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The AIA is now in the 114th year of its Lecture Program! This is our 114th year, and the season runs through the end of April 2010. The lectures are free to the public, and all are welcome. Top scholars from North America and abroad will be presenting a wide range of current archaeological topics at Societies throughout the United States and Canada. Here are some highlights:
- Greek linen armor, Nero’s Domus Aurea, how to survive a Roman banquet, and Hannibal's crossing of the Alps
- Early baseball in Egypt, the Indus civilization, and origins of farming in the Near East
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The antiquities trade in the Holy Land and the 2001 UNESCO convention for underwater heritage
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The Sea of Galilee boat, Kublai Khan's lost fleet, and shipwrecks off the Florida coast
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Andean gold, Hopewell Culture, ancient chocolate, animal DNA, and forensic archaeology at the Little Big Horn
Use the links below for details on lecturers and their topics, or to find a lecture near you! To view the entire schedule, click here.
You can also contact the AIA Lecture Coordinator at lsparks@aia.bu.edu, or call 617-358-4184. We hope to see you at an AIA lecture soon!
To view other society events, click here.
If you are interested in starting a local society, please send an email to societies@aia.bu.edu.
Featured Lecturers
 Lorenc Bejko
Lorenc Bejko is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management with the University of Tirana, Albania. He received his degrees from the University of Tirana, Boston University, and the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences, Tirana. He has also been the Director of the Albanian Rescue Archaeology Unit (International Centre for Albanian Archaeology), and Director of the Institute of Cultural Monuments, Tirana. He has excavated extensively in Albania, and has been involved in a number of Cultural Heritage and Management Projects. Professor Bejko is the AIA's Kress Lecturer for 2009/2010. Read interview with Lorenc Bejko...
 John R. Hale
John Hale
John R. Hale is the Director of Liberal Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology, at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He earned his B.A. at Yale University and his Ph.D. at Cambridge University. Dr. Hale teaches introductory courses on archaeology, as well as more specialized courses on the Bronze Age, the ancient Greeks, the Roman world, Celtic cultures, Vikings, and on nautical and underwater archaeology. Dr. Hale's writing has been published in the journal Antiquity, The Classical Bulletin, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, and Scientific American. He is also the author of "Lords of the Sea" (2009), a volume about the ancient Athenian navy. Dr. Hale has received many awards for distinguished teaching, including the Panhellenic Teacher of the Year Award and the Delphi Center Award. An accomplished instructor, Dr. Hale is also an archaeologist with more than 30 years of fieldwork experience. He has excavated at the Romano-British site of Dragonby in Lincolnshire, England, and at the Roman Villa of Torre de Palma, Portugal. He has also carried out interdisciplinary studies of ancient oracle sites in Greece and Turkey, including the famous Delphic Oracle, and participated in an undersea search in Greek waters for lost fleets from the time of the Persian Wars. He is a Norton Lecturer for 2009/2010.
 Nancy Wilkie
Nancy Wilkie
Nancy Wilkie has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota where she studied classics and prehistoric Greek archaeology. At Carleton College she is the William H. Laird Professor of Classics, Anthropology and the Liberal Arts, and her areas of specialization are prehistoric Greece, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, and cultural property issues. Her main publications include "Governmental Agencies and the Protection of Cultural Property in Times of War" in "Antiquities Under Siege. Cultural Heritage Protection After the Iraq War" (Lawrence Rothfield (ed.), Lanham 2008). She is Past-President of the AIA, and the 2009/2010 Norton Lecturer.
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