Jean-Pierre Brun - Department of Modern Foreign Languages

Current Global Perspectives
on the Archaeology of Graeco-Roman Technology
by
Jean-Pierre Brun
Renowned French archaeologist and professor at the Collège de France
will present a series of lectures on the University of Tennessee-Knoxville
campus, April 13-17. Topics are related to recent discoveries and
scientific interpretations in Graeco-Roman archaeology.
Three lectures are in English, one in French.
Presenting:
(all events are free of charge and open to the public)
Monday, April 13
3:30-5:00pm
(this lecture only is in
French)
“The State of the Art of
Archaeology in France.”
(“L’archéologie en
France aujourd’hui”)
Hodges Library,
Room 213
Tuesday, April 14
7:30-9:00pm
“Pompeii Beyond the
Clichés: Historic Development and Economic Activities” (The Eighth Rutledge
Archaeology Lecture for the
East Tennessee Society of
the Archaeological Institute
of America and the Frank H.
McClung Museum of Natural
History and Culture).
Wednesday, April 15
4:00-5:30 pm
“Another History? Recent
Archaeological Excavations Rewrite the Economic History of Antiquity”
1210-11 McClung Tower
Frank H. McClung
Museum Auditorium
Thursday, April 16
12:40-1:55 pm
“Gold, Granite and Luxury Trade: Excavations
of Gold Mines, Imperial
Quarries, Roman Forts
and Ports in the Eastern
Desert of Egypt” (as the
Haines-Morris Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Classics)
Ayres Hall G0003
For more information, call Les Essif at 974-6375, or essif@utk.edu
Professor Brun holds the archaeological chair in “Technologies and Economies of the Ancient Mediterranean” at the Collège de France, France’s
leading academic research institution. He most recently has also held key positions as research director for the French National Center for Scientific
Research, the Ecole Française de Rome, and the Centre Jean Bérard in Naples, Italy. He has directed a great number of excavations in France, Italy,
Greece, and Egypt, many focused on wine and oil production and installations dating from the Hellenistic to the Roman period.
His numerous publications include seminal works such as Ancient Olive Oil Production in Provence (1986),
The Archaeological Map of the Var (1999), Ancient Roman Wine (1999), The Archaeology of Wine and Oil (2003-05; four volumes), and
forthcoming in 2015, Perfumes of Antiquity.
Sponsored by:
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
ETS/AIA (Rutledge Archaeology Lecture Fund)
Department of Classics (Haines-Morris Distinguished Lecture Fund)
MARCO
and
Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
Department of Anthropology
Africana Studies
READYFORTHEWORLD
Department of History