Professor Kaja Tally-Schumacher (Harvard Graduate School of Design) will share her research on an overlooked group of practitioners: landscape designers and gardeners of various social classes in the period of the “Roman Climate Optimum,” a period characterized by an unusually stable, moist, and warm climate. One key case-study is the Casa della Regina Carolina at […]
We invite you to join AIA lecturer and host Miriam Stark on a captivating journey through the rich history and vibrant culture of tropical Indochina on our luxurious tour of Vietnam and Cambodia along the majestic Mekong River. Spend two nights in the bustling metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City (still known as Saigon), a […]
Derek Kennet (University of Chicago)
AIA's 2027 Dorinda J. Oliver Lecture Dr. Fae Amiro
Lecture by Stephan Hassam (Randolph-Macon College)
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Andy Goldman, Gonzaga University Abstract: Planning on a trip to Rome in the near future? Wondering what you might want to go […]
Carrie Vee Wilson is a member of the Quapaw Nation who has srved as Director of the Quapaw Cultural Resources Office amd as NAGPRA representative. The Quapaw homeland included much of Southeast Missuri.
Rachel Briggs (UNC Chapel Hill) will speak about eight Native women who were enslaved by a group of Spanish soldiers and Native warriors, forcing them into the brutal world of La Florida. This group of Native women become unlikely observers to one of history’s lost chapters, bearing witness to Spain’s repeated failed attempts at colonization […]
Too often overshadowed by the legacy of Assyria’s ancient kings, this presentation illuminates the queens who reigned with them in ancient Iraq during the ninth and centuries BCE. We focus […]
Many of the most magnificent and best-preserved ancient Greek and Roman sites are found along Türkiye’s beautiful Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. Visit world-famous, plus little-visited yet spectacular, Greco-Roman sites, Byzantine churches, Crusader castles, and Ottoman palaces. Your engaging AIA lecturer/host, Yaşar Ersoy, teaches classical art and archaeology and has been doing fieldwork in Türkiye since […]
We invite you to join archaeologist Michael Hoff on an enriching, ten-night voyage through the central Mediterranean and into the Aegean. Experience an extraordinary variety of sites throughout Malta, Sicily, Italy’s “heel,” the island of Corfu and mainland Greece, and Türkiye as we explore some of the most remarkable landscapes and archaeological treasures of the […]
Lecture by Lisa Brody (Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts). 16th Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World Lecture, followed by open house reception at the Ancient World Gallery, Humanities Building 419.
