Disrupting the Market in Antiquities, Saving Archaeological Heritage for the Future
2024-01-25 20:00 (America/New_York) | Dodd Hall Auditorium (DHA 103), Florida State University, 282 Champions Way, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, United States
Norton lecture

"Cahokia Mounds - new research" by Dr. Mary Vermilion
2024-01-27 14:00 (America/Chicago) | St. Louis University, Morrissey Hall Rm 0400, 3700 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO, 63108, United States
20 January 2024, Saturday at 2 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ” Cahokia Mounds – new research” by Dr. Mary Vermilion, Associate Professor of Anthropology at St. Louis University. Lecture location to be arranged on SLU campus.

Self-Fashioning in a Roman Province: Gender, Dress, and Difference in the Isiac Funerary Reliefs from Athens
2024-01-29 17:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New Haven), New Haven, CT
Tsakirgis lecture

Dignity and Social Control Through Burial Practices in Ancient Rome
2024-02-01 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Holden Hall 104, 2500 Broadway, Lubbock, TX, 79409, United States

Society Sunday 2024 Public Lecture
2024-02-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Watch recorded lecture on YouTube
“Be(com)ing Assyrian”: Navigating Imperial Power from the Bottom-Up
Join us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Petra Creamer. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language.
At its height, the Assyrian Empire (c. 1350-600 BCE) stretched from modern-day Iran in the east to Egypt in the west, controlling more territory than any entity the world had yet seen. This talk will delve into the profound impact of the Assyrian Empire and its administrative structures on the lives of individuals under its hegemony. Drawing from archaeological and historical evidence, the discussion explores the intricate web of socio-economic, cultural, and political transformations experienced by the non-elite populace under Assyrian rule, focusing on the core area of the empire (the Assyrian “Heartland”) along the Tigris River. Insights from ongoing research illuminate how the empire’s administrative policies influenced Assyria’s subjects – from those residing in urban centers to rural communities. Petra will particularly dive into the implementation of massive infrastructural projects across the landscape, the establishment of centralized governance systems, and the navigation of personal identities that shaped the idea of “be(com)ing Assyrian”.
Petra Creamer is an archaeologist of the Ancient Near Eastern world researching the genesis and growth of empires and the impact of these empires on the non-elite populations under their hegemony. She is director of the excavation and remote sensing project Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia (RLIIM) in Iraqi Kurdistan, where her ongoing fieldwork addresses long-term settlement patterns and lifeways in the ancient Assyrian imperial core (c. 1350-600 BCE). She is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Emory University.
The lecture will also be available in American Sign Language and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.

Hannibal’s Secret Weapon
2024-02-05 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California State University, Fresno (ED170), 5241 N Maple Ave, Fresno, 93740, United States

Robert L. Scranton Lecture
2024-02-09 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Please join the AIA Baltimore Society for the 2024 Robert L. Scranton Lecture. Dr. Maggie Popkin (Case Western Reserve University) will speak on “Imagining the Roman Empire Through Its Souvenirs.” This talk will be held on Zoom, and can be accessed with the following link: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/98825554469?pwd=[REDACTED]

How the Egyptian state formation impacted and transformed the socio-spatial landscape of the First Nile Cataract region between the 4th and the 3rd millennia BCE
2024-02-10 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Virtual, FL, 33155, United States
Virtual Lecture on Zoom
Saturday, February 10 at 1:oopm EST
FREE event, but registration is required: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcemprjoiGNEokVuvL42ACyOqXzkyhoWn#/registration
Speaker: Dr. Maria Gatto, Assistant Professor, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures Polish Academy of Sciences
Lecture Topic: The BORDERSCAPE Project – How the Egyptian state formation impacted and transformed the socio-spatial landscape of the First Nile Cataract region between the 4th and the 3rd millennia BCE
Abstract:
The ancient Egyptian state, traditionally known as the earliest territorial polity of human history, developed in the Lower Nile region at the end of the 4th millennium BCE. Alongside the political transformations, the complex process of state formation instigated far-reaching and profound changes in the socio-economic structure of its territory. With the example of our modern nation-states and geopolitical borders in mind, we expect such changes to have especially marked its newly established borders. However, current scholarship has determined that the ancient Egyptian state did not function as our modern states do, and this, of course, has consequences on the nature of its borders. While many studies have discussed the ancient Egyptian borders in dynastic times, none has focused on understanding how they came into being. The BORDERSCAPE Project at the Polish Academy of Sciences has taken up the challenge by focusing on the ancient Egyptian southern border with Nubia, geographically corresponding to the First Nile Cataract region. The talk discusses the preliminary results of the project investigation of the time and nature of discontinuities in settlement patterns, land use and community structuring between the 4th and the 3rd millennia BCE.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Gatto is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures Polish Academy of Sciences, where she directs the BORDERSCAPE Project and the Division of Ancient Egyptian Borderlands. Previously she held research and teaching positions in Egyptology and Archaeology at the University of Leicester, University of Birmingham, Yale University and at the British Museum. In recent years, Maria has been a Visiting Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, a Visiting Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bologna, and a Guest Lecturer in Prehistory at the Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2017, she is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of Leicester. Since 2005 she is the PI and co-director of the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project.

