Indication: Andres Zarankin – Department of Anthropology and Archeology at UFMG
Period: September 9th to 26th, 2017
doctor Benjamin Alberti obtained his PhD in archeology at the University of Southampton (England), where he studied gender and art in the bronze age of Knossos (Greece) from a feminist perspective. Since then, he has published a large amount of work on this subject as well as on pottery from northwestern Argentina and rock art from northern New Mexico.
He is currently a professor at Framingham State University (United States), where he teaches courses and develops his research projects. Alberti presents himself as an innovator and as a very important contribution not only to archeology, but also to other human sciences for having a multidisciplinary perspective, where archeology, anthropology, art, materiality, queer theory, feminism, masculinity studies and theory are incorporated. Social. His long career and the quality of his research make him one of the most prominent figures worldwide in body studies and theories on feminism and sexuality in archeology.