Archaeological Institute of America

International Archaeology Day with His Excellancy Ambassador Jonathan Miller
2024-11-20 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
We are privileged that the Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations addresses the National Arts Club on the occasion of International Archaeology Day, the committee’s most significant annual lecture. Ambassador Miller discusses The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, established in 1984 and located at the University of Haifa, whose installations display the archaeological history of this cradle of ancient civilizations. On view is the rich heritage of the Land of Israel, uncovered through excavations deep into many layers of the past which reveal Biblical-era cities, Roman and Byzantine ruins, Crusader fortresses — all replete with Jewish as well as Cypriot, Egyptian, Hellenic, and Islamic artifacts.
Watch the lecture live here.

Beyond the stone giants: an isotopic perspective on life and death of the people buried at Mont’e Prama
2024-11-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Davidson College, 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States
November 19, 2024
7:30 p.m. ET
Davidson College
Belk Visual Arts Center 117
Free and open to the public
Luca Lai, “Beyond the stone giants: an isotopic perspective on life and death of the people buried at Mont’e Prama”
About the lecture:
The accidental 1974 discovery of tens of fragmentary statues at Mont’e Prama, in central-western Sardinia, led to one of the most unexpected discoveries in recent Mediterranean archaeology: A unique necropolis with thousands of fragments of stone warriors and athletes representing one of the earliest examples of life-sized 3D figures west of the Aegean.
After a brief summary of the monumental aspects and the main interpretations of the site’s meaning, the talk will explore the less-publicized insights into the chronology, burial ritual, health, diet, and mobility as they begin to take shape from mortuary archaeology, osteology, and especially the isotopic analyses of their bones. This will also provide an opportunity to discuss the site’s role in today’s public debates surrounding the archaeology of the Nuragic culture and its special place in shaping modern Sardinian identity.
About the speaker:
Luca Lai, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte, specializes in stable isotopes, Western Mediterranean prehistory and particularly Sardinia, and human-environment interactions. He has conducted research on paleodiet and paleoclimate in prehistoric Sardinia from the fifth through the first millennium BCE, focusing on long-term continuity and change, and on differential access to resources based on social status and gender. He grew up in Sardinia and has also lived in Ireland, the US, England, and Lesotho. He has worked on favoring the dissemination of archaeology, culture and current events awareness with special attention to the perspectives of minorities.

Lecture: Zuni Region in the Post-Chacoan Era.
2024-11-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Pecos Trail Café, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505, United States
Lecture by Keith Kintigh (Arizona State University). The Chaco Era has received a tremendous amount of archaeological consideration over the last 45 years. Far less attention has been paid to understanding the organization of northern Southwestern societies following the collapse of Chaco–a time was once viewed as a dark age, a time of cultural backsliding. However, imposing sites with Chaco-inspired public architecture provide evidence of large communities, dating between A.D. 1200 and 1275, that laid the organizational foundations of well-known Pueblo IV towns. We excavated portions of two such Zuni-area settlements and did extensive systematic survey around those two sites and a third, Spier 81. The Hinkson Site has 32 residential room blocks surrounding a great house complex that includes an unroofed, oversize great kiva, a nazha, and roads. The Hinkson site appears to be the center of a 250 square kilometer community with 70 room blocks and nearly 900 rooms. The Los Gigantes Site in the El Morro Valley has similar expressions of public architecture but many fewer roomblocks in the immediate vicinity. Recognition of these multi-room block communities with public architecture permits a rethinking of post-Chacoan, Ancestral Pueblo social organization south of Chaco and provides a more plausible bridge between the Chacoan and Pueblo IV periods in the Zuni region.

Living and Dying as an Immigrant in Classical Athens
2024-11-18 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Doe Library, Room 308A, Campanile Way, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco Society, is thrilled to welcome Dr. Camille Acosta (UC Irvine) to the UC Berkeley campus to share her research on immigrant communities in Classical Athens and archaeological evidence for their burials.
Abstract:
Classical Athens is widely known for being the birthplace of democracy, a political system in which any free male could participate in the governing of the city-state. Yet this democratic system excluded a range of individuals from citizenship, including women, slaves, and immigrants. This talk will explore the archaeological evidence for one of these groups: immigrants, including both Greeks from other city-states and non-Greeks such as Phoenicians or Egyptians. Despite coming from a range of places around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, all of these immigrants all died in Athens and were laid to rest in one of the city’s cemeteries. The archaeological evidence of these burials will be used to tell the stories of some of these immigrants, including a man from the island of Chios, a young girl from the island of Lesbos, and a community from the region of Messenia. By re-creating these ancient funerals, this talk sheds light on the lived experience of migrants and centers them as agents rather than “victims” of the Athenian state.
Speaker: Dr. Camille Acosta, Assistant Professor of Art History, Archaeology, and Visual Studies, UC Irvine

