Archaeological Institute of America

2023 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference: FUN & FURY
2023-06-12 08:00 - 2023-06-13 18:00 (America/New_York) | John F. Scarpa Academic Center, 3711 Atlantic Ave., Atlantic City, NJ, 08401, United States
June 12 and 13, 2023, at Stockton University Atlantic City
Registration: http://ow.ly/xCrP50Oqgtj
The New Jersey History and Historic Preservation conference is the annual state-wide educational and networking opportunity for history and historic preservation professionals and volunteers in the fields of architecture, planning, heritage site and museum management, public history, archaeology, municipal preservation commissions, county heritage offices, developers, students, and more! Conference highlights include:
– Opening reception at Boardwalk Hall featuring Nelson Johnson, author of The Northside: African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City & Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
– An exciting keynote address by Adam Markham, Acting Director of the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), at the Tropicana
– Hands on workshop with the NJ Historic Preservation Office
– Choice of seventeen classroom sessions, five lightning sessions, and tours of Atlantic City, Boardwalk Hall, and South Jersey architecture
– Marketplace sponsor and vendor exhibits
– Student Poster Sessions
– Closing reception at Stockton University Atlantic City
Registration ends June 8, 2023. Please visit the conference website to learn more, njpreservationconference.org.

ARCE-PA Symposium in Honor of Dr. David B. O'Connor: Abydos Through the Ages
2023-06-10 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
ARCE-PA Symposium in Honor of Dr. David B. O’Connor
Saturday, June 10, 9am-5pm
Hybrid Event: Penn Museum, Rainey Auditorium & Webinar
Lecture is FREE to attend, but requires registration for in-person and virtual options. Register here: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/1584/arce-pa-symposium
Symposium Topic: Abydos Through the Ages
Abstract:
ARCE-PA’s June 10 2023 symposium on the archaeology of Abydos will honor the legacy of Dr. David B. O’Connor. In 1967 O’Connor, then Curator of the University Museum’s Egyptian Section, started the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Abydos. During the 1960s-1990s his research at Abydos focused on North Abydos with its cemeteries and temples linked with the cult of the Egyptian funerary god Osiris. Over the course of his later career, both at Penn and then at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, O’Connor was instrumental in fostering a broadening range of intensive archaeological activity at Abydos. New archaeological research occurred in numerous areas such as the late Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom mortuary landscape of the Middle Cemetery, the royal funerary complexes of Kings Senwosret III and Ahmose at South Abydos, and the memorial temples of Kings Thutmose III and Ramses II. In 2009 O’Connor published Abydos: Egypt’s First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris, a book that examined the rich and ever-changing archaeological picture of ancient Abydos. With the continued sponsorship of the Penn Museum, Institute of Fine Arts/New York University, University of Michigan, and other institutions, the program of North American and Egyptian archaeologists working at Abydos, and in Egypt, has grown and prospered thanks to the foundation provided by O’Connor’s long dedication to Egyptian archaeology and the site of Abydos. The symposium will include lectures by scholars who started their careers under David O’Connor, examining past discoveries, their most recent archaeological research at Abydos, and the ways in which O’Connor shaped their own careers.
Abydos Symposium Speakers:
Dr. Matthew D. Adams, Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Dr. Janet Richards, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Middle East Studies, Univ. of Michigan and Curator of Dynastic Egyptian Collections at the Kelsey Museum
Dr. Josef Wegner, Professor of Egyptian Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Curator in the Egyptian Section of the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Dr. Stephen Harvey, Director of the Ahmose and Tetisheri Project
Dr. Michelle Marlar, Director of Egyptian Archaeological Missions at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
Mr. Hazem Salah Abdullah, Senior Inspector, Sohag Antiquities Office, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, EGYPT
Mr. Mohamed Abu El-Yazid, Senior Inspector, Sohag Antiquities Office, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, EGYPT
Mr. Ayman Damarany, Inspector, Sohag Antiquities Office, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, EGYPT
Dr. Sameh Iskander, Research Associate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW)
Dr. Diana Craig Patch, Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge, Dept. of Egyptian Art, Metropolitan Museum
Coffee & Tea will be available starting at 8:30am. There will be a 1.5 hour break for lunch.

