Firing the Cannon: Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculpture and their Discontents. Lecture by Verity Platt (Cornell University)
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by Department of Classics, University of Mississippi
Start Date: 
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 7:00pm

Location:
Bryant Hall, room 209
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
lecture
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no

Lecturer: Verity Platt

Website: 
https://www.archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/19385
Contact Information
Name: 
Hilary Becker
Email: 
hwbecker@olemiss.edu

Location

The Economy of Color in Ancient Rome: a Case Study of the Pigment Trade
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by College of Liberal Arts, The University of Mississippi
Start Date: 
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:
Bryant Hall 209
University, MS 38677
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
nad
lecture
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no

Dr. Hilary Becker has been named the University of Mississippi's "Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Year" for 2015. Join us for a public lecture celebrating Dr. Becker's well-deserved honor on October 28 at 7:00 in Bryant 209.

Dr. Becker will talk about one aspect of her wide-ranging research in Etruscan and Roman archaeology and economic history in this “case study” focused on the trade in pigments in ancient Roman.

A reception will follow in the Farrington Gallery on the first floor of Bryant Hall.

Website: 
http://classics.olemiss.edu/dr-hilary-becker-named-um-mississippi-humanities-cou...
Contact Information
Name: 
UM Liberal Arts
Email: 
libarts@olemiss.edu
Telephone: 
662-915-7020

Location

The Empire in your hand: Roman Portable Sundials
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by Department of Classics, University of Mississippi and the Archaeological Institute of America (Mississippi-Memphis chapter)
Start Date: 
Thursday, February 5, 2015 - 5:30pm

Location:
University of Mississippi (Bryant Hall, room 209)
University, MS 38655
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
lecture
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no
Lecturer: 
Richard Talbert

Thursday, February 5, 2015, at 5:30 P.M. Bryant Hall, room 209, on the campus of the University of Mississippi.

Website: 
http://classics.olemiss.edu/
Contact Information
Name: 
Hilary Becker
Email: 
hwbecker@olemiss.edu
Telephone: 
662-915-7020

Location

Pompeii from the bottom-up: Excavations into the history of Pompeii’s working-class families
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America
Start Date: 
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Location:
TBA
, MS
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
nad
lecture
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no
Lecturer: 
Steven Ellis
Abstract: 
Pompeii from the bottom-up: Excavations into the history of Pompeii’s working-class families

Anita Krause Bader Lecture

Contact Information
Name: 
Fred C. Albertson
Email: 
falbrtsn@memphis.edu
Telephone: 
901-678-2941

Location

CANCELLED - A Sicilian Greek Agora
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America
Start Date: 
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 7:00pm

Location:
Bryant Hall, University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
lecture
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no
Lecturer: 
Malcolm Bell, III
Abstract: 
A Sicilian Greek Agora

Norton Lecture

Please note that this lecture has been CANCELLED due to inclement weather.

Contact Information
Name: 
Fred C. Albertson
Email: 
falbrtsn@memphis.edu
Telephone: 
901-678-2941

Location

Reading the Pantheon
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by Department of Classics, The University of Mississippi
Start Date: 
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Location:
Bryant Hall 209
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38655
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
lecture
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no

"Reading the Pantheon", a lecture by Prof. Mary T. Boatwright (Department of Classical Studies, Duke University)

Website: 
http://classics.olemiss.edu/
Contact Information
Name: 
Dr. Hilary Becker
Email: 
hwbecker@olemiss.edu
Telephone: 
662/915-2858

Location

An Etruscan Book of Omens Revealed: The Brontoscopic Calendar
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by University of Mississippi, Department of Classics
Start Date: 
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm

Location:
Bryant Hall 209
University, MS 38655
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
lecture
nad
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, presents the first English translation of an Etruscan book of thunder-omens, topics covered will include cosmic rays, Mesopotamian astrology, epidemics.

Contact Information
Name: 
Hilary Becker
Email: 
hwbecker@olemiss.edu
Telephone: 
662/915-2858

Location

Gladiators at Pompeii: Roman Spectacle in a Small Town
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America
Start Date: 
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 5:30pm

Location:
University Museums, University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
lecture
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no
Lecturer: 
Steven Tuck
Abstract: 
Gladiators at Pompeii: Roman Spectacle in a Small Town

La Follette Lecture

Contact Information
Name: 
Fred C. Albertson
Email: 
falbrtsn@memphis.edu
Telephone: 
901-678-2941

Location

Before the Parthenon: the Architecture of the Archaic Acropolis
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America
Start Date: 
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 7:30pm

Location:
University Museums, University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
lecture
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no
Lecturer: 
Nancy Klein
Abstract: 
Before the Parthenon: the Architecture of the Archaic Acropolis

Boegehold Lecture

Contact Information
Name: 
Fred C. Albertson
Email: 
falbrtsn@memphis.edu
Telephone: 
901-678-2941

Location

National Archaeology Day at the University of Mississippi
Sponsoring Institution/Organization: 
Sponsored by Department of Classics, University of Mississippi
Start Date: 
Friday, October 26, 2012

Location:
University of Mississippi, University Museums
University , MS 38677
United States

Event Type (you may select more than one): 
lecture
education
nad
CFP
Call for Papers: 
no

We are hosting Latin students from the Oxford Middle School in Oxford, MS. We shall serve lunch, have Classics Jeopardy, a treasure hunt for sherds that will be mended into whole pots, a tour of the David M. Robinson Collection at the University of Mississippi. Then Dr. Jay Johnston, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mississippi, will present a public lecture on his excavation at Carson Mounds near Clarksdale, MS (4:00 PM, Bryant Hall 209).

Contact Information
Name: 
Aileen Ajootian
Email: 
ajootian@olemiss.edu
Telephone: 
662-915-1152

Location

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