Historic preservation has rarely been a subject taken up by historians. In an effort to address this ironic situation, this talk recounts some of the main themes and critiques shaping the development of built heritage and its preservation in the U.S.—and how this process was itself shaped by periodic reimagining of the American past, as […]

ZOOM lecture: "Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande" by Cyril Dumas (Curator at the Musee Yves Brayer Baux de Provence). 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 the St. Louis Society webpage.

Register/Join Here Going to Work in the Roman Empire: The archaeology of Potters and Potting Join us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Elizabeth Murphy. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language. Professional working lives define our place in society and structure the rhythms of our […]

To anyone in the SF Bay Area interested in Ancient Egypt, I wanted to let you know about an exciting event that ARCE Northern California is hosting with the American Research Center in Egypt and the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. On February 5 at 2pm, the Tut Chapter […]

Since 2015, Justin Walsh and Alice Gorman have been leading the first archaeological study of a human habitation site in space, the International Space Station. In that time, they have studied crew-created visual displays, processes for handling cargo returned to Earth, population distributions in the various ISS modules, the use of simple technologies as "gravity […]

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. Peter Brand, University of Memphis: Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age Sunday, February 12, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time […]

Dr. Michael Hoff Professor of Art History University of Nebraska-Lincoln The Roman-era city of Antiochia ad Cragum lies on the south coast of Turkey in the region of ancient Rough Cilicia. Prior to the city’s foundation the site served as one of the major bases of the infamous Cilician Pirates who preyed on shipping along […]

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

Around 100 CE, a huge metropolis began to emerge in the Basin of Mexico, one the Aztecs would later call Teotihuacan, or “Birthplace of the Gods.” It quickly came to dominate the region, and, with its completely new urban grid-plan, contained as many as 150,000 people. Its two gigantic buildings, the Pyramids of the Sun […]

Terence D. Capellini, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Being able to walk upright on two feet is a physical trait that distinguishes modern humans from our early ancestors. While the evolution of bipedalism has contributed to our success as a species, it has also limited the evolution of other features and increased our […]