City Making in Byzantine Athens
2023-03-22 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Jones Hall 108, Uptown Campus of Tulane University, 6801 Freet St, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-03-22 19:30 (America/New_York) | Highsmith Union, Rooms 225/226, 700 Founders Drive, Asheville, NC, 28804
Cinelli Lecture

Traitors or Native Conquistadors? The Role of Tlaxcala in the Fall of Aztec Mexico
2023-03-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | OR
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Living in ruins: Vibrancy and decay in the ancient Maya city
2023-03-26 14:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Westchester), Westchester, NY
Stone Lecture

“Placing” a Maritime Territory at Hellenistic Miletus
2023-03-26 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Room 118, St Johns College at the University of Manitoba, 92 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
McCann/Taggart Lecture

Mystery, Medicine, and Music in a Greek Healing Sanctuary
2023-03-27 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Art Building West 116, University of Iowa, 150 Art Building West,, Iowa City, IA, 52246

Digging Phoenicians: The Evidence from Tel Dor
2023-03-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences, C-2059, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, Montreal, Canada, H3T 1N8
Kershaw Lecture

FemiNetworX: Mapping Female Maritime Mobility Patterns
2023-03-28 18:00 (America/New_York) | Anthropology Building 130 (St. George Campus), 19 Ursula Franklin St., Toronto, Ontario

Research and Excavations at Sardis
2023-03-28 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
In this year’s Sardis Biennial lecture, Professor Nicholas D. Cahill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will discuss recent excavations at Sardis, one of the great ancient cities of western Türkiye from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958 and is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Recent accomplishments at the site include the discovery of some of the world’s earliest silver coins in a historical context, the restoration of antiquity’s largest synagogue, and the unearthing of Roman houses destroyed by a devastating earthquake.
Speaker:
Nicholas D. Cahill, Field Director, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, and Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fossil Dispossession of Sioux Lands
2023-03-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Lawrence Bradley, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography/Geology, University of Nebraska-Omaha
The continental interior of the United States—home to many Native American communities—is a region rich in fossils. Since the nineteenth century, fossils found on Native lands have been removed and placed in museums and universities without the consent of, or proper collaboration with Native Tribes. Lawrence Bradley will discuss the history of fossil dispossession from Sioux lands and the legal frameworks—or lack of—that allowed it to occur. He will also examine the role that fossils taken from these lands have played in establishing vertebrate paleontology as a scientific discipline in the United States. Finally, he offers an approach to solving past and present disputes between Tribes and paleontologists.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Image credit: Bill Sitzman | Motion Photography

CANCELED: Redemption for the Museum of the Bible. Artifacts, Provenance, and Bias in the Contact Zone
2023-03-30 19:00 (America/New_York) | Wooster College, Lean Lecture Room, Wishart Hall, 303 East University Street, Wooster, OH, 44691, United States
Feinstone Lecture

Archaeology, Museums, and War
2023-04-01 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Graham Hall, Smith College, 22 Elm St., Northampton, MA, 01060, United States
30th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture
Lecture by C. Brian Rose, the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Past President of the Archaeological Institute of America.
The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria during the last two decades have profoundly influenced scholars and how they deal with the art and material culture of antiquity. In this lecture, archaeologist C. Brian Rose draws on his own experiences with museums, foreign wars, and archaeology to discuss the ways in which the past now dominates the present. He gives an overview of cultural heritage destruction and preservation programs in conflict zones and considers the subject of museums and repatriation requests in an age of increasing nationalism.

