Dignity and Social Control through Burial Practices in Ancient Rome
2024-02-22 16:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, PA

Ancient Greek Magic with Dr. Jessica Lamont
2024-02-22 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | VA
Ancient Greek Magic
Jessica L. Lamont, PhD
Assistant Professor of Classics & History
Yale University Department of Classics
This talk explores different types of archaeological and material evidence for the practice of magic in the ancient Greek world, from binding spells to curse tablets to incantations.
Zoom Registrations Link: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcOyhpjIjHdKS0QhImhdu_R_d9QkeH7A7

The World of the Ancient Greek Potters: Skills, Spaces, Social Networks
2024-02-23 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARTS 1341, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, 93106

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Italian Model of Cultural Heritage
2024-02-23 17:00 (America/New_York) | Reuben-Cooke Building, Room 130, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, United States
Visitor parking is available. Parking Garage 4/Bryan Center lots are closest to Reuben-Cooke Hall, which is located on the southeast side of Davison Quad.

Blood Antiquities: Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers and the Black Market in Cultural Treasures
2024-02-25 11:30 (America/New_York) | Webinar (Long Island)
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2024-02-25 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Sabin Hall Room G90 on the UWM Campus, 3413 North Downer, corner of Newport and Downer Avenues, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States

Fighting Processes Of Historical Erasure In Louisiana: Climate Change, Industrial Development, And Cultural Heritage
2024-02-27 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | Haury Building Rm 215, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, United States
Stone lecture

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Nam Kim. “'Barbarians,' Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient Vietnam"
2024-02-28 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walla Walla University, Admin Bldg 116, 204 S College Ave, College Place, WA, 99324, United States
Vietnamese lore records that over two thousand years ago, the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam was home to powerful indigenous kingdoms, fortified capitals, and exquisite bronze craftsmanship. In contrast, the neighboring Chinese Han Empire claimed the region was inhabited by unsophisticated “barbarians” in need of “civilizing,” prompting imperial annexation of the region. This lecture explores the region’s archaeological record and what it means for scholarly debates, as well as for Vietnam’s national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.
Please join us for this livestream presentation.

AIA Archaeology Hour with Nam C. Kim
2024-02-28 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | VA
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Nam C. Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison) presents “Barbarians”, Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient Vietnam.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
Vietnamese lore tells us that over two thousand years ago the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam was home to powerful indigenous kingdoms, fortified capitals, and exquisite bronze craftsmanship. In contrast, the neighboring Chinese Han Empire claimed the region was inhabited by unsophisticated “barbarians” in need of “civilizing”, prompting imperial annexation of the region. This lecture explores the region’s archaeological record and what it means for scholarly debates, as well as for Vietnam’s national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.

The First Kings Of Europe: An International Exhibition About The Prehistoric Balkans
2024-02-29 13:00 (America/New_York) | Wellesley College, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA, 02481, United States
Thompson lecture

Animal Lives At Petra
2024-02-29 19:30 (America/New_York) | HIghsmith Union, UNC Asheville, One Carmichael Heights UNCA, Asheville, NC, 28804, United States
Kershaw lecture

Drought-Induced Conflict Among the Ancient Maya
2024-03-03 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266, United States

The People of the Roman Frontiers: Investigating Multicultural Populations in the Western Roman Empire Through Archaeology
2024-03-03 15:00 (America/Winnipeg) | 118 St Johns College, University of Manitoba, 65 Chancellors Cir, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2
Santen lecture

Ludlow Hopkins Baldwin / Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture
2024-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Towson University, Center for the Arts, 1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson, MD, 21252, United States
Please join the AIA Baltimore society for the 2024 Ludlow Hopkins Baldwin/Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture. Dr. Sam Holman (Princeton University) will speak on “Architectural Innovation at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace: The Engineering of the Stoa.” This will be a hybrid event, held on Towson University’s campus and on Zoom. The talk can be joined remotely with the following link: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/98825554469?pwd=[REDACTED]

Social Justice Through Archaeology
2024-03-09 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Missouri History Museum, AT & T room, 5700 LINDELL BLVD, St. Louis, MO, 63112, United States
Joukowsky lecture

More than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee
2024-03-14 19:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Art Auditorium, Art Building University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, HI, 96822, United States
Matson lecture

