A roundup of short presentations by UT faculty, students, and affiliates involved in archaeology, art history, or material culture of the classical and ancient Mediterranean world, as well as colleagues working more broadly in premodern or pre-contact archaeology, art, archaeological science, or historic preservation.
UWM students are invited to join Prof. Alice Futrell for an informal chat about the field(s) of archaeology, art history, and the ancient world, discuss graduate school and post-grad school options, and get research tips for developing, finishing, and publishing a project.
From the 5th through the 8th centuries, the Nebo region became the home of numerous religious and secular communities. The region was dotted with both ascetic and communal monasteries that were interspersed with larger urban centres and smaller rural villages. By focusing on the results of the 2026 field season of the Town of Nebo […]
Hand-drawn, painstakingly measured illustrations of excavated artifacts are key tools in archaeological research. Celebrate International Archaeology Day by joining Cathy Alexander, archaeological illustrator for Harvard’s Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in western Türkiye, and Caitlin Chien Clerkin, archaeologist and research curator for ancient art, to learn how these technical drawings are made and used. Then try […]
Hand-drawn, painstakingly measured illustrations of excavated artifacts are key tools in archaeological research. Celebrate International Archaeology Day by joining Cathy Alexander, archaeological illustrator for Harvard’s Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in western Türkiye, and Caitlin Chien Clerkin, archaeologist and research curator for ancient art, to learn how these technical drawings are made and used. Then try […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
A lecture in celebration of International Archaeology Day by Alison Futrell, Professor of History at the University of Arizona. Futrell's research is guided by her interest in the performance and imagery of power in the Roman Empire, with particular focus on spectacle and gender. She is also fascinated by representations of the ancient Mediterranean in […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
Internet sensation Milo Rossi — better known to his 3+ million followers as "miniminuteman" — is coming to St. Louis for an unforgettable evening of science, skepticism, and side-splitting commentary. This isn't your typical archaeology lecture. With more than a billion views, the self-proclaimed “Googledebunker” has become one of the most trusted voices in debunking […]
Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins University Gilman Hall room 50 The Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem: History as Metaphor and Simile In 701 BCE, the Assyrian army besieged the city of Jerusalem. Different narratives describing this siege are preserved both in the Hebrew Bible and also in the Assyrian king Sennacherib’s own royal annals. In this lecture, […]
(Eric Blinman, Ph.D. (Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico) European Colonization coincided with a dynamic period within the Native American cultural landscape of Northern New Mexico. Sequential adaptations to a series of climate changes included migrations, displacements of communities, successes and failures of the agricultural economies, and conflict and resolution among an ethnically diverse population.
A lecture by Allison Smith (Davidson College)
