Dying as a Macedonian in Egypt: Styling Social Identity through Hellenistic Burial Practices
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Smith Curtis, Room 103 5111 Madison Ave, Lincoln, NECharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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Collecting the Ancient World: Early Explorations, Encyclopedic Museums, and World’s Exhibitions
University of Missouri, Swallow Hall Auditorium 507 S. 9th St., Columbia, MOKershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology
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Remembered Places, Significant Spaces: Room Closure Practices in the Pueblo Southwest
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2316 W 1st Ave, Spokane, WA, United StatesHybrid EventDr. Samantha Fladd, Washington State University., is an anthropological archaeologist who focuses on the Southwest United States, specifically the Ancestral Pueblos of the Four Corners region. Architectural spaces create and are created by the social practices of and relationships among the people who occupy and interact within them. Just as spaces become places, people become […]
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Excavating Notre-Dame in Paris, France
Auditorium at the St. Louis Public Library Olive Street, St. Louis, MO, United StatesA fascinating lecture by Dr. Christophe Besnier (Director of Archaeology Excavations) and Dr. Dorothee Chaoui-Derieux Chief Heritage Curator, the Ministry of Culture). Learn about the first, and only, archaeological excavations that will ever take place inside Notre Dame in Paris, France. See truly remarkable photographs and hear first hand from the archaeologists directly involved with […]
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Looking for Lucy: Revisiting the Foundation of Race & Gender in Historical Archaeology
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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“Barbarians” and Bronzes: The Origins of Civilization in Ancient Vietnam
AIA-LA 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, United StatesTwo thousand years ago, China’s Han Empire stretched its imperial grasp beyond the mountains far to the south of the Central Plains, reaching into the domains of “barbarians”. Along its southernmost periphery lay the Red River Valley (RRV) of present-day Vietnam. In their chronicles, the Han claimed that they “civilized” the RRV’s “barbarians”. In contrast, […]
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Drunken Women with Spears? Funerary Practices and Female Identity in Pre-Roman Apulia
College of the Holy Cross, Rehm Library Worcester, MA -
Out from Shadows: Painting the Human Face in Classical Greece
Penn Museum 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Penn Museum
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Rituals of Death : The Tombs of Tibet’s First Kings
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Murder, Poetry, and Scribes in Ancient Egypt
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFree Public Lecture – Online & In Person Margaret Geoga, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, The University of Chicago “The Teaching of Amenemhat” is the only ancient Egyptian literary work to describe the assassination of a king. Told from the perspective of the murdered Pharaoh Amenemhat I, the poem is remarkable for its grim subject matter […]
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Eldorado on the Nile: The Art of Luxury in Ptolemaic Alexandria
Hybrid EventCharles Elliot Norton Memorial Lectureship In collaboration with the University of Maryland, College Park Departments of Classics and Art History Archaeology
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The Impact of Roman Military Presence on the Arid Landscapes of Southern Jordan and Israel
The Frederick R. and Margaret B. Matson Lectureship for Near Eastern Archaeology and Archaeological Technology