The Problem With Prostitutes
2022-04-28 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Breasted Hall at the OI, University of Chicago, 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, 60637

Ancient Graffiti and Ancient Voices: Culture and Communication Across Pompeii and Herculaneum
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | California
Public Lecture by Rebecca Benefiel, Professor of Classics, Washington and Lee University.
Rebecca Benefiel is a Professor of Classics who specializes in Latin literature and Roman archaeology. Her research interests focus on the social and cultural history of the Roman Empire and Latin epigraphy. She is a supervisor for the Epigraphic Database Roma, part of the EU best practice network, EAGLE (The Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy), and is overseeing the preparation of ancient graffiti from Pompeii and Herculaneum. She is also Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project.

Adventures with Animal Mummies
2022-04-28 19:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | University of Hawaii, Art Auditorium, 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, 96822
Masks and vaccination required for in-person attendance.

The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra, Jordan
2022-04-29 | TBA (Stanford 2), Stanford, CA, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Daily Lives in an Age of Empire: Local Economics Life at Cadir Hoyuk (Turkey) during the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE)
2022-05-01 | Hofstra University, Breslin Hall, 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, 11549, United States
Dr. Sarah Adcock, Assistant Professor at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) will speak about how research on the Late Bronze Age has often focused on elite lives and history, but the daily lives of non- elite have remained unexamined. How were local practices of day-to-day life shaped by imperial aims?

ARCE-NC Lecture May 1 by Aidan Dodson: The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs
2022-05-01 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol:
The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs
Sunday, May 1, 2022, 2 PM Pacific Time (note the earlier time)
Zoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members, please send any registration requests no later than Friday, April 29. The number of registrations is limited, so the sooner you register, the better.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
Egypt was unified around 3000 BC, beginning the history of pharaonic Egypt and setting the ground-rules for the nature and constitution of the state and kingship that would endure for three millennia. This afternoon we will explore the way in which the memories of the first pharaohs were maintained and used by their successors down to Roman times, and how, after millennia of oblivion, they were rediscovered by modern scholarship.
About the Speaker:
Professor Aidan Dodson
has taught at the University of Bristol since 1996, where he has been honorary Professor of Egyptology since 2018. A graduate of Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003, and was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for spring 2013. He is the author of some 400 articles and reviews, and 25 books; his latest is The First Pharaohs: Their Lives and Afterlives, which was published by the American University in Cairo Press in October 2021.

New Research at St. Mary's City in Maryland
2022-05-07 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | California
Dr. Tim Horsley describes the new geophysical and archaeological discoveries at St. Mary’s City in Maryland.

War on Looting: Contested Object Case Studies
2022-05-09 18:00 (America/Chicago) | on Zoom – pre-register via our partner org here: https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/areas-of-study/art-history/, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
Please join us for an hour of brief case studies and Q&A about Looting presented by UST Art History graduate students!

Earthquakes and the Structuring of Greco-Roman Society: the longue durée of human-geological environment relationships in Helike, Greece (SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecture)
2022-05-12 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | California
Speaker: Amanda Gaggioli, PhD Candidate, Department of Classics | Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University
Bio: Amanda’s research combines specializations in archaeology, history, and ancient languages with environmental sciences, particularly geoarchaeology and soil micromorphology, to interpret cultural forms of environmental knowledge, cultural practices, landscapes, and paleoenvironments that factored into societal developments. This combined work accounts for the resilience and political ecology of socio-environmental systems in all aspects of Greco-Roman civilization.
Abstract: Earthquakes have been linked with societal collapse in various places throughout the past, most notably in the eastern Mediterranean with the end of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE) and the division and decline of the Roman Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries CE. Archaeological evidence of widespread destruction, complemented by an inflation of historical earthquake records for late Roman contexts, points to periods of higher seismicity coinciding with political and economic weakening and socio-cultural downturn. However, since ancient times, humans living with persistent earthquake hazards have demonstrated forms of resilience. I show how earthquakes traditionally perceived as ‘natural’ disasters are not ‘natural’ but social and a critical factor in political ecological relationships through the case of Helike, Greece from the third millennium BCE to fifth century CE. New methods from geoarchaeology and soil micromorphology combined with evidence ranging from Greco-Roman perceptions on earthquakes in textual records combined with destruction, innovation, and invention in settlement architecture and soft sediment deformation structures (SSDS) in soil thin sections prove such ‘catastrophe’ theories to be either false or simplistic. The results expose the persistent factor of earthquakes and other geological hazards in the resilience and political ecology of human-environment relationships in the Greco-Roman society and culture.
The case of Helike demonstrates how factors of earthquakes and other geological hazards persistently shaped and were shaped bysocio-cultural, economic, and political developments. The use of innovative methodological approaches and techniques to new types of data confronts catastrophe narratives and reveals a resilience and political ecology of human-earthquake relationships.

