Heroes on the Move: Greek Heroes in the Hellenistic World
2022-03-22 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, 61103, United States

Lost Landscapes of Sicily, Italy. Submerged Cities and Ancient Shorelines from Prehistory to the Roman Period
2022-03-22 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles), 2022-03-28 17:30 (America/Chicago) | TN
McCann/Taggart Lecture

Rockford Society Lecture
2022-03-22 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, 61103, United States
Heroes on the Move: Greek Heroes in the Hellenistic World

A History of Violence: Understanding the Slave Trade in Ancient Greece
2022-03-23 18:30 (America/New_York) | TBA (Gainesville 2), Gainesville, FL, United States
Renner Lecture

Choices and Changes: 13th Century Revitalization of Cahokia, Native North America's First City
2022-03-23 19:30 (America/New_York) | University of North Carolina Asheville, Room TBA, Asheville, NC, 28804, United States
Stone Lecture

The People of the Roman Frontiers: Investigating multicultural populations in the western Roman empire through archaeology
2022-03-24 16:00 (America/Edmonton) | TN

Digging Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben: The Archaeology of Enslaved Cooks
2022-03-24 18:00 (America/New_York) | TN

Street Theater: A Pompeian Neighborhood in Five Acts
2022-03-25 14:00 (America/Chicago) | The Knight Auditorium/Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, 61801

Kathleen M. Lynch, PhD, University of Cincinnati: Wine and Truth: The Ancient Greek Symposium
2022-03-26 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | TN
Biography:
Kathleen is a Classical Archaeologist who has worked on sites in Italy, Greece, Albania, and Turkey. In particular, she is a ceramic specialist interested in Athenian figured wares from archaeological contexts. Her research currently spans a number of ceramic related topics from issues of Attic chronology to iconography to symposia to the Greek household. In addition, her research considers the role trade played in shaping Attic potters’ and painters’ outputs. In general, the goal of Kathleen’s research is to place material culture back into its context of use in order to understand better the people who used the objects. She is currently publishing ceramic material from Gordion and the excavations of the Athenian Agora.
Kathleen’s book, The Symposium in Context, ASCSA Publications, won the 2013 AIA Wiseman Award for best book in archaeology. She won the 2014 UC Dolly A.B. Cohen Award for excellence in teaching, and the Provost’s Award for faculty excellence in 2016.
At UC she teaches Classical Mythology and courses on Greek and Roman archaeology.
When she isn’t poring over pottery, she enjoys knitting and gardening.
Abstract:
The ancient Greeks developed an elaborate system of preparing and serving wine, enjoyed by small groups of men in a practice called the symposium. This form of wine drinking required specialized pottery shapes, and these shapes frequently bear self-referential sympotic or cultural imagery. As the wine warmed the drinkers, they formed bonds that carried over into their daily lives including providing political allies, a particularly useful thing in the early years of Athenian democracy. This talk will explore the immensely important social role of Greek wine drinking as well as the surprisingly underwhelming role of food in Archaic and Classical Athens (600-400 B.C.). We’ll examine the cupboards of an ancient house to understand the importance of the symposium to real Athenians. Feel free to enjoy a glass of wine during the lecture!

Not a Taboo: Maternal Undress in Etruscan Mirror Iconography
2022-03-27 11:00 (America/New_York) | TN
Bonfante Lecture

The Journey of a Colossal Roman Statue: From Rome to Boston
2022-03-28 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | WEBINAR (Tucson 1), Tucson, AZ
Hanfmann Lecture

The Art of Wine Flinging: Kylix and Kottabos at the Greek Symposium
2022-03-31 16:30 (America/New_York) | University of Pittsburgh, Room TBA, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, United States
Boegehold Lecture

Exploring Egypt’s Middle Kingdom at the Site of Ancient Thebes (Virtual Lecture)
2022-03-31 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | TN
Antonio J. Morales, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, University of Alcalá; Real Colegio Complutense Visiting Fellow 2022, Harvard University; Director, The Middle Kingdom Theban Project
One of ancient Egypt’s high points of cultural, intellectual, and social life was the period referred to as the Middle Kingdom (2030–1650 BCE). The ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor) was the Egyptian capital during the early stage of this period and the site of multiple funerary temples and tombs. In this lecture, Egyptologist Antonio Morales will discuss an international and multidisciplinary project that is conducting archaeological, historical, and cultural research, as well as conservation work, in Deir el-Bahari and Asasif—two funerary areas at Thebes—to better understand the city’s role in the development of Egypt’s classical age.
Presented by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Antiochia ad Cragnum in Rough Cilicia: Pirates, Romans, and More Pirates
2022-03-31 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | TN
Dr. Michael Hoff
Professor of Art History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Roman-era city of Antiochia ad Cragum lies on the south coast of Turkey in the region of ancient Rough Cilicia. Prior to the city’s foundation the site served as one of the major bases of the infamous Cilician Pirates who preyed on shipping along the coastal waterways of the Mediterranean in the late Hellenistic period. Following the resolution of the pirate threat in the first century BCE, the city was founded and eponymously named by Antiochus IV of Commagene. Since 2005 the city has been undergoing excavation which during the last 16 years has brought to light much of the urban fabric of a Roman city: Temples, Baths, Aqueducts, Colonnades. This lecture presents the highlights of the discoveries made over the years, particularly the many well-preserved mosaics.
For questions about the event or registration, please email the program coordinator, Casey Gipson, at casey.gipson@asu.edu.

