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The (Re)Making of the Acropolis from the 1830s to the Present
Yannis Hamilakis, "The (Re)Making of the Acropolis from the 1830s to the Present" Saturday, April 18 at 11:00am EST Smith College, Neilson Library Browsing Room (Room 102) SPEAKER BIO Dr. Hamilakis is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He is an archaeologist, writer, and exhibition curator, […]
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Dung and Desert Copper: Environmental archaeology at the macro- and microscale
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology
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From the Nile to the New World: Pharaohs, Founding Fathers, and Egypt’s Influence on America’s Pursuit of Identity, Liberty, and Legacy
Saturday, April 18 3:30 pm EST In-person only at the Penn Museum, Anthro Classroom 345 No registration required Speaker: Mena Melad, Founder and Editor of Luxor Times Title: From the Nile to the New World: Pharaohs, Founding Fathers, and Egypt’s Influence on America’s Pursuit of Identity, Liberty, and Legacy Abstract: On the occasion of the […]
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Western Horizons: Phoenician Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean
In the tenth century BCE, the Phoenicians — Iron Age Canaanites of the coastal Levant — sailed west to the Iberian peninsula and through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean. They subsequently established colonies in Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, and North Africa. In this talk, we will look at the evidence for when […]
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Ecology, Mimesis, and Humor: Shining A Different Light on Ancient Egyptian Frog Lamps
Photo credit: Lamp decorated with frog legs and wheat ears, baked clay - Museo Egizio Turin P 2126 (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons) --------------------- 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 Clara McCafferty Wright, Cornell University: Ecology, […]
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Archaeology and the Art Museum
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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Social Justice and Archaeology at the Bade Museum
Since the recent global pandemic, the Bade Museum has hosted a variety of online talks focused on the ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern world on a variety of themes related to modern social justice issues. Together with various partner institutions, but always the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley, staff has hosted over five and […]
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Landscapes of Time and Memory: Foragers in the Mojave Desert
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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Digging in Circles: Miami’s Prehistoric Legacy
Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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Digging in Circles: Miami’s Prehistoric Legacy
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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Stress, Sex and Death: Health and Survival in the Context of Medieval Famine and Plague
The Ann Santen Endowed Lecture Time TBA