Archaeological Institute of America

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.”

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

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

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

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

TO BE RESCHEDULED: Exploring Fragments: Digital Approaches to the Study of Athenian Vase Painting
2022-04-04 17:30 (America/Chicago) | CA
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

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

Ridgeway lecture: Petsas House, Mycenae: pottery, production, and the palatial economy of the 14th c. BCE
2022-04-01 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room, Thomson Hall, 1500 N Warner St, Tacoma, WA, 98416, United States
Ridgeway lecture: Kim Shelton, UC Berkeley:
Petsas House, Mycenae: pottery, production, and the palatial economy of the 14th c. BCE
This lecture will present a wide variety of material from the current excavations at Mycenae which provides insight into the production of pottery in a late bronze age workshop, the reconstructed demographics and decision-making process of the pottery industry, and the role of Petsas House in the socio-economic life of the palatial center and beyond.

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) | CA

Antiochia ad Cragnum in Rough Cilicia: Pirates, Romans, and More Pirates
2022-03-31 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | CA
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.

Exploring Egypt’s Middle Kingdom at the Site of Ancient Thebes (Virtual Lecture)
2022-03-31 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | CA
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

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

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

Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard
2022-03-27 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Experience an epic day of archaeological events with the family! Activities are scattered across two museums — the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East — so explore Native North American, Central American, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Mediterranean archaeology. Throw a spear with a spear thrower. Talk to student archaeologists who excavate in locations around the world.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Peabody Museum Admission: Adults: $15.00, Seniors (65+): $13.00, Harvard ID holders: Free, Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $10.00, Youth ages 3–18: $10.00, Youth under 3: Free, Members: Free
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Admission: Free
Free parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage

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

Kathleen M. Lynch, PhD, University of Cincinnati: Wine and Truth: The Ancient Greek Symposium
2022-03-26 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | CA
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!

HERMOGENES AND HELLENISTIC-ROMAN TEMPLE BUILDING IN GREECE AND ASIA MINOR: MESSON – TEOS – MAGNESIA – SARDIS
2022-03-26 09:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
New excavations in Turkey have rekindled interest in Hermogenes, the Hellenistic architect whom Vitruvius credits with a number of temple innovations (e.g. the eustylos and pseudodipteros temple types). The recent excavations of the temple of Dionysos at Teos (Prof. Musa Kadioğlu) have provided new evidence about Hermogenes’ eustylos at this location. This conference brings together specialists from Turkey, Greece, and the U.S. in order to contextualize this renewed attention on Hermogenes in view of current research on temple architecture in both Greece and Turkey as well as the reception of Hellenistic architecture in Rome. Papers will also present recent excavations and research on the pseudodipteros at Messon on Lesbos (Dr. Yannis Kourtzellis), on the Sanctuary of Artemis at Magnesia on the Meander (Prof. Orhan Bingöl), on the pseudodipteros at Sardis (Prof. Nick Cahill and Prof. Emeritus Fikret Yegül), on the pseudodipteral temples of Apollo (Prof. Görkem Kökdemir), on Hellenistic architectural trends in Samothrace (Prof. Bonna Wescoat and Prof. Sam Holzman), on the appropriation of Hermogenes and, more broadly, Hellenistic architecture in Rome (Prof. Mantha Zarmakoupi), and on the legacy of Hermogenes in the study of Hellenistic-Roman temple building (Prof. Emeritus Lothar Haselberger).
The event is hybrid. You can join the event at: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95658132490?pwd=[REDACTED] (Meeting ID: 956 5813 2490; Passcode: [REDACTED]
Organized by Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, Professor of Classical Studies; and Mantha Zarmakoupi, Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture.
This conference is sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Penn Museum’s Mediterranean Section, and the Williams Fund, Penn’s History of Art Department.

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

Gender and Money. A Cross-Cultural Perspective
2022-03-25 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Gender and Money. A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Reproduction and circulation, when thought about in the context of money or bodies, appear to be highly gendered phenomena. Intricate connections between different systems of exchange and gender have been recognized around the globe, in different societies and different periods. Yet, the theme still seems understudied and undertheorized. We want to rethink the topic beyond static classifications of numbers and images, with an emphasis on dynamic processes – of (re)making, (re)using, (re)conceiving. Gender and Money therefore addresses the theme under different parameters, including all forms of money understood broadly as tokens of (real or symbolic) exchange rather than currency. Moreover, we want to be attentive to the intersectionality of gender with age, class, social status, race or ethnicity.
Programme
7.00 AM PDT/ 10.00 EDT/ 3.00 PM CET
Annetta Alexandridis (Ithaca, NY) & Stefan Krmnicek (Tübingen) Introduction
Panel 1: The Gender of Money and of Value
7.30 AM PDT/ 10.30 AM EDT/ 3.30 PM CET
Diane Cady (Oakland, CA) The Gender of Money: Isomorphic Links and Theoretical Connections
8.00 AM PDT/ 11.00 AM EDT/ 4.00 PM CET
Claudia Perassi (Milan) Roman and Early Medieval Coin Jewels. Who Wears What?
8.30 AM PDT/ 11.30 AM EDT/ 4.30 PM CET
Mali Skotheim (Delhi) Gendered Festival Iconography: The Male Athletic Body on Roman Imperial Coinage
9.00 AM PDT/ 12.00 PM EDT/ 5.00 PM CET
Olivia Graves (Ithaca, NY) Response and Discussion
9.30 AM PDT/ 12.30 PM EDT/ 5.30 PM CET
Coffee Break
Panel 2: Economies of Care, Agency of Money
10.00 AM PDT/ 1.00 PM EDT/ 6.00 PM CET
Sibel Kusimba (Tampa, FL) Women, Care, and Digital Money in Kenya
10.30 AM PDT/ 1.30 PM EDT/ 6.30 PM CET
Nanouschka Burström (Stockholm) Coins, Bodies, Games and Silver: Females and Value in Viking-Age Scandinavia
11.00 AM PDT/ 2.00 PM EDT/ 7.00 PM CET
Roberta Stewart (Hanover, CT) Vesta’s Cup
11.30 AM PDT/ 2.30 PM EDT/ 7.30 PM CET
Kaja McGowan (Ithaca, NY) Till They Have Faces: The Role of Coin Figures (Pratima) in Bali, Indonesia
12.00 PM PDT/ 3.00 PM EDT/ 8.00 PM CET
Amiel Bize (Ithaca, NY) Response and Final Discussion
If you are interested in attending, please email Stefan Krmnicek: stefan.krmnicek@uni-tuebingen.de

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

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

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

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

NCPH 2022 Call for Proposals
2022-03-23 - 2022-03-26 | PA
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) invites proposals for its 2022 Annual Meeting, March 23-26, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. If the last few years have shown us anything, it’s that we are currently standing at a crossroads. We have all witnessed monumental changes in society that have fundamentally altered how we see one another, how we interact with each other, and how we will go forward together in the future. Being at the crossroads allows us to reckon with the past while seeking solutions for repair and contributing to a more equitable society. As public historians, our work is critical in defining turning points, meaningful direction, and inspiring movement on paths toward progress. To learn more about the conference theme, “Crossroads,” and to fill out the proposal form, visit us at https://ncph.org/conference/2022-annual-meeting/calls-for-proposals/. Final submissions are due July 15, 2021. Please email NCPH at ncph@iupui.edu with any questions.

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

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

Working the Night Shift: Life After Dark in the Ancient World
2022-03-22 18:00 (America/New_York) | University of Toronto St George Campus, Room TBA, 27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario, M5S, Canada
Matson Lecture
