CANCELED – Gladiators at Pompeii: Roman Spectacle in a Small Town
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Stone Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Joukowsky Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Matson Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Reception at 5:30 PM Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
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Van Tilburg Lecture Reception at 7:30 PM Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
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Kershaw Lecture Please note: this lecture has been CANCELED.
Hanfmann Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
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Please note--this lecture has been replaced by a live WEBINAR by Dr. Andrew Goldman (Gonzaga University), the link for registration is as follows: GoToWebinar Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2186968616064584460 Abstract: The Roman gladiators were the ultimate fighters, famous for their blood-thirsty behavior and the kill-or-be-killed world in which they lived. Or so they are often depicted, in modern […]
Stone Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Joukowsky Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Metcalf Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Joukowsky Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Brian G. Redmond, Ph.D. is Curator and John Otis Hower Chair of Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He is a native Clevelander and joined the Museum in 1994. Dr. Redmond received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Indiana University in 1990 and began studies in Anthropology at the University of Toledo where he […]
Lecture by Dr. Jeremy Pope of The College of William and Mary
Please note–this lecture has been replaced by a live WEBINAR by Dr. Jeremy Hartnett (Wabash College, IN), the link for registration is as follows: GoToWebinar Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6347010442173765132 Abstract: When we think of Roman cities, it is tempting to conjure images of temples, baths, and amphitheaters. This talk storms into the narrow streets of Pompeii to […]
Every culture on earth has a creation myth–we all want to know where we came from. Popol Vuh, the K’ichee Maya book of creation, was recorded in glyphic writing, transmitted orally, and eventually transcribed by Dominican missionaries in the sixteenth century, a few years after the European irruption. It is an extraordinary document of the […]
Dr. Jeremy Hartnett (Wabash College, IN) Today publications of archaeological work abound with illustrations and photographs to the point that websites are dedicated to hosting the overflow from the print edition. And so it is easy to forget that, a little more than a century ago, photography offered a new and novel means of documenting […]
Joukowsky Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Please join the AIA Baltimore Society for the Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture. Dr. Megan Kassabaum (University of Pennsylvania) will deliver a lecture entitled “Great Wonders of the New World: The Mounds of Ancient North America.”
Brewing Beer in Roman Britain Abstract: This lecture will explore the production and consumption of beer in Roman occupied Britain from the invasions of Julius Caesar through the end of Roman rule in the 5th century. Beer was the primary drink of early peoples and nations in Britain before Roman arrival. Via regular contact with […]
Dr. Michael Hasel has taught Near Eastern studies, biblical studies, and archaeology at Southern Adventist University (in Tennessee) since 1998. He has worked on ten different excavations in the Middle East including Khirbet Qeiyafa. It was here (15 miles west, south west of Jerusalem) that archaeologists found a walled site tightly dated to around 1000 […]
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An AIA President's Challenge Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Please note–this lecture has been replaced by a live WEBINAR by Dr. Allison L.C. Emmerson (Tulane University), the link for registration is as follows: GoToWebinar Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1397745766716867596 Abstract: Pompeii was a bounded city, surrounded by barriers both physical and conceptual. The fortification walls, the edges of the orthogonal street grid, and the natural contours […]
Thompson Lecture Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Please Note: This lecture has been POSTPONED until next year. The Lynda Nilsen Memorial Lecture, given by Dr. Celia J. Bergoffen Four adjoining, massive stone and brick lager vaults were discovered fourteen feet below grade in the heart of Williamsburg’s former lager brewing district. Unlike other beers, lager yeast ferments at the bottom of the […]
The Western Illinois Society is turning its lecture by Nandini Pandey of the University of Wisconsin Madison on "Diversity and Domination at the Roman Dinner Table" into an online lecture. It will still go forward virtually at the same time and date it was originally scheduled: Monday April 27th from 4:30-5:30 (Central Time). The event will happen over […]
Please note–this lecture has been replaced by a live WEBINAR by Dr. Kevin Dicus (University of Oregon), the link for registration is as follows: GoToWebinar Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4492610414650559500 Abstract: This talk examines the modern life histories of Pompeii’s body casts. I begin by tracing the development of the casting technique that created the most tangible and […]