Collecting the Ancient World: Early Explorations, Encyclopedic Museums, and World’s Exhibitions
University of Missouri, Swallow Hall Auditorium 507 S. 9th St., Columbia, MOKershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology
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Spring 2025 National Lecture by Dr. Kiersten Neumann: Collecting the Ancient World: Early Explorations, Encyclopedic Museums, and World’s Exhibitions
Where is this artifact from? Who does it belong to? How did it get here? Who’s telling its story? Critical inquiry into the practice and politics of museums has reached a new zenith in contemporary discourse. From discussions of acquisition and repatriation to provenience (archaeological findspot) and provenance (an object’s ownership history) and the ethics […]
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Archaeology, its Colonial Past, and its Collaborative Future: A Community Project in El-Kurru, Northern Sudan
Jepson Hall, Room 118 Richmond Way 221, Richmond, VA, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture
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Remembered Places, Significant Spaces: Room Closure Practices in the Pueblo Southwest
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2316 W 1st Ave, Spokane, WA, United StatesHybrid EventDr. Samantha Fladd, Washington State University., is an anthropological archaeologist who focuses on the Southwest United States, specifically the Ancestral Pueblos of the Four Corners region. Architectural spaces create and are created by the social practices of and relationships among the people who occupy and interact within them. Just as spaces become places, people become […]
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Alternate Realities: Reconsidering Power, History, and Representation – Mary L. Cornille
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesThe 41st Annual Mary L. Cornille (GRS ’87) Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture Submissions due: February 1st, 2025 Symposium dates: March 21st - 22nd, 2025 Alternate Realities: Reconsidering Power, History, and Representation The 41st anniversary of the Mary L. Cornille (GRS ’87) Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History […]
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2025 Mesoamerican Symposium
Cal State LA 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCal State LA’s Art History Society presents the 2025 Mesoamerican Symposium on Saturday, March 22, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the University-Student Union Theatre. The full-day event is organized as a homage to acclaimed archaeologist John M. D. Pohl and art historian Manuel Aguilar-Moreno. John M. D. Pohl is an adjunct professor in […]
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Excavating Notre-Dame in Paris, France
Auditorium at the St. Louis Public Library Olive Street, St. Louis, MO, United StatesA fascinating lecture by Dr. Christophe Besnier (Director of Archaeology Excavations) and Dr. Dorothee Chaoui-Derieux Chief Heritage Curator, the Ministry of Culture). Learn about the first, and only, archaeological excavations that will ever take place inside Notre Dame in Paris, France. See truly remarkable photographs and hear first hand from the archaeologists directly involved with […]
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Looking for Lucy: Revisiting the Foundation of Race & Gender in Historical Archaeology
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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“Barbarians” and Bronzes: The Origins of Civilization in Ancient Vietnam
AIA-LA 1201 9th St., Manhattan Beach, United StatesTwo thousand years ago, China’s Han Empire stretched its imperial grasp beyond the mountains far to the south of the Central Plains, reaching into the domains of “barbarians”. Along its southernmost periphery lay the Red River Valley (RRV) of present-day Vietnam. In their chronicles, the Han claimed that they “civilized” the RRV’s “barbarians”. In contrast, […]
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Drunken Women with Spears? Funerary Practices and Female Identity in Pre-Roman Apulia
College of the Holy Cross, Rehm Library Worcester, MA -
Egyptian Conceptions and Manifestations of Borders and Cultural Hegemony in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant
University of Georgia, Park Hall, Room 265 200 Baldwin St., Athens, GA, United StatesKershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology
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Out from Shadows: Painting the Human Face in Classical Greece
Penn Museum 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Penn Museum