Archaeological Institute of America

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-15 18:15 (America/New_York) | The Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Norton Lecture
To attend in-person or virtually, please register at the link below. Masks are required (but no longer proof of vaccination).

21st Century Tools For Studying Ice Age Art
2022-03-15 19:15 (America/Denver)
Sheppard Lecture

Trinity College Dublin Classics Department Research Seminar, "Rethinking Archaeological Publication in the Age of Born-Digital Data"
2022-03-16 17:30 (Europe/Dublin)
Wednesdays, 17:30 Dublin/London time
Please register at EventBrite using this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/derek-counts-u-of-wisconsin-milwaukee-tcd-classics-research-seminar-tickets-239356199837
Zoom links will be available to all registrants

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
2022-03-17 17:30 (America/New_York) | Michigan Union, 530 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1308, United States
Norton Lecture, LOCATION TO BE CONFIRMED

An Archaeologist, World War II and Prehistoric Thailand
2022-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Dr. Cyler Conrad (University of New Mexico)
The popular Hollywood film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, portrays an important series of events for prisoners of war during World War II in Thailand, also known as the infamous China-Burma-India theater of conflict. While the film’s creative story garnered acclaim and praise after its release in 1957, it masked the true experience of these prisoners in Thailand during the war. This talk will focus on the legacy of Hendrik Robert van Heekeren, a prisoner captured by the Japanese in 1942 and sent to the “Railroad of Death” camps in Thailand in 1943. van Heekeren’s experience during the war including captivity and work on the railroad – common scenes depicted in the film – but his legacy stems from the significant archaeological work and contributions he completed while a prisoner of war and after in Thailand, during the 1960s. The lecture discusses the intersection of van Heekeren, prisoners in Thailand during World War II, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and the broader record of prehistoric archaeology influenced by these events
via Zoom

The Art of Food in Ancient Egypt
2022-03-17 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | TBD, Trinity University, San Antonio, 78212, United States
When modern observers think of ancient Egyptian food, they will usually come up with an image of the deceased seated in front of a pile of mysterious objects. Others may call to mind the offering formula of 1000 of bread and 1000 of beer, and then pause, unsure what comes next. This presentation will look beyond the bread and beer to investigate the complexities of pharaonic cuisine.
Lyn Green received her PhD from the University of Toronto for a dissertation on the royal women of the end of the 18th dynasty (from the reign of Thutmose IV to that of Horemheb). She has excavated at Tell el-Amarna and at East Karnak and worked for the Akhenaten Temple Project, researching the talatat blocks used to build the palaces and temples of Akhenaten. Currently she is a Research Associate of the Royal Ontario Museum.
Her published articles cover many varied aspects of ancient Egyptian culture, including crowns and regalia, feasting, dance, religion, medicine, clothing and beauty, sexuality, history, music and art in a wide variety of publications. These include: The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt; KMT magazine; the Journal of the SSEA and the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Egyptian Archaeology; Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World: Studies in Honor of Donald B. Redford; and more.

Foreigners as Symbols in Ancient Egyptian Tombs (1550-1372 BCE)
2022-03-18 19:30 (America/Halifax) | Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, 23 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Kantor Lecture

Philippianus and his late Roman estate: recent excavations at Gerace, central Sicily
2022-03-20 14:00 (America/New_York) | Department of Classics & Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Desmarais Building, Room TBA, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada

Across the Ocean Blue: Evidence for Precolumbian Voyages and Contacts
2022-03-20 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Bronze Age Monkeys and the Case for Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
2022-03-20 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Gregorian Lecture

Synoikismos: The Formation and Form of Ancient Greek Cities
2022-03-21 11:45 (America/New_York) | Universite de Montreal, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Room C-1017-02, 3150, rue Jean Brillant, Montreal, QC, H3T 1N8, Canada
In-person lecture by Bradley Ault
Following the Late Bronze Age “collapse” of Mycenaean civilization (ca. 1200 BCE), the formative Greek states and the palace centers that spawned them had vanished. What emerged in their wake over the course of the following centuries was the city-state or polis, a system with a remarkably different pedigree. Bottom-up formations rather than top-down creations, established by people and populations, rather than implemented by aristocratic monarchies. More than 1000 such city-states existed in the ancient Greek world, some 600 in the Aegean homeland and another 400 in colonial settings abroad. That is how successful this system proved to be. This lecture will explore not only the mechanisms of Greek city-state formation, but the character of its urban core, and especially how this organization reflected its socio-cultural profile.

Charismatic Rulers and Spatial Void in a Material World: Art from the Akkadian Empire, c. 2350-2150 BCE
2022-03-21 16:30 (America/New_York) | Princeton University, Green Hall, 3-S-15, Princeton, 08540
Ettinghausen Lecture

Due to Covid precaution policies at Princeton, only accept 10 non PU ID attendees will be accepted. They must register with Mo Chen (mochen@princeton.edu) in advance and attest to being fully vaccinated, including the booster. Face masks must be properly worn in the building. Non PU ID holders must be at the front door of Green Hall by 4:20pm so staff can let them in. All campus building doors are locked to the public. Attendees will be checked in.

Halieis. An Ancient Greek City Lost and Found
2022-03-21 17:00 (America/New_York) | Universite de Montreal, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Room C-1017-02, 3150, rue Jean Brillant, Montreal, QC, H3T 1N8, Canada
Biggs Lecture

Plaster Cast Collections and the 21st Century University
2022-03-21 19:00 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Valparaiso 3), Valparaiso, IN
Von Blanckenhagen Lecture

When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
2022-03-22 18:00 (America/New_York) | 1214 Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, 27412
Oliver Lecture

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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