Imhotep: The Man, the Myth, the Monster
2024-03-17 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Room 140 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Julia Troche, Missouri State University, Springfield:
“Imhotep: The Man, the Myth, the Monster”
Sunday March 17, 2024, 3 PM Pacific Time
Room 140, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
This in-person lecture will be recorded for later publication on YouTube.
About the Lecture:
“It comes to life!” is the tagline for the 1932 Universal film The Mummy wherein a reanimated Imhotep, as the mummy horror icon, brings terror and violence to all who encounter him. Imhotep, in fact, was a historical ancient Egyptian who is credited with engineering Egypt’s first pyramid, the stepped pyramid at Saqqara for King Djoser (c. 2650 BCE). In antiquity he was venerated as a folk hero and eventually worshiped as a god. How and why did Imhotep become a horror icon? The answer is what we refer to as “Egyptomania,” that is, our obsession with and consumption of ancient Egypt throughout history. This talk invites audiences to follow Imhotep and his many legacies throughout history as a way to explore Egyptomania. But it is not all fun and amusement park rides, as we consider some of the benefits and problems of Egyptomania in our everyday lives.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Julia Troche is an Egyptologist, historian, and award-winning educator. She holds a Ph.D. in Egyptology from Brown University and a B.A. in History from UCLA. Dr. Troche is currently Associate Professor at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO, and Visiting Scholar of Egyptology at Brown for her sabbatical (2023-24). She serves as a Governor for the Board of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), is President and co-founder of ARCE-Missouri, and for the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), she is co-chair of the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee and co-chair of the Archaeology of Egypt sessions for the annual meeting. Her first book, Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms was published in 2021 with Cornell University Press. She is currently working on a book about the god Ptah for Bloomsbury, a textbook (with B. Brinkman) for Routledge, and a series of articles on Egyptomania and Imhotep that she hopes to turn into a public-facing book.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, http://www.arce-nc.org, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

Trading With The Enemy: Greek Pottery In The Persian World
2024-03-19 17:30 (America/New_York) | Brown University, Rhode Island Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 2912, United States
Norton lecture

Archaeology and Conservation: The Tombs at Rio Azul, a Treasure in Guatemala
2024-03-19 19:00 (America/Denver) | VA
Joukowsky lecture
Meeting ID: 832 2135 7072
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Why Underwater? The Importance of Submerged Landscape Research for Understanding Pleistocene Peoples in the New World
2024-03-19 19:30 (America/New_York) | Room 117 (Semans Auditorium), Belk Visual Arts Center, 315 N. Main St., Davidson, NC, 28036, United States

Dallas - Ft. Worth Society National Lecture Program lecture
2024-03-21 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | TBA (Dallas/Ft. Worth), Dallas, TX

Corpse Wine: The Fermentation of the Dead in Roman Sarcophagi
2024-03-21 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Swallow Hall 101, University of Missouri, 101 Swallow Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, United States

Archaeology, Museums, and War in the 21st Century
2024-03-21 18:00 (America/New_York) | Althouse #106, Dickinson College, 22 North West Street, Carlisle, PA, 17013, United States

“Reconceiving the nomad: tropes, archaeological reality, and why it matters!” By Tekla Schmaus PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
2024-03-21 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
“Reconceiving the nomad: tropes, archaeological reality, and why it matters!” By Tekla Schmaus PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Abstract coming soon.
About Dr. Tekla Schmaus:
Tekla Schmaus received her PhD from Indiana University in 2015. She is an archaeologist working in Central Eurasia whose research focuses on human-environment interactions, prehistoric economy and diet, and changing political structures in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Her work on human-animal mobility patterns includes methods from zooarchaeology and dental anthropology. In addition, she has extensive fieldwork experience in Kazakhstan, and has directed excavation in Kyrgyzstan.
The lecture will broadcast in realtime via Zoom.
Join Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84120684037?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 841 2068 4037
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The Last Human
2024-03-23 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
WINNER OF THE NORDIC:DOX AWARD 2022
Denmark, Greenland / 2022
Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenlandic scientist Minik Rosing discovered the first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord near Isua, Greenland. His discovery predated all previous evidence by over 300 million years. Life began in Greenland. At the same time, its melting ice masses are disintegrating day-by-day, and scientists around the world agree that it could drown our entire civilization if it continues.
Director Ivalo Frank’s new film is a tribute to a vast, scenic country caught between two extremes: the beginning and the end of life on Earth as we know it. Frank’s film is anchored by an encounter with a group of children from the village of Kangaatsiaq who fall in love, form friendships, and struggle with loss and longing.
A Q&A with filmmaker Ivalo Frank and Sussi Adelholm, Head of School in Kangaatsiaq, Greenland, will follow the screening.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Image © Kranfilm/Ivalo Frank

