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April 5, 2011

AIA Lecture
Speaker:
Prof. Larissa Bonfante, New York University

Title: The Etruscan Underworld

(Abstract)

Place and time: Mt. Holyoke College,
Gamble Auditorium, 5:00PM


Hosted by the Mt. Holyoke College Classics Department

March 24, 2011

21st Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture
Speaker:
Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the British School at Rome

Title: Herculaneum: Living with Catastrophe
(Watch Video)

Place and time: Smith College,
Graham Auditorium, Brown Fine Arts Center, 5:00PM


Hosted by the Smith College Classics Department

 

February 17, 2011

AIA Lecture
Speaker:
Prof. Lanny Bell, Brown University

Title: Popular and Profane Experiences with the Sublime: The Temple as a Social and Cultural Focus in Egypt

(Abstract)

Place and time: Amherst College,
Paino Auditorium, 107 Earth Sciences Building, 4:30PM


Hosted by the Amherst College Classics Department

November 4, 2010

AIA Lecture
Speaker:
Dr. Roger Smith, State Underwater Archaeologist, Florida Division of Historical Resources

Title: Exploring Tristán de Luna’s Lost Galleon: A Study of Florida’s Earliest Shipwreck

(Abstract)

Place and time: University of Massachusetts-Amherst,
Hasbrouck Addition, Room 124

4:30 PM
Hosted by the UMass Classics Department

 

April 1, 2010

AIA Lecture
Speaker:
Prof. S. Thomas Parker, North Carolina State University

Title: Aila: Roman Port on the Red Sea

Place and time: Amherst College,
Pruyne Auditorium, 115 Fayerweather Hall, 4:30PM
Hosted by the Amherst College Classics Department

 

 

November 16, 2009


Speaker: Prof. Shelley Wachsmann, Institute of Nautical Archaeology and Texas A&M University

 

Title: Some Went Down to the Sea in Ships

 

Place and time: Mt. Holyoke College,
Dwight Hall 101, 7:30PM

Hosted by the Amherst College Classics Department

 

 

September 29, 2009

20th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture
Speaker:
Prof. Paul Zanker, Scuole Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy)

Title: Living with Myths in Pompeii and Beyond

Place and time: Smith College,
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, 5:00PM
Hosted by the Smith College Classics Department

 

 

September 24, 2009


Speaker:
Prof. Paul Zimansky, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Title: City of the Grim Reaper: Rediscovery and Demise at Mashkan-shapir, Iraq

 

Place and time: University of Massachusetts-Amherst,
Campus Center, Room 162-75, 5:00PM

Hosted by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Classics Department

 

 

Friday, April 14, 2009


Speaker:
Prof. John Younger, University of Kansas


Title: Mycenae Invents itself

Friday, April 3, 2009


Speaker:
Prof. David Anthony, Hardwick College


Title: The Archaeology of Indo-European Origins

 

Thursday, April 2, 2009


Speaker:
Prof. Bernard Frischer, University of Virginia


Title: Making Cultural Heritage Virtual

 

 

Wednesday, February 25, 2009


Speaker:
Dr. David Romano, University of Pennsylvania


Title: Search for Zeus. The Mt. Lykaion Excavations and Survey Project

 

 

Tuesday, February 24, 2009


Speaker:
Dr. Sara Bon-Harper, Monticello and the University of Virginia


Title: Defined Spaces. Landscape on the Monticello Plantation 

 

 

Monday, February 2, 2009


Speaker:
Dr. Richard McKay, LaTrobe University (Australia)


Title: Living with Heritage at Angkor

 

 

Friday, October 17, 2008


Speaker:
Prof. John Relethford, State University of New York, College at Oneonta


Title: Settlement, Invasion, and the Genetic History of Ireland

 

 

Tuesday, September 16, 2008


Speaker:
Dr. Cameron McNeil, City University of New York, Queens College


Title: Shaping a Polity. Landscape Transformation at Copan, Honduras

 

 

Monday, September 6, 2008


Speaker:
Prof. Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge


Title: Godsbodies: Imagining and Representing the Divine in Ancient Greece

 

Tuesday, April 15, 2008


Speaker:
Dr. Guy Metraux, York University


Title: Venus and the Christians at Carthage

 

Thursday, March 6, 2008


Speaker:
Dr. Michael Thomas, University of Texas, Austin


Title: Hidden or Given? Poggio Colla's victoriati and the Context of Romanization in Northern Etruria


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