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AIA Lecture: Feasts Fit for Pharaohs: Food and Drink in Ancient Egypt

Oct. 30, 2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 7PM - Visual Arts Complex, Room 1B20

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AIA Lecture: Experiencing Epiphany in the Ancient Greek Sanctuary

Oct. 7, 2024

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 7PM - Eaton Humanities 250

Caesar's portrait

AIA Lecture: Caesar’s Cervisia

Oct. 7, 2024

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 7PM - Eaton Humanities 150

Tholos tomb near Palace at Pylos

AIA Lecture - Power of the Ancestors at Pylos, Greece

Feb. 1, 2024

Power of the Ancestors at Pylos, Greece Wednesday, February 21st at 7:15pm Eaton Humanities #250 Free and open to the public Abstract Tholos tomb near Palace at Pylos Over the past few decades, archaeologists have assigned ancestors significant roles in the supernatural orders of most ancient societies. They argue that...

Bronze Head of Artemis from Vis 4th-3rd c BCE

AIA lecture: Interconnectivity and Local Responses: A View from the eastern Adriatic island of Brač

Dec. 12, 2023

Interconnectivity and Local Responses: A View from the eastern Adriatic island of Brač Wednesday, January 24th at 7:15pm Eaton Humanities #250 & Zoom ( REGISTER HERE ) Free and open to the public Abstract: Inhabitants of the islands off the coast of southern Croatia were exposed to the ebb and...

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AIA lecture: Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia

Oct. 26, 2023

Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia Professor John M. Marston Wednesday, November 8th at 7:00pm Eaton Humanities #250 & Zoom ( REGISTER HERE ) Free and open to the public ABSTRACT Identifying how societies make decisions about agricultural practices is important for understanding why some agricultural systems flourish over hundreds or...

Isis from the Tomb of Nefertari

AIA lecture: Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis

Jan. 12, 2023

Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis Professor Lindsay Mazurek Wednesday, January 25 at 7:00pm Hale Sciences 270 or via Zoom Free and Open to Public REGISTER HERE ABSTRACT When Isis first arrived on Greek shores in the 3rd century...

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AIA lecture: "King Midas of the Golden Touch in Context: Death, Belief, Behavior, and Society in Ancient Phrygia"

Oct. 6, 2022

King Midas of the Golden Touch in Context: Death, Belief, Behavior, and Society in Ancient Phrygia Professor Beth Dusinberre Wednesday, October 12 at 7:00pm Paleontology Hall ( Museum of Natural History ) or via Zoom Free and Open to Public REGISTER HERE ABSTRACT The spectacular burial tumuli at Gordion...