Garden Forests of the Amazon
2022-05-12 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
To attend this lecture in-person, proof of vaccination plus booster and a K(N)-95 mask is required. Masks will be provided at the door (southern entrance of Olin Hall) for anyone who doesn’t have one.

Wine jars and jar makers of Cyprus
2022-05-19 18:30 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Dr. Gloria London (Independent Scholar, Seattle WA)
Lecture in Memory of Dr. Sarah Keller
A Danish police officer, who volunteered for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, spent his spare time documenting traditional technologies, especially those related to pottery production, farming, and bread. Knud Jensen recorded over 60 pitharia, the immense jars for fermenting wine, produced for centuries until 1972. He correctly speculated that the names incised on unfired jar shoulders held information about the history of Cyprus. Detective Jensen’s police training successfully enabled him to trace century-old jars back to the people who made and them used. His findings, combined with more recent ethnoarchaeological research, provide practical templates to: 1) reconstruct the ancient ceramics industry; 2) assess the markings on archaeological pottery; and 3) explain the multiplicity of traditional and ancient regional terms for essential household items.

All the King’s Men: Officials’ Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes
2022-05-21 12:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Jacksonville 2), Jacksonville, FL, United States
Cohn Lecture

Irving Finkel Returns! Voices Out of the Darkness
2022-06-05 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | California
Dr. Irving Finkel returns to Zoom for a talk hosted by Archaeology Now about the “people between the rivers” — the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers, that is. Were the people of ancient Mesopotamia so very different from us? Did they enjoy a good dinner, rejoice in love, fling curses at a faithless spouse, and quake in fear at the wrath of gods? We are fortunate because we have their most intimate thoughts, inscribed in clay thousands of years ago, still accessible to us. Dr. Finkel, a renowned expert, unlocks their writing in cuneiform, opening a dramatic window into the ancient Mesopotamian world, revealing lives that are every bit as complex and human as are our own lives today.

ARCE Tut Tour DC
2022-06-23 18:00 (America/New_York) | Egyptian Embassy, 3521 International Ct. NW, Washington, DC, 20008, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, in collaboration with the Egyptian Embassy and ARCE-DC, is pleased to present a special evening with Dr. Marc Gabolde in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. A light reception will take place after the lecture. Registration is required: https://www.arce.org/tut-chapter-tour

ARCE Tut Tour Philadelphia
2022-06-26 14:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum – Widener Auditorium, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, in collaboration with ARCE-NE, is pleased to present a special afternoon with Dr. Marc Gabolde in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. A light reception will take place after the reception. Registration is required: https://www.arce.org/tut-chapter-tour

ARCE Tut Tour Boston
2022-06-27 18:00 (America/New_York) | Convene at One Boston Place, 201 Washington St. 2nd Floor, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, in collaboration with ARCE-NE, is pleased to present a special evening with Dr. Marc Gabolde in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. A light reception will take place after the lecture. Registration is required: https://www.arce.org/tut-chapter-tour

