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  • Cochineal: How Mexico Made the World See Red (Online Exhibit Spotlight) / Cochinilla: Cómo México Hizo que el Mundo Viera el Rojo (Exposición en Línea)

    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (Virtual) 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Cochineal, a tiny insect found on certain species of Oaxacan cacti, was harvested for millennia by Indigenous peoples to dye fabrics a vibrant red color. But following the European invasion of the Americas in the sixteenth century, it became a widely coveted, globally traded commodity that transformed textiles and art, and made Mexico a center […]

  • The Odyssey: A Retelling

    The Parthenon 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, United States

    The Parthenon and Centennial Park Conservancy are proud to present The Odyssey: A Retelling, by Lisa Bachman Jones in the East Gallery of the Parthenon from June 23 through January 8. Jones is a Nashville-based artist interested in entropy and interconnectivity. Working across disciplines, she investigates the everyday through a lens of care. In preparation […]

  • 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 […]

  • New Technologies and Architectural Insights at the First Doric Temple in Sicily

    CU Museum of Natural History Broadway, Boulder, CO, United States

    In this talk, Dr. Phil Sapirstein presents his findings from a recent digital and architectural restudy of the temple of Apollo at Syracuse. Built in ca. 590 BCE, it was the first major Greek temple to be built entirely from stone, and thus it is fundamental to our understanding of the origins of Doric architecture. […]

  • Chasing Venus in Pompeii

    101 Swallow Hall 507 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO, United States

    Join us in person for our last lecture of 2022, co-sponsored by the University of Missouri-Columbia Museum of Art and Archaeology! The lecture will be presented by Dr. Marcello Mogetta (Associate Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia). A reception (open to the public) will be held in Swallow Hall at 5 pm, […]

  • Harald Ingholt Lecture: Doorways to the Past at Balu’a — An Iron Age Moabite City in Jordan

    Whitman College, Olin Hall 129 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, United States

    Lecturer: Monique Roddy (Walla Walla University) Professor Roddy specializes in the archaeology of households and everyday life in the southern Levant, particularly during the Iron Age (12th-6th centuries BCE). She currently co-directs the Balu'a Regional Archaeological Project excavations at Khirbat al-Balu'a in Jordan. Recent projects include co-editing the final publication series of the Madaba Plains […]

  • Great Lecture: Becoming an UNESCO World Heritage Site

    Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    During the last 35 years Dr. C Brian Rose has had the good fortune to direct or co-direct excavations at two legendary sites in Turkey–-Troy and Gordion. Troy was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site List in 1998; Gordion is being considered by UNESCO for World Heritage Status this year. Dr. Rose was involved […]

  • In Between: A Play Written and Performed by Ibrahim Miari

    Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    In Between is an award-winning, semi-autobiographical one-man show that portrays the complexities and contradictions inherent in Palestinian-Israeli identity. On the precipice between two cultures stands Ibrahim Miari, son of a […]

  • Time Team Adventures and Community Archaeology

    ZOOM lecture: "Time Team Adventures and Community Archaeology" by Dr. Alexandra Jones ( Assistant Professor of Practice in History and Anthropology at Goucher College). Room opens at 12:45 and lecture […]

  • In Between: A Play Written and Performed by Ibrahim Miari

    Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    In Between is an award-winning, semi-autobiographical one-man show that portrays the complexities and contradictions inherent in Palestinian-Israeli identity. On the precipice between two cultures stands Ibrahim Miari, son of a […]