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September 2026
Something Old, Something Blue: The Color of Innovation through Ancient Western Asian Seals

September 22 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

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

Stone and clay may dominate archaeological narratives of Ancient Western Asian museum galleries, shaping our understanding through what has survived best. Yet, ancient craftspeople worked within a far richer material world that included glass, glazes, pigments, faience, and one of history's earliest synthetic materials: Egyptian blue or zagindurû in Akkadian. Drawing on the Ancient Western Asian seal […]
Religion at the Boundaries and the Archaeology of Interreligious Engagement

September 23 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Oberlin Public Library 65 S. Main St, Oberlin, United States

Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology
September AIA Archaeology Hour with Eric Cline: Homer, Hollywood, and Historical Context

September 23 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Virtual Event

Join the AIA as Eric Cline (George Washington University) presents the first AIA Archaeology Hour talk of the 2026-2027 season: "Homer, Hollywood, and Historical Context: Comments scribbled in a Bronze […]
Beyond Shipwrecks: Currents and Connections

September 24 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Anna Marguerite McCann and Robert D. Taggart Lectureship in Underwater Archaeology Location TBA
Consider the Lobster: The Acholla Archaeological Project (Tunisia)

September 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

La Villita Room, Durango Building, UT San Antonio Downtown Campus 501 W. Cesar E Chavez Blvd., San Antonio, TX, United States

Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
Alexander Hollman (University of Washington): Magic, Underworld Gods, Competition: The Newly Published Curse Tablets of Antioch & Caesarea (Rumpakis Lecture)

September 24 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Willamette University School of Law 245 Winter St SE (Paulus Lecture Hall, Room 201), Salem, OR, United States

Ancient curse tablets, with texts usually scraped into thin, soft lead sheets, then rolled up and hidden in tombs, wells, or walls, represent some of the most fascinating sources of […]
Teaching Ancient across Disciplines: Field Notes from the Harvard Art Museums

September 28 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

101 Swallow Hall 507 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO, United States

Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships Reception before event, lecture starts at 5:30 PM
Teaching Ancient across Disciplines: Field Notes from the Harvard Art Museums

September 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Divine Nine Room, 6th floor of the Kansas Union 1301 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS, United States

Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
Lives Beneath the City: Archaeology at Indianapolis’ Greenlawn Cemetery

September 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Butler University Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, United States

Hybrid Event

Construction of the Henry Street Bridge brought renewed attention to portions of Indianapolis’ historic Old and New Burying Grounds, later known collectively as Greenlawn Cemetery. Archaeologists documented more than 1,700 […]
Sailing at the Edge of Empire: The Roman Red Sea and Beyond

September 30 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

George Washington University, Funger Hall 103 2201 G St NW, Washington, United States

Hybrid Event

Lecture by Nicholas Bartos, Research Scholar, Institute for Study of the Ancient World, New York University 6:30 pm Reception; 7:00 pm Lecture Download event flyer HYBRID event In person: George […]
October 2026
Remembering Boudica: Monuments of a Barbarian Queen

October 5 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Emory University, White Hall, Room 103 301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA, United States

Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
The History of Archaeology in Africa

October 6 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

UNCG Greensboro

Hybrid Event

This talk by Dr. Tim Forssman (University of Mpumalanga) explores the development of archaeology on the African continent through four broad historical eras. It considers how colonialism, independence, changing intellectual […]

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September 2026

Something Old, Something Blue: The Color of Innovation through Ancient Western Asian Seals

Religion at the Boundaries and the Archaeology of Interreligious Engagement

September AIA Archaeology Hour with Eric Cline: Homer, Hollywood, and Historical Context

Beyond Shipwrecks: Currents and Connections

Consider the Lobster: The Acholla Archaeological Project (Tunisia)

Alexander Hollman (University of Washington): Magic, Underworld Gods, Competition: The Newly Published Curse Tablets of Antioch & Caesarea (Rumpakis Lecture)

Teaching Ancient across Disciplines: Field Notes from the Harvard Art Museums

Teaching Ancient across Disciplines: Field Notes from the Harvard Art Museums

Lives Beneath the City: Archaeology at Indianapolis’ Greenlawn Cemetery

Sailing at the Edge of Empire: The Roman Red Sea and Beyond

October 2026

Remembering Boudica: Monuments of a Barbarian Queen

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