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Seating is freely available but RSVPs are appreciated, and a sack lunch will be reserved for those who RSVP. Please complete the RSVP form here. Contact Emilee Luke with questions or cancellations.
Brown Bag Lectures allow faculty across all disciplines at MSU-Northern to showcase their work and to build a sense of community inquiry and interest around that work. Campus and community members are welcome to attend! View our Archive Brownbag Lecture Series page here.
Presentations will last about 1 hour and are located in either Hagener Science Center 101 ("The Pit") or Hensler Auditorium (in the Applied Tech Center/ATC). Printable campus map
Upcoming lectures
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025 — 11am-12pm in ATC Hensler Auditorium Presenter: Dr. Kyra Kaercher Lecture: Qach Rresh: A Neo-Assyrian (950-600 BCE) site full of Post-Assyrian (600-323 BCE) trash on the Erbil Plains Summary: The site of Qach Rresh, located about 15 km south of Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan is a rural site founded in the Neo-Assyrian Period (950-612 BCE). After the collapse of the Assyrian Empire, this site seems to be abandoned and used as a trash dumping ground in the Post-Assyrian period (612-323 BCE). This site has been excavated since 2022 by the Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia Project. This paper presents the research into the Neo- and Post-Assyrian periods at this site, including new results of petrographic analysis of Post-Assyrian ceramics. Bio:Dr. Kyra Kaercher grew up west of Havre, and graduated from Havre High. From there she received her BA in Archaeology from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She then received her MA in Archaeology from Boston University and worked at the UPenn Museum on the Ur Digitization Project as a research assistant and on the ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives monitoring destruction to cultural heritage due to the Syrian Civil War and ISIS. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2023 titled "Production and Consumption of Middle Islamic Ceramics (1000-1500 CE) in Western Asia: Regional Practices in an Interconnected World". She is now Assistant Director and Ceramicist of the Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia Project. She has worked in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Bolivia, England, and the USA. |
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