"Rewriting Human Origins" by Dr. Shara Bailey
2024-02-10 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium, 5700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63112, United States
11 February 2024, Sunday at 2 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). Lecture: “Rewriting Human Origins” by Dr. Shara Bailey, Professor of Biological Anthropology at New ork University. Lecture location – Missouri History Museum, AT & T room. Join us in the museum cafe for lunch (dutch treat) at noon to chat with the speaker.

Let’s Talk about Ancient Apocalypse: It’s Inaccurate, Harmful, and the Real Story of Ice Age Peopling of the Americas is Far More Interesting Anyway!
2024-02-11 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Concordia University, Grimm Hall, 1530 Concordia, Irvine, CA, 92612, United States
Joukowsky lecture

Body Ornaments and Communities of Practice in the Egyptian Predynastic
2024-02-11 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 UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Maryan Ragheb, UCLA:
Body Ornaments and Communities of Practice in the Egyptian Predynastic
Sunday, February 11, 2024, 3 PM Pacific Time
Room 20, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
This lecture will not be recorded.
About the Lecture:
Our bodies and body images are manufactured through one’s treatment of their body surface: Through clothing, jewelry, hairstyles, makeup, or tattooing, we create and recreate certain images that can be readable to others. These body accessories and modifications are not only to reflect identities, but also to be utilized as tools by the wearers to enact their social roles, which are prescribed and promoted by society. Body ornamentation is thus important for affirming social cohesion and shared ideologies of identities both in life and death. In Predynastic Egypt, body ornamentation of the deceased was practiced to varying degrees. This talk discusses the shared community practices in the making and use of Predynastic body ornaments to adorn the deceased’s body. Through a microscopic study of beaded ornaments, their manufacturing processes, and wear marks, I can reconstruct the technical and social processes that were invested in their making, and by extension, the making of the deceased’s image at the time of the funeral.
About the Speaker:
Maryan Ragheb is a PhD candidate in Archaeology at UCLA, with a special focus on ancient Egyptian archaeology. Her dissertation research is concerned with identity expression pre and post state formation in ancient Egypt, through the study of body ornamentation. Her research interests include identity expressions of different minority groups and the cultural entanglement between different ethnicities within Egypt. In addition to archaeological work in Egypt and Ethiopia, she is interested in community outreach and preservation of cultural heritage initiatives. As such, she is currently involved in the Waystation initiative and the voluntary return of cultural objects to China, while building a skillset in cultural heritage laws in the USA, and in provenance research.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, http://www.arce-nc.org, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

Socii and Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop
2024-02-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
Matson lecture

Rhodora Vennarucci. “Socci and Sociability: Shopping for Status in a Roman Shop”
2024-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walla Walla University, Admin Bldg 117, 204 S College Ave, College Place, WA, 99324, United States
Father Edward A. Bader, CSB Lecture in Mediterranean Archaeology
This talk applies a Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) and phenomenological approach to the Felt Shop of Verecundus (IX.7.5-7) from Pompeii. This shop sold fine footwear (socci, or soft-soled felted slippers) and other high-status textile products. We will explore how ancient consumers self-fashioned through public acts of consumption in the shop. An interactive 3D model of the shop in VR — reconstructed using the architectural remains and archival data from the shop’s excavation — facilitates this investigation, and has in turn contributed to the Virtual Roman Retail project.
Socci were a luxury item worn indoors and at dinner parties that only the more affluent in society could actually afford. Shopping for slippers on the street now called the Via dell’Abbondanza (Pompeii’s most heavily trafficked thoroughfare), was therefore a social act that involved the public performance of (aspirational?) power and status. This lecture discusses how shopping behavior conveyed sociocultural meaning in Roman society and highlights the social and communicative functions of a Roman shop-space.

