Each quarter, the Stanford Archaeology Center invites prominent archaeologists from around the globe to be in residence for a week as a Distinguished Lecturer. During their residency, the Distinguished Lecturer gives two lectures and interacts with faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students. Stanford Archaeology Center will host Prof. Naoise Mac Sweeney from University of Vienna, Austria over two days (May 14 and May 15) for the Spring Quarter of this academic year. 

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How did the ancient Greek world come into being? Scholarship has proposed many models over the last two centuries, from the Dorian Migration to Greek Colonisation, largely predicated on ideas of diasporic migration and cultural expansion. In this lecture, I shall argue instead that the ancient Greek world was forged through an entirely different set of processes – multiscalar circulation and cultural convergence, eventually culminating in the retrospective ethnogenesis of the Greeks. The lecture showcases the work of the ‘Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World’ project, funded by the European Research Council.