Sponsored by Archaelogical Institute of America, Rochester Society

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 11:00am - 11:35am
Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 11:00am - 3:00pm

Location:
Rochester Museum & Science Center
657 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
United States

Lecture by Professor Renato Perucchio, University of Rochester (11:00 a.m., Bausch Auditorium at the RMSC, approx 35 minutes)

ABSTRACT - During the course of Roman civilization, and especially during the Empire, Roman engineers developed the structural form -- that is the combination of geometrical shapes and structural materials designed to carry loads in buildings -- to levels of innovation unparalleled until the introduction of structural steel and reinforced concrete in the nineteenth century.  Breaking away from the Etruscan and Hellenistic building traditions, Roman engineers used ingeniously the arch and the truss together with structural timber, masonry and pozzolanic concrete (opus caementicium) to generate a sequence of structural solutions that continued to evolve up to the later stages of the empire, giving raise to some of the most extraordinary and enduring architectural and engineering monuments ever built.

Archaeology Activity Table staffed by AIA Rochester NY Society Volunteers (11:00-3:00, RMSC)

Part of "Science Saturday" at the Rochester Museum & Science Center.  The Rochester NY Society thanks the RMSC for the chance to participate, and the Memorial Art Gallery for the loan of table materials.

Contact:
Leslie DesMarteau
ldesmarteau@hselaw.com

Sponsored by AIA/University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:
Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
United States

When Napolean Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, along with his army he brought 150 artists, linguists, and scientists of all kinds to describe Egypt. It would be the first ethnographic study of its kind but also was the beginning of modern Egyptology. They discovered the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering hieroglyphs. When the savants returned to France, they published the Description de L’Egypte, the first accurate representation of Egyptian antiquities written for the western world. It was a massive work, taking 20 years to complete, and started a wave of Egyptomania that continues today.

The illustrated lecture traces Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign and shows how much modern Egyptology owes to it.

Website: http://mag.rochester.edu/calendar/?event&id=758703&from=13September2012&to=13Sep...

Contact:
Leslie DesMarteau
ldesmarteau@hselaw.com

Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 7:30pm

Location:
Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
United States

Lecturer: Bridget Buxton

Abstract: The Great Museum of the Sea

The oceans, lakes and rivers of the world are the greatest museum of humanity’s interaction with the sea – as well as our global expansion and a record of our interactions with each other through immigration, exploration, commerce and war.  This lecture explores some of history’s most famous and significant shipwrecks from antiquity through the modern age  – ranging from the Ulu Burun shipwreck of 1300 BC to more modern wrecks like the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, or RMS Titanic. 

Dr. Brudget Buxton will be filling in for Dr. James Delgado for this lecture.

Contact:
Sarah Jones
sarahcjones07@gmail.com
585-955-3319

Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 7:30pm

Location:
Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
United States

Lecturer: Amy Barron

Abstract: Agatha Christie, Archaeology and Alzheimer’s

Contact:
Sarah Jones
sarahcjones07@gmail.com
585-955-3319

Sponsored by Rochester, NY Society, AIA/Memorial Art Gallery

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:
Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
United States

Abstract: More archaeology was done in Rome under the Fascists than at any time before or since.  Major sites were excavated in all parts of the City.  New museums were created.  Many important finds were made.  The aim of the archaeology was to increase the regime’s identification with ancient Rome.  Mussolini liked to play the ‘new Caesar’ and ‘new Augustus’ against the background of ancient ruins.  While the excavations were extensive, the quality of the work was often poor and much important information was lost.  Since the fall of fascism, Mussolini’s archaeology has remained a source of controversy and of corrective action.  This talk will consider both the fascist archaeological program and the changing post-war reactions to it. Read more »

Contact:
Leslie DesMarteau
ldesmarteau@hselaw.com

Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 7:30pm

Location:
MAG M&T Bank Ballroom, Cutler Union, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
United States

Lecturer: Richard Talbert

Abstract: The Magnificent Peutinger Map: Roman Cartography at its Most Creative

Joukowsky Lecture

Contact:
AIA

Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 7:30pm

Location:
MAG M&T Bank Ballroom, Cutler Union, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
United States

Lecturer: Dimitri Nakassis

Abstract: Paupers and peasants and princes and kings: society in Late Bronze Age Greece

McDonald Lecture

Contact:
AIA

Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 7:30pm

Location:
MAG M&T Bank Ballroom, Cutler Union, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
United States

Lecturer: Christina Conlee

Abstract: Sacred Spaces and Human Sacrifice: The Nasca Lines in their Cultural and Religious Context

Contact:
AIA

Sponsored by AIA Rochester Society and The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 7:30pm - 9:45pm

Location:
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, , NY 14607
United States

Dr. Andrew M. Moore, Dean of Graduate Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, President of the Rochester Society of the AIA, and archaeologist,  specializes in studies of the Neolithic period.  He has excavated and examined finds from a number of sites in the Near and Middle East and Western Asia.  For eight years, he has directed excavations in Croatia, finding evidence of some of the very earliest farming practices in that region, as they spread from the Middle East through the Merditerranean some 8,000 years ago.  His assessment and analysis will form the basis of his lecture.

Contact:

hvcase@frontier.com
585-381-9034

Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America

AIA Society Event: Rochester

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 7:30pm

Location:
The Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY
United States

Dr. Andrew M. Moore, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, will deliver a lecture discussing early farming practices in the Mediterranean during the Neolithic Period.