Desert Kites—the Enigmatic Trap from the Air and on the Ground.
2024-02-16 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Spurlock Museum Auditorium, UIUC Campus, 600 South Greogory, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States
Kershaw lecture

Archaeology, Museums, and War in the 21st Century
2024-02-19 18:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Minneapolis – St. Paul), Minneapolis, MN
Santen lecture

Dignity and Social Control through Burial Practices in Ancient Rome
2024-02-22 16:30 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, PA

Ancient Greek Magic with Dr. Jessica Lamont
2024-02-22 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix)
Ancient Greek Magic
Jessica L. Lamont, PhD
Assistant Professor of Classics & History
Yale University Department of Classics
This talk explores different types of archaeological and material evidence for the practice of magic in the ancient Greek world, from binding spells to curse tablets to incantations.
Zoom Registrations Link: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcOyhpjIjHdKS0QhImhdu_R_d9QkeH7A7

The World of the Ancient Greek Potters: Skills, Spaces, Social Networks
2024-02-23 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARTS 1341, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, 93106

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Italian Model of Cultural Heritage
2024-02-23 17:00 (America/New_York) | Reuben-Cooke Building, Room 130, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, United States
Visitor parking is available. Parking Garage 4/Bryan Center lots are closest to Reuben-Cooke Hall, which is located on the southeast side of Davison Quad.

Blood Antiquities: Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers and the Black Market in Cultural Treasures
2024-02-25 11:30 (America/New_York) | Webinar (Long Island)
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2024-02-25 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Sabin Hall Room G90 on the UWM Campus, 3413 North Downer, corner of Newport and Downer Avenues, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States

Fighting Processes Of Historical Erasure In Louisiana: Climate Change, Industrial Development, And Cultural Heritage
2024-02-27 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | Haury Building Rm 215, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, United States
Stone lecture

Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Nam Kim. “'Barbarians,' Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient Vietnam"
2024-02-28 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walla Walla University, Admin Bldg 116, 204 S College Ave, College Place, WA, 99324, United States
Vietnamese lore records that over two thousand years ago, the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam was home to powerful indigenous kingdoms, fortified capitals, and exquisite bronze craftsmanship. In contrast, the neighboring Chinese Han Empire claimed the region was inhabited by unsophisticated “barbarians” in need of “civilizing,” prompting imperial annexation of the region. This lecture explores the region’s archaeological record and what it means for scholarly debates, as well as for Vietnam’s national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.
Please join us for this livestream presentation.

AIA Archaeology Hour with Nam C. Kim
2024-02-28 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Nam C. Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison) presents “Barbarians”, Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient Vietnam.
This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.
Vietnamese lore tells us that over two thousand years ago the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam was home to powerful indigenous kingdoms, fortified capitals, and exquisite bronze craftsmanship. In contrast, the neighboring Chinese Han Empire claimed the region was inhabited by unsophisticated “barbarians” in need of “civilizing”, prompting imperial annexation of the region. This lecture explores the region’s archaeological record and what it means for scholarly debates, as well as for Vietnam’s national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.

The First Kings Of Europe: An International Exhibition About The Prehistoric Balkans
2024-02-29 13:00 (America/New_York) | Wellesley College, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA, 02481, United States
Thompson lecture

Animal Lives At Petra
2024-02-29 19:30 (America/New_York) | HIghsmith Union, UNC Asheville, One Carmichael Heights UNCA, Asheville, NC, 28804, United States

Drought-Induced Conflict Among the Ancient Maya
2024-03-03 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266, United States

The People of the Roman Frontiers: Investigating Multicultural Populations in the Western Roman Empire Through Archaeology
2024-03-03 15:00 (America/Winnipeg) | 118 St Johns College, University of Manitoba, 65 Chancellors Cir, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2

Ludlow Hopkins Baldwin / Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture
2024-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Towson University, Center for the Arts, 1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson, MD, 21252, United States
Please join the AIA Baltimore society for the 2024 Ludlow Hopkins Baldwin/Gladys Callahan Vocci Justice Lecture. Dr. Sam Holman (Princeton University) will speak on “Architectural Innovation at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace: The Engineering of the Stoa.” This will be a hybrid event, held on Towson University’s campus and on Zoom. The talk can be joined remotely with the following link: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/98825554469?pwd=[REDACTED]

Social Justice Through Archaeology
2024-03-09 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Missouri History Museum, AT & T room, 5700 LINDELL BLVD, St. Louis, MO, 63112, United States
