Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Annual Meeting and Symposium
Saturday October 1, 2011
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Annual General Meeting and Symposium will be held in the Signy & Cléophée Eaton Theatre, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6. (Access to the Theatre is through the President’s Choice Group Entrance at the south-east corner of the Museum, next to the TTC’s Museum stop.)
There is a symposium registration fee of $25 for Members, $7 for Student Members, $35 for Non-members and $10 for Non-member Students.
9:30-10:00 – Registration
10:00-10:30 - Annual Meeting – CSMS members only; memberships may be renewed or opened at the door
Thanks to a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Society will be able to assist with the travel expenses of those members attending the Annual Meeting that live some distance from Toronto.
SYMPOSIUM
(sponsored by the Royal Ontario Museum)
Royal Ontario Museum Excavations at Godin Tepe, Western Iran:
Fifty years of archaeological work
Les Fouilles du Musée royal de l‘Ontario à Godin Tepe en Iran de l’ouest:
cinquante années de travail archéologique
10:30-10:45 – Welcome
Paul-Alain Beaulieu, President, CSMS, and Dan Rahimi, Vice President, Royal Ontario Museum
10:45-11:00 - Introduction
Hilary Gopnik, Emory University (co-author of On the High Road: the history of Godin Tepe)
11:00-11:40 – Godin VI and the Uruk World: Trade and conflict between Mesopotamia and western Iran during the 4th millenium BC
Clemens Reichel, University of Toronto/Royal Ontario Museum
11:40-12:20 – Godin VI and the Kura-Araxes Migration: Transcaucasian-Iranian relations in the early third millennium BC
Mitchell Rothman, Widener College
Lunch – (not provided)
2:00-2:40 – Mighty Medes? Median socio-political dynamics and the Godin II citadel (800-500 BC)
Hilary Gopnik, Emory University
2:40-3:20 – Beyond the Kangavar valley survey: Encountering Cuyler Young in the landscape of western Iran in the 1960s
Ed Keall, Royal Ontario Museum
3:20-4:00 – Tba
Irene Winter, Harvard University
4:00-4:15 – Concluding Remarks, Hilary Gopnik and Mitchell Rothman
Following the Symposium there will be a visit to On the High Road, a special exhibit at the Museum’s Wirth Gallery for the Middle East (Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, 3rd floor).
Annual General Meeting of
The Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies
La Société canadienne des études mésopotamiennes
and Symposium
(sponsored by the Royal Ontario Museum)
Royal Ontario Museum Excavations at Godin Tepe, Western Iran:
Fifty years of archaeological work
Les Fouilles du Musée royal de l‘Ontario à Godin Tepe en Iran de l’ouest:
cinquante années de travail archéologique
1 October 2011
Signy & Cléophée Eaton Theatre, Royal Ontario Museum,
100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6
(Access to the Theatre is through the President’s Choice Group Entrance
at the south-east corner of the Museum, next to the TTC’s Museum stop.)