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Volcanoes and the landscape and materials they produce, as well as the classical writings they inspired, were the subject of two of the more recent colloquia that Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, Research Professor of Classics, Archaeology and Art History, organized, prompted by the volcanic landscape of Sardinia where she worked since 1975, as it contrasts to that of New Mexico where her family spends time in a second home. The contrasts can be interpreted as different cultural responses. A colloquium by that name, "The Cultural Response to the Volcanic Landscape," was originally held at Tufts in 1994, then in 1995 in the volcanic region of the Bay of Naples, and then a sequel continued at Tufts in fall 1996, with much of the same international cast as the one in Naples. The proceedings were published in 2005 in Cultural Responses to the Volcanic Landscape: The Mediterranean and Beyond, contributed to, and co-edited by Professor Balmuth. As a result of her work on volcanism here, she was named Head of the Archaeology section at a Workshop on Tuffs organized at Los Alamos, information from which is now continuing as a growing handbook on the Web. |
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