12th International Round Table on Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture Art & Science Unite!
2024-11-18 - 2024-11-21 | Getty Villa and Getty Center, Los Angeles, 90049, United States
For the first time, the Polychromy Round Table will take place outside Europe, in the United States, where ancient polychromy studies have a long history. Building upon the encouraging experiences in Berlin (2020) and Rome (2022), this meeting will explore considerable developments, focused research projects, and a growing interest in the topic that characterize the field. Interdisciplinary collaboration within the humanities, conservation science, and natural sciences over recent decades have been of decisive importance and have led to breakthroughs in the understanding of ancient polychromy. The 12th Polychromy Round Table, Art & Science Unite! Interdisciplinary Polychromy Research, seeks submissions for papers related to innovative projects and methods in interdisciplinary polychromy research under two rubrics, the principal theme “Art & Science” and, as customary, “News from Current Research.” Although data sets remain as vital as ever, they can no longer be viewed in isolation. Technical studies, syntheses, and interpretation in relation to well- defined research questions are necessary to advance the field.Abstract submissions, max. 400 words, must include the title of your contribution, author(s) and affiliation(s), and be submitted to PRT12@getty.edu no later than 15 January 2024. Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. A poster session with 10-minute lightening presentations is also planned. Physical presence in Los Angeles is requested for participation and is required of all speakers, although we intend to live stream the presentations. Please indicate if your contribution falls under the rubric of “Art & Science” or “News from Current Research.” A scientific committee will review the submissions and make decisions in Spring 2024. We anticipate that proceedings of the Round Table will be published by the Getty.
During the conference special tours of the Getty’s art collections, special exhibitions, and conservation and scientific facilities will be available, as well as an optional visit to another cultural institution in Los Angeles. The organizers are also seeking bursaries to help support the costs of travel for presenters without institutional funding. Please indicate with your paper submission if you lack institutional support and require financial support in order to attend the conference. Details about these bursaries, associated events, schedules, hotel accommodations, etc. should be available by early Summer 2024.
Possible topics to be addressed include:
• Pigments: identification, provenances, trade routes
• Pigment data: assembly and access
• Technical imaging in polychromy research
• Project design: innovative network organization and resource sharing
• Polychromy studies: interdisciplinary collaboration–ways forwards
• Ars, scientia, and materia: ancient notions and visual perceptions
• Polychrome surfaces: natura, ars, truth
• Living matter: wood, ivory, and bone
• Plastike: metals, terracotta, and glass
• Ancient color worlds: in and adjacent to the Mediterranean
• Communicating ancient polychromy to the public: in galleries and beyond
• Reconstructions for scholars and the public: 2-D, 3-D, and virtual

