University of Heidelberg

Philipp Stockhammer lectures in Brazil

Feb 01, 2011

Dr. Philipp Stockhammer, archaeologist and member of research project D2 "Materiality and Practice", has been invited as a guest lecturer to the renowned Fluminense Federal University in Niteroi, Brazil.

In April 2011, Dr. Stockhammer will give a lecture series on "The Power of Entanglement: Phenomena of Innovation Management in the European and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Age". During one week he will give lectures on topics such as "Archaeology and Globalization: Theories and Concepts" and "The Birth of the Bronze Age: Strategies of Integrating Bronze Objects and Casting Technologies in Early Bronze Age Societies in Central Europe". Furthermore, he will discuss the themes "Wagons, Wine and Iron: The Transition from the Late Bronze Age Urnfield Culture to the Early Iron Age in Central Europe", "Mycenaean Greece: Eastern Mediterranean Entanglements and their Impact on Mycenaean Society", and "Eastern Mediterranean Interconnections: Appropriating Foreign Objects and Practices in the Southern Levant in the 13th and 12th Century B.C." The lectures will be given in English and they will be translated into Portuguese by an interpreter.

The Fluminense Federal University in the federal state of Rio de Janeiro is one of the most renowned universities in Brazil and recognized as a top university in Latin America.

Philipp Stockhammer completed his PhD in 2008 at Heidelberg University and is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Cluster's research project D2 "Materiality and Practice" and research assistant at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology at Heidelberg University. In 2010, he received the prestigious Walter-Witzenmann-Award of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Further Information:

Profile Dr. Philipp Stockhammer
Film Portrait of Dr. Philipp Stockhammer