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AIA Lectures
Past Events
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Jen Trimble (Stanford; AIA Ridgway Lecture): damnatio memoriae and Confederate statue destructions today -
March 2, 2024
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Stephanie Selover (UW MELC): Excavating War: Violence, Power and Urbanism in Prehistoric Anatolia (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) -
March 4, 2023
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Kim Shelton (Berkeley): Petsas House, Mycenae: pottery, production, and the palatial economy of the 14th c. BCE (AIA Ridgway) -
April 22, 2022
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Miriam Stark (Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa): The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia (AIA) -
March 5, 2022
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Amy Gusick (Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County): Migrations, Marginality, and Maritime Landscapes: A New World Paleocoastal Occupation (AIA) -
October 22, 2021
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Jeffrey M. Hurwit (History of Art and Architecture and Classics, University of Oregon): The Archaic Smile: It’s No Laughing Matter (AIA) -
April 9, 2021
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Deborah Kamen (UW Classics): Insults in Classical Athens (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) -
February 20, 2021
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Ben Marwick (Anthropology, University of Washington): What Does the Archaeological Record Reveal About the Human Experience of Past Epidemics? (AIA) -
January 29, 2021
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Dimitri Nakassis (University of Colorado, Boulder): Places, spaces, and memory: a landscape archaeology of the western Argolid, Greece (The 2020-21 AIA Ridgway Lecture) -
November 20, 2020
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William M. Murray (Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa): My 40 Year Search for the Battle of Actium (AIA) -
November 7, 2020
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Stephanie Selover, Ulrike Kroscheck, Ian Randall, Aislinn Melchior, and Dale Croes: International Archaeology Day Lightning Talks, hosted by the Puget Sound Society of the Archaeological Institute of America -
October 17, 2020
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Thomas Brogan (Director, Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete): An Archaeology of the Bronze Age Senses: the tastes, smells and colors of new finds from east Cretan excavations (AIA) -
February 1, 2020
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Elizabeth M. Greene (Western Ontario): The Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The role of wives, children and families in Roman military communities (AIA) -
October 25, 2019
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Richard De Puma (Iowa): Etruscan Forgeries (The 2019-20 Ridgway Lecture) -
September 28, 2019
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Aislinn Melchior (University of Puget Sound): A Romantic Past: What does a white muslin gown have to do with Pompeii? -
March 2, 2019
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Troels Myrup Kristensen (Aarhus University): Connecting the Dots: New Perspectives on Mobility and Gathering in Ancient Mediterranean Sanctuaries -
February 22, 2019
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C. Brian Rose (University of Pennsylvania): Assessing the Evidence for the Trojan War: Recent Excavations at Troy (AIA Puget Sound Ridgway Lecture) -
November 8, 2018
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Alison Futrell (Arizona): Remembering Boudica: Monuments of a Barbarian Queen (AIA Puget Sound Society, Joukowsky Lecture) -
October 26, 2018
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Mary Beard (Cambridge): How to Spot a Roman Emperor -
March 24, 2018
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Sarah Levin-Richardson (UW Classics): Brothels and Prostitution at Pompeii -
January 23, 2018
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Floyd McCoy (Univ. of Hawaii) (AIA Joukowsky Lecturer): The Late Bronze Age Eruption of Thera -
October 27, 2017
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Nicola Terrenato (Michigan) (Ridgway Lecturer): Elite Negotiation and Consensus Building: Rewriting early Roman Imperialism -
September 28, 2017
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Guy Hedreen (Williams College) -- 2016-17 Ridgway Lecture: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Creativity in the Vase-Painting of Euphronios -
March 3, 2017
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Steven L. Tuck (Miami University): De Arte Gladiatoria: Recovering Gladiatorial Tactics from Artistic Sources -
February 11, 2017
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David Lupher (Whitman College): On the Trail of Ancient Greeks and Romans in Plymouth Plantation -
October 8, 2016
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John Lee (Santa Barbara): Warfare in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BC (2015-16 Ridgway Lecture) -
March 10, 2016
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Kathleen Lynch (Cincinnati): 'Sex and Other Things Sell: Athenian Potters and their Foreign Consumers' -
February 6, 2016
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Eric Orlin (Univ. of Puget Sound): Constructing Memory in Augustan Italy -
December 3, 2015
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William Childs (Princeton) : ''The Strangeness and Beauty of Cypriot Art" -
October 23, 2015
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Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (Thessaly): Homer and Archaeology -
January 15, 2015
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Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Occidental College): Penelope and the Origins of Greek Art -
November 6, 2014
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Barbara Kellum (Smith College): Family Affairs: A New Interpretation of the Porticus Octavia and Its Neighbors in Augustan Rome -
May 2, 2014
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Thomas Howe (Southwestern University): The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries at the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae Near Pompeii -
November 8, 2013
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Jennifer Tobin (Illinois at Chicago): A Hero's Choice: The Historical Context for the Cocks and Hens Relief from Xanthos -
April 19, 2013
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Richard Talbert (Chapel Hill): 2012-13 AIA Ridgway Lecturer: The Magnificent Peutinger Map: Roman Cartography at its Most Creative -
February 8, 2013
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Olga Levaniouk (UW Classics): "Truly I want to die:" Brides in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia -
January 22, 2013
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Dr. Nikos Xanthoulis (Academy of Athens, Greece): Ancient Sounds of Greece -
November 2, 2012
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Bonna Wescoat (Emory): Passage and Perception in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace -
April 12, 2012
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Christopher Hallett (UC Berkeley): The Archaic Style in Sculpture in the Eyes of Ancient and Modern Viewers -
February 24, 2012
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Andrew Goldman (Gonzaga): The Intriguing Case of the Octagonal Gemstones from Gordion (Turkey) -
November 3, 2011