Archives in the Crocodile: The Tebtunis Crocodile Papyri As the Missing Link between Ptolemaic and Roman Notarial Practices
2024-11-17 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MA
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 Leah Packard-Grams, UC Berkeley:
Archives in the Crocodile: The Tebtunis Crocodile Papyri
As the Missing Link between Ptolemaic and Roman Notarial Practices
Sunday November 17, 2024, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time
Room 56 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
This in-person lecture will not be virtual or recorded.
No registration is required for the lecture.
About the Lecture:
One of the most important finds of Egyptian papyri was discovered entirely by accident. An Egyptian workman (whose name the excavators do not report) broke open a crocodile mummy he had found while digging, and beneath the linen mummy bandages were hidden papyrus archives that reveal the history of the “lost century” of ancient Egypt. The documents found stashed inside the 36 votive crocodile mummies at the site of Tebtunis are everyday papers, but their value and uniqueness is hard to overstate: The texts are from the 1st century BCE, a time when Egypt’s documentary record plummets. In this century, Egypt was in its last decades of native rule under Cleopatra’s father Ptolemy XII, and the Roman Republic was peering at the bounty of Egypt with an eye toward conquest. The archives in the Tebtunis crocodiles show a glimpse of everyday life in this period of uncertainty, offering insights into the economic conditions and state-mandated notary practices of the lost century of Egypt’s history.
These crocodile papyri have never been examined in a holistic way that considers their archaeological assemblage of votive artifacts, the full extent of the subarchives, or the importance of the crocodile temples to the documents themselves. This is precisely what this project proposes to remedy.
About the Speaker:
Leah Packard-Grams an interdisciplinary ancient historian, papyrologist, and archaeologist in UC Berkeley’s interdisciplinary program (AHMA) currently writing her dissertation on the topic of today’s lecture. Her primary interests include Greek and Demotic papyrology, the archaeology of Greco-Roman Egypt, and the materiality of ancient textual artifacts. She is part of two excavations in Egypt (El Hibeh with UC Berkeley + Amheida with NYU). She is passionate about diversifying the field of ancient history to include those accounts of people who have been historically marginalized, and strives to bridge the disciplinary divides that artificially separate archaeology, papyrology, and Egyptology.
Parking is available in UC lots all day on weekends, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ .
About ARCE-NC:
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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students
2024-11-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-11-10 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Available during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 6, 2024–April 27, 2025. See blackout dates.*
*Blackout dates: December 1, 2024–January 26, 2025; and March 16–23, 2025.
This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition and how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around the ancient Mediterranean transformed the lives and livelihoods of people at all levels of society. Touch replicas and smell “ancient” scents as the students bring the past alive.
Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes.
Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at other times. Tours may be available by advance request in these languages: Hindi, Bengali, and Mandarin.

Children in Context: How Mortuary Contexts Inform our Understanding of the Past
2024-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3615010853?pwd=[REDACTED]
Lecture by Dr. Erin Bornemann, Director of Information Management for the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. The mortuary record affords archaeologists a unique snapshot in time and space, providing further information surrounding the larger social context of death and burial in archaeological contexts that are often not discernible from other non-burial settings. Studies of such contexts provide material evidence for objects the deceased may have used in life, but more certainly for objects that the living found significant to include with the deceased in their final resting place. This lecture will present archaeological case studies based on the author’s research in Coastal California and Sudan that demonstrate cross-cultural differences in the expression of death and burial, with a specific focus on an underrepresented portion of most burial populations: children. Using lenses of materiality, personhood, and childhood, this lecture will discuss how these two cultural spheres—vastly different in time, space, and material culture—took great care in the burials of children in their communities, and how these burial contexts can inform our knowledge regarding the ascription of personhood in these societies.

Afghanistan's Heritage: Target in War and Engine of Peace, Dr. Laura Tedesco
2024-11-14 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | College of Charleston, Robert Scott Small Building, Room 235, College Way, Charleston, SC, 29401, United States
This presentation will reflect on efforts to preserve and protect Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. Utilzing the tools of diplomacy through the US Department of State and the practical steps involved in restoration of neglected and destroyed heritage, Dr. Laura Tedesco will discuss a little-known aspect of United States’ engagement in Afghanistan from 2001-2021, with insights on what is occurring now to Afghanistan’s cultural patrimony with the Taliban’s renewed authority.
See our society’s website https://aiasouthcarolina.wordpress.com/ for details of parking and accessibility.

Drawing on History: Creating the Graphic Adaptation of 1177 BC
2024-11-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | George Washington University, Funger Hall 103, 2201 G St NW, Washington, 20052, United States
How does a cartoonist adapt a scholarly work of history, specifically Eric H. Cline’s 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed? Prof. Eric H. Cline and award-winning illustrator Glynnis Fawkes describe the process of interpreting Eric’s text in comics. This meant making historical figures (such as Ramses III) speak, as well as imagining characters for whom we have no record offering commentary and opinions. Join the co-authors as they discuss the creation of 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press).

