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SUMMARY:Society Sunday 2026 Public Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Marketing the Etruscans—From Mystery to Modern Media \nJoin us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Jessica Tilley. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language. \nOften deemed the ‘mysterious’ Etruscans\, this pre-Roman civilization of early Italy has fought a hard-won battle in finding its place in the field of Classical Archaeology. Various titans of American Etruscology\, including this year’s AIA Gold Medalist Nancy de Grummond\, have dedicated decades of research to highlighting the value of Etruscan material in answering larger questions related to ritual practice\, cross-cultural interaction\, and Mediterranean trade networks. In recent years\, Etruscan material has been at the foreground of widely publicized repatriation cases and cultural heritage protection conversations. This buzz culminated in the globally acclaimed 2023 film La chimera about a band of Etruscan tomb robbers. Looking ahead\, Etruscology is primed for engaging in the development of current archaeological theory\, with ongoing research relevant to our multi-cultural\, interconnected world. In this lecture\, Dr. Jessica Tilley outlines the dynamic history of the Etruscan civilization’s modern reception and highlights the ways in which it is uniquely positioned to contribute to ongoing dialogue around decolonialism\, queer theory\, globalization\, and network theory in Mediterranean archaeology. \nDr. Jessica Tilley is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Centre College. Her research explores questions of postcolonialism and globalization theory in the ancient Mediterranean world through examination of cross-cultural funerary practices. She has excavated at sites across Italy\, Greece\, and the southeastern U.S. and is actively involved in cultural heritage public outreach. \nThe lecture will also be available in American Sign Language and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets\, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/society-sunday-2026-public-lecture/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Smith":MAILTO:ssmith@archaeological.org
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SUMMARY:The Origins of the Alphabet and How It Spread Across the World
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture by Professor Wayne T. Pitard \nAbstract:\nEssentially all of the alphabetic scripts in the world descend from a single script invented probably during the 20th century BCE by a Canaanite in the southern Levant. This lecture will provide a tour of the extraordinary development of the alphabet from its beginnings to its eventual spread across the Mediterranean and the world. We will examine the script’s origin and how the signs were conceptualized by their creator(s). We will look at the alphabet’s extension\, first across the eastern Mediterranean where it developed into the distinctive Ugaritic\, Phoenician\, Hebrew\, and Aramaic scripts\, and then moved southward into the Arabian Peninsula\, where it evolved into the Arabic system. Then we will examine how the early alphabet\, which only expressed consonants\, was revolutionized by the Greeks\, who began using some of the letters as vowels. We will follow the development of the Greek alphabet into both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets that exist throughout Europe and much of northern Asia. Finally\, we will touch upon the spread of the Arabic alphabet across northern Africa and eastward into India\, and the Latin alphabet’s movement to the Americas and parts of southern Africa during the European colonial period of the 15th-20th centuries. All of this has made the alphabetic writing system the most widespread method of writing in the world.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-origins-of-the-alphabet-and-how-it-spread-across-the-world/
LOCATION:Knight Auditorium\, The Spurlock Museum(UIUC)\, 600 S.Gregory Street\, Urbana\, IL 61801\, Illinois\, 61801\, United States
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Jane Goldberg":MAILTO:jgoldber@illinois.edu
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SUMMARY:Bone by Bone: The Commingled Remains from the Tomb at Tell Abraq\, UAE (2200-2000 BC)
DESCRIPTION:Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Time TBA
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/bone-by-bone-the-commingled-remains-from-the-tomb-at-tell-abraq-uae-2200-2000-bc/
LOCATION:Santa Rosa Junior College Campus\, Petaluma\, CA
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program,Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Michelle Hughes-Markovics":MAILTO:mhughesMarkovics@santarosa.edu
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