Virtual Symposium: 20 Years of Gold on Athena
2022-08-23 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | The Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join the Parthenon for a virtual talk on Tuesday, August 23, at 6 PM Central. This online Symposium is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:
Twenty years ago, the colossal statue of Athena Parthenos inside the Nashville Parthenon underwent a transformation. After standing as a white statue from 1990-2002, a team of experts and volunteers added over 8 pounds of gold leaf plus colorful paint details to Athena. Join this Symposium to hear more about the gold gilding process and this incredible project that changed the way millions of Parthenon visitors see ancient statues.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Micki and Mitch Cavanah, Reed’s Gold Leaf
For more than 30 years, Micki and Mitchell Cavanah have been perfecting the fine tradition of gilding (gold leafing) and coordinating with other gilders and craftsmen from related fields to ensure the mutual preservation of the art form of antique & frame restoration. Micki and Mitchell are expert gold gilders and were involved with the project that added gold and paint to the statue of Athena Parthenos in the Naos over the summer of 2002.
Micki and Mitchell are long-time members of the prestigious Society of Gilders, of which Micki has previously served as Vice-President and currently serves on the board of trustees. Both are well-respected educators in the arts of restoration and gilding who have worked on famous sites all over the United States including the Louisiana State Museum, Chicago’s Glessner House, and memorials in Washington DC including the Iwo Jima Memorial and Marconi Memorial.

Consumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria
2022-08-28 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Thomas Landvatter, University of Michigan:
Consumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria
Sunday, August 28, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time
Zoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members, please send any registration requests no later than Friday, August 26. The number of registrations is limited, so the sooner you register, the better.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
Mummification is, of course, the burial practice most associated with ancient Egypt. It may come as a surprise, then, that for a period of time cremation – the very antithesis of mummification – is attested in Egypt. During the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BCE), when Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of Graeco-Maedonian origin, it is clear that mummification remained the burial treatment of choice for many elite classes across Egypt. However, a significant minority of burials in the capital of Alexandria and elsewhere were in fact cremations. In this talk, I explore the cremation burials of Ptolemaic Alexandria, who used cremation and why, and what cremation reveals about the cultural and social environment of that city. I argue that these cremation burials and their meaning can only be understood in relation to Egyptian mummification and other cultural practices, as well as the unique social and cultural environment of early Alexandria.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Tom Landvatter (PhD, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan), is Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His teaching and research interests center on the history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period (323-30 BCE), in particular Cyprus and Ptolemaic Egypt. He has excavated in Egypt at both Mendes and, especially, Abydos, which has been an ongoing focus of his research and publications. Currently he co-directs an excavation at the Hellenistic fortification of Vigla, near Larnaca, Cyprus.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, https://arce-nc.org/, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

“Moral Zoning” and the Visibility of Prostitution at Pompeii
2022-09-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, 44106, United States

Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City
2022-09-08 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | HIghsmith Union, UNC Asheville, One Carmichael Heights UNCA, Asheville, NC, 28804, United States
Award winning author and journalist Andrew Lawler will give a lecture on his most recent book Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City on September 8 at 7:30 pm in the Mountain View Suites in Highsmith Student Union. Lawler, who has won multiple journalism awards for his articles, is the author of two other books– The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a national bestseller, and Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization. Lawler has authored more than a thousand newspaper and magazine articles from more than two dozen countries and his writings includes publications in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and many others. As a contributing writer for Science and contributing editor for Archaeology, Lawler’s work has appeared several times in The Best of Science and Nature Writing.
Please join us for his talk on ‘Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City’ on September 8 at 7:30 pm, Mountain View Suites in Highsmith student union.
Contact: Laurel Taylor, Department of Art and Art History,
President, Western North Carolina Archaeological Institute of America Chapter

Funerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead
2022-09-11 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building, University of California, 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. Marissa A. Stevens, UCLA:
Funerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead
Sunday, September 11, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time
Room 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
Please note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC Publicity Director
About the Lecture:
Twenty-first Dynasty funerary papyri – consisting of texts and images from the Book of the Dead, the many Underworld Books, and other cosmographic scenes – have always fascinated Egyptologists for what they reveal about Egyptian afterlife beliefs and their understanding and conceptualization of the underworld. But these documents are also social objects. The creation, ownership, and use of these papyri can shed much light about the deceased who reap the religious benefit of the texts and on the family of the deceased, who also benefit from these objects in social and ideological ways. Studying these papyri as objects of social life, we can learn about temple life, titles and rank, family structure, inheritance, and social status of the deceased and the families they left behind. Funerary papyri were therefore used as a form of social competition, and reveal much about the mindset of the elite priests of 21st Dynasty Thebes.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Marissa Stevens is the Assistant Director of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World. Trained as an Egyptologist who studies the materiality, social history, and texts of the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Combining art historical and linguistic approaches, her research interests focus on how objects can solidify, maintain, and perpetuate social identity, especially in times of crisis when more traditional means of self-identification are absent.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, https://arce-nc.org/, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
Parking for the event is available in UC lots all day on weekends, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/

CANCELLED - Working from Home: Assessing the Significance of Specialized Craft Production Based in Households in the Aegean Bronze Age
2022-09-13 17:00 (America/New_York) | California
This lecture has been cancelled.