“Women and Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean”
2024-11-14 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Jepson Hall, Room 118, Richmond Way 221, Richmond, VA, 23226, United States
Anita Krause Bader Lecture in Mediterranean Archaeology, by Dr. Nadhira Hill (Assistant Professor of Classics and Director of Archaeological Studies, Randolph-Macon College)

Archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire (West Africa): Chivalry, Colonies, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period
2024-11-14 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | 164 Lake Ontario Hall, Grand Valley State University, Allendale Campus, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401, United States
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships

POSTPONED AIA Archaeology Hour with Alison Futrell: The People's Arena
2024-11-13 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Apologies–this event is canceled. We will put information out about rescheduling when available!

Archaeology & Ale: Suhar, An Early Medieval Port on the Indian Ocean
2024-11-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | MA
In this presentation Dr. Derek Kennet, Howard E. Hallengren Professor in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf States Archaeology, ISAC, University of Chicago, will discuss one of the most important and least understood periods in the development of the world economy. About 1,200 years ago, at a time when the early Islamic empire of the Abbasids in the Middle East and Tang China were the two global economic superpowers, merchant seafarers began—for the first time in history—sailing directly from the Middle East to China. Their activities brought the two ends of the known world into close contact and seem to represent the first steps towards the development of the modern global economy. Despite their important contribution, almost nothing is known of these seafarers, who they were or how they operated. All that is left to us is the archaeological evidence at port sites around the Indian Ocean. But how do we turn this evidence into a history of trade? Derek Kennet will set out some examples and ideas and describe the current UChicago (ISAC) excavations at Suhar (Sultanate of Oman). Warning: this talk is really only suitable for people who like long, hot sandy beaches, palm groves and exotic locations. Piña coladas are recommended.

Age of Wolf and Wind: The Viking World and the Norse Settlement of the North Atlantic
2024-11-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Siegal Lifelong Learning Auditorium, Landmark Centre, 25700 Science Park Dr #100, Beachwood, 44122, United States
The Vikings continue to fascinate us because their compelling stories connect with universal human desires for exploration and adventure. In Age of Wolf and Wind: Voyages through the Viking World, Dr. Davide Zori (Baylor University) argues that recent advances in excavation and archaeological science, coupled with a re-evaluation of oral traditions and written sources, inspire the telling of new and engaging stories that further our understanding of the Viking Age. Drawing upon his fieldwork experience across the Viking world, he proposes that the best method for weaving together these narratives is a balanced, interdisciplinary approach that integrates history, archaeology, and new scientific techniques. The dialogues he creates between these three separate data sets result in an entanglement of confirmation (texts, archaeology, and science affirming the same story), contradiction (texts, archaeology, and science telling incompatible stories) and complementarity (texts, archaeology, and science contributing mutually enriching stories). This optimistic yet critical treatment of the sources allows for a holistic picture of the Viking Age to emerge. This lecture presents the general arguments of Dr. Zori’s book before offering a case study of this approach from his research on Viking Age Iceland. He examines the Viking experience in Iceland through the discoveries and excavations of the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP) in Iceland’s Mosfell Valley. His team’s work brings together the disciplines of archaeology, history, saga studies, osteology, zoology, paleobotany, genetics, isotope studies, place-names studies, environmental science, and historical architecture. The decade-long research of MAP has led to the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved Viking chieftain’s farmstead, including a longhouse, a pagan cremation site, a conversion-era stave church, and a Christian graveyard. The results of this interdisciplinary work offer a new view into the Viking Age in Iceland.

Forever Is Now: Contemporary Art at the Pyramids of Giza
2024-11-13 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, Founder & Curator, CulturVator|Art D’Égypte
Forever Is Now is a contemporary art exhibition at the 4500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Pyramids of Giza. Against the backdrop of ancient Egypt’s cultural heritage, the contemporary installations are a testament to the continual evolution of art, the transformative power of storytelling, and cross-cultural exchange. Join Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder of CulturVator|Art D’Égypte, to explore how contemporary art intersects with ancient history, and how artists from diverse backgrounds use this historical space to celebrate humanity’s timelessness and the search for meaning and connection in art.
Free admission. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.
Photo: Hesham E. Saifi

Treasures from the Sea Floor: Military Finds from the Battle of the Aegates Islands
2024-11-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | https://blogspot.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5470d27c613f2c360d4f786a8&id=bf6706d199&e=7b113911eb
Dr. Andrew L. Goldman, Professor of History, Gonzaga University
On 10 March, 241 BCE, the final naval battle of the First Punic War was fought off western Sicily, where a large Roman fleet engaged an equally large Carthaginian fleet near the Aegates Islands. Almost 2300 years later, the battle site has been located. Between 2005 and 2024, a wide scatter of artifacts has been raised from the sea floor, relics from the first maritime battlefield of ancient times which has ever been explored. This lecture will discuss briefly the field project and its background, followed by an overview of the major finds, including some of the earliest Latin inscriptions and Roman iconographic representations ever discovered. Among the more important artifacts brought to the surface are the military equipment finds: helmets, swords, and sling bullets.

