Archaeological Institute of America

Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande
2023-02-04 13:00 (America/Chicago) | NC
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…
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Society Sunday 2023 Public Lecture
2023-02-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | NC
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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 daily experience—how, then, were such lives lived in the past? In this talk, Elizabeth Murphy, an Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Florida State University, will investigate the everyday working lives of ancient craftspeople by venturing into the workshops of a single, common profession—potters.
With many hundreds of kilns documented from the Mediterranean, with elaborate trade networks reconstructed from distributed pottery, and with workshops appearing in a range of settings (from cities to rural estates), potters and their ceramic products are arguably the most archaeologically visible craft profession of the ancient world, yet we have no biographical accounts or personal narratives from the period on the lives of these workers. Using the rich archaeological record, she will investigate their workplaces and working lives—from the technologies of production to the rituals and magic of workshops.
Elizabeth A. Murphy is an archaeologist specializing in the study of the Mediterranean during the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods. Her research and teaching concern the social and economic organization of the Roman world; more specifically, her work focuses on the history and archaeology of labor, production, and technology. She is a specialist in material culture studies, with particular emphasis on the artifactual record of crafts production, and her fieldwork projects have spanned the ancient Mediterranean world from Asia Minor to Italy. She currently co-directs the Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia project (LASS), a diachronic landscape project in the modern region of Sulcis (Sardinia, Italy). With LASS, she is investigating the settlement organization, landscape exploitation, and daily life practices of this rural region during the period of the Roman Empire.
The lecture will also be available in American Sign Language and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2023-02-05 14:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University, Room TBD, Paterson Hall 303, Ottawa, Canada
Kershaw Lecture

West Coast Tut Tour: An afternoon with Aidan Dodson in San Francisco, Feb. 5, de Young Museum
2023-02-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
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 Tour is coming to the de Young Museum, and features a lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson. For more information, please go to https://www.arce.org/west-coast-tut-tour. Be advised that although the event is free, registration is required. To go straight to registration, click on this link: https://secure.everyaction.com/imoaeYmGY0WyV2Q0J-9qpQ2 .
Hashtags: #TutChapterTour #ARCE #AidanDodson #deYoung
There will be a discount on ARCE membership for people who sign up at the lecture. Hope you can join us!
Glenn Meyer
ARCE Northern California Publicity Director

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California State University, Fresno (Room TBA), 5241 N Maple Ave, Fresno, CA, 93740

Waterscapes in Etruria: Vulci (10th cent. BCE-5th cent.CE)
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Berkeley, Dwinelle 370, 101 Sproul Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720

Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis
2023-02-07 17:30 (America/New_York) | 1214 Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, 27412

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-02-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | NC

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-09 18:00 (America/New_York) | Behavioral Sciences Building (BEH) 103, USF Tampa Campus, 4209 USF Willow Drive, Tampa, FL, 33620
Joukowsky Lecture

AIA Webster Lecture: The International Space Station Archaeological Project
2023-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | DePaul University, McGowan South 107, 1110 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614, United States
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 surrogates,” and more. Recently, they performed the first archaeological work in space, with the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE), which had the crew document six locations around the space station through daily photography.
This project just received the AIA’s Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology!

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | John C. Hitt Library Room 402, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States

Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica
2023-02-12 11:30 (America/New_York) | NC
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Elise Poppen, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Buffalo State University of New York, will present on “Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica.”

Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age
2023-02-12 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures, Room 126 Social Sciences Building, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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
Room 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
No Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
About the Lecture:
Ramesses II was both a great warrior and visionary statesman. For two decades, he fought the mighty Hittite Empire for control of Syria including the famous Battle of Kadesh. His military campaigns were the culmination of over six decades of hostilities between these ancient superpowers. Yet Ramesses had the vision to make a lasting peace with Egypt’s bitter rival, when he concluded a treaty in his twenty-first regnal year with his Hittite counterpart Hattusili III. A remarkable cache of diplomatic letters, second only to the famous Amarna Letters, offers a fascinating glimpse of the pharaoh’s boisterous and often tense diplomatic exchanges with Hattusili III and his formidable consort, the Hititte Queen Puduhepa. Fifteen years later, Ramesses negotiated with Puduhepa to marry a Hittite princess. His lively debates with the Hittite king and queen reveal a very different Ramesses II than the god-king and warrior pharaoh we see on his monuments.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Peter Brand is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto and a naturalized American citizen. He is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at the University of Memphis. Since 2001 Dr. Brand has served as the Director of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project sponsored by the University of Memphis, which aims to record and publish all the monumental inscriptions and reliefs from this huge building.
Dr. Brand studied at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis before completing his PhD in Ancient Egyptian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto in 1998. His dissertation, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis, was published by Brill in 2000. Dr. Brand’s area of focus in Egyptology is the history and culture of the New Kingdom, particularly the late 18th Dynasty and the Ramesside Period. In his research and teaching he uses a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates history, art history, language and epigraphy.
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Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii
2023-02-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 601, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States
Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture
For Zoom attendance, please register here: https://bit.ly/3R8sJBY
Dr. Catherine Baker (Mount Holyoke College) will present a hybrid lecture on the topic “Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii.”
Abstract: From the chipped corners of an ancient die to the mortar on a reused inscription, artifacts tell stories. Archaeologists reconstruct these object biographies, tracing the lives of ancient artifacts from their creation to their final deposition. In this talk, I explore the stories of some of the artifacts excavated by the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (University of Cincinnati), including dice and gaming pieces, statuettes, tools of potters, and even nails. These object biographies shed light not only on the way people first used these objects, but on their afterlives – the ways in which objects were discarded, recycled, and reused. These lives and afterlives of objects, in turn, shape the archaeology of a site, allowing us to trace the complex patterns of use, reuse, and discard which characterized the history of one neighborhood in the Roman city of Pompeii.