Donald P. Ryan: “In the Footsteps of Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings”
2022-09-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
The archaeological exploration of ancient Egypt’s royal New Kingdom cemetery,
the Valley of the Kings, offers a rich history of fascinating discoveries made by determined
and often eccentric individuals including Howard Carter, who was well involved in the
Valley decades before he encountered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. In this lecture,
Don Ryan will describe some of his own work in the Valley of the Kings during which he
literally followed in the footsteps of Carter, including the re-excavation of three tombs
discovered by the famed archaeologist early in his career. One tomb is especially
controversial with its occupant identified by some as the female ruler, Hatshepsut, after its
rediscovery by Ryan.

“Barbarians” and Bronzes: The Origins of Civilization in Ancient Vietnam
2022-09-15 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Alumni Hall 302 (“Trustees Room’), Knox College, Galesburg, IL, 61401, United States

Plumbing the Depths: Exploring Violence and Warfare in Humanity’s Past
2022-09-16 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Knight Auditorium, The Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign, 1 W. Green St, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States

Musical Performance and Talk on the Rock Gongs of Sudan
2022-09-18 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | California
Percussionist Jesse Stewart will give us a live demonstration on his lithograph as well as a talk on early instruments and music. This will be followed by a lecture on the rock gongs of Sudan by Yahia Fadl Tahir, who sends the following abstract:
Rock gongs are naturally situated rock that resonate when struck and show evidence of use as an idiophone. Rock gongs are mostly found in Africa, but also in other contexts. Rock gongs are common features in Sudan e.g., in the north, 3rd cataract region.
To investigate the rock gongs in our region, their archaeological contexts, surviving traditions, and ritual practice in the vicinity of these rocks were studied.
In the archaeological context, it is observed that 46% of rock gong sites are associated with Neolithic occupations, 62% with Kerma occupations, 23% with Christian cross drawings, 15% near churches (KBD 019 and MAS 031) and 69% of rock gongs are associated with rock drawings of animals.
Many traditions, ceremonies, and rituals were practiced on rocks from different parts of the Third Cataract Region along the Nile. Ritual practices and ceremonies performed are wind-making, protection from the devil, marriage ceremonies, and circumcision ceremonies.

Virtual Symposium: Pandora & Polychromy on the Base of Athena
2022-09-19 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | The Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join us for a free virtual talk on Monday, September 19, at 6 PM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:
The ancient writer Pausanias said that the base of the statue of Athena inside the Parthenon was a scene of Pandora. But what exactly did it look like? Maria Sellers will share her research into Pandora on the base of Athena and show her project to provide a clear visual description of the famous Pandora scene. Through her color restoration we will see what an Acropolis visitor might have seen 2,500 years ago!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Maria Sellers is a graduate student at George Washington University. She conducted her senior thesis at Vanderbilt University with Dr. Betsey A. Robinson and has presented her research and findings at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meetings.

The World’s Oldest Profession: Examining Prostitution in Pompeii’s Brothel
2022-09-20 17:00 (America/New_York) | Collins Cinema at Wellesley College, 106 Central St, Wellesley Hills, MA, 02481

New Approaches to the Archaeology of Disease: Climate, Imperialism and Malaria in the Indian Ocean
2022-09-20 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Webinar, Webinar, London, UK, London, Sonoma County, 5201, United Kingdom
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

New Approaches to the Archaeology of Disease — Climate, Imperialism, & Malaria in the Indian Ocean
2022-09-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Lecturer: Krish Seetah (Stanford University)
Come join us for a watch party of Professor Seetah’s live-streamed lecture. There will be a drawing for a surprise gift and discussion of the lecture afterwards.