The People of Angkor
2023-04-04 19:00 (America/Denver) | CU Museum of Natural History, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80309

Sex and Other Things Sell: Athenian Potters and their Foreign Consumers
2023-04-05 18:00 (America/New_York) | Rittenberg Room, 2nd floor of Mather Hall, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, 06106, United States
Norton Lecture

Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
2023-04-06 16:30 (America/New_York) | OR

Shopping for artists’ materials in ancient Rome: pigment shops, pigments, and product choice
2023-04-06 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Agricultural Communication and Education Building, Room 00102, Texas Tech University, 2810 15th St, Lubbock, TX, 79409

Miners, Martyrs, Shepherds, and Sowers: Shifting Landscapes of Faynan, Southern Jordan over the Last 2,000 Years
2023-04-06 18:00 (America/Denver) | Hager Auditorium, the Museum of the Rockies, 600 W. Kagy Blvd., Bozeman, MT, 59717

Not Black and White: Seeing and Naming Africans in Greek Art
2023-04-06 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Nashville Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

Stones of the Butterfly: Archaeological Investigation of Yap's Famous Stone Money
2023-04-06 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States

Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
2023-04-11 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Room L140, Elvehjem Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706

Great Lecture: North American Mounds as World Heritage
2023-04-12 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
A millennium ago, Native people constructed over 120 earthen mounds at the site of Cahokia, a World Heritage site in Illinois. Built entirely by hand, the largest of these constructions towered 100 feet over a city that was more densely populated than the contemporary medieval city of London. Over two thousand years before Cahokia’s construction, Native people in Louisiana built Poverty Point, another World Heritage site, and one of the only earthwork complexes that rivals Cahokia’s size and complexity–and they did so without agriculture or permanent settlements. These sites highlight the incredible engineering ability of ancient Americans, and remind us that we don’t need a passport to visit sites of outstanding universal value.
Speaker: Megan C. Kassabaum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UPenn

Myth-ing Sound: Exploring Markers of Music in Athenian Vase Paintings
2023-04-12 18:30 (America/Chicago) | OR
Manton Lecture
Please contact Phil Stinson and William Bruce for the Zoom link.

1177 BC Revisited: Updating the Late Bronze Age Collapse
2023-04-13 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall 118, 211 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173, United States
Lecture by Eric H. Cline, Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at George Washington University. Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies and the Richmond Society of the AIA.

"New Views on an Old Temple: The Parthenon and Its Decoration"
2023-04-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | OR
2023 Richard Hubbard Howland Lecture, Washington, DC Society; by Professor Jenifer Neils, Professor Emerita, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is perhaps the most readily recognizable building in the world, and during the past two millennia our understanding of it and its sculptural decoration has continued to evolve. This lecture will examine some of these changing interpretations and how they are – or are not – related to the cultural, social and political context of 5th-century BCE Athens. Primarily a lavish marble temple dedicated to the patron goddess of Athens, the Parthenon is also a civic monument celebrating the democratic state’s victories in war, the valor of its heroes, the beauty of its citizenry, and even the status of its women.

Magellan’s Pacific Crossing: New Discoveries in One of the World’s Greatest Voyages
2023-04-13 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | John C Paulus Lecture Hall, Willamette University, 245 Winter Street SE, Salem, OR, 97301, United States
Archaeology of Portugal Lecture

Finding Lost, Stolen, and Kidnapped Children in Indian Boarding School Cemeteries Using Multi-Instrument Geophysical Survey: Chemawa Indian Boarding School
2023-04-15 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Science Center Auditorium (SC 114) at The University of Dayton., 450 East Stewart St, Dayton, OH, 45409, United States
The final presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America’s Dayton Society 2022-2023 Lecture Series presented by Northern Cheyenne Tribe citizen Marsha Small, M.A. from Montana State University and Dr. Jarrod Burks from Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc.
Since 2016 Marsha Small and Jarrod Burks have been conducting geophysical investigations to identify the locations of over 200 unmarked burials at the Chemawa Boarding School in Salem, OR. The school originally opened in 1880 and today is one of four remaining off-reservation boarding schools funded and operated by the federal Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). From the 1880s to about 1940 students who died at the school were buried in the school cemetery. Disturbances in the cemetery had by 1960 removed any grave markers that were there and since then new markers were placed to create a memorial garden, though those markers did not mark actual grave locations.
This lecture is currently scheduled to take place in person in the Science Center Auditorium (SC 114) at The University of Dayton.
For those planning to attend in person please see info on UD’s guidance on face coverings here: https://udayton.edu/coronavirus/frequently_asked_questions.php#face_coverings
For a campus map with building and parking information visit https://udayton.edu/map/
Thanks to the Archaeological Institute of America’s Lecture Program and its Dayton Society members this lecture is free and open to the public.

