RESCHEDULED - Beer, A Global Journey Through the Past and Present
2023-03-09 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Dedham Life Sciences 131, SMU, 6501 Airline Road, Dallas, TX, 75205, United States
This lecture is no longer happening in September, a new date will be scheduled for the spring.

Ariadne’s Threads: The Magnificent Costumes of the Minoans and Mycenaeans
2023-03-11 00:00 (America/New_York) | The Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States

Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology
2023-03-11 13:00 (America/Denver) | Denver Public Library Ross-University Hills Branch, 4310 E Amherst Ave, Denver, CO, 80222, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology
2023-03-11 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | NY
Abstract:
The past, whether real, tangible, embellished, or imagined, can be a particularly powerful and alluring source of symbols, narratives, and ideas. Echoes from the distant past can
reverberate and affect the lives of contemporary and descendant communities, and issues
related to politics, cultural heritage management, tourism, and national identity can all be
tied to our reconstructions of the past. This kind of dynamic is evident across many countries, particularly those that have experienced recent histories of conflict, regime change, or newly gained independence. This lecture explores the social contexts and political dimensions of practicing archaeology, and it features research on ancient Vietnam as a backdrop. Here, archaeological investigations increasingly complement traditional sources of information, such as ancient texts, legendary accounts, and heroic folk tales. As such, artifacts, remnant architecture, and sacred landscapes have become significant for the national story of Vietnam, its deeper past, and the cultural identities of its past and present populations.
Bio:
Professor Kim is an anthropological archaeologist interested in sociopolitical complexity, early forms of cities, factors associated with significant cultural change, and the relationship between modern politics, cultural heritage, and the material record. He is especially interested in the cultural contexts and social consequences of organized violence and warfare, as manifested in various cultural, spatial and temporal settings. Much of his recent research has been geographically focused on East and Southeast Asia, and since 2005 he has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in Vietnam at the Co Loa settlement in the Red River Delta. A heavily fortified site located near modern-day Hanoi, Co Loa is purportedly connected to Vietnamese legendary accounts and is thus viewed by many as integral to the genesis of Vietnamese civilization and early state formation in Southeast Asia.

Rural Landscapes, Archaeological Fieldwork, and Cultural Heritage Destruction in Turkey
2023-03-12 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sabin Hall Room G90, 3413 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Dr. Ömür Harmanshah, Director, The School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Illinois at Chicago, will present the AIA’s Nancy Wilkie Lecture in Archaeological Heritage for the AIA-Milwaukee Society
Archaeological remains and landscapes are witnesses to deep time histories, yet they have increasingly been victims of targeted destruction as well as practices of looting in recent decades. Cultural heritage is always entangled with the politics of the environment, while heritage is always understood as a resource at risk waiting for a salvage operation. A major challenge for archaeologists today is that they have to serve as chroniclers of the unprecedented levels of heritage destruction under the current regime, and to contextualize this destruction within the conditions of precarity, extraction, and dispossession, which are different forms of environmental injustice. Late capitalist management of landscapes in the contemporary Turkish countryside have created disposable landscapes of extreme extraction and large-scale excavation. In his talk, Dr. Harmanshah will focus on various practices of heritage destruction in the western part of Konya province where the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project has been documenting ancient and historical settlements and landscape features, while also keeping an account of ongoing heritage destruction since 2010. He will argue that on the ground fieldwork as a creative practice and collaboration with local heritage communities are essential to perform such work as compared to remote sensing methods.

Collision of Worlds: An Archaeological Perspective on the Spanish Invasion of Aztec Mexico
2023-03-14 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-03-15 19:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

In case of emergency, break pots: use and function of Marie Style pottery in Minoan Crete
2023-03-16 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall room 118, University of Richmond, 410 Westhampton Way, Richmond, VA, 23137

RESCHEDULED: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
2023-03-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | Kennedy Building, room 112 (Assumption University Campus), 500 Salisbury St, Worcester, MA, 01609

The Archaeology and Reconstruction of the Lake Champlain steamboat Phoenix II
2023-03-21 19:00 (America/Denver) | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505

Climate Change in the Arctic: It’s Happening Fast, and It’s Happened Before
2023-03-22 17:30 (America/New_York) | Rhode Island Hall 108, Brown University, 60 George St., Providence, 02912, United States

City Making in Byzantine Athens
2023-03-22 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Jones Hall 108, Uptown Campus of Tulane University, 6801 Freet St, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-03-22 19:30 (America/New_York) | Highsmith Union, Rooms 225/226, 700 Founders Drive, Asheville, NC, 28804
Cinelli Lecture

Traitors or Native Conquistadors? The Role of Tlaxcala in the Fall of Aztec Mexico
2023-03-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Space, Symbols, Society: Ritual Dynamics in Ancient Lucania
2023-03-23 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | 101 Swallow Hall, 507 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO, 65201, United States
Dr. Ilaria Battiloro (Associate Professor, Classics and Visual and Material Culture Studies departments at Mount Allison University)
This talk offers an overview of the archaeological evidence for Lucanian sanctuaries and discusses how cult sites were conceived and used by people who built, frequented, and finally abandoned them. For this purpose, special emphasis is put on two aspects of the issue: spatial organization of cult places as reconstructed from architectural remains and distribution of archaeological finds, and the formalization of the ritual activities performed within the sanctuaries themselves, and their visibility through devotion forms (in primis votive offerings). By looking at this evidence, it is possible to comprehend how Lucanian cult sites were structured in the plurality of their functions, and whether recurring characteristics can be discerned

