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The ‘Popular’ in Classical Antiquity

University of Pennsylvania 249 South 46th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

CfP: The “Popular” in Classical Antiquity Graduate Student Conference, University of Pennsylvania, April 26, 2019 Keynote speaker: Jeremy Lefkowitz, Swarthmore College What is popular culture in the ancient world? How can we study it? Why should we study it? In recent years the discipline of Classical Studies has sought to move away from its traditionally […]

The ‘Popular’ in Classical Antiquity

University of Pennsylvania 249 South 46th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

CfP: The “Popular” in Classical Antiquity Graduate Student Conference, University of Pennsylvania, April 26, 2019 Keynote speaker: Jeremy Lefkowitz, Swarthmore College What is popular culture in the ancient world? How can we study it? Why should we study it? In recent years the discipline of Classical Studies has sought to move away from its traditionally […]

ARCE-PA Mini Symposium: Royal Tomb Decoration and the Afterlife

UPenn Museum 3260 South St,, Philadelphia, PA, United States

ARCE-PA Mini-Symposium “Royal Tomb Decoration and the Afterlife “ UPenn Museum, Anthro Classroom 345, 1pm SPEAKERS Dr. Aidan Dodson, Honorary Professor of Egyptology, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Bristol "Evolving the Magical Machine: Three Millennia of Egyptian Royal Tombs and Their Decoration" Dr. Suzanne Onstine, Associate Professor of History, University of Memphis "The Magic of Ra […]

Did these prehistoric ground stone artifacts play the first hard rock music? What we know today about lithophones in Colorado

Denver Central Library 10 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO, United States

Marilyn A. Martorano, MA, Martorano Consultants LLC, presents A new class of prehistoric artifacts called portable lithophones has been identified from Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. “Litho” is Greek for stone and “phone” means sound; a lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a purposely-selected rock (often formally-shaped) that is […]

The Significance of the Bayeux Tapestry

Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium 5700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO, United States

Lecture by Professor Emerita Gale Owen-Crocker of the University of Manchester, formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Co-sponsored by the Missouri History Museum

Remnants and Rails: Archaeology along the Southern Bank of the Spokane River at Riverfront Park

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture 2316 West 1st Ave., Spokane, WA, United States

Ashley Morton (independent scholar) This lecture will discuss the results of recent archaeological surveys conducted in the Gondola Meadow and the Looff Carrousel areas before the new recreational rink and carrousel buildings were completed.  It will examine ongoing historical research into what is today Spokane's iconic public centerpiece, Riverfront Park, as the area transitioned from […]