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Spectacles of Cultural Heritage Destruction in Global Media
TBA (Minneapolis) Minneapolis, MN, United StatesVirtual EventCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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Highland, Lowland: Chlorite Landscapes of the Iranian Plateau in the Third Millennium BCE (Lecture by Breton Langendorfer)
Princeton University Art Museum - Tuttle Lecture Hall (Room 134) 45 Elm Drive, Princeton, NJ, United StatesIn 2001, flooding near the city of Jiroft in southeastern Iran exposed a vast Bronze Age cemetery. Large quantities of vessels made from a dark soft stone known as chlorite or steatite began to appear on antiquities markets, the majority of which were successfully repatriated by Iranian authorities. These events spurred new archaeological exploration in […]
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Decorating for Death
TBA (Eugene) Eugene, ORTime TBA
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TBA (Hawaii (Honolulu))
TBA (Honolulu) Honolulu, HITime TBA
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Petra’s Forgotten Past: Uncovering the Iron Age Foundations of Nabataean Society 2
Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus, Shaffer Hall Room 3 Baltimore, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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Matrilineal Kinship In Aegean Prehistory: Settlements, Figurines, And The Absence Of Men
Jones Hall 108, Uptown Campus of Tulane University 6801 Freet St, New Orleans, LA, United States -
Re-Encountering Egypt: Museums and the Human Experience in the Age of AI
Penn Museum 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesSaturday, March 7 3:30 pm EST In-person only at the Penn Museum, Classroom L2 No registration required Special Event: Annual Korsyn Lecture in honor of Felix J. Korsyn Speaker: Prof. Rita Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Egyptology, Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley Title: Re-Encountering Egypt: […]
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Prof. Debby Sneed, Assistant Professor of Classics, California State University, Long Beach, “Disability and the Greek Ideal: A Case Study in Marble”
College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, Room 401 (an accessible space) 1 College Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesThe study of Greek art is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude aspects of bodily difference and disability. In this talk, I consider a collection of 6th century BCE sculptures of maidens (korai) that were found on the Athenian Acropolis. As traditionally […]
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TBA (Mississippi/Memphis)
TBA (Oxford MS/Memphis TN) , United StatesCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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Horace and Rodolfo construct the Esquiline: examining garbage and graves at Rome and beyond
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2316 W 1st Ave, Spokane, WA, United StatesJoin us for a lecture by Dr. Kevin Dicus, University of Oregon at Eugene, discussing investigations at Rome's Esquiline Hill. Abstract: Archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani captivated the public with his account of excavations on Rome’s Esquiline Hill. No doubt influenced by Horace’s Satire 1.8 about the same region, his portrayal of mass graves (puticuli) embedded within […]
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The Shipwreck at Gnalić—Gagliana Grossa (1569-1583)
Virtual EventThe George F. Bass Lectures