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

Julius Caesar, the End of the Republic, and Dueling Messages on Coins
2024-09-09 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Iowa, 240 Art Building West, 120 Riverside Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States
William E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics

Egyptian Conceptions and Manifestations of Borders and Cultural Hegemony in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant
2024-09-12 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Boswell Hall 220, The College of William and Mary, 100 Ukrop Way, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, United States
Kershaw Lecture

The Maritime Infrastructure and Network of the Delian Emporium
2024-09-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University, Paterson Hall, Room 303, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5R1, Canada

The reception of ancient Egypt in the medieval Muslim world
2024-09-17 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
The Ann Santen Endowed Lecture
Okasha El Daly, “The reception of ancient Egypt in the medieval Muslim world”
Tuesday, September 17
7:30 – 9:00 PM
Davidson College
Visual Arts Center VAC-117 Semans Lecture Hall
These lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee and the departments of Art, Classics, Educational Studies, and History.
About the lecture:
Contrary to the prevailing view that the conversion of Egyptians first to Christianity and then Islam ended interest in their own heritage, they continued to study their own past with great pride. Many medieval Arab scholars visited Egypt to study its heritage and ancient scripts. This interest in ancient Egyptian scripts led to many scholarly attempts to decipher them. Here is a brief study of the motivations behind their interest and the degrees of their success in the decipherment and understanding of ancient Egypt. Nearly all the writers interested in Egyptian hieroglyphs were alchemists; many were also called Sufis or Mystics (for example, Jabir, Dhu Al-Nun, and Ibn Waḥshiyah). The fame of Egypt as the land of science, wisdom, and mysticism created a welcoming environment for the reception of ancient Egyptian thought and arts among medieval Muslim scholars and the general public. This medieval Muslim reception fills a gap of about a thousand years in the history of Egyptology.
About the speaker:
Dr. Okasha El Daly specializes in the history, art, religion, and languages of Egypt from the birth of its civilization to its contemporary history and current affairs. He has served as Inspector of Antiquities in the Giza Pyramids Area, worked as a guide and lecturer in Egypt, and lectured on the AIA’s national lecture circuit. He has directed several international projects, including the Foundation for Science, Technology, and Civilisation in the UK and the recent Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project. His book, Egyptology: The Missing Millennium (2005), shows that medieval scholars in Egypt and beyond were as keen as we are to explore ancient Egyptian sciences and arts.
These lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee and the departments of Art, Classics, Educational Studies, and History.
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King Richard III: The Resolution Of A 500 Year Old Cold Case
2024-09-19 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 West First Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship

Deconstructing Notions of the "Classical": An Archaeology of Disability
2024-09-22 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sabin Hall, Room G90, 3413 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States

The Maritime Infrastructure and Network of the Delian Emporium
2024-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Chazen Museum of Art, Elvehjem Building, Room L140, University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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The Hidden Dead: Bioarchaeology of Ancient Maya Cave Ritual
2024-09-24 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Dickinson College, Denny Hall, Room 317, West High Street, Carlisle, PA, 17013, United States
Doris Z. Stone New World Archaeology Lectures

Egyptian Conceptions and Manifestations of Borders and Cultural Hegemony in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant
2024-09-25 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus, Gilman Hall 50, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology

A Day in the Life of an Etruscan Sanctuary: Gender, Community and Ritual at the Etruscan Site of Poggio Colla
2024-09-25 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | University of Cincinnati, Blegen Library, Room 308, University Circle, Cincinnati, OH, 45219, United States
George M.A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture

Mysteries Past and Present: how genetics is helping us answer questions about the past
2024-09-25 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Austin, Patton Hall (RLP) 0.102, 305 E 23rd Street, Austin, TX, 78712, United States

AIA Archaeology Hour with Chip Colwell: On the Origins of Stuff
2024-09-25 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join us at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific for the first lecture of the 2024-2025 AIA Archaeology Hour series!
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King Richard III: The Resolution Of A 500 Year Old Cold Case
2024-09-26 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | USF Tampa, C. W. Bill Young Hall (CWY) 109, East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL, 33620, United States
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
Light refreshments will be served starting at 5:30 PM, Lecture to begin at 6:00 PM

King Richard III: The Resolution Of A 500 Year Old Cold Case
2024-09-27 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Pennsylvania State University (University Park), Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, 107 Pattee Library Road, State College, PA, 16801, United States

Magellan’s Pacific Crossing: New Discoveries in One of the World’s Greatest Voyages
2024-10-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | UCF Main Campus, Classroom Building I, Room O102, 12601 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States
Archaeology of Portugal Lecture
Hybrid Lecture, please register here.

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2024-10-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Manitoba, 118 St. Johns College, Dysart Road, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2M7, Canada

Towards an Archaeology of Cult in a Greek Colony in the West: New Excavations in the Main Urban Sanctuary of Selinunte
2024-10-08 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Amherst College, Paino Lecture Hall (Beneski 107), Barrett Hill Drive, Amherst, MA, 01002, United States
Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture
Dr. Clemente Marconi: “Towards an Archaeology of Cult in a Greek Colony in the West: New Excavations in the Main Urban Sanctuary of Selinunte”
In-person lecture
Tuesday, October 8 at 5:00 pm EST
Amherst College, Paino Lecture Hall (Beneski 107)
A short reception will follow the lecture
Abstract:
This presentation focuses on some of the most significant finds from the Institute of Fine Arts–NYU excavations in the main urban sanctuary of Selinunte. Although investigations in this area date back to the early nineteenth century, our new excavations are bringing to light a wealth of new data, including a complete stratigraphic sequence from the late fourth century BCE all the way down to Prehistory. Of particular significance are the finds in Temple R, built for a goddess ca. 570 BCE. Sealed by a thick layer of fill in ca. 300 BCE, the temple is entirely preserved in its original phases, including the previous use of the area for an open-air cult around the time of Greek settlement, the phase of construction with a rich foundation deposit, partial burning and looting on the occasion of the Carthaginian conquest of Selinus in 409 BCE, and a restoration by the Selinuntine exiles returning home a few years later. Our finds make it possible to fully reconstruct, for the first time, the biography of a temple in Selinunte. More important, the fully preserved, rich assemblage of faunal remains and artifacts allows us to reconstruct a significant part of the ritual activities in this area of the sanctuary.
Biography:
Clemente Marconi earned his B.A. at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (1990) and his Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (1997). Since 2006, he is the James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology and University Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts–NYU, and since 2017 he is also Full Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali of the Università degli Studi di Milano. He is the director of the archaeological mission on the acropolis of Selinunte of the Institute of Fine Arts–NYU and the Università degli Studi di Milano. Among his books, he is the author of Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World (Cambridge and New York, 2007); co-author of “Sicile Ancienne:” Hittorff and the Architecture of Classical Sicily (Cologne, 2017); editor of The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture (Oxford and New York, 2014); and co-editor of Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome (Los Angeles, 2013). A Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute, he is the director of The Journal of Ancient Architecture, and in the editorial board of the journals Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Sicilia Antiqua, and Prospettiva. [From Oxford Bibliographies]

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)

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

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.
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.

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)
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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