The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Thomas Landvatter, University of Michigan: Consumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria Sunday, August 28, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time Zoom Lecture. A registration link […]

Award winning author and journalist Andrew Lawler will give a lecture on his most recent book Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City on September 8 at 7:30 pm in the Mountain View Suites in Highsmith Student Union. Lawler, who has won multiple journalism awards for his articles, is the author […]

The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Marissa A. Stevens, UCLA: Funerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead Sunday, September 11, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time Room 20 Social Sciences Building […]

Percussionist Jesse Stewart will give us a live demonstration on his lithograph as well as a talk on early instruments and music. This will be followed by a lecture on the rock gongs of Sudan by Yahia Fadl Tahir, who sends the following abstract: Rock gongs are naturally situated rock that resonate when struck and […]

Join us for a free virtual talk on Monday, September 19, at 6 PM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public. ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: The ancient writer Pausanias said that the base of the statue of Athena inside the Parthenon was a scene of Pandora. But what exactly did it look […]

Lecturer: Krish Seetah (Stanford University) Come join us for a watch party of Professor Seetah's live-streamed lecture. There will be a drawing for a surprise gift and discussion of the lecture afterwards.

Dr. Ann-Marie Knoblauch Associate Professor, Art History Virginia Tech In the 1870s, two massive shipments of ancient Cypriote art arrived in New York, forming the foundational collection for the city’s new universal museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection had been acquired from Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the notorious antiquities collector working on Cyprus. […]

ZOOM Lecture: "The Archaeology of Dreams and What It Tells Us About Climate Change" by Dr. David S. Whitley, Adjunct Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University. Zoom room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please... More Zoom events are listed here on […]

September Denver Society Lecture: Saturday September 24, 2022 @ 1:00 PM, Online Webinar Mes Aynak and the Continued Threat to Archaeology and Archaeologists Presented by Erik DeMarche, MA, International Archaeology Consultant & President of the Denver Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Abstract: The archaeology site of Mes Aynak consists of a one-thousand-year-old Buddhist […]