Ancient Roman Concrete: Let’s Build An Empire
2024-03-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | UNC Greensboro, Moore Humanities & Research Building (MHRA) 1215, 1111 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Norton lecture

New Light On King Herod’s Harbor (Caesarea Maritima)
2024-03-27 17:00 (America/New_York) | Goetz Library, Academic Center 320, University at Buffalo, North Campus, University at Buffalo, North Campus, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
McCann/Taggart lecture

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Kisha Supernant. “Finding the Children: Using Archaeology to Search for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential School Sites in Canada”
2024-03-27 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Whitman College, Maxey Hall W42, 413-461 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
In May 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, announced that 215 potential unmarked graves were located near the Kamloops Indian Residential School using ground-penetrating radar conducted by archaeologists. In this talk, Kisha Supernant (Métis/Papaschase/British) provides an overview of how archaeologists have been working with Indigenous communities in Canada to locate potential grave sites and discuss the opportunities and challenges in this highly sensitive, deeply emotional work.
Please join us in watching this Zoom lecture.

AIA Archaeology Hour with Kisha Supernant
2024-03-27 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Kisha Supernant (University of Alberta) presents Finding the Children: Using Archaeology to Search for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential School Sites in Canada.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
In May 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, announced that 215 potential unmarked graves were located near the Kamloops Indian Residential School using ground-penetrating radar conducted by archaeologists. While this was not the first announcement of unmarked graves associated with Indian Residential Schools, it garnered national and international attention. The subsequent months saw significant commitments of funding from the government to support Indigenous communities who wanted to conduct their own searches. Many Indigenous communities turned to archaeologists to assist them in designing an approach to finding potential unmarked graves of their relatives. In this talk, Supernant provides an overview of how archaeologists have been working with Indigenous communities in Canada to locate potential grave sites and discuss the opportunities and challenges in this highly sensitive, deeply emotional work.

Socii & Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop with Dr. Rhodora Vennarucci
2024-03-28 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix)
Socii & Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop
Matson Lecture
Rhodora Vennarucci, PhD
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies & Art History
University of Arkansas
Work in Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) has underscored that shopping is meaningful behavior. It is still new, however, to ask how shopping behavior was meaningful for people in the Roman world in part because consumption studies in archaeology have overlooked consumer agency and the social act of consumption. This talk applies a CCT and phenomenological approach to The Felt Shop of Verecundus (IX.7.5-7) from Pompeii, which sold fine footwear (e.g. socci, soft-soled felted slippers) and high-status textile products (e.g. toga praetexta) to explore how ancient consumers self-fashioned through public acts of consumption in the shop. An interactive 3D model of the shop in VR, reconstructed using the architectural remains and archival data from the shop’s excavation, facilitated this investigation, which contributes to the Virtual Roman Retail project.
Socci were a luxury item worn indoors and at dinner parties that only the more affluent in society could afford. Shopping for slippers then on the via dell’Abondanza, Pompeii’s most heavily trafficked thoroughfare, was a social act that involved the public performance of (aspirational?) power and status displayed for a larger and more diverse street audience than a private triclinium, where the slippers were ultimately meant to be worn, could offer. This lecture discusses how shopping behavior, traditionally viewed as a common.

New Field Work from Olynthos, Greece: Towards an Archaeology of Identity
2024-03-28 19:00 (America/New_York) | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, 14607, United States
Hanfmann lecture

Where the Beer Flowed Like Wine: Beer and Brewing in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
2024-03-30 12:00 (America/New_York) | University of North Florida, 1 University of North Florida Drive, Jacksonville, FL, United States
Kershaw lecture

Imperialism, Colonialism, Reparations, and the “Universal” Museum
2024-04-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | Randolph College, Leggett 537, 2900 Rivermont Ave, Lynchburg, VA, 24503, United States

Creating Permanent Memories? Tomb Violation and Collective Memory in Pre-Roman Apulia
2024-04-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | McClung Museum Auditorium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1327 Circle Park Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States

Death and Rebirth: Religious Change and Reincarnation in the Copper Age
2024-04-02 19:30 (America/Vancouver) | TBA (Vancouver), Vancouver, British Columbia

The Representation of Ramses II's Enemies in the Battle of Kadesh Reliefs
2024-04-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | Leigh Hall 208, University of Akron, Akron, 44325, United States
Matson lecture
Lecture begins at 5:15pm

When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
2024-04-03 17:30 (America/New_York) | University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Richards Hall 15, 1410 Q Street, Lincoln, NE, 68588

Society Against the State in Prehistoric Cyprus
2024-04-04 19:00 (America/New_York) | Harbor Walk West Room 217, 360 Concord Street, Charleston, SC, 29401, United States

Wrecking in the Florida Keys
2024-04-05 18:30 (America/New_York) | Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, the Mall at Wellington Green, 10300 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, FL, 33414, United States
Robert Feeney is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. He received his MA in history there is 2016 and currently works in the FAU library as a Manuscript and Archives Special Collections Assistant. Robert is also a member of the City of Plantation Historic Preservation Board. His specialty is 19th century US material culture focusing on early telegraph and railroad equipment. He has been a popular guest speaker for a number of local organizations, often dressing in period costume and bringing along a display of pertinent artifacts.
During the 1800s, the wrecking industry made Key West one of the wealthiest cities in the US. Hear stories of ships and sailors hopelessly wrecked on Florida’s reef system and how they provided a livelihood for intrepid individuals willing to risk their lives to save crews and cargoes from perilous storms. See navigation tools, learn about shipboard trades, and see actual artifacts related to the practice of “wrecking.”
This is both an in-person and on-line event. For those coming to the Museum, there will be light refreshments. The on-line presentation will be available via Zoom at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86833990236?pwd=[REDACTED]
For additional information call (561) 729-4246

