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February 24: “Difference, Desire, and Small Things: The Archaeology of Victorian Bric-a-Brac”
Read the Provocation Archaeology in the spring — How using old eyes can illuminate current questions
Professor Paul Mullins, Anthropology prof at IUPUI says: Parlors throughout the 19th-century Atlantic World were flooded with modest decorative goods like figurines, and a vast range of American and British homes were filled with ceramic animals, famous people, and artistic motifs. This discussion examines these goods from a range of households often considered “outside” consumer society.
When: Friday February 24, 4:30 pm
Where: Campus Center Room: 268 420 University Blvd.
Free and open to all. RSVP: libarsvp@iupui.edu with Mullins talk in the subject line
February 17: “Displaced and Barely Visible: An Archaeologist Looks at Homelessness” IUPUI Anthropology professor Larry Zimmermansays: Archaeology is about how people get, use, and dispose of material culture, not just about life in the distant past. Doing an archaeology of “ten minutes ago” may actually provide clues that can improve the lives of homeless people “living rough.”