Ramesside Royal Women’s Tombs, the Book of the Dead, and the Deir el-Medina Iconographic Tradition
2022-03-31 19:00 (America/New_York) | TN

New Archaeological Discoveries in England
2022-04-02 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | TN
First hand description by Katherine Neustadt, Senior Heritage Consultant at Atkins. about several exciting new archaeological projects in England.

TO BE RESCHEDULED: Exploring Fragments: Digital Approaches to the Study of Athenian Vase Painting
2022-04-04 17:30 (America/Chicago) | TN
This lecture is to be rescheduled from April 4th to a different date. The new date/time will be posted online when available.

Noble Lecture

Protecting Cultural Property During Wartime
2022-04-04 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | on Zoom – pre-register via our partner org here: https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/areas-of-study/art-history/, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
Monday, April 4, 2022 at 6pm CT on Zoom: Brian I. Daniels on “Protecting Cultural Property During Wartime”

Block by Block: Piecing Together Athenian Democracy
2022-04-05 17:00 (America/New_York) | TN
Solow Lecture

Currents and Commodities: How Oceanographic Effects Influenced the Prehistoric Colonization of Islands
2022-04-05 19:00 (America/New_York) | TN
Van Tilburg Lecture

The Archaeology of Cheese: Cattle, Strainers, Chemistry, and Genes
2022-04-06 18:00 (America/New_York) | TN

Block by Block: Piecing Together Athenian Democracy
2022-04-06 18:00 (America/New_York) | TN
Scranton Lecture

A Feminist History of Ancient Medicine
2022-04-06 18:00 (America/New_York) | Assumption University Curtis Performance Hall of the Tsotsis Family Academic Building (TFAC 120), 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA, 01609, United States
Kershaw Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Human Arts Series and the Programs of History, Women’s Studies, and Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Assumption University
Please note Assumption University’s current policy for guests as of January 2022, which states “Guests may visit campus if they can demonstrate proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test within 72 hours of arrival. There is no need to preregister to visit campus.”

Exploring Humanity’s Technological Origins (Virtual Lecture)
2022-04-06 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | TN
Sonia F. Harmand, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University; Director, Mission Préhistorique au Kenya/West Turkana Archaeological Project
Human evolutionary scholars have long assumed that the earliest stone tools were made by members of the genus Homo, 2.4–2.3 million years ago, and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands. In the last decade, fieldwork in West Turkana, Kenya, has revealed evidence of much earlier technological behavior. Sonia Harmand will discuss the discovery of stone tools in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in Kenya known as Lomekwi 3. She will show how this discovery is reshaping our understanding of the emergence of human-like manipulative capabilities, as well as the development of cognition in early hominins—the group consisting of modern humans and all our immediate ancestors.
Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Roman Baths Here, There, and Everywhere
2022-04-06 19:00 (America/New_York) | TN

Pompeii's Sculptures in Context: Collecting, Display and Reuse in a Roman Town
2022-04-06 19:30 (America/New_York) | Leggett 537, Randolph College, 2500 Rivermont Ave., Lynchburg, 24503

Lynchburg lecture
2022-04-06 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Leggett 537, Randolph College, 2500 Rivermont Ave., Lynchburg, VA, 24503-1555, United States
Pompeii’s Sculptures in Context: Collecting, Display and Reuse in a Roman Town

Artifacts and Archaeological Processes: The Lives and Afterlives of Objects in Pompeii
2022-04-07 17:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Missouri – Columbia, 101 Swallow Hall, 507 S. 9th Street, Columbia, MO, 65211, United States
5:00 PM reception, LOCATION TO BE CONFIRMED

20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea
2022-04-07 18:00 (America/Chicago) | TN
Tsakirgis Lecture
