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  • The Archaeology of Democracy: Recent Excavations in the Agora of Athens

    Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall 231 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, United States

    Lecture by Dr. John McKesson Camp, II (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor Emeritus of Classics, Randolph-Macon College; Director of Agora Excavations, Athens, 1994–2022; Winner of the AIA’s 2024 Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement). Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies, this lecture is the 14th Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient […]

  • Aegean Sea Odyssey: Cruise the Greek Isles & Historic Türkiye

    Join Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and host Joanne Murphy, a classical archaeologist and an engaging professor, on a captivating journey cruising the Aegean Sea among the cultural coastal gems of Greece and Türkiye. Set out from Athens’ port of Piraeus for the sacred, uninhabited island of Delos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cruise into […]

  • In search of Artemis-Tyche: the cult and sanctuary of Artemis in the Decapolis city of Gerasa

    Doe Library, Room 308A Campanile Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

    The AIA San Francisco Society is thrilled to welcome Dr. Rubina Raja (Aarhus University) back to Berkeley. Please join us to hear Dr. Raja speak about the archaeology and history of ancient Gerasa. This will be the final lecture of the AIA San Francisco Society’s 2024-2025 lecture series. Abstract: The Antonine period Artemis sanctuary in […]

  • Research and Excavations at Sardis

    Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    In this year’s Sardis Biennial Lecture, Professor Nicholas Cahill of the University of Wisconsin–Madison will discuss recent excavations at Sardis in Türkiye. The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958 and is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Discoveries include monumental remains of the […]

  • Family Matters: The Social Role of the Dionysiac Frescoes in the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii

    George Washington University, Funger Hall 108 (2201 G St NW Washington, DC 20052) Funger Hall, Room 108 (2201 G St. NW), Washington, DC, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Professor Elaine K. Gazda, University of Michigan, delivers the DC-AIA Annual Howland Lecture in Classical Archaeology

  • Archaeology-Hour Livestream: Mark Aldenderfer. “Archaeology and the Tibetan/Himalayan Afterlife”

    Walla Walla University, Admin Bldg 116 204 S College Ave, College Place, WA, United States

    Although historians and Tibetologists since the early 20th C have collected and interpreted religious documents describing in general terms rituals of death and safe passage to the afterlife among the early peoples of the Himalayas, the archaeological record offered little insight into them. But recent research by archaeologists across the region have made extraordinary discoveries […]

  • The Past in the Past: The Power of Monuments in Ruin presented by Dr. Art Joyce

    Eaton Humanities Room 250 Pleasant Street 1610, Boulder, CO, United States

    This presentation examines two ruined monumental architectural complexes in prehispanic Oaxaca, Mexico: The Main Plaza of the mountaintop city of Monte Albán in the Valley of Oaxaca and the acropolis of Río Viejo on the coastal floodplain of the Lower Río Verde. Both complexes were built during the Formative period and became the ceremonial centers […]

  • Archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire: Domesticity of Governance & Politics of Dependency, 1600-1836

    UMass Amherst, Integrated Learning Center S211 650 N Pleasant St, Amherst, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships Dr. Akin Ogundiran, "Archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire: Domesticity of Governance and Politics of Dependency, 1600-1836" Thursday, April 10 at 5:30pm EST UMass Amherst, Integrated Learning Center S211 For Zoom attendance, register here: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/UU0SqUeGS8mVuL6k98vAnA Between ca. 1650 and 1800, the Ọyọ Empire was the largest political formation in West Africa, south […]