Scottish Isles & Norwegian Fjords with Pre & Post Tour Options
2023-06-09 - 2023-06-17 | Maryland
Join AIA lecturer and host Colleen Batey on this magnificent cruise from Scotland to Norway visiting remote destinations forever linked by Viking heritage. Embark on the 5-star ship the Le Dumont-D’Urville as you cruise to these spectacular sites and attend a series of lectures given by Dr. Batey and a team of onboard experts. There is also a pre-tour option to Edinburgh and Glasgow and a post-tour option to Norway.

Great Lecture: Saving the Archaeology and Monuments of Lower Nubia
2023-06-07 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Beginning in 1902, the archaeological sites and monuments of Lower Nubia were increasingly threatened by the construction of the series of dams on the Nile River at Aswan. By the early 1960s, the ancient land of Lower Nubia had vanished forever beneath the waters of Lake Nasser. Through international efforts, some of the cultural heritage of Lower Nubia was saved (including monuments like the temples of Abu Simbel and Philae); most other sites, such as the fortress of Buhen, a focus of work for the Penn Museum, were destroyed. This talk will examine these sites, the program of rescue archaeology, and the role of the Penn Museum in rescuing the archaeological heritage of Lower Nubia.
Speaker: Josef Wegner, Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Curator, Egyptian Section, Penn Museum

Art Talk Live: Color in an Ancient Greek Ceramic
2023-06-06 12:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join conservator Susan Costello as she focuses on numerous facets of color surrounding an ancient Greek ceramic vessel. She’ll explain how the original color was manufactured, what issue came up when conservators tried restoring the color, and how the Forbes Pigment Collection helped conservators figure out what went wrong.
Led by:
Susan Costello, Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
This talk will take place online via Zoom. The event is free and open to all, but registration is required. To register, please complete this online form.
Please read these instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom. For general questions about Art Talks, email am_register@harvard.edu.

From Stonehenge to Carnac: Megaliths, Monuments & Tombs of Wessex & Brittany
2023-05-30 - 2023-06-10 | Maryland
Explore the extraordinary prehistoric sites of Wessex, England, and Brittany, France with AIA lecturer and host Dr. Ian Tattersall. Amidst beautiful landscapes see world renowned, as well as lesser known, Neolithic and Bronze Age megaliths and monuments such as enigmatic rings of giant standing stones and remarkable chambered tombs.
Highlights Include:
• Stonehenge, the world’s most famous megalithic site, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site together with Avebury, a unique Neolithic henge that includes Europe’s largest prehistoric stone circle.
• Enigmatic chambered tombs such as West Kennet Long Barrow.
• Carnac, with more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones, the world’s largest collection of megalithic monuments.
• The uninhabited island of Gavrinis, with a magnificent passage tomb that is lined with elaborately engraved, vertical stones.
• Several outstanding museum collections including prehistoric necklaces, pendants, polished stone axes, and more.
• The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Mont-Saint-Michel, an imposing abbey built on a tidal island.
• Charming villages, medieval churches, and beautiful landscapes of coastlines and rolling hills.
• The tour begins in London and ends in Paris! Arrive early and/or stay longer to explore these cities independently.

