Events

Limestone Sculpture of Cyprus: Portraits of Culture

Hofstra University, Breslin Hall 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, United States

A lecture by Dr. Pam Gaber, Professor of Archaeology and Art History on Lycoming College, on how Cyprus has yielded hundreds of votive sculptures from the First Millennium BCE, and how they reveal religious worship, travel, and trade in the Ancient Near East.   Zoom Meeting ID: 870 1437 5777 Passcode: 319732

The Lost British Forts of Long Island

Hofstra University, Breslin Hall 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, United States

David M. Griffin, independent researcher and author with a Degree in Architecture from Carleton University, Ottawa, will speak about his work on the research techniques and findings from forts and battles of Fort Slongo and Lloyds Neck.

Daily Lives in an Age of Empire: Local Economics Life at Cadir Hoyuk (Turkey) during the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE)

Hofstra University, Breslin Hall 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, United States

Dr. Sarah Adcock, Assistant Professor at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) will speak about how research on the Late Bronze Age has often focused on elite lives and history, but the daily lives of non- elite have remained unexamined. How were local practices of day-to-day life shaped by imperial […]

5,000 year old Egyptain Brewery

A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA. Dr. Matthew Adams of the N.Y.U Institute of Fine Arts will present on the discovery of a 5,000 year old Egyptian Brewery. The brewery was discovered in North Abydos and is believed to be the oldest brewery in the world.

The Earliest Pottery in the World

A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA. Ilaria Patania, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis will present on "the Earliest Pottery in the World." Why was pottery invented? While for decades we assumed a connection between plant domestication, pottery use, and social hierarchy today we know that […]

Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica

A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA. Elise Poppen, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Buffalo State University of New York, will present on "Women in urban houses and rural farmhouses of Roman Attica.”

The Molly House of the Late 18th century

a lecture by Dr. Megan Rhodes Victor One of my current research projects focuses on homosexuality and the 18th-century taverns which were known as molly houses in England and English Colonial North America. These molly houses served as clandestine locations for gay men and cross-dressers to interact, to socialize with others ‘like them’, to engage […]