Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 lecture season
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Dr. Yannis Hamilakis: “The (Re)Making of the Acropolis from the 1830s to the Present”
32nd Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture
Saturday, April 18, 2026
11:00am
Neilson Library Browsing Room (Room 102)
Smith College
Dr. Hamilakis is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He is an archaeologist, writer, and exhibition curator, and a Guggenheim Fellow (Class of 2025). His main research and teaching interests are the socio-politics of the past, the body and bodily senses, the archaeology of eating and drinking, human-animal relationships, the ontology and materiality of photography, archaeology and nationalism, archaeological ethnography, the archaeology of contemporary migration, and critical pedagogy in archaeology. His main geographical research focus has been Greece and the Aegean, and although much of his fieldwork is to do with the prehistoric (Neolithic and Bronze Age) Aegean, he is equally interested in the archaeology of the contemporary. In fact, many of his projects are multi-temporal. Since 2010, he has co-directed the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project in central Greece, and since 2016 he has directed a field project on the archaeology of contemporary migration on Lesvos.
Parking: The nearest parking to Neilson Library is the Dickinson Lot off Green Street (view in Google Maps). On the weekend this parking should be free and available, but the Parking Garage off of West Street is also an option. Paid parking should also be available on West and Green Streets, payable through the ParkMobile App or with coins.
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