The Archaeological Technicians of Quft and the Art of Excavation as Cultural Heritage in Egypt
2023-05-27 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Maryland
Abstract:
The small town of Quft in southern Upper Egypt is unique in the history of archaeology for having developed a specialized craft industry of highly skilled archaeological excavators, whose skills and networks in the field have been passed down through several generations of family “guilds” from the late nineteenth century to today. This talk traces the historical origins of the Qufti excavation system, as well as the economic trajectory of its rise and decline as an archaeological “commodity;” describes the documentation and historical record it has left behind; and makes the case for conceptualizing the Quftis’ work as a kind of intangible cultural heritage in Egypt.
Bio:
Wendy is an historian of archaeology and modern Egypt. She is currently writing a history of archaeology and the Egyptian economy under the khedives (c.1850-1914), based on her doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written several articles on the history of archaeological labor and fieldwork and is also a member of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU excavations at Abydos, Egypt, and the Arabic Diaries Project of the Harvard University-MFA, Boston Expedition to Egypt and Sudan Archive. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Museology from the University of Washington, and a BA in Linguistics and Anthropology from the University of Washington.

Cruising Scotland to the Faroe Islands and Iceland-Pre & Post-tour options available!
2023-05-26 - 2023-06-04 | Maryland
Travel with archaeologist Mary MacLeod Rivett and discover the myths and stories of the Nordic Vikings and the Gaels of Scotland, from the misty peaks of Scotland to the rarely visited Faroe Islands and on through the “fire and ice” of Iceland. Cruising the North Atlantic Ocean from Glasgow, Scotland, to the remote Faroe Islands and then to Reykjavík, Iceland, you will enjoy the luxuries of the exclusively chartered, five star Le Bellot small ship. On this new specially curated 10-day Cruising Scotland to the Faroe Islands and Iceland cruise you will explore the mighty Norse-Gael kingdom’s legendary impact on Scotland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Main tour highlights include:
• Cruising to the Isle of Iona the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland, and stroll through the serene, restored abbey and see the churchyard’s intricate Celtic crosses.
• An excursion to the 5,000-year-old Neolithic ruins of the Standing Stones of Callanish.
• Visiting the village of Sumba and the Akraberg lighthouse to look for puffins, kittiwakes, gannets, and migrating warblers.
• Embarking on especially designed boats for a private cruise and the chance to touch ice blocks broken from Breidamerkurjőkull, one of Vatnajőkoll’s glacier outlets.

ArtsThursdays at HMSC
2023-05-25 17:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Explore the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture at night! Enjoy free admission at two HMSC museums as part of ArtsThursdays. All ages are welcome.
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Visit the new exhibits Swimming with Sharks and In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, as well as the world-famous Glass Flowers. Find your birthstone in the newly renovated mineral gallery, see large tigers, and view dinosaur fossils in the paleontology gallery.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Explore towering Maya sculptures in the Latin American galleries and see the new exhibit, Shehuo: Community Fire, featuring contemporary photographs of Shehuo, the rural Chinese festival transformed by economic forces. See nineteenth-century Plains Indian warrior art in an exhibit co-curated by Hunkpapa Lakota artist and tribal educator Butch Thunder Hawk.
ArtsThursdays is a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA). This program is part of HMSC’s 10-Year Anniversary celebration.
Photo: EJSP Visual | Julieta Sarmiento

Morocco: From the Desert to the Sea
2023-05-23 - 2023-06-06 | Maryland
Join us for a unique look at the history, architecture, archaeology, and art of Morocco in the company of Professor Emeritus Trevor Marchand and a professional national guide/tour manager. Explore the magnificent landscapes that helped form the country’s ancient and modern cultures, from the wild Atlantic coast to the High Atlas Mountains, dense cedar forests,
and vast Sahara Desert. It is a land of extraordinary contrasts, and on this custom-designed itinerary you will visit all of the country’s best-known historic sites, including six that are inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, as well as bustling casbahs, medinas, and souks.

Stanford AIA Raubitschek Lecture with Ian Morris
2023-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Maryland
“What Happened in History: 81 Years on from Gordon Childe”
This lecture borrows the title from Gordon Childe’s famous book and asks how his theory of the overall shape of prehistory and ancient history looks today.

