Tenth Annual Kolb SeniorScholars Colloquium

"Voices of the Dead: A Global Perspective onthe Archaeology of Death"

Friday, October 23, 2015

WidenerLecture Hall, Penn Museum

2:00–5:00 pm

2:00 Professor C. Brian Rose, KolbSociety of Fellows Faculty Coordinator

Introduction

2:15 Dr. Ellen Morris, Fellow

AssistantProfessor in Classics and Ancient Studies at Barnard College, ColumbiaUniversity

RetainerSacrifice in Ancient Egypt and Elsewhere—Three Crucial Questions

2:45 Dr. Aubrey Baadsgaard Poffenberger,Fellow

AdjunctAssistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Gettysburg College

Death,Display, and Decadence: New Insights into Elite Funerary Ritual at EarlyDynastic Ur

3:15Break

3:30 Dr. Page Selinsky,Fellow

Lecturerin the Department of Anthropology at Penn and the Department of Ecology andEvolutionary Biology at Princeton University

Not aProper Burial: Evidence of Celtic Ritual at Gordion, Turkey

4:00 Dr. Pamela Geller, GuestSpeaker

AssistantProfessor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Miami

Bio-power,Biohistory, and the Voiceless Dead: The Samuel G. Morton Collection

4:55: Final Questions and Comments