Atlantic in Maine. She is a member of two international working groups that study pottery and chronology.In May 2007 Dr Porter will give a series of lectures called "The Essential Logic of Pastoralism" at the prestigious College de France in Paris. These talks will explore the role of pastoralism in the emergence of complex society.
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007