Iran: The Ancient Land Of Persia
2023-05-18 - 2023-06-02 | Maryland
Travel and learn with AIA study leader Alexander Nagel, an expert in the archaeology of Iran. This well paced 14-night itinerary brings you to to twelve UNESCO World Heritage sites including two visits (afternoon and morning) to Persepolis, one of the world’s most spectacular archaeological sites; Pasargadae, the location of the first Achaemenid capital, with the tomb of Cyrus II and the ruins of gardens, palaces, and altars; Tehran’s lavish, 18th-century Golestan Palace; Soltaniye’s 14th-century mausoleum of Mongol Sultan Oljeitu Khodabande; The Sassanian religious center of Takht-e Soleiman (Solomon’s Throne); Bisotun, with a 6th-century bas-relief surrounded by over a thousand lines of inscriptions in Elamite, Babylonian, and Old Persian; Susa’s Ardeshir’s Palace and archaeological mounds, whose layers date from the 5th millennium B.C. to the 13th century A.D.; Choga Zanbil, a 13th-century B.C. Elamite complex with a ziggurat; Yazd’s historic center and its traditional, underground irrigation channels (qanats).
Isfahan’s immense Meidan Emam (Royal Square) and Masjed-e Jame, one of the world’s greatest mosques. Two full days in the capital city of Tehran for an introduction to the archaeology, culture, and history of the country with visits to several excellent museums and monuments. Na’in, renowned for its carpet-making and fine early mosque; and Ardestan, home to a large, 10th-century Seljuk mosque. Two full days in Isfahan, perhaps Iran’s most splendid city, with glittering, tiled domes that tower above wide, shaded avenues and terraced gardens. Staying in the finest available accommodations, with all meals included. Maximum of 16 participants.

Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea Congressus internationales Smyrnenses XIII STUDIA BITHYNICA. An e-conference on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in north-western Anatolia
2023-05-11 08:00 - 2023-05-12 17:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
We are glad to inform you that an international symposium on the region Bithynia in north-western Turkey will take place on May 11-12, 2023 on Zoom. Bithynia was an ancient region and Roman province located on the south-eastern edge of the Marmara Sea in the north-western part of present-day Turkey. It was bordered by Mysia, Paphlagonia and Phrygia. From the fourth century B.C. it was an independent Hellenistic kingdom, and around 74 B.C. it became a Roman province. During the seventh century A.D. it was incorporated into the Byzantine theme of Opsikion. It became a border region to the Seljuk Empire in the 13th century, and was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the early 14th century. Several major cities of Bithynia set on the fertile shores of the Propontis or in the forested inland, such as Nicomedia (İzmit-Kocaeli), Nicaea (İznik), Chalcedon (Kadıköy), Cius (Gemlik), Prusa ad Olympum (Bursa) and Apamea Myrlea (Mudanya). Beside being a coastal region, it is also occupied by mountains as well as forests, and has valleys of great fertility. Since the studies of F.K. Dörner in the 1950s, archaeologically and historically Bithynia became a special focus in the fields of ancient Anatolian studies.
The aim of this online video conference is to report on the state of research concerning Bithynia during the Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods between ca. early sixth century B.C. and early 14th century A.D. We warmly welcome submissions from senior and junior scholars, including advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from a variety of disciplines related to this Anatolian region. We intend to bring together researchers who can present new syntheses of archaeological data from Bithynia and enter into dialogue with scholars working on the same material subsets. Intended to bring together scholars of Greek, Roman and Byzantine archaeology to discuss a range of issues concerning Bithynia, this electronic conference is an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge about this region. Papers engageging the following themes and topics are invited:
– Bithynia during the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods,
– Archaeological field projects in Bithynia,
– Museum studies in Kocaeli, İznik, Bursa, Istanbul, Bolu and Düzce as well as abroad,
– Ancient Greek, Latin and Byzantine authors and other textual as well as cartographic sources on Bithynia and Bithynians,
– Bithynia during the Late Iron Age,
– Bithynia and the Achaemenid Persian Empire during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.,
– The Hellenistic kingdom of Bithynia and its rulers,
– Pre-Roman tumuli in Bithynia and their archaeology,
– The coinage of the Kingdom of Bithynia and Roman province of Bithynia,
– The Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus (after the two legendary volumes of Chr. Marek in 1993
and 2003),
– Roman provincial administration in Bithynia,
– Historical geography and settlement patterns in pre-Hellenistic, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Bithynia,
– Bithynia and Propontis,
– Two Bithynian cities and their interregional relationships: Nicomedia and Nicaea (after the 2020
volume of Asia Minor Studien no. 96 on the recent studies about Nicomedia and Nicaea),
– Epigraphic and numismatic studies in Bithynia during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods,
– Geographical, cultural and ethnic borders of Bithynia,
– Relationships between Bithynia and neighbouring regions,
– Roads, routes and population in Bithynia,
– Military archaeology in Roman Bithynia,
– The province Bithynia under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 296,
– Roman Bithynia and Christianity to the mid-fourth century A.D. (after the Michigan dissertation of G.J. Johnson in 1984),
– Religious conflict in Late Roman Nicomedia and the rest of Bithynia,
– The Christian martyrs of the late third-early fourth century A.D. in Bithynia,
– Forms of Christian presence in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Bithynia,
– Episcopal sees of the Late Roman Bithynia,
– Jews and Jewish heritage in Roman and Early Byzantine Bithynia,
– Bithynia’s companion for the Christianity and early eastern Orthodox Church,
– Notable personalities of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Bithynia (e.g., Arrian, Cassisus Dio and Helena),
– The Byzantine province of Opsikion (after the TIB volume no. 13 in 2020 on Bithynia and Hellespontus by K. Belke)
– Middle and Late Byzantine studies in Bithynia,
– Miscellanea.
On these themes and questions, all approaches and methods susceptible to bring some progress to our current knowledge are of course welcome: archaeology, ancient history, historical geography, epigraphy, numismatic, history of art, cultural anthropology etc. The symposium will take place virtually on Zoom. All the readings and discussions in our e-conference will be in English, and recorded for later viewing on YouTube. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in 2025. The symposium is free of charge.
We would be delighted, if you could consider contributing to our symposium and contact us with the required information below before January 1, 2023. Our e-mail address is: zotsiami@uth.gr and/or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
For all your queries concerning the symposium our phone number is: +90.544.938 54 64. The organizers seek to widen participation at this symposium, and would like to encourage colleagues from all parts of the world to attend. We kindly request that you alert any interested researches, colleagues and students within your research community who would be interested in participating at this e-conference, either by forwarding our first circular and poster through Academia, Researchgate, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other similar social media, or by printing them and displaying in your institution. Please share them also on your ListServs. We hope that you will be able to join us on Zoom, and look forward to seeing you!

Antiquities of the Southern Mediterranean: Malta, Tunisia, Sicily, Calabria
2023-05-10 - 2023-05-18 | Maryland
Join our engaging AIA lecturer and host Lisa C. Pieraccini for this luxurious small-ship voyage circumnavigating Sicily that includes Tunisia, beginning and ending in Malta. Sicily offers a unique cultural experience in which Greek, Roman, Arab, Norman, Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Muslim influences intermingle-a true crossroads of civilizations. Amidst spring wildflowers and citrus groves discover splendid ancient Greek temples and medieval sites. See five UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including Sicily’s Monreale, Mt. Etna, Syracuse and Agrigento, plus Carthage in Tunisia. Join the pre-trip extension to Malta to explore the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Valetta and Malta’s Prehistoric megalithic temples.

