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Men and Women in the Wild West: The Production of a Red-Light District in Ouray, Colorado given by Prof. Mary Van Buren (Colorado State University)

Eaton Humanities 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, United States

Since the 1980s studies of prostitution, a key component of red-light districts, have focused almost exclusively on female sex workers. While an important corrective to the omission of women from historical accounts of the West, the roles played by men in the construction, organization, and experiences offered by red-light districts have been largely ignored. This […]

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants

Virginia Village Branch Library 1500 S Dahlia St, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract: While a global phenomenon, rock art has been a relatively recent subject of study in Southeast Asia with the number of known sites growing from a handful in the 1960s to over a thousand today. Research accelerated in the last 20 years with better recording and analytical techniques as evidenced by the increased number […]

Managing and Curating Yale University’s Numismatic Collection

WEBINAR (Kansas City/Lawrence 1) Lawrence, KS

Metcalf lecture For registration, please email Phil Stinson of the University of Kansas (pstinson@ku.edu), or Jeff Rydberg-Cox of the Univ. of Missouri Kansas City (rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu).

AIA Archaeology Hour with Deborah Carlson

Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M) presents Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros. This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Between 2005 and 2011, researchers from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University excavated and raised […]

Corpse Wine: Dionysiac Imagery and the Fermentation of the Dead in Roman Sarcophagi

Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum 801 S Patterson Ave, Oxford, OH, United States

A lecture by Mont Allen, Southern Illinois University Why are roughly one-ninth of all surviving Roman sarcophagi shaped not like rectangular boxes with squared-off ends, but instead like lenoi: those large tubs or vats with rounded ends in which Greeks and Romans pressed grapes and fermented the juice to make wine, an association underscored by […]