Diet and Cuisine at Pompeii
2023-04-15 13:00 (America/Chicago) | OR
ZOOM Lecture entitled “Diet and Cuisine at Pompeii” by Dr. Scott Stull ( SUNY – Cortland). Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please…
More Zoom events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.

Where Was the American Southwest (and Why Isn’t It There Anymore)?
2023-04-15 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room in Thomson Hall, 1500 N Warner St, Tacoma, WA, 98416, United States

ARCE-PA Lecture by Dr. Ellen Morris, Barnard College
2023-04-15 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
ARCE-PA Lecture
Saturday April 15 at 3:30pm
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Speaker: Dr. Ellen Morris, Associate Professor of Ancient Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
Lecture Topic: Famine and Festival in Ancient Egypt
Abstract:
In pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt, two occurrences had the power to radically transform the status quo: revolts and episodes of mass mortality. When the two co-occurred, they destabilized a rigid social hierarchy. Such moments – at which underlings threatened to gain the upper hand or at least exhibited a marked reluctance to return to their former subservience – caused an immense degree of anxiety among Egypt’s elites. Extremely severe famines and the plagues that often engendered this destabilization occurred infrequently. The magnitude of the upheavals and social transformations that happened in their wake, however, ensured that their memory was passed down (and needed to be passed down) through generations as a caution. For people who knew only strong kings and times of plenty, it was necessary to “remember” hunger, suffering, and terror in order that warning signs be taken seriously. Although written testimony and prophesy helped keep such memories alive, echoes of social upheavals incorporated into festivities surrounding the Egyptian New Year may have been far more effective agents of intergenerational transmission.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Ellen Morris, an Associate Professor of Ancient Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, writes on imperialism, political fragmentation, state formation, sexuality and sacred performance, retainer sacrifice, landscape theory, and divine kingship in Egypt’s social history. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Egyptology at the (esteemed) University of Pennsylvania, she has published a great many articles (most of which are freely available on academia.edu) and two books: The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom (Brill, 2005), Ancient Egyptian Imperialism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). A Cambridge Element titled Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt is forthcoming in 2023. She has also excavated at Abydos, Mendes, Deir el-Ballas and Amheida at Dakhleh Oasis.
Lectures are FREE for ARCE members. For non-ARCE members admission is as follows: $10 general admissions; $7 for Penn Museum members, Faculty & Staff; $5 for Students with ID (12 and under FREE).

The Many Faces of James Loeb
2023-04-16 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Venture with us into the world of collector and philanthropist James Loeb to uncover his personality, examine his influence on ancient studies, and delight in the small objects that filled his life. Specialists from different fields will present various aspects about Loeb, and together they will help us see a complete portrait.
Florian Knauss, from the State Collections of Antiquities and Glyptothek in Munich, will discuss Loeb as a collector and philanthropist. He will highlight objects from Loeb’s collection and give an overview of Loeb’s collecting activities and the legacy of his charitable achievements.
Mirte Liebregts, from the Radboud University in the Netherlands, will focus on the establishment of the Loeb Classical Library, the bilingual publication series founded by James Loeb. She will examine Loeb’s motivations for creating the series and their relationship to his collecting.
Harvard professor Richard F. Thomas will moderate a conversation after the two presentations.
This event accompanies the exhibition A World within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, on view through May 7, 2023.
The galleries will be open until 5pm. You are encouraged to view the exhibition either before or after the event.
Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