ARCE-PA Lecture by Dr. Jessica Tomkins, Wofford College
2023-05-07 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
ARCE-PA Lecture
Sunday, May 7 at 3:30pm
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Speaker: Dr. Jessica Tomkins, Assistant Professor of History, Wofford College
Lecture Topic: Rethinking Old Kingdom Kingship
Abstract:
Following Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs, our understanding of Egyptian society advanced at lightning speed with every new text published. However, this rapid pace of scholarship also caused certain early ideas to become engrained in the field as facts rather than interpretations or opinions. In recent decades, scholars have begun to question and break down some of these perceived “truths” such as that of a highly centralized government and the redistributive economy model for early Egyptian society. In doing so, it became clear that these earlier interpretations were based on Eurocentric understandings of the monarchy model of government. This lecture traces how and why the nascent Egyptian state was understood through this Eurocentric lens and the subsequent impact such modes of thinking have had in understanding the Egyptian political state, from the period of state formation through the Old Kingdom. This paper will contribute to the dialog on replacing our Eurocentric understanding of early ancient Egyptian kingship, statehood, and government with one based on African models, with an aim to place our interpretation of ancient Egypt back into its original African context.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Jessica Tomkins is Assistant Professor of History at Wofford College. She was previously the Terrace Research Associate in Egyptian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and was the inaugural W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence at California State University, San Bernardino. Jessica was awarded a PhD in Egyptology from Brown in 2019 with a dissertation that examined the display and negotiation of power between the central and provincial governments as seen through Old Kingdom provincial mastabas at Dendera and El Kab. Her current research questions the model of government and modes of power in Old Kingdom Egypt.
Lectures are FREE for ARCE members. For non-ARCE members admission is as follows: $10 general admissions; $7 for Penn Museum members, Faculty & Staff; $5 for Students with ID (12 and under FREE).

New Perspectives on the African Empire of Kush: Excavation at Jebel Barkal
2023-05-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Geoff Emberling, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Univ. of Michigan:
“New Perspectives on the African Empire of Kush: Excavation at Jebel Barkal”
Sunday, May 7, 2023, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Room 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
About the Lecture:
Kush was the dominant political power in the Middle Nile region of northern Sudan for over 2000 years (ca. 2000 BCE – 300 CE). Our understanding of this extensive ancient empire has long been constrained by the long legacy of focus on monumental remains (palaces, temples, pyramids) at the expense of investigation of settlements that would broaden our understanding of Kushite economy and social identities.
A joint project of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan and the University of Michigan has begun work on a newly discovered area of settlement at Jebel Barkal (ancient Napata), one of the major cities of Kush (and a UNESCO World Heritage site). This talk will present the results of our first seasons of work on Meroitic levels of settlement at the site, contemporary with the Roman occupation of Egypt (1st century BCE – 1st century CE).
About the Lecturer:
Dr. Geoff Emberling is an archaeologist and museum curator who has worked extensively on ancient cultures of North Africa and the Middle East. His research has focused on identities, urbanism and empires in Mesopotamia and in Nubia. He has directed projects in northern Sudan over the past 15 years and his team is just beginning its work at Jebel Barkal, the “pure mountain” of the ancient Egyptians and capital city of ancient Kush.
Parking is available in UC lots all day on weekends, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/NorthernCaliforniaARCE, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection
2023-05-07 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
A World Within Reach invites visitors to explore the experiences and imaginations of people who lived in the Mediterranean basin some 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. Clay and bronze depictions of ordinary people (with a few gods and heroes as well), small-scale animal sculptures, and stunning jewelry are all arranged under three themes—power, desire, and wonder—reflecting human concerns then and now.
The more than 60 ancient Greek and Roman objects at the core of this exhibition are drawn from the collection of James Loeb (1867–1933), who graduated from Harvard College in 1888. Convinced that ancient literature could enrich contemporary lives, he established the Loeb Classical Library. This series, now published by Harvard University Press, makes ancient Greek and Roman texts widely accessible by placing them side by side with their English translations. The objects from the Loeb Collection have come to Cambridge with the generous collaboration of Munich’s Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, where they reside today.
As a collector, Loeb was particularly attracted by small terracotta figurines. He felt that encounters with these humble objects brought ancient Greek and Roman lives within reach, transmitted humanity and values across the ages, and had the potential to expand modern perspectives. Today, we ask different questions about antiquity than Loeb did a century ago. These fresh views help us query the past in new ways and reconsider our own presence in the world.
The final component of the exhibition reflects how members of the local community see ancient Mediterranean objects today. Teens in Cambridge Community Television’s 2022–23 School Year Production Program made short videos catalyzed by encounters with ancient Greek and Roman objects in the Harvard Art Museums collections. These films can be viewed on a monitor in the exhibition.
Join the dialogue and allow James Loeb’s objects to help you see worlds, ancient and modern, with fresh eyes.
Curated by Amy Brauer, Curator of the Collection; Caitlin Clerkin, 2021–23 Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art; and Frances Gallart Marqués, 2018–20 Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art, all in the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums.
Support for this exhibition is provided by the Kelekian Fund.

Discoveries in the Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt
2023-05-06 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Maryland
ZOOM lecture: “Discoveries in the Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt” by Dr. Kate Liszka (California Sate University, San Bernardino). Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please…
More Zoom events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.

Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection
2023-05-04 12:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.
Led by:
Amy Brauer, Curator of the Collection, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art
Caitlin Clerkin, Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Ar

Great Lecture: Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE
2023-05-03 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
The earliest cities in the world arose in a dynamic wetland environment at the intersection of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and the shore of the Persian Gulf during the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE. Recent work at the site of Lagash, led by the Penn Museum, in collaboration with the University of Pisa and Cambridge University, focuses on reconstructing the ancient environment of southern Iraq through remote sensing, geological coring, and excavation. This illustrated lecture will bring this formative chapter of human history to life through an overview of this work to date, including geological, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence.
Speakers: Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities; Professor, History of Art; Director, Lagash Archaeological Project and Curator, Near East Section, Penn Museum and Reed C Goodman, Ph.D. Candidate in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.

April 29, 2023: Toys, Burial Goods or Ritual Objects? - West African figurines and their archaeological traces presented by André Luiz Ruivo Ferreira Burmann, PhD candidate Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Pre- and Protohistory of Africa, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2023-04-29 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Maryland
Abstract:
West African figurines are a notable part of the world heritage. Both legally and illegally, they were (and continue to be) collected and exhibited in museums and collections all over the world. Studies of these impressive 3D representations of humans, animals, and hybrid beings have focused mainly on formal, iconographic and stylistic aspects of the figurines. A supra-regional examination of their long history of human interaction and deposition is often absent. Contextual studies on the archaeology of figurines are rather rare, and, mostly, center on a small regional scale. However, in the last few decades, work taking place in some larger study areas, such as the Nigerian Nok Culture, have revealed new insights into the study of figurines. This presentation will share work in progress of a large-scale West African synthesis of archaeological sites and archaeological contexts that have yielded figurines. How were these objects disseminated over time and space? Which figurine traditions appeared when and where? What do we know about their (last) use respectively their way of deposition? Has the latter changed over time? And what role did the Nok Culture possibly play in this development?
Bio:
André Luiz R. F. Burmann is a Ph. D. candidate in Pre- and Protohistory of Africa at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Germany). He studied Prehistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, in addition to Portuguese Philology at the Universities of Munich and Frankfurt/Main. His 2016 Master thesis focused on the archaeological context of terracotta sculptures from the Central Nigerian Nok Culture (1500 BC–1 AD). For the three following years, André Burmann was a research associate in the DFG Research Training Group “Value and Equivalence” at the University of Frankfurt. His Ph.D. research focuses specifically on West African figurines yielded from archaeological contexts, aiming to analyze and compare relevant sites and features through time and space to examine the development of depositional patterns of figurines. Moreover, André has worked in different museums and with curation teams since being a student. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Scientific Trainee at the LWL Museum for Archaeology, the Westphalian State Museum in Herne, followed by a working stay in the Museée d´Angoulême in France. Burmann is an active member of the Pan-African Archaeological Association (PanAf), the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), the West-African Archaeological Association (WAAA), the ICOM Germany Young Professionals Network and the children’s development organization Enfants avec Espoir e.V. Since September 2022, he works at Engagement Global gGmbH in Bonn, being responsible for networking and public relations in the German-African Youth Office.

In Case Of Emergency, Break Pots: Use And Function Of Marine Style Pottery In Minoan Crete
2023-04-27 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
A virtual lecture given by Dr. Emilia Oddo, Assistant Professor of Greek Archaeology, Department of Classical Studies, Tulane University

The Science of Storytelling
2023-04-27 14:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

White Mountain National Forest Archaeology: An Evening With Heritage Staff
2023-04-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
White Mountain National Forest Archaeology: An Evening With Heritage Staff – NHAS
Sarah Jordan, Heritage Program Manager and Forest Archaeologist, Claire Sleeman, Assistant Forest Archaeologist, Genevieve Everett, Archaeological Technician, White Mountain National Forest
The White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) comprises 800,000 acres of federally managed land in three New Hampshire counties, Grafton, Carroll, and Coos, and Oxford County in Maine. The 800,000 acres are split into three districts, the Pemigewasset, Saco and Androscoggin, where Forest Service staff work every day, including five Heritage Program staff, Heritage Program Manager/Forest archaeologist, Sarah Jordan, Assistant Forest Archaeologist, Claire Sleeman, and Archaeological Technicians, Genevieve Everett, Alisha Teator, and Maggie Barry. Learn a bit about how Sarah, Claire and Gen work to manage and protect heritage and archaeological resources in the White Mountains.
Location: Zoom. Register at bit.ly/2023NHASevent

Living in ruins: Vibrancy and decay in the ancient Maya city
2023-04-26 19:00 (America/Chicago) | DePaul Center, Room 8206, 1 E Jackson Ave,, Chicago, IL, 60604
Stone Lecture

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
2023-04-26 17:00 (America/New_York) | Cornell University, G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY, United States
Eisenpreis Lecture

CANCELED: The Global Economies of Late Antique Egypt
2023-04-25 20:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
Dunwalke Lecture

Graduate and Undergraduate Research Lightning Round
2023-04-25 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Maryland
We’re now accepting abstracts for an opportunity to present at our Lightning Round Research Presentations which will take place as a hybrid event in Iowa City and virtually via Zoom. This lightning round is open to undergraduate and graduate students from Iowa colleges and universities. We welcome abstracts from anthropology, archaeology, art history, classics, history, and other related disciplines that engage with archaeological research from around the globe. Abstracts (200-300 words) are due no later than March 1, 2023 and can be submitted at this site: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdi6w7Z4HmBU3U8GBYzuzchZnsJIroU8zXP_WHlfRMNXXkHkw/viewform. Five successful abstracts will be selected for presentation either virtually or in person. Selected participants will be notified by March 10, 2023. All students who are selected to present will receive a one-year student membership to the AIA! We’re excited to highlight new and ongoing research from honors and MA theses, PhD dissertations, or any exceptional project in order to support young scholars and help them in their future careers! Audience members at this event will have the chance to ask our student presenters questions about their research, too, so don’t miss this event and stay tuned for the on-campus location for those wishing to attend in-person; if you wish to attend via Zoom, please register here: https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwoc-usqz0uEtGDN_vT0P-C34KlT2W_DAcl

Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection
2023-04-25 12:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join Caitlin Clerkin for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.
Led by:
Caitlin Clerkin, Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art
Gallery talks are limited to 18 people, and it is required that you reserve your place. At 10am the day of the event, reservations will open and may be arranged online through this form. The gallery talk reservation will also serve as your general museum reservation. If required, visitors will pay the museum admission fee upon arrival.
Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.

Environmental Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean in Ten Objects
2023-04-23 14:00 (America/New_York) | TBA (Long Island), Hempstead, NY
Kershaw Lecture
