Coffee, Coconuts and Chinese Porcelain: Shipwrecked in the Red Sea
2024-10-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virginia
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
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships

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
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology

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) | Virginia
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) | Virginia
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, 4985 SW 74th Court, Miami, 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) | Virginia
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

Dr. Eric Cline - 1177 BC and After: The Collapse and Survival of Civilizations
2024-11-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus, Baltimore, Maryland, 21210, United States
Dr. Cline will discuss what happened after the Bronze Age world of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean collapsed. He will highlight why some civilizations endured, some gave way to new ones, and some disappeared forever. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration.

POSTPONED AIA Archaeology Hour with Alison Futrell: The People's Arena
2024-11-13 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Apologies–this event is canceled. We will put information out about rescheduling when available!

Archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire (West Africa): Chivalry, Colonies, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period
2024-11-14 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | 164 Lake Ontario Hall, Grand Valley State University, Allendale Campus, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401, United States

Living and Dying as an Immigrant in Classical Athens
2024-11-18 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Doe Library, Room 308A, Campanile Way, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco Society, is thrilled to welcome Dr. Camille Acosta (UC Irvine) to the UC Berkeley campus to share her research on immigrant communities in Classical Athens and archaeological evidence for their burials.
Abstract:
Classical Athens is widely known for being the birthplace of democracy, a political system in which any free male could participate in the governing of the city-state. Yet this democratic system excluded a range of individuals from citizenship, including women, slaves, and immigrants. This talk will explore the archaeological evidence for one of these groups: immigrants, including both Greeks from other city-states and non-Greeks such as Phoenicians or Egyptians. Despite coming from a range of places around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, all of these immigrants all died in Athens and were laid to rest in one of the city’s cemeteries. The archaeological evidence of these burials will be used to tell the stories of some of these immigrants, including a man from the island of Chios, a young girl from the island of Lesbos, and a community from the region of Messenia. By re-creating these ancient funerals, this talk sheds light on the lived experience of migrants and centers them as agents rather than “victims” of the Athenian state.
Speaker: Dr. Camille Acosta, Assistant Professor of Art History, Archaeology, and Visual Studies, UC Irvine

Serpent Mound - An Icon of Ancient Ohio
2024-11-23 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 second presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America Dayton Society’s 2024-2025 Lecture Series presented by Dr. Brad Lepper, Senior Archaeologist World Heritage Program, Ohio History Connection
Serpent Mound in Adams County, Ohio is one of the largest and most spectacular earthen sculptures in the world. The age of the serpent is a subject of much current debate with some archaeologists arguing that it was built by the Adena culture at around 300 B.C.E. and others favoring the Fort Ancient culture at around 1100 C.E. Although much about Serpent Mound still is shrouded in mystery, ancient cave paintings in Missouri may provide a key to unlocking some of its secrets.
This lecture is scheduled to take place in person in the Science Center Auditorium (SC 114) at The University of Dayton.
For a campus map with building and parking information visit https://udayton.edu/map/
Thanks to the Archaeological Institute of America’s Lecture Program and its Dayton Society members this lecture is free and open to the public.

Era of the Living Dead: Memory, Sacrifice and the "Royal" Tombs at Umm el-Marra, Syria
2024-12-04 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus, Baltimore, Maryland, 21210, United States
Lecture by Dr. Glenn Schwartz
Whiting Professor of Archaeology
Near Eastern Studies Department
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore Society AIA Lecture at Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus
Gilman Hall Room 50

Building a 13th and 14th Century Multi-Ethnic Community at 25BD1 in Northeastern Nebraska presented by Dr. Doug Bamforth
2024-12-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Eaton Humanities Room 250, Pleasant Street 1610, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
Thousands of Plains farmers settled along Ponca creek in northeastern Nebraska during the latter decades of the 13th century, in the midst of a wave of social change and dislocation across the mid-continent as Cahokia collapsed and drought spread widely over much of North America. In contrast to the small homesteads on the central Plains prior to this time, the Ponca creek sites range up to 200 acres, suggesting a community bigger than anything that had existed in the region before. Potters at the site made classic Plains vessels and classic midwestern Oneota vessels in households that were nearly side-by-side and mixed these styles together on other pots. This lecture addresses the social changes at work in the mid-continent at this time along with the history of work on Ponca creek from the 1930s to the present, including geophysical prospecting and excavation in the last few years. Viewed in the context of the Plains as a whole, the changes there represent a sea-change in social formations and likely mark the appearance of the modern Pawnee and Arikara nations.

After 1177 BCE: The Survival of Civilizations
2024-12-09 19:30 - 20:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Building, Art Auditorium, 2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI, 96822, United States

AIA Archaeology Hour with Uzma Rizvi: Caring for MohenjoDaro
2025-01-22 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Virginia
Join us at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific as the AIA-Walla Walla Society hosts the next installment of the 2024-2025 AIA Archaeology Hour series!
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The Deep Prehistory of the Human Presence in the World’s High Mountains and Plateaus
2025-01-26 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Concordia University, Grimm Hall, 1530 Concordia, Irvine, CA, 92612, United States