In Search of Greener Pastures: Climate Change, Migration, and the Emergence of Fort Ancient Societies in the Middle Ohio Valley
2023-03-23 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | University of Louisville Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe), 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, 40203, United States
How did climate change and migration shape early settlement in the Middle Ohio Valley? Archaeologist Aaron Comstock (Indiana University East) addresses this in his upcoming talk.
The spread of maize agriculture into the Eastern Woodlands of North America was a process that resulted in significant cultural transformations. In the Middle Ohio Valley, the origins of the first maize farmers, referred to as Fort Ancient societies, are unclear. While traditionally considered an in situ development, recent research suggests that some Fort Ancient sites exhibit traditions practiced by neighboring Mississippian polities. This presentation explores recent fieldwork at the Guard and Turpin sites, early Fort Ancient villages occupied between AD 1,000-1,300, with the goal of characterizing some of the first villages in the Middle Ohio Valley. By examining these sites in a broader regional context that includes climate change and migration, a more complex and dynamic picture of the first farmers in the region emerges.

Living in ruins: Vibrancy and decay in the ancient Maya city
2023-03-26 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Westchester), Westchester, NY
Stone Lecture

“Placing” a Maritime Territory at Hellenistic Miletus
2023-03-26 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Room 118, St Johns College at the University of Manitoba, 92 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
McCann/Taggart Lecture

Mystery, Medicine, and Music in a Greek Healing Sanctuary
2023-03-27 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Art Building West 116, University of Iowa, 150 Art Building West,, Iowa City, IA, 52246

Digging Phoenicians: The Evidence from Tel Dor
2023-03-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences, C-2059, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, Montreal, Canada, H3T 1N8
Kershaw Lecture

FemiNetworX: Mapping Female Maritime Mobility Patterns
2023-03-28 18:00 (America/New_York) | Anthropology Building 130 (St. George Campus), 19 Ursula Franklin St., Toronto, Ontario

Anemurium: a Roman and early Byzantine city on Turkey’s southern shore, lecture by Hector Williams (U. British Columbia)
2023-03-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | NY
George H. Forsyth, Jr. Memorial Lecture:
Excavations by the University of British Columbia on Turkey’s southernmost promontory, Cape Anamur, have uncovered a picture of life in a modest but prosperous urban community from the third to seventh centuries of our era. Local benefactors built large public baths with exercise grounds, a theatre, one of the best preserved odeons (roofed small theatre) in the Roman world, hundreds of tombs, four early Christian churches (some with fine mosaic floors), houses and a small well preserved set of Byzantine baths. Industrial establishments that produced pottery, roof tiles

CANCELED: Redemption for the Museum of the Bible. Artifacts, Provenance, and Bias in the Contact Zone
2023-03-30 19:00 (America/New_York) | Wooster College, Lean Lecture Room, Wishart Hall, 303 East University Street, Wooster, OH, 44691, United States
Feinstone Lecture

Stymphalos: A Planned City of Ancient Arcadia, Lecture by Hector Williams (U. British Columbia)
2023-04-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | NY
AIA Rodney S. Young Memorial Lecture
Excavations at ancient Stymphalos, a small Arcadian late classical city set 2000 feet up in the mountains of the northern Peloponnese, have uncovered fifteen areas of the city within its sturdy fortification walls. Famously as the site of Herakles’ sixth labour, killing the Stymphalian birds, the city also produced two Olympic victors and mercenary forces that served from Carthage to the Middle East. The talk will look at the well built houses of the town, its theatre and wrestling school, its sanctuaries and their hundreds of oﬀerings, the sophisticated city defences, and temples that included some with marble roof tiles (rare in Greece). It will also present four early Christian cemeteries and their burials, which throw light on local inhabitants. We also pioneered the use of geophysical exploration in Greece, revealing an orthogonally planned city of the 4th c. BC.

The People of Angkor
2023-04-04 19:00 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309

Sex and Other Things Sell: Athenian Potters and their Foreign Consumers
2023-04-05 18:00 (America/New_York) | Rittenberg Room, 2nd floor of Mather Hall, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, 06106, United States
Norton Lecture

Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
2023-04-06 16:30 (America/New_York) | NY

Shopping for artists’ materials in ancient Rome: pigment shops, pigments, and product choice
2023-04-06 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Agricultural Communication and Education Building, Room 00102, Texas Tech University, 2810 15th St, Lubbock, TX, 79409

Miners, Martyrs, Shepherds, and Sowers: Shifting Landscapes of Faynan, Southern Jordan over the Last 2,000 Years
2023-04-06 18:00 (America/Denver) | Hager Auditorium, the Museum of the Rockies, 600 W. Kagy Blvd., Bozeman, MT, 59717

Not Black and White: Seeing and Naming Africans in Greek Art
2023-04-06 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Nashville Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
