Join us at 9:30 am Pacific on May 2nd for the ninth lecture in the Badè Museum‘s virtual series, Women and Gender in the Phoenician Homeland and Diaspora.
This program is hosted by the Badè Museum in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) and East Carolina University. All the lectures in this series can be watched live on the ARF YouTube channel or later on the ARF & Bade YouTube channels.
Dr. Adriano Orsingher will present Gender and Masks, A Look through the Phoenician/Punic Lens
Adriano Orsingher earned his PhD in archaeology at the Sapienza University of Rome in 2013. He is currently a César Nombela Postdoctoral fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid and an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen. He was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Getty Villa Scholar at the Getty Research Center, and held various postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Tuebingen, Bochum and Oxford.
His scholarly interests focus on ritual and social practices, movements of people, and material culture in the Phoenician/Punic Mediterranean and the Near East, with particular emphasis on colonial situations and cross-cultural interactions, through an interdisciplinary, comparative, and anthropologically informed perspective.