The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
2023-01-17 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2023-01-18 19:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

Dr. Brian Buchanan: “More than just a mead-hall, a world’s wonder, eighth of seven: Reassessing the archaeology and landscape of Yeavering, Northumberland”
2023-01-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, 99201, United States
The iconic early medieval royal palace of Yeavering is located at the base of the Cheviot Hills along the modern-day Anglo-Scottish border in a quiet bucolic valley. In the 6th century AD, it was one of the key royal settlements and assembly sites of the early medieval kingdom of Northumbria, linked to the site noted in Bede’s histories as King Edwin’s royal villa of Ad Gefrin. The initial investigations of the site, led by Dr. Brian Hope-Taylor, revealed a multi-faceted complex containing large timber-framed Halles, cemeteries, and evidences of reuse and reinterpretation of prehistoric features. Archaeologists from Durham University, Eastern Washington University, and the Gefrin Trust have restarted investigations of the site and its environs using remote sensing, landscape archaeology, and excavations. This presentation discusses the historic and archaeological background of the site, its importance for the development of early medieval Britain, and how new findings are re-shaping our understanding of this important site.
Dr. Brian Buchanan, Eastern Washington University.

A Foot in Both Camps: The Extraordinary Assemblage of Archaeological Shoes from Vindolanda Roman Fort
2023-01-20 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Ancient engineering of fish captured and storage in southwest Florida in the 16th century by Calusa Native Americans
2023-01-22 11:30 (America/New_York)
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Dr. Victor Thompson, of the University of Georgia, will present on “Ancient engineering of fish captured and storage in southwest Florida in the 16th century by Calusa Native Americans.”

Reconceiving the nomad: tropes, archaeological reality, and why it matters
2023-01-23 18:00 (America/New_York) | WEBINAR (New York City), New York, NY

In the Footsteps of Roman Soldiers: Excavations at Vindolanda and the Archaeological Landscape of Hadrian’s Wall
2023-01-23 19:30 (America/New_York) | UBC Vancouver Campus, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

The Phoenician City of La Fonteta, Guardamar, Spain
2023-01-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
The Phoenician city of La Fonteta, Guardamar, Spain
Dr. Alberto J. Lorrio, Dr. Mariano Torres, and Ester López Rosendo
La Fonteta is a site of urban character dated in the Early Iron Age (8th-6th centuries BC). It is placed on a coastal promontory next to the mouth of the river Segura. Archaeological excavations carried out from 1996-2002 and then from 2018-2019 have provided a settlement sequence from the late 8th to the third quarter of the 6th century BC. The earliest phases of the site show heavy craft and metallurgy activity, besides houses of several rooms built with clay and mudbrick walls organized in an urban layout. A strong defensive system was built c. 600 BC and a new urban layout. The houses of this new phase show one or two rooms, although some of them are more complex. There were open areas between these buildings with worship areas, communal bread ovens, and garbage dumps. La Fonteta also was an important port which funneled a heavy trading activity, as evidenced by the rich material culture attested, with a varied assemblage of pottery with several types and origins, a heavy manufacturing of metallic items, as well as prestige goods, some of the very exotic such as ostrich eggs, ivory items, necklace beads, or scarabs.

Lecture hosted by Friends of AIA-New York.
For more information and free publications about the site of La Fonteta, visit: https://ovc.gva.es/es/estudis-i-publicacions/estudis-i-publicacions.

Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis presented by Dr. Lindsey Mazurek
2023-01-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Hale Science Building, Rm. 270, 1350 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
When Isis first arrived on Greek shores in the 3rd century BCE, her new followers had to build sanctuaries appropriate to an Egyptian goddess. In the process of imagining a place for their Greek Isis to dwell, devotees came up with a wide range of eclectic solutions that intertwined local needs, imperialist fantasy, and fantastical chronology. These sanctuaries do not draw from contemporaneous Egyptian art and architecture, but rather from Greek stereotypes about Egypt and the Nile River. Isis’ Greek temples, I argue, allowed Greek devotees to imagine Egypt in a way that responded to their own experiences as provincial subjects of the Roman Empire.
I begin with a brief overview of Isis’ and Sarapis cults’ arrival in Greece in the early Hellenistic period. Then, I turn to literary evidence, in which Greco-Roman authors from Herodotus to Pliny the Younger characterize Egypt as a timeless and strange place and highlight its unique flora and fauna. I next trace the popularity of these ideas in wall paintings and mosaics, where depictions of the Nile convey ideas of otherness and imperial control. I conclude by discussing the sanctuaries of the Egyptian gods at Marathon and Gortyna. The sanctuary at Marathon combines imaginative architecture that resembles Pharaonic Egyptian temples, archaizing sculpture that evoked a timeless Greco-Egyptian past, and a riverine setting that recalled the Nile Delta. At Gortyna, the sanctuary includes both an underground water crypt that echoed the Nilometers used to measure the river’s annual flood and cattle statuettes that personified the river’s waters. Taken together, this evidence suggests that Greek devotees used sanctuary spaces to explore Greek conceptions of Egypt as an imagined, far-off, and ancient place that they could control in much the same way that Rome controlled and imagined Greece.

