Archaeological Institute of America

The Archaic Colonnade at Corinth
2024-10-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Kansas, Student Union, Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, KS, 66045, United States
Oscar Broneer Memorial Lecture

Drunken Women with Spears? Funerary Practices and Female Identity in Pre-Roman Apulia
2024-10-10 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | FL

After 1177 BCE: The Survival of Civilizations
2024-10-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa (ISAC), Breasted Hall, East 58th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology

The World in Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa. Telling the Story Through Museum Artifacts
2024-10-12 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | University of Dayton, Science Center Auditorium, 300 College Park Ave, Dayton, OH, 45469
Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Lectureship

The World in Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa. Telling the Story Through Museum Artifacts
2024-10-12 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Science Center Auditorium (SC 114) at The University of Dayton., 450 East Stewart St, Dayton, OH, 45409, United States
The first presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America Dayton Society’s 2024-2025 Lecture Series presented by Dr. Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Associate Professor of Aegean and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia.
This presentation discusses the complex interrelationship between ancient Egypt and Nubia based on a new planned exhibition slated to open at the University of Virginia. Beyond merely acknowledging the geographical position of ancient Egypt on the African continent, the lecture examines the extent to which Egypt was of Africa culturally, first by scrutinizing the categories of ‘Egypt’ and ‘Nubia’ and the connections between material and visual culture and identity. Subsequently it utilizes key artifacts in US collections as case studies to tell the story of this interaction anew, fleshing out the rich and complex rapport between Egypt and Nubia over the course of several millennia, from prehistory (ca. 3800 BCE) through pharaonic Meroe (350 CE). In the process, the lecture also highlights the importance as well as the limitations of using visual culture to articulate/construct and understand/read ancient identities.
This lecture is scheduled to take place in person in the Science Center Auditorium (SC 114) at The University of Dayton.
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Thanks to the Archaeological Institute of America’s Lecture Program and its Dayton Society members this lecture is free and open to the public.

Africans, Europeans, and Finding Castle Cormantine: Archaeology and Cultural Entanglement on the 17th Century Gold Coast
2024-10-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Denison Edge, Marconi Boulevard, Columbus, OH, 43215, United States
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships

Africans, Europeans, and Finding Castle Cormantine: Archaeology and Cultural Entanglement on the 17th Century Gold Coast
2024-10-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Oberin Public Library, 65 S Main Street, Oberlin, OH, 44074, United States

Caesar's Cervisia
2024-10-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Eaton Humanities, 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
Caesar’s Cervisia presented by Travis Rupp (CU Boulder)
Examinations of Roman cuisine often downplay the role of beer in the ancient Roman diet seeing it as a symbol of barbarity. This presentation examines the plausibility of beer as a standard component of the Roman soldier’s diet and seeks to highlight when it may have become necessary for military advancement. Julius Caesar’s reliance on auxiliary forces to campaign in the North from 58-51 BCE ensured that cultures known for producing beer influenced legionary forces reliant on local resources to survive. This lecture also asserts the implausibility of wine consumption amongst Caesar’s men and concludes that the acceptance of beer as a standard component of the Roman soldier’s diet begins with Caesar’s campaigns in Gaul and Britain.

AIA Archaeology Hour with Solange Ashby: Ancient African Queens
2024-10-16 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | FL
Join us at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific as the AIA-Pittsburgh Society hosts the second installment of the 2024-2025 AIA Archaeology Hour series!
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1177 BC and After: The Collapse and Survival of Civilizations
2024-10-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Rittenburg Lounge, Mather Hall, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT, 06106, United States

Coffee, Coconuts and Chinese Porcelain: Shipwrecked in the Red Sea
2024-10-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | FL
Anna Marguerite McCann and Robert D. Taggart Lectureship in Underwater Archaeology

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Kush and the Roman World: Warrior Queens along the Nile
2024-10-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, 61103, United States

Neo-Assyrian Conceptions and Manifestations of Borders and Cultural Hegemony in the Iron Age Southern Levant
2024-10-23 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | McClung Museum Auditorium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1327 Circle Park Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States

Africans, Europeans, and Finding Castle Cormantine: Archaeology and Cultural Entanglement on the 17th Century Gold Coast
2024-10-23 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Smathers Library, Room 100, University of Florida, Union Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States

