Landscapes of Time and Memory: Foragers in the Mojave Desert
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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Speaker: Susan Downie – Carleton University The ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has never really left the imagination of western civilization. From political philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to modern political parties such as Greece’s Χρυσή Αυγή “Golden Dawn”, the Spartan state and its citizens have represented an ideal for which to strive. What elements […]
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 book talk and signing by Dr. Rune Nyord, Emory University: "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" Sunday November 9, 2025, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time […]
The George F. Bass Lectures
Speaker: Florence Dunn Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University King Menkaure’s Fourth Dynasty pyramid temples at Giza were once filled with statues. The surviving statues represent some of the finest in ancient Egyptian sculpture. Crafted for eternity, these statues served as “bodies” through which the king could function in this life […]
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening with Alison Futrell as she gives the International Archaeology Day month AIA Archaeology Hour talk "The People's Arena." This presentation will be given […]
The George F. Bass Lectures
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship Time TBA
Shomarka Keita, a biological anthropologist affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution and the Institute for Historical Biology, William and Mary, has written extensively on identity and biology in Egypt and Nubia. […]
Saturday, October 15 3:30 pm EST Penn Museum, Anthro Classroom 345 In-person; no registration required Speaker: Dr. Valentina Anselmi, PhD, UPenn Title: The Second Style at Saqqara during the Late […]