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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 Street, 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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Public Lecture: Dr. Alexander Dale (CMLL Department, Concordia University)
Concordia University, H420 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd W, Montreal, QC, CanadaOn Thursday, March 12th, Dr. Alexander Dale (CMLL Department, Concordia University) will deliver a presentation entitled, Two Lesbian Brothers: the quest for fortune and glory in the Archaic Greek East. The talk will take place at 600pm in Hall Building 420. It is sponsored by the Concordia Classical Students Association and the Archaeological Institute of […]
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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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From Money to Metal: How to Operate a Civic Mint in the Roman Empire
Joseph Merrick Jones Hall 108, Tulane University Freret Street, New Orleans, LA, United StatesSpeaker: Dr. Kenneth W. Harl, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Tulane University Based on analysis of the coins themselves, Professor Harl reconstructs how Greek cities in the Roman Empire manufactured […]