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Student Engagement And Success Center, Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mtn. Parkway, Petaluma, CA, 94954, United States
Joukowsky lecture

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-08 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley, South Dr, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States

The Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues: Manifestations of Pharaoh’s Power
2024-04-09 19:00 (America/New_York) | Oberlin Public Library, 65 S. Main St, Oberlin, 44074, United States

Madison Society National Lecture Program lecture
2024-04-09 19:00 (America/Chicago) | TBA (Madison), Madison, WI, United States

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, 44106, United States

Cultural Identity and Ritual Feasting: Exploring the Origin and Dispersal of Sino-Tibetan Populations
2024-04-11 18:00 (America/New_York)

Sacred Spectating in Late Antique Egypt: Monastic Painting as Spiritual Experience
2024-04-11 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall, Room 109, 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173, United States
Lecture by Agnieszka Szymanska (University of Richmond). Free and open to the public.

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-11 19:00 (America/New_York) | DePaul University Levan Center, 2322 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, 60614, United States

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)
2024-04-11 19:15 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Eaton Humanities, 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, 80309, 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 talk re-integrates men into the analysis of the Vanoli Block, an infamous part of the red-light district in late 19th and early 20th century Ouray. Multiple masculinities – including the middle and upper-class Victorian men who organized the construction and operation of the district, working class patrons, and Chinese laundry workers – as well as women engaged in the sex trade, are implicated in the creation of this distinctly Western venue.

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2024-04-12 09:30 (America/New_York)
Broneer lecture

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants
2024-04-13 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Virginia Village Branch Library, 1500 S Dahlia St, Denver, CO, 80222, 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 of papers on Southeast Asian rock art in international conferences and journals since the 2000s. The majority of sites are located from Indonesia and Thailand, where sustained episodes of research have been conducted. New dates from Indonesia challenge long-standing ideas about the ‘origin’ of art while other discoveries shed light on the movements and activities of peoples across this diverse landscape. This lecture presents a survey of rock art across Southeast Asia from the deep past to more modern times and shows how rock art can help us better understand the archaeology of Southeast Asia.
Short bibliography and/or website on lecture topic:
Rock Art of Southeast Asia

(includes a bibliography and overview)
Bio:
Noel Hidalgo Tan is the Senior Specialist in Archaeology at the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts in Bangkok, where he works to promote the archaeology of Southeast Asia by building capacity among regional archaeologists, finding ways to engage the public about archaeological and cultural heritage, and conducting archaeological research. His main research interest is in the rock art of Southeast Asia, where he spent his postgraduate work documenting sites in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. His recent projects include rock art documentation in western Laos and southern Thailand; the protection of regional underwater cultural heritage; archaeology, tourism and the protection of Southeast Asian cultural heritage sites; and developing future capacity in regional archaeology education in Southeast Asia. He is the managing editor of the SPAFA Journal (www.spafajournal.org) and runs an online resource website on Southeast Asian Archaeology (www.SoutheastAsianArchaeology.com)

Managing and Curating Yale University’s Numismatic Collection
2024-04-17 18:30 (America/Chicago) | 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
2024-04-17 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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 the remains of an ancient ship that was wrecked off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kızılburun in the first century B.C. This ship was transporting about 60 tons of white marble blocks and architectural elements that originated in the quarries on Proconnesus Island in the Sea of Marmara. Ceramic artifacts and coins help narrow the date of the shipwreck, but the pieces of a single monumental Doric column suggest that the ship was destined for one of the most important oracular sanctuaries in the ancient Mediterranean. Join underwater archaeologist Deborah Carlson as she lays out the evidence to solve this maritime mystery!

From Myth to Polis: Deciphering the Cultural Life of Ancient Aphidna Using Multi-Modal Landscape Analysis
2024-04-18 18:00 (America/New_York)

Corpse Wine: Dionysiac Imagery and the Fermentation of the Dead in Roman Sarcophagi
2024-04-20 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum, 801 S Patterson Ave, Oxford, OH, 45056, 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 the Dionysiac imagery that often appears on the sides of these sarcophagi? What purpose did it serve within the funerary context? Or to put it most bluntly: Why did so many Romans want to imagine their dearly departed as resting within a wine vat?!
I suggest that it explicitly invited viewers — bereaved family members — to reconceive the corpse’s decomposition and moldering within the vat-like casket in Dionysiac terms: as a process of fermentation like that which transformed grapes into wine. It offered mourners a comforting fantasy, to reimagine the deceased’s putrefaction as instead a transubstantiation into a delicious elixir, something elevated, intoxicating, and divine. Exploring a wide variety of evidence — art historical, archaeological, and taphonomic — this talk examines the plausibility of such an argument, with special attention paid to the visual material and to what we can reconstruct about how Romans would have liquefied within their sarcophagi.

Assessing the Historicity of the Trojan War: Excavations at Troy 1988-2012
2024-04-23 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, 61103, United States
Santen lecture