“The View from “Harvard Camp:” George Reisner and the Giza Pyramids then and now
2024-03-23 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
ANNUAL KORSYN LECTURE
In-Person Lecture
Saturday, March 23 at 3:30 pm EST
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Speaker: Dr. Peter Der Manuelian
Lecture Topic: “The View from “Harvard Camp:” George Reisner and the Giza Pyramids then and now”
Abstract:
Leading the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, George Reisner (1867–1942) put American Egyptology on the world stage with forty-three years of breathtakingly successful excavations at twenty-three different archaeological sites in Egypt and Sudan. His uniquely American success story unfolded despite British control of Egyptian politics, French control of Egyptian antiquities, and an Egyptian yearning for independence, all while his Egyptian teams achieved the fieldwork results and mastered the arts of recording and documentation. Reisner’s lifespan covers the birth of modern archaeology, aspects of colonialism, racism, and nationalism, the history of Harvard and of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the issues of repatriation and cultural patrimony long before they became the “hot topics” they are today. In an illustrated lecture, Harvard University’s Peter Der Manuelian will recount the life of this uniquely successful, but also controversial, archaeologist and Egyptologist, as he lived and dug at the famous Giza Pyramids (and at many other sites) for more than four decades. This talk will summarize some of the great discoveries, their archaeological significance, and some of the fascinating personalities behind the Expedition working at the tombs and temples at Giza. Manuelian will also present virtual and immersive technological experiments for bringing old digs back to life for collaborative research and teaching.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Peter Der Manuelian is Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology in both the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Anthropology Departments at Harvard University, and director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. He was previously on the curatorial staff of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His Giza Project at Harvard (http://giza.fas.harvard.edu) aims to collect and present online all past, present, and future archaeological activity at the Giza Pyramids. His research and teaching interests include visualization and digital humanities approaches to the ancient world. Among his publications are Walking Among Pharaohs. George Reisner and The Dawn of Modern Egyptology; Digital Giza. Visualizing the Pyramids; 30 Second Ancient Egypt; Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100; Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis; Living in the Past: Studies in Archaism of the Egyptian Twenty-sixth Dynasty; and Studies in the Reign of Amenophis II. He has also written a number of childrens’ books.
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Lectures are FREE to ARCE Members, $7 for University of Pennsylvania Museum Members and UPenn Staff and Faculty, $5 for Students with ID, and $10 for the general public.
Coffee, tea, and cookies served starting at 3pm.
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The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on all aspects of Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge among the general public, and strengthen American-Egyptian cultural ties. The ARCE Pennsylvania Chapter (ARCE-PA) is the local branch of the national institution. We host monthly events including scholarly lectures, Egyptian-themed workshops, social events, and guided tours of the Penn Museum’s Egyptian galleries. For more information or to learn about the perks of membership, please send an e-mail to info@arce-pa.org, or visit our website at www.arce-pa.org.

“Ohio Shipwrecks: What’s in your Backyard?” - Archaeology & Ale, with Linda Pansing (Ohio History Connection)
2024-03-24 15:00 (America/New_York) | La Chatelaine, 627 High St, Worthington, OH, 43085, United States
From Lake Erie, to canals, to rivers, Ohio’s maritime history is rich and ancient. This presentation will highlight the stories of several shipwrecks; their ‘lives’, ‘deaths’ and discoveries. How many shipwrecks are in Ohio? Come and find out! (Please order drinks and pastries by 2:45pm.)

Kevin Andrews and the Castles of the Morea
2024-03-25 16:30 (America/New_York) | Green Hall 3-S-15, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08542, United States
Ettinghausen lecture

Agricultural Strategies and Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia
2024-03-25 18:00 (America/New_York) | VA

Underwater Archaeology: the New Holy Grails
2024-03-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | Anthropology Building, AP 130, 19 Ursula Franklin St, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S2, Canada
McCann/Taggart lecture