Antiochia ad Cragum: Pirates, Romans, and More Pirates – Updates from the 2022 Season
2023-02-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | NC
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 the coastal waterways of the Mediterranean in the late Hellenistic period. Following the resolution of the pirate threat in the first century BCE, the city was founded and eponymously named by Antiochus IV of Commagene. Since 2005 the city has been undergoing excavation which during the last 16 years has brought to light much of the urban fabric of a Roman city: Temples, Baths, Aqueducts, Colonnades. This lecture presents the highlights of the discoveries made over the years, particularly the many well-preserved mosaics. This lecture will discuss new findings from the 2022 summer excavation season.
For questions about the event or registration, please email the program coordinator, Casey Gipson, at casey.gipson@asu.edu.
To register, visit https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpde2rqDsuG9XAXAfIftozW17I0qsdGJJp

Dr. Randall Souza: “Survival and resilient communities in ancient Sicily: The lessons of Entella”
2023-02-16 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
When communities dissolve, it is rare for them to be reborn. During the First Punic Wars (ca. 264-241 BCE), the people of Entella were expelled from their city; a critical portion of the refugees actually managed to return to Entella and restart the life of their Community thanks to the aid of various kinds from friendly cities and individuals. The fact that their community had survived because of a network of benefactors did hot escape the newly reinstated citizens of Entella, who thanked their benefactors in ways particularly geared toward strengthening that very network. The decrees they inscribed on bronze tablets preserve a rare first-person account of a community at the mercy of greater powers. This talk analyzes the inter- and intra-community relationships at play in the survival and resurgence off Entella as a community. The people of Entella had faced elimination, and instead of turning inward, they ensured their future by cultivating connections with other groups in order to create a new, more expansive community.
Dr. Randall Souza, Seattle University.

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-02-21 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Minneapolis – St. Paul), Minneapolis, MN
Norton Lecture
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A Maritime Small World in Western Cyprus: Yeronisos Island, Maniki Harbor, and Cape Drepanum
2023-02-21 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-02-22 19:00 (America/New_York) | NC
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

A Small Maritime World in Western Cyprus -- Yeronisos Island, Maniki Harbor, & Cape Drepanum
2023-02-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
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.

"Operation Amythyst: How the Ancient Egyptions Got Their Bling 4000 Years Ago"
2023-02-21 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
About the lecture:
Some of the most stunning jewelry from Ancient Egypt is made of amethyst. Its craftsmanship, opulence, and design epitomize quality in the ancient world. Yet the skill in making this jewelry started long before the cutting and buffing of the raw stone. Procuring amethyst in the Eastern Desert is fraught with many more perils and problems than Nile Valley craftsmen experienced. As the director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert, Liszka leads a team that has studied the remains of these ancient desert expeditions and a team who has firsthand experience of many of the perils that the ancient explorers would have fought as well. This talk examines the extremes and dangers that thousands of Ancient Egyptians went to in order to acquire these beautiful purple stones for the Pharaoh’s jewels. By investigating the archaeology, art, and inscriptions from Wadi el-Hudi in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, we navigate through the whole process of amethyst acquisition: from finding, to mining, and surviving in the dangers of the desert.
We will gather to watch this recorded lecture (4:49-43:36) together, followed by Q and A with Dr. Liszka via Zoom. The recording has captions and also includes an ASL interpreter.
About the speaker:
Kate Liszka is associate professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino, and director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition in Egypt. Her research focuses on ancient Nubians interacting with Egyptians and the Egyptian government. She specifically examines these issues as part of two projects. She is currently finishing a monograph on the Medjay, a group of pastoral Nubians who may become an important group of soldiers in Egypt’s Middle and New Kingdoms (c. 2300-1000 BCE). Kate also directs the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert. This archaeological and epigraphic project looks at ancient Egyptian mining activities, their organization, and individuals who participated in them, especially in light of ancient ethnicities.

Why are Islands Sacred?
2023-02-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | NC
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Exploring the Technologies and Realities of Roman Toilets: Not a lot to Go on
2023-02-23 16:15 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, PA
Norton Lecture

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-02-23 19:00 (America/New_York) | School of Business (SBUS) 110, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ, 07043

Otzi The Iceman: Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2023-02-26 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bowers Museum, 2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA, 92706

Hannibal's Secret Weapon
2023-02-27 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) 6020, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
2023-02-28 18:30 (America/New_York) | White Hall Rm 102, Emory University, 210 Briarcliff Road, Atlanta, GA, 30303

Operation Demeter: What Italy's largest antiquities bust reveals about archaeological looting today
2023-03-01 18:00 (America/New_York) | 537 Leggett, Randolph College, 2500 Rivermont Ave, Lynchburg, VA, 24503

Ancestral Maya Pilgrimage at the Sacred Pools of Cara Blanca, Belize
2023-03-01 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Central Texas), Austin, TX

Great Lectures: Teotihuacan: Rome of the Ancient Americas
2023-03-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
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 and the Moon, were surrounded by smaller temples, plazas, and a thousand or more apartment compounds. They were all once richly painted in dazzling colors and complex designs depicting twisting feathered serpents, prowling jaguars, storm gods and water goddesses, priests, warriors, and lords. But its history has long been a mystery, and we are only now beginning to understand its importance and impact on ancient Mesoamerica.
Speaker: Simon Martin, Associate Curator and Keeper in the American Section, Penn Museum and Adjunct Associate Professor Anthropology, UPenn
