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Living and Dying as an Immigrant in Classical Athens

November 18, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Doe Library, Room 308A
Campanile Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States


AIA Society: San Francisco

The Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco Society, is thrilled to welcome Dr. Camille Acosta (UC Irvine) to the UC Berkeley campus to share her research on immigrant communities in Classical Athens and archaeological evidence for their burials.

Abstract:

Classical Athens is widely known for being the birthplace of democracy, a political system in which any free male could participate in the governing of the city-state. Yet this democratic system excluded a range of individuals from citizenship, including women, slaves, and immigrants. This talk will explore the archaeological evidence for one of these groups: immigrants, including both Greeks from other city-states and non-Greeks such as Phoenicians or Egyptians. Despite coming from a range of places around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, all of these immigrants all died in Athens and were laid to rest in one of the city’s cemeteries. The archaeological evidence of these burials will be used to tell the stories of some of these immigrants, including a man from the island of Chios, a young girl from the island of Lesbos, and a community from the region of Messenia. By re-creating these ancient funerals, this talk sheds light on the lived experience of migrants and centers them as agents rather than “victims” of the Athenian state.

Speaker: Dr. Camille Acosta, Assistant Professor of Art History, Archaeology, and Visual Studies, UC Irvine

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Details

Date:
November 18, 2024
Time:
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST
Event Category:
Website:
https://events.berkeley.edu/events/event/271433-living-and-dying-as-an-immigrant-in-classical

Contact

River Ramirez
Phone
(760) 684-2503
Email
riverramirez@berkeley.edu

Venue

Doe Library, Room 308A
Campanile Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
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