Please join the Student Affairs Interest Group for their annual Dissertation Lecture featuring Sophie Cushman, PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, for her talk, "Burial Practices, Chamber Tombs, and Non-Palatial Communities in the Mycenaean Argolid" on Wednesday, May 14th at 5:00 PM ET/2:00 PM PT. The lecture will be held on Zoom - […]
Lecture by Taylor Keen, Instructor at Creighton University and is a member of both the Omaha Nation and the Cherokee Nation. A lecture discussing his insights into Pre-Contact North America that have been presented in his recently published book "Rediscovering Turtle Island."
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 Zoom lecture by Dr. Victoria Jensen, UC Berkeley: In the Shadow of the Palace: The non-elite community of Deir el-Ballas as revealed by the settlement remains and tombs Sunday, June […]
26 July 2025, Saturday at 2 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). Lecture by Dr. Peter Warnock, Adjunct faculty member in Anthropology at Muskegon Community College.
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 Beatrice De Faveri, UC Berkeley "Pakhet of Speos Artemidos: An exercise in divine and demonic ontologies" Sunday August 24, 2025, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time MELC Lounge, Room […]
What can ancient graves tell us about the lives, beliefs, and bodies of people who lived centuries ago? In the Central Highlands of Kenya, archaeologists have uncovered a rare and intriguing find: three double burials dating back to the Medieval period. This talk explores the unfolding story behind these burials and what they reveal about […]
Speaker: Rita Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Faculty Curator of Egyptology, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley University museums hold rich yet often underutilized resources for teaching about ancient Egypt. With the growing availability of 3D and virtual reality technologies—such as photogrammetry, 3D scanning, […]
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening with Tate Paulette as he kicks off this season of AIA Archaeology Hour with "Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia." This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Register here!
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) invite you to attend a lecture by Jess Johnson, UC Berkeley "The Iconographic and Spatial Role of Gate Guardian Demons in Deir el-Medina Tombs" Sunday September 21, 2025, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time MELC […]
The phrase "underwater archaeology" conjures up notions of shipwrecks, ships lost at sea, and the dramatic catastrophes that sank them; however, archaeology underwater can also reveal details about ancient landscapes that contain a record of past human occupations. Many of these sites are on the earth's continental shelves where vast stretches of shallow, coastal land […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture
