Preserving the Past: Archaeological Heritage, the Art Market and Conflict in the Middle East
WEBINAR (Richmond) , United StatesWilkie Lecture
Wilkie Lecture
Free registration on Zoom required. In 31 BC, Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra in a naval battle off Cape Actium in Western Greece. A few years later, the victor constructed on the site of his personal camp a grand Victory Monument to commemorate the event. I first visited this site in 1978, and since then, […]
This lecture will be presented virtually on Zoom. All are welcome. To join the Zoom meeting, use the button below. The public face of Roman art is painfully sober. In the privacy of their tombs however, free to cast off their stern public personae, Romans surrounded themselves with art of a different nature. Here, on […]
Speaker: John Jamison Advance registration is required.
Music features as an important component in a variety of ancient Greek mythological tales, including those portrayed on vases. Athenian vase paintings, however, are a silent medium. This talk demonstrates how images regularly incorporate sound through visual clues inviting viewers to imagine these sensory aspects and how vase painters visually express in different ways music, […]
Lecturer: Maxime Lamoureux-St. Hilaire During excavations in the regal palace at La Corona, Guatemala (2013-2016), Lamoureux-St. Hilaire discovered one of two looted Mayan hieroglyphic staircases, along with seven hieroglyphic monuments. This talk will contextualize this discovery within its glorious architectural and historical settings, discuss the looting, and reflect upon the ethical issues associated with museums— […]
Dr. Christopher C. Fennell of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chicago Law School will present this online lecture. A community’s encounters with structural racism have been examined through oral history, documentary, and archaeological evidence about New Philadelphia, Illinois. This was the first town planned in advance and legally founded by […]
Join us for the November Archaeology & Ale! Dr. Christopher C. Fennell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will discuss "Archaeology, Civic Engagement, and Interdisciplinary Data in the New Phildelphia Project." A community's encounters with structural racism have been examined through oral history, documentary, and archaeological evidence about New Philadelphia, Illinois. This was the first town […]
DESCRIPTION: Numerous urban centers in the Bay of Naples were completely destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Pompeii and Herculaneum are the most famous of these, but other areas were also affected and are less understood, even today, because of their location underneath modern development. The villa complex of Oplontis is […]