Normalizing Loot: A Case Study of a Plundered Imperial Shrine
2024-10-24 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Collins Cinema at Wellesley College, 106 Central St, Wellesley Hills, MA, 02481

Dying as a Macedonian in Egypt: Styling Social Identity through Hellenistic Burial Practices
2024-10-24 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | FL
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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1177 BC and After: The Collapse and Survival of Civilizations
2024-10-24 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Strickland Auditorium, L.A. Brown Science Center, Transylvania University, 339 North Upper Street, Lexington, KY, 40507, United States

Archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire (West Africa): Chivalry, Colonies, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period
2024-10-24 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | FL
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships

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Archaeology of the Oyo Empire (West Africa): Chivalry, Colonies, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period
2024-10-24 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | Zoom, Virtual, FL, 33155, United States
Between ca. 1650 and 2800, the Oyo Empire was the largest political formation in West Africa, south of the River Niger. Over the past twenty years, Akin Ogundiran has conducted archaeological research in the capital, colonies, and provinces of the empire to understand the strategies of Oyo expansion and the everyday lives of different segments of its population. In this talk, Ogundiran juxtaposes the materialities of military conquest, colonization strategies, and household politics to tell an intimate story of one of the most important imperial formations in Africa during the Early Modern Period. Here, the regional and multi-sided scope and the residential contexts of the archaeological research allow for a fine-scale understanding of how domesticity, gender, class, labor, technology, mobility, and the landscape were manipulated to fashion the Oyo Empire. In the process, ideas about personhood, family, and sexuality were also transformed. The archaeology of the Oyo Empire contributes to a truly global understanding of the Early Modern Period.

Far from Home: Diaspora Networks, Religion, and Identity Abroad on the Ancient Indian Ocean
2024-10-24 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Vancouver) | University of British Columbia-Vancouver Campus, Buchanan A 102, Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
The George F. Bass Lectures

“the way we lived was shaped by objects”: Contemporary Reflections on Black Materiality
2024-10-26 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | FL
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship

Merchants and mercenaries: Greeks in Egypt in the Late Period
2024-10-26 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Washington, Denny Hall 112, Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States

The Impact of Roman Military Presence on the Arid Landscapes of Southern Jordan and Israel
2024-11-01 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Provincial Archives Building, UNB Campus, 23 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5H1, Canada
The Frederick R. and Margaret B. Matson Lectureship for Near Eastern Archaeology and Archaeological Technology

The Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues: Manifestations of Pharaoh’s Power
2024-11-06 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Emory University, White Hall, Room 103, 301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30322, United States

Experiencing Epiphany in the Ancient Greek Sanctuary presented by Dr. Jess Paga (William & Mary)
2024-11-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Eaton Humanities, 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
Sensory studies of embodiment have gained traction in recent years as unparalleled tools for examining the vicissitudes of ancient lived experience. When used in conjunction with cognitive studies, it becomes possible to tease out the links between (over)stimulation, deprivation, and religious transformation. Kinesthetics, in particular, can facilitate a nuanced embodied account of approach, (in)accessibility, and viewshed orchestration, by prioritizing the role of the body in movement within the landscapes and edifices of the built environment. The intersection of space, place, and body within the religious setting of the sanctuary thus becomes a nexus of gradually unfolding experience, understanding, and transformation.
Through a series of three case studies drawn from the 5th-3rd c. BCE, this talk reveals the role of multisensory experience in the religious transformation that lies at the heart of Greek ritual practice by foregrounding kinesthetics as the link between the human participant and sacred built environment.

Decolonizing Museums and the Case of the 'Elgin Marbles': Exceptionalism vs Solidarity
2024-11-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Edmonton) | Tory Breezeway 1, University of Alberta, 6-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5, Canada

Collecting the Ancient World: Early Explorations, Encyclopedic Museums, and World's Exhibitions
2024-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | Strand Union Building 235, Montana State University, 613 West Harrison Street, Bozeman, MT, 59715, United States

The Representation of Ramses II's Enemies in the Battle of Kadesh Reliefs
2024-11-07 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Wilson Hall 168, 301 Sparkman Drive Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35816, United States

“the way we lived was shaped by objects”: Contemporary Reflections on Black Materiality
2024-11-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | The Standish Room, Science Library, UAlbany Uptown Campus, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, United States

Sailing at the Edge of Empire: The Roman Red Sea and Beyond
2024-11-08 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH, 43620, United States
