Sparta and Totalitarianism
Speaker: Susan Downie – Carleton University The ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has never really left the imagination of western civilization. From political philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to modern […]
Speaker: Susan Downie – Carleton University The ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has never really left the imagination of western civilization. From political philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to modern […]
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 book talk and signing by […]
The multi-day Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival is an annual juried competition, part of Archaeology Month celebration. It is free, open to the public, and is an educational event showcasing the discovery of past cultures gained from ethnological or archaeological research, and illustrated through documentary films. The Virtual Edition is an international online […]
The "Urban Regeneration and Sustainability" conference holds huge importance in today's world. As cities face numerous challenges, such as quick urbanization, environmental degradation, and social inequality, it is crucial to […]
The George F. Bass Lectures
The George F. Bass Lectures Time TBA
Wednesday Nov. 12, 5:30 – 6:30, Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, Room TBA C. Brian Rose James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Troy and Gordion: An Excavator’s Perspective on Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia Heinrich Schliemann began excavations at Troy in the 1870s, and […]
Speaker: Florence Dunn Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University King Menkaure’s Fourth Dynasty pyramid temples at Giza were once filled with statues. The surviving statues represent […]
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening with Alison Futrell as she gives the International Archaeology Day month AIA Archaeology Hour talk "The People's Arena." This presentation will be given […]
The George F. Bass Lectures
Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Justin Leidwanger (Stanford University). The Marzamemi “church wreck” (as it has been labeled) — a 6th-century CE shipwreck found off the southeastern tip of Sicily, has long been interpreted as a symbol of the emperor Justinian’s ‘revival’ of a […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship Time TBA