Dr. Eric Cline - 1177 BC and After: The Collapse and Survival of Civilizations
2024-11-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus, Baltimore, Maryland, 21210, United States
Dr. Cline will discuss what happened after the Bronze Age world of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean collapsed. He will highlight why some civilizations endured, some gave way to new ones, and some disappeared forever. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration.

Harry’s Bracelet: a Canadian battlefield archaeology case study
2024-11-10 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | University of Ottawa Desmarais Bldg., DMS 1110, Laurier Avenue East 55, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada
A bracelet found in a slit trench in Normandy in 2014 led to the identification of Harry Edward Fox, a Canadian Gunner who fought during the Second World War and returned to Canada. Denis Renaud identified this soldier in 2017 and connected with his family. Harry passed away in 2005. This discovery is a case study for Battlefield Archaeology in Canada.

Harry’s Bracelet: a Canadian battlefield archaeology case study
2024-11-10 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | University of Ottawa Desmarais Building DMS 1110 (main floor), Laurier Avenue East 55, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada
A bracelet found in a slit trench in Normandy in 2014 led to the identification of Harry Edward Fox, a Canadian Gunner who fought during the Second World War and returned to Canada. Denis Renaud identified this soldier in 2017 and connected with his family. Harry passed away in 2005. This discovery is a case study for Battlefield Archaeology in Canada.
Denis Renaud is an archaeologist who has been teaching archaeology at the University of Ottawa since 2003.His interest in the military started as a young child and this childhood hobby became his passion. In 2008, his book of short stories about French-Canadian soldiers was published in France. His field of research shifted from his initial specialization in ancient Greece after completing a degree in battlefield archaeology in Paris in 2013. Over the years, he participated in digs in Greece, France, and Canada.

Archaeology Day Fair
2024-11-10 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | MA
Come learn about archaeology with faculty and graduate students in the Classics, Archaeology and Religion and Anthropology Departments! Join us on Lowry Mall and the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri for some fun all-ages educational activities and demonstrations, fieldwork presentations by local archaeologists, tours of the university collections, and a bake sale!

No Ordinary Dogs: Canine Behavior in Theban Tombs
2024-11-09 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
In-person lecture
Saturday, November 9, 3:30 pm EST
Penn Museum, Classroom 2
Speaker: Dr. Chelsea Kaufman
Title: No Ordinary Dogs: Canine Behavior in Theban Tombs
Abstract:
The wall scenes of the rock-cut Theban tombs of the New Kingdom are filled with richly painted imagery that captures the lives and beliefs of the people who built them, offering modern viewers a window through which to recognize and relate to a distant past. Depictions of familiar animals abound in tomb scenes, but perhaps no animal is more familiar to a modern viewer than the domestic dog. Scholars have long been drawn to and commented on canine imagery in Egyptian tombs, often remarking on their proficiency as hunting hounds and their status as beloved companions, many of which were endearingly named and shown alongside the tomb owner receiving offerings. But is there more to the icon than a testament to a cherished pet? Past approaches to dogs in Egyptian art have taken an anthropocentric view, focusing on what dogs tell us about the lives of people while ignoring the animal’s unique ethology. As this talk will show, applying an ethological approach to the images of dogs in tomb scenes can offer a nuanced understanding of the dog’s role within the scenes and the scene itself.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Chelsea L. Kaufman recently received her Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation research centered on representations of domestic dogs in 18th Dynasty Theban tombs, applying an ethological approach to better understand the role that dogs played both in funerary art and society. Kaufman holds a master’s degree in archaeology from Yale and a bachelor’s degree in art from Moravian University, focusing on studio art, art history, and archaeology. She has 10 years of archaeological survey, excavation, and illustration experience within and outside of Egypt including the Mut Temple Precinct in Karnak, Deir el-Medina, the Outer Hebrides, and various historic and prehistoric sites throughout northeastern Pennsylvania and Alabama. Kaufman’s interests are varied, being involved in an ongoing experimental Egyptian metalworking project both before and during her dissertation research. Kaufman is currently working on publishing her dissertation and expanding on topics within it through a series of upcoming articles.
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Registration is NOT required. Lectures are FREE to ARCE Members, $7 for University of Pennsylvania Museum Members and UPenn Staff and Faculty, $5 for Students with ID, and $10 for the general public.
Light refreshments served starting at 3pm.
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The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on all aspects of Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge among the general public, and strengthen American-Egyptian cultural ties. The ARCE Pennsylvania Chapter (ARCE-PA) is the local branch of the national institution. We host monthly events including scholarly lectures, Egyptian-themed workshops, social events, and guided tours of the Penn Museum’s Egyptian galleries. For more information or to learn about the perks of membership, please send an e-mail to info@arce-pa.org, or visit our website at www.arce-pa.org.

