KATHERINE BLOUIN

Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classics

University of Toronto

Abstract:

What does it mean to to teach, learn and research ancient Mediterranean Archaeology on Indigenous Land? What does it mean to do so in a settler colony located on what many Peoples call Turtle Island? How are we (not) accountable for the role played by Archaeology, Classics, Biblical Studies, Egyptology, and Near Eastern Studies in (settler) colonial contexts? How does modern settler colonialism inform our reconstruction of ancient Indigeneities? How does our relationship to the Land we come from and the Land we are currently working on play a role in the way we think about ancient Mediterranean worlds? Why is that so? What can Antiquity scholars learn from ancient and modern Indigenous ways of being, knowing and learning? And what catharses are triggered in the process? Drawing from my own (un)learning work in and outside the classroom, this paper will propose avenues for answers and ways forward.