Ramses the Great: Power and Patriarchy
2023-01-26 14:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-01-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | John R. Braunstein Hall 300, University of Cincinnati, 2825 Campus Way, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Miners, Martyrs, Shepherds, and Sowers: Shifting Landscapes of Faynan, Southern Jordan over the Last 2,000 Years
2023-01-26 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | Benedictine University at Mesa, 225 E Main Street, Mesa, AZ, 85201, United States
Kershaw Lecture

Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
2023-01-27 18:30 (America/New_York) | Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH, 43620, United States

RESCHEDULED: "Otzi The Iceman": Forensic Science and Ancient Medicine in a Cold Case Murder
2023-01-30 17:30 (America/Chicago)
Norton Lecture

Where Was the American Southwest (and Why Isn’t It There Anymore)?
2023-01-31 18:00 (America/New_York) | Emil W. Haury Anthropology Building, Room 216, University of Arizona, 1009 E South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States

Great Lecture: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
2023-02-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Historic preservation has rarely been a subject taken up by historians. In an effort to address this ironic situation, this talk recounts some of the main themes and critiques shaping the development of built heritage and its preservation in the U.S.—and how this process was itself shaped by periodic reimagining of the American past, as well as by international movements such as UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention.
Speaker: Randall Mason, Professor of City & Regional Planning/Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design

Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande
2023-02-04 13:00 (America/Chicago)
ZOOM lecture: “Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande” by Cyril Dumas (Curator at the Musee Yves Brayer Baux de Provence). Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please…
More Zoom events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.

Society Sunday 2023 Public Lecture
2023-02-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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Going to Work in the Roman Empire: The archaeology of Potters and Potting
Join us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Elizabeth Murphy. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language.
Professional working lives define our place in society and structure the rhythms of our daily experience—how, then, were such lives lived in the past? In this talk, Elizabeth Murphy, an Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Florida State University, will investigate the everyday working lives of ancient craftspeople by venturing into the workshops of a single, common profession—potters.
With many hundreds of kilns documented from the Mediterranean, with elaborate trade networks reconstructed from distributed pottery, and with workshops appearing in a range of settings (from cities to rural estates), potters and their ceramic products are arguably the most archaeologically visible craft profession of the ancient world, yet we have no biographical accounts or personal narratives from the period on the lives of these workers. Using the rich archaeological record, she will investigate their workplaces and working lives—from the technologies of production to the rituals and magic of workshops.
Elizabeth A. Murphy is an archaeologist specializing in the study of the Mediterranean during the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods. Her research and teaching concern the social and economic organization of the Roman world; more specifically, her work focuses on the history and archaeology of labor, production, and technology. She is a specialist in material culture studies, with particular emphasis on the artifactual record of crafts production, and her fieldwork projects have spanned the ancient Mediterranean world from Asia Minor to Italy. She currently co-directs the Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia project (LASS), a diachronic landscape project in the modern region of Sulcis (Sardinia, Italy). With LASS, she is investigating the settlement organization, landscape exploitation, and daily life practices of this rural region during the period of the Roman Empire.
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.

