Eric Drake, PhD, Heritage Program Manager of the Hiawatha National Forest, will present his talk: Working to Stay Together in “Forsaken Out of the Way Places:” Investigating Anishinaabe Logging Settlements as Sites of Social Refuge and Resilience. In his presentation Drake will discuss stories of some of Michigan’s oldest Native American tribes. Learn about Anishinaabe […]
Eric Drake, PhD, Heritage Program Manager of the Hiawatha National Forest, will present his talk: Working to Stay Together in “Forsaken Out of the Way Places:” Investigating Anishinaabe Logging Settlements as Sites of Social Refuge and Resilience. In his presentation Drake will discuss stories of some of Michigan’s oldest Native American tribes. Learn about Anishinaabe […]
Prof. Emma Buckingham is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Mizzou. Her focus is on the Early Iron Age and Archaic periods, primarily the Greek diaspora in South Italy and Sicily. Affiliated interests include the archaeology of identity, network theory, culture contact in the western Mediterranean, and theoretical perspectives […]
Dr. Anne Austin with the University of Missouri will present this online lecture. Dr. Austin's research combines the fields of osteology and Egyptology in order to document medicine and disease in the past. Specifically, she uses data from ancient Egyptian human remains and daily life texts to reconstruct ancient Egyptian health care networks and identify […]
A virtual lecture, by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, co sponsored by the Richmond Society, AIA. This lecture is in conjunction with VMFA's Sunken Cities Exhibit. Attendance free of charge, but you must register with VMFA at VMFA.museum, click on the calendar, go to October 25 and register in advance
Cemeteries and burial practices are a rich source of information about post-colonial societies in America, offering unique insights into early communities not easily gained through written records. This talk will explore the history, demographics and archaeology of Colorado cemeteries and share findings of CU-Boulder student-led research at the Colombia cemetery. In addition, the funerary art […]
Speaker: Dan Davis (Luther College) Lecture abstract: Between 2009 and 2012, the E/V Nautilus expeditions discovered and documented 30 shipwrecks in the deep waters of the southeast Aegean Sea. The historical periods of most of the shipwrecks were relatively easy to determine from the shape and styles of their ceramic cargoes. Ranging in date between […]
Lecturer: Marcus Milwright, Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Victoria Abstract: Prior to the advent of mass air travel Muslims performing the pilgrimage (hajj) to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina were faced with long, expensive, and often physically arduous journeys […]
This lecture will be presented virtually on Zoom. All are welcome. To join the Zoom meeting, use the button below. The public face of Roman art is painfully sober. In the privacy of their tombs however, free to cast off their stern public personae, Romans surrounded themselves with art of a different nature. Here, on […]
Speaker: John Jamison Advance registration is required.
