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Recent Archaeological Lectures

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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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