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2023-02-05 14:00 (America/New_York) | Carleton University, Room TBD, Paterson Hall 303, Ottawa, Canada

West Coast Tut Tour: An afternoon with Aidan Dodson in San Francisco, Feb. 5, de Young Museum
2023-02-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
To anyone in the SF Bay Area interested in Ancient Egypt,
I wanted to let you know about an exciting event that ARCE Northern California is hosting with the American Research Center in Egypt and the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. On February 5 at 2pm, the Tut Chapter Tour is coming to the de Young Museum, and features a lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson. For more information, please go to https://www.arce.org/west-coast-tut-tour. Be advised that although the event is free, registration is required. To go straight to registration, click on this link: https://secure.everyaction.com/imoaeYmGY0WyV2Q0J-9qpQ2 .
Hashtags: #TutChapterTour #ARCE #AidanDodson #deYoung
There will be a discount on ARCE membership for people who sign up at the lecture. Hope you can join us!
Glenn Meyer
ARCE Northern California Publicity Director

Central Plains Maize Farming and the Cahokian Diaspora
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California State University, Fresno (Room TBA), 5241 N Maple Ave, Fresno, CA, 93740

Waterscapes in Etruria: Vulci (10th cent. BCE-5th cent.CE)
2023-02-06 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Berkeley, Dwinelle 370, 101 Sproul Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720

Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis
2023-02-07 17:30 (America/New_York) | 1214 Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, 27412

More Than Glitter: Ancient Jewelry in Greece and Italy
2023-02-07 19:00 (America/New_York)

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-09 18:00 (America/New_York) | Behavioral Sciences Building (BEH) 103, USF Tampa Campus, 4209 USF Willow Drive, Tampa, FL, 33620

AIA Webster Lecture: The International Space Station Archaeological Project
2023-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | DePaul University, McGowan South 107, 1110 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614, United States
Since 2015, Justin Walsh and Alice Gorman have been leading the first archaeological study of a human habitation site in space, the International Space Station. In that time, they have studied crew-created visual displays, processes for handling cargo returned to Earth, population distributions in the various ISS modules, the use of simple technologies as “gravity surrogates,” and more. Recently, they performed the first archaeological work in space, with the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE), which had the crew document six locations around the space station through daily photography.
This project just received the AIA’s Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology!

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2023-02-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | John C. Hitt Library Room 402, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States

Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica
2023-02-12 11:30 (America/New_York)
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Elise Poppen, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Buffalo State University of New York, will present on “Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica.”

Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age
2023-02-12 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures, Room 126 Social Sciences Building, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg., UC Berkeley, 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. Peter Brand, University of Memphis:
Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age
Sunday, February 12, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time
Room 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
No Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
About the Lecture:
Ramesses II was both a great warrior and visionary statesman. For two decades, he fought the mighty Hittite Empire for control of Syria including the famous Battle of Kadesh. His military campaigns were the culmination of over six decades of hostilities between these ancient superpowers. Yet Ramesses had the vision to make a lasting peace with Egypt’s bitter rival, when he concluded a treaty in his twenty-first regnal year with his Hittite counterpart Hattusili III. A remarkable cache of diplomatic letters, second only to the famous Amarna Letters, offers a fascinating glimpse of the pharaoh’s boisterous and often tense diplomatic exchanges with Hattusili III and his formidable consort, the Hititte Queen Puduhepa. Fifteen years later, Ramesses negotiated with Puduhepa to marry a Hittite princess. His lively debates with the Hittite king and queen reveal a very different Ramesses II than the god-king and warrior pharaoh we see on his monuments.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Peter Brand is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto and a naturalized American citizen. He is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at the University of Memphis. Since 2001 Dr. Brand has served as the Director of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project sponsored by the University of Memphis, which aims to record and publish all the monumental inscriptions and reliefs from this huge building.
Dr. Brand studied at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis before completing his PhD in Ancient Egyptian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto in 1998. His dissertation, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis, was published by Brill in 2000. Dr. Brand’s area of focus in Egyptology is the history and culture of the New Kingdom, particularly the late 18th Dynasty and the Ramesside Period. In his research and teaching he uses a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates history, art history, language and epigraphy.
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Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii
2023-02-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 601, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States
Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture
For Zoom attendance, please register here: https://bit.ly/3R8sJBY
Dr. Catherine Baker (Mount Holyoke College) will present a hybrid lecture on the topic “Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects at Pompeii.”
Abstract: From the chipped corners of an ancient die to the mortar on a reused inscription, artifacts tell stories. Archaeologists reconstruct these object biographies, tracing the lives of ancient artifacts from their creation to their final deposition. In this talk, I explore the stories of some of the artifacts excavated by the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (University of Cincinnati), including dice and gaming pieces, statuettes, tools of potters, and even nails. These object biographies shed light not only on the way people first used these objects, but on their afterlives – the ways in which objects were discarded, recycled, and reused. These lives and afterlives of objects, in turn, shape the archaeology of a site, allowing us to trace the complex patterns of use, reuse, and discard which characterized the history of one neighborhood in the Roman city of Pompeii.
