AAMW Colloquium
Friday, February 07
12:00-2:00 pm
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Nathan Arrington specializes in ancient Greek material culture, working at the intersections of the disciplines of art history, archaeology, and classics. His first monograph, Ashes, Images, and Memories: The Presence of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford University Press, 2015), examines how monuments, objects, and images, in their ritual and spatial contexts, changed the way that people viewed and remembered military casualties. His second book, Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World (Princeton University Press, 2021), advocates for the geographic and social margins as catalysts of cultural change between the Aegean and the East in the 8th and 7th centuries BC. He is currently working on a project on haptics, which offers an alternative to histories of Greek art constructed around visual illusion. Treating materiality, iconography, and contexts across multiple media, the book examines how Greek art implicates the sense of touch, and it considers the ramifications for power, perception, and subjectivity. Arrington’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Gates Cambridge Trust, the Fulbright Foundation, Princeton’s Humanities Council, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Arrington is co-director and USA director of the Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project (MTAP). MTAP is a co-operation with the Rhodope Ephorate of Antiquities under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The interdisciplinary project investigates domestic archaeology in a trading port in Aegean Thrace and the changing relationship between settlement and country in a diachronic landscape. The first of several final publications is in press with Hesperia Supplements. In addition to editing the books, Arrington authors individual chapters on stratigraphy and ceramics. Arrington also has excavated at Corinth, Nemea, Mycenae, Polis (Cyprus), Tel Dor (Israel), and the Princeton Battlefield.
At Princeton, Arrington founded the Program in Archaeology. He is affiliated with the Department of Classics, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, and Mathey College.
In-person, food and refreshments included.