Pour One out for Me: Libations in Roman Funerary Commemoration
Lecturer: Liana Brent, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Kenyon College
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University of Dayton, Science Center Auditorium 300 College Park Ave, Dayton, OH
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Virtual Symposium: Color in Ancient Tennessee
The Parthenon 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, United StatesJoin us for a free virtual talk on Tuesday, November 15, at 12 PM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public. ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: Dr. Kevin Smith, archaeologist and professor at Middle Tennessee State University, will share his archaeological work to understand the pigments and colors used by Native Americans right […]
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Blood Antiquities: Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers, and the Black Market in Cultural Treasures
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.
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Blood Antiquities — Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers, & the Black Market in Cultural Treasures
Whitman College, Olin Hall 129 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, United StatesLecturer: Tess Davis (Antiquities Coalition) Come join us for a watch party of a live-streamed lecture by lawyer and archaeologist, Tess Davis. There will be a drawing for a surprise gift and discussion of the lecture afterwards.
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Blood Antiquities: Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers, and the Black Market in Cultural Treasures
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.
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Dr. Steve Warren
University of Iowa campus (exact location TBA) Iowa City, IA, United StatesDr. Steve Warren (University of Iowa) will discuss his recent research on community-engaged research and collaborations between the three federally-recognized Shawnee tribes and state archaeologists and historians to protect Hopewell mound complexes in Ohio.
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NAGPRA and the Challenge of Tribal Sovereignty in Removal States
116 Art Building West (ABW) 141 N Riverside Dr, Iowa City, IA, United StatesEven before 1990, and the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Native nations forcibly removed from their Midwestern homelands have worked to protect their ancestors’ right to eternal rest. NAGPRA has been a powerful tool in this centuries-long struggle. The results have been mixed. Thanks, in part, to lax state cemetery […]
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The Wild, Wild East: Combating the Black Market in Ancient Asian Art
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.
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Producing Domesticity: a bioarchaeology of domestic labor in Irish immigrants, 19th-century New York City
Education Center rm 118 College of Charleston, CHARLESTON, SC, United StatesA lecture by Dr. Alanna Warner-Smith, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. The rise of industrial capitalism not only restructured labor and class, but also reconfigured the intimate spaces […]
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Dr. Leanne Bablitz: “Where have all the courtrooms gone?: Are they hiding in plain sight?”
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, United StatesIn many western cultures legal activities are accommodated within purpose-built structures, most commonly, the courthouse. While within Roman culture some building types were linked with specific activities, the assignation of […]
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All the Games in the World
Irving Finkel is back, talking about ancient games! In the 16th century CE, the most remarkable document was composed in the form of a hymn to the goddess Ishtar. This composition lists all the games of every type played by boys and girls. In the following centuries, other lists of games were made and by […]
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The late Roman estate of Philippianus: recent excavations at Gerace near Enna (Sicily)
Gerace is a Roman estate centre in the heart of Sicily which the speaker has been excavating since 2013. A substantial estate granary, built c. 300 CE but violently destroyed, probably by earthquake, was succeeded by a compact Roman villa in the late fourth century, which had been equipped with some mosaic pavements but appears […]