The Marija Gimbutas Memorial Lecture

1155 East 58th Street,Chicago IL 60637

01 December, 2021

Description

Old Europe: House, Fire, the Goddess, and Ambiguity Registration is for in-person attendance only. A link to the video livestream will be sent out on OI social media closer to the event. Do not register for the link. Masks are required in all University of Chicago buildings. Ruth Tringham, University of California, Berkeley Marija Gimbutas has always held a special place in Ruth Tringham's life. A few times their paths crossed, but mostly like ships passing in the night. In this talk, Tringham will focus on an earlier pre-Indo-European Neolithic population located in southeast Europe and Anatolia, an area Marija Gimutas referred to as Old Europe, whose prehistoric culture believed in a nurturing "Goddess" in her various forms and manifestations. Join us as Tringham draws our attention to aspects of Old Europe that played only a small role in Marija Gimbutas's narrative—house, clay, fire, and the intimate view—while asking the question of how we feel about the level of certainty we attribute to these narratives based in archaeology.