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SUMMARY:Society Sunday 2026 Public Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Marketing the Etruscans—From Mystery to Modern Media \nJoin us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Jessica Tilley. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language. \nOften deemed the ‘mysterious’ Etruscans\, this pre-Roman civilization of early Italy has fought a hard-won battle in finding its place in the field of Classical Archaeology. Various titans of American Etruscology\, including this year’s AIA Gold Medalist Nancy de Grummond\, have dedicated decades of research to highlighting the value of Etruscan material in answering larger questions related to ritual practice\, cross-cultural interaction\, and Mediterranean trade networks. In recent years\, Etruscan material has been at the foreground of widely publicized repatriation cases and cultural heritage protection conversations. This buzz culminated in the globally acclaimed 2023 film La chimera about a band of Etruscan tomb robbers. Looking ahead\, Etruscology is primed for engaging in the development of current archaeological theory\, with ongoing research relevant to our multi-cultural\, interconnected world. In this lecture\, Dr. Jessica Tilley outlines the dynamic history of the Etruscan civilization’s modern reception and highlights the ways in which it is uniquely positioned to contribute to ongoing dialogue around decolonialism\, queer theory\, globalization\, and network theory in Mediterranean archaeology. \nDr. Jessica Tilley is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Centre College. Her research explores questions of postcolonialism and globalization theory in the ancient Mediterranean world through examination of cross-cultural funerary practices. She has excavated at sites across Italy\, Greece\, and the southeastern U.S. and is actively involved in cultural heritage public outreach. \nThe lecture will also be available in American Sign Language and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets\, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/society-sunday-2026-public-lecture/
ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Smith":MAILTO:ssmith@archaeological.org
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SUMMARY:Society Sunday 2025 Public Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Communal Government and Forms of Dependency in the K’iche’ State \nJoin us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Iyaxel Cojtí Ren. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language. \nIn the Maya highlands during the Late Postclassic period (1250-1524 CE)\, the K’iche’ created an expansive state able to subdue various nations and form a network of dependent polities. Join archaeologist Iyaxel Cojtí Ren as she explains how the key to this lies in the K’iche’ forms of local community organization and how they were integrated into the larger K’iche’ political unit. \nLearn about the most common forms of community organization: chinamit and amaq’. Their members practiced communal solidarity and forms of communal government\, which were vital for reproduction\, problem-solving\, and territorial defense. The K’iche’ state’s strength resulted from incorporating these communities\, chinamit and amaq’\, and adopting some of their values and forms of government. For example\, in the Colonial-period K’iche’ texts\, the term tzuq “to sustain\, to feed” appears frequently to describe the relationship of mutual dependence that existed between rulers and K’iche’ communities. This means that the rulers also had obligations to take care of the population under their authority. And while reciprocity between rulers and those they ruled was far from equal\, the communal form of government employed by the K’iche’ allowed representatives of the people to exert sufficient influence to prevent oppressive rulers and defend the people’s interests. \nIyaxel Cojtí Ren\, originally from Chichicastenango\, Guatemala\, is a K’iche’ cultural archaeologist. Iyaxel completed her PhD in the department of anthropology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville\, TN. Since 2021\, she has worked as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She serves as director of the Baja Verapaz Regional Archaeological Project (PARBEZ) and as co-investigator of the Mayalex Project. Her research and publications focus primarily on the archaeology\, history\, and culture of the Maya highland nations of Guatemala\, especially from the Postclassic period. Cojtí Ren received a fellowship from the Newberry Library in Chicago for 2024-2025 to focus on her forthcoming publications. \nThe lecture will also be available in American Sign Language and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets\, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/society-sunday-2025-public-lecture/
ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Smith":MAILTO:ssmith@archaeological.org
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SUMMARY:Society Sunday 2024 Public Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Watch recorded lecture on YouTube \n“Be(com)ing Assyrian”: Navigating Imperial Power from the Bottom-Up \nJoin us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Petra Creamer. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language. \nAt its height\, the Assyrian Empire (c. 1350-600 BCE) stretched from modern-day Iran in the east to Egypt in the west\, controlling more territory than any entity the world had yet seen. This talk will delve into the profound impact of the Assyrian Empire and its administrative structures on the lives of individuals under its hegemony. Drawing from archaeological and historical evidence\, the discussion explores the intricate web of socio-economic\, cultural\, and political transformations experienced by the non-elite populace under Assyrian rule\, focusing on the core area of the empire (the Assyrian “Heartland”) along the Tigris River. Insights from ongoing research illuminate how the empire’s administrative policies influenced Assyria’s subjects – from those residing in urban centers to rural communities. Petra will particularly dive into the implementation of massive infrastructural projects across the landscape\, the establishment of centralized governance systems\, and the navigation of personal identities that shaped the idea of “be(com)ing Assyrian”. \nPetra Creamer is an archaeologist of the Ancient Near Eastern world researching the genesis and growth of empires and the impact of these empires on the non-elite populations under their hegemony. She is director of the excavation and remote sensing project Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia (RLIIM) in Iraqi Kurdistan\, where her ongoing fieldwork addresses long-term settlement patterns and lifeways in the ancient Assyrian imperial core (c. 1350-600 BCE). She is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Emory University. \nThe lecture will also be available in American Sign Language and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets\, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/society-sunday-2024-public-lecture/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Smith":MAILTO:ssmith@archaeological.org
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SUMMARY:Society Sunday 2023 Public Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Register/Join Here \nGoing to Work in the Roman Empire: The archaeology of Potters and Potting \nJoin us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Elizabeth Murphy. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language. \nProfessional working lives define our place in society and structure the rhythms of our daily experience—how\, then\, were such lives lived in the past? In this talk\, Elizabeth Murphy\, an Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Florida State University\, will investigate the everyday working lives of ancient craftspeople by venturing into the workshops of a single\, common profession—potters. \nWith many hundreds of kilns documented from the Mediterranean\, with elaborate trade networks reconstructed from distributed pottery\, and with workshops appearing in a range of settings (from cities to rural estates)\, potters and their ceramic products are arguably the most archaeologically visible craft profession of the ancient world\, yet we have no biographical accounts or personal narratives from the period on the lives of these workers. Using the rich archaeological record\, she will investigate their workplaces and working lives—from the technologies of production to the rituals and magic of workshops. \nElizabeth A. Murphy is an archaeologist specializing in the study of the Mediterranean during the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods. Her research and teaching concern the social and economic organization of the Roman world; more specifically\, her work focuses on the history and archaeology of labor\, production\, and technology. She is a specialist in material culture studies\, with particular emphasis on the artifactual record of crafts production\, and her fieldwork projects have spanned the ancient Mediterranean world from Asia Minor to Italy. She currently co-directs the Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia project (LASS)\, a diachronic landscape project in the modern region of Sulcis (Sardinia\, Italy). With LASS\, she is investigating the settlement organization\, landscape exploitation\, and daily life practices of this rural region during the period of the Roman Empire. \nThe lecture will also be available in American Sign Language and we will also enable auto captioning on Zoom. Due to Zoom limitations on mobile devices and tablets\, participants interested in accessing ASL interpretation should log in using the desktop version of Zoom.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/2023-society-sunday-public-lecture/
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