Edward J. Bader Lecture
Kress Lecture Co-sponosored by the University of Hawaii LLEA and the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust
Death and Glory in the Land of King Midas of the Golden Touch Dr. Beth Dusinberre (University of Colorado Boulder) Of the 35 burial tumuli at the site of Gordion, capital of ancient Phrygia, 11 cover cremation burials. They date between 625 and 525 BCE, spanning some of the most turbulent times in the history […]
Please join us on Friday, March 8, 2019 for the John Howard Young lecture. Dr. Jorge Bravo (University of Maryland College Park) will speak about "Rustic Religion: Material Remains from the Cave of Pan at Marathon." The lecture will be held on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus in Gilman Hall room 50 at 5 pm, with a light […]
Forsyth Lecture Part of the She Blinded Me With Science Series
ARCE-PA Annual Korsyn Lecture Saturday, March 9, UPenn Museum, Nevil Classroom, 3:30pm Dr. Betsy Bryan, Johns Hopkins University We don't often think about how similar or different ancient Egypt and its religion and politics may have been from our own world today. Yet frequently the strategies and tactics used by authoritarian rulers in ancient history […]
Social space and natural environment amplify the concept of landscape resulting from transformation processes of human-environmental interaction patterns within the history of humankind. Different layers of human activities are visible in societal fingerprints on the natural and cultural environment. Investigating these reciprocal dynamics includes conditions of different environmental, demographic, economic, social, and ideological settings in […]
Forsyth Lecture Reception in the Tsotsis Atrium at 6:30 PM
Lecture by Robert F. Mazrim of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey Co-sponsored by the Missouri History Museum
"The Society for Late Antiquity is pleased to announce the 13th biennial meeting of Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, to be held at Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California. Specialists in art and archaeology, literature and philology, history and religious studies, working on topics from the 3rd to the 8th century CE, are invited to […]
"Writing systems are not just abstract systems to be deciphered and analysed but an important part of culture, integrated into a multiplicity of other facets of human life, practice and material culture. The study of writing systems is not just a question of epigraphy, palaeography or linguistics but a matter of cultural history. Yet this […]
Presented by Katherine Hayes Archaeology undertaken in service of preservation in the 20th century often reflected the values of the time. At Historic Fort Snelling, archaeology served to bolster a distinctly non-inclusive narrative of American enterprise at the frontier and the triumph of settler rugged individualism. Yet the excavated remains do still hold remnants of other […]
"NeMLA is turning 50! Please come and help us celebrate our Anniversary Convention at the Gaylord National in Washington DC, March 21–24, 2019. The theme of our 2019 convention is "Transnational Spaces: Intersections of Cultures, Languages, and Peoples." It aims to challenge traditional notions of history, territory, and identity and to recognize the complex processes […]
"12th International Workshop of the Association for Written Language and Literacy Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Tuesday, March 26 – Thursday, March 28, 2019 First call for papers The Association of Written Language and Literacy’s twelfth gathering (AWLL12), organized in conjunction with the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, will focus on the wealth […]
Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED.
Lecture by Elif Ünlü, Boğaziçi University
Please note - this lecture has been CANCELED
Lecture by Jenny L. Davis, UIUC Department of Anthropology
The Lives of Ancient Maya Commoners: How Could We Have Been So Wrong? Dr. Payson Sheets (University of Colorado Boulder) Ancient Maya elites have been the focus of research for well over a century, and for good reasons. They developed the New World’s most sophisticated writing system. Their architecture, sculpture, murals, and other items constitute […]
Dr. David Saunders, Getty Museum Over the last decade, the Antiquities department of the J. Paul Getty Museum has developed a fruitful and enduring partnership with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. In addition to generous loans for special exhibitions, we have undertaken a series of collaborative conservation projects that have returned individual objects to […]
