Dr. Said will deliver the opening address at New Modernisms , the 2nd Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, hosted by the University. Hall of Flags, Houston Hall. Case studies on settlement practice in Dahomey, Zuni and other surviving indigenous cultures will be presented, as well as examples of extreme settlement conditions in the Russian Arctic and Sharan oasis. The conference will be free and open to the public. Rainey Auditorium, free admission.
Registration is requested.
Dr. Redford will be speaking about the last settlement level at Kinet which dates to the late thirteenth century, the time at the end of the Crusades when Marco Polo disembarked at nearby Ayas to begin his history-making trip to China and back. He will speak about the conditions in the northeast corner of the Meditteranean that made it a center of international commerce at the time. Lecture begins at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 33rd and Spruce Sts. While celebrating their homecoming at a special family afternoon, guests may have their names written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, enjoy crafts for the kids, participate in a dance performance and workshop, take a gallery tour and hear a special lecture by Dr. David Silverman, curator of the Egyptian Section. One of the finest collections of Islamic metalwork in private hands, it consists of 27 inlaid brass, bronze and steel objects dating from the tenth to nineteenth century.