Animating Ancient Assyria: Teen Saturdays Workshop
2024-11-09 13:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Take a time machine to an ancient Assyrian royal palace! In this workshop, teens will be introduced to augmented reality using Snapchat features to overlay digital content on exhibits.
Explore art from 640 BCE that depicts royal victories, lion hunts, epic battles, and ancient rituals. Watch stone monuments spring to life with color and movement. Through activities, teens will decide what other exhibits should get the Snapchat lens treatment.
Teen Saturdays Workshops are designed to build community and improve the museum experience for multicultural and Spanish-speaking teens. Workshops are presented bilingually in Spanish and English. Snacks provided!
$10 fee includes free admission to all HMSC museums following the workshop.
Teens in high school ages 14–18 receive a membership worth $100 after attending three or more 2024 fall semester Teen Saturday Workshops. Or, receive a free admission pass (worth $15) for a return visit if you attend one of the four sessions.
September 14: Inside Egyptian Tombs
October 5: Creative 3D Design
November 9: Animating Ancient Assyria
December 7: Marvelous Holograms
Bring a smartphone. A limited number of tablets will be available for loan. Make a note on your registration form if you want to borrow one.
Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.

Sailing at the Edge of Empire: The Roman Red Sea and Beyond
2024-11-08 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH, 43620, United States
The George F. Bass Lectures

“the way we lived was shaped by objects”: Contemporary Reflections on Black Materiality
2024-11-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | The Standish Room, Science Library, UAlbany Uptown Campus, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, United States
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship

The Representation of Ramses II's Enemies in the Battle of Kadesh Reliefs
2024-11-07 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Wilson Hall 168, 301 Sparkman Drive Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35816, United States
The Frederick R. and Margaret B. Matson Lectureship for Near Eastern Archaeology and Archaeological Technology

When Democracies Vote to Overthrow Themselves: Lessons from Classical Athens.
2024-11-07 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | John Cabot University – Room F.G.4 @ Frohring Campus, Lungotevere Raffaello Sanzio, Roma, Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale, 00153, Italy
Democracy most often ends not with a violent spasm, but with a vote.
Oligarchic challengers leverage their small numbers to coordinate dis-informing campaigns, hoping that enough citizens will withhold their support for democratic rule. Already in the fifth- and fourth-centuries BCE, Greek democracies experimented with strategies to overcome these problems, such as the Solonian law against political neutrality and tyrant-killing legislation.
This talk will demonstrate the continuing relevance of ancient political theory and practice to contemporary democratic politics.
About the speaker:
Prof. Robert Sobak (Bowdoin College, USA) is a Greek historian researching the emergence of collective intelligence among laborers in Democratic Athens.
The AIA has selected this talk as one of the “Alan Boegehold Lectures in Athenian Archaeology and Letters” for the academic year 2024/2025.

Collecting the Ancient World: Early Explorations, Encyclopedic Museums, and World's Exhibitions
2024-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | Strand Union Building 235, Montana State University, 613 West Harrison Street, Bozeman, MT, 59715, United States
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology

Decolonizing Museums and the Case of the 'Elgin Marbles': Exceptionalism vs Solidarity
2024-11-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Edmonton) | Tory Breezeway 1, University of Alberta, 6-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5, Canada
