In this talk, Dr. Lillios will discuss some of the results of archaeological research she conducted with a UI team at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age burial site of Bolores in the Portuguese Estremadura, between 2007 and 2012. Bolores is a small site (5 x 3 m), yet the analysis of its structure and associated […]

Co-sponsored with the University of Iowa's Art History Department.

An online lecture by Mark Abbe, University of Georgia. Please register beforehand.

A number of publications have criticized the motif of the “happy slave” in antiquity. This presentation by John Gruber-Miller of Cornell College is meant to provide a corrective to that representation, and take a deeper look at the evidence for how the enslaved experienced “social death” (Patterson).  As Kamen (2010), Trimble (2016), and others have pointed […]