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Luxury from the Provinces: Reading Morality on the Walls of a Roman Villa
Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College 800 East Palmetto Street, Lakeland, FL, United StatesHybrid EventPlease join us for our second event of the Fall 2026 cycle. Event description from the author: Roman writers often condemned luxury in domestic art. Drawing on repairs to the […]
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Healthmaking in the Past: What ancient Egyptians can teach us about living healthier lives
Art Auditorium, Art Building University of Hawaii at Manoa 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, HI, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture
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Medicalized technologies: ingredient patterns in ancient Egyptian therapeutic recipes as informants on food processing diversity
ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 254 Social Sciences Building UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United StatesHybrid EventThe American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Jonathan (Jonny) Russell, Brown University: "Medicalized technologies: ingredient patterns in ancient Egyptian therapeutic recipes as informants on food processing diversity" Friday October 23, 2026, 4 PM […]
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Michigan Archaeology Day
Michigan History Center 702 W. Kalamazoo St., Lansing, MI, United StatesMichigan Archaeology Day returns to the Michigan History Center on Saturday, October 24, 2026. This exciting annual event is your chance to talk with archaeologists about investigations and artifacts that tell the story of 14,000 years of Michigan history! From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., archaeologists and experts in related fields will be stationed throughout […]
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A Dual Lecture at Brown Homestead
Brown Homestead 1317 Pelham Road, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaIn celebration of International Archaeology Day, the Niagara Peninsula society will host two lectures at the Brown Homestead in St. Catharines. Our first speaker, Jessica Linzel, who works at the site, will discuss their recent archaeological surveys, finds, and public engagement. Our second and main speaker is Alexandra Macdonald, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brock University, […]
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Milo Rossi: Offline and In Person (Milwaukee, WI)
The Pabst Theater 144 E Wells St, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesInternet sensation Milo Rossi — better known to his 3+ million followers as "miniminuteman" — is coming to Milwaukee for an unforgettable evening of science, skepticism, and side-splitting commentary. This isn't your typical archaeology lecture. With more than a billion views, the self-proclaimed “Googledebunker” has become one of the most trusted voices in debunking archaeological […]
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Incidental Politics of Memory: State Nationalism, Looting, and the Intangible Severing of Heritage
Cohen Lounge, Dickson Hall, first floor, Montclair State University 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ, United StatesDiscussions surrounding the destruction of cultural heritage predominantly focus on physical violence—the bombing of sites, the looting of museums, and the illicit trade of antiquities. While critical, this focus often overlooks a quieter, systemic form of loss: the intangible alienation of communities from their own pasts. Drawing on Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s framework of historical silencing and […]
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Royal Jewelry of Nubia
University of British Columbia, Buchanan Block A, Room 103 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
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The Living Legacy Of Amazonia’s “Lost” Garden Cities: Three Decades of Collaborative Archaeology in the Xingu Indigenous Territory, Brazil.
University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThis lecture gives an overview of collaborative archaeology and cultural heritage studies by the author and Brazilian colleagues with the Kuikuro Indigenous nation in the Território Indígena do Xingu (TIX) of the southern Brazilian Amazon. The project was Initiated in 1992, born out of joint activities developed for the UN ecological summit in Rio de […]
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Buried in Enemy Territory: A Spartan Tomb in Athens and the Politics of Commemoration
Concordia University, SGW H-620 1455 Blvd. De Maisonneuve., Montreal, Canada -
Annual Ridgway Lecture: Oplontis: New Discoveries at Villas A and B with Prof. John Clarke, UT Austin
University of Washington Seattle, United StatesLearn about recent archaeological excavations at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Oplontis in the Bay of Naples. Through the two Roman villas found there, we encounter both unbridled luxury […]