AIA Lecture Program
Events
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Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, the Pennsylvania State University 201 Old Main, University Park, PA, United States
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Marking the Flesh: Revealing the Tattoo Practices of the Nile Valley
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships Time and Location TBA
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Sex in the Roman Arena
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Location TBA
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Petra (Jordan): A Wonder of the World Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Time and Location TBA
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Isis, Mistress of the Southern Lands: From Heliodorus’ Aethiopica to Meroe, an ancient kingdom on the Nile
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships Time and Location TBA
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Tess Davis, “Blood Antiquities: Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers, and the Black Market in Cultural Treasures”
Semans Auditorium (Room 117), Belk Visual Arts Center 315 N. Main St., Davidson, NC, United StatesWe all know the thrill of tomb raiding adventure novels and Hollywood films—Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Thomas Crown—hunting for hidden treasures. But the real stories of looted and trafficked cultural […]
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“The Strait of Hormuz through time: tracing the archaeology of a key global trading connection from the Bronze Age to the Portuguese”
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaDerek Kennet (University of Chicago)
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The Queens of Nimrud’s Northwest Palace: Beauty, Power, and Presence in the Neo-Assyrian World, c. 8
Penn Museum 3230 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesToo often overshadowed by the legacy of Assyria’s ancient kings, this presentation illuminates the queens who reigned with them in ancient Iraq during the ninth and centuries BCE. We focus […]