AIA Lectures
AIA Lectures
Upcoming Events
Thomas Faucher (Centre d'Études Alexandrines)
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TBD and on zoom (registration link in description)
Past Events
Reconstructing Wonders of the Ancient World: How Pheidias Created the Athena Parthenos and Zeus Olympios (AIA Ridgway Lecture at University of Puget Sound)
-Merchants and Mercenaries: Greeks in Egypt in the Late Period
-damnatio memoriae and Confederate statue destructions today
-Excavating War: Violence, Power and Urbanism in Prehistoric Anatolia (annual AIA Faculty Lecture)
-Petsas House, Mycenae: pottery, production, and the palatial economy of the 14th c. BCE (AIA Ridgway)
-The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia (AIA)
-Migrations, Marginality, and Maritime Landscapes: A New World Paleocoastal Occupation (AIA)
-The Archaic Smile: It’s No Laughing Matter (AIA)
-Insults in Classical Athens (annual AIA Faculty Lecture)
-What Does the Archaeological Record Reveal About the Human Experience of Past Epidemics? (AIA)
-Places, spaces, and memory: a landscape archaeology of the western Argolid, Greece (The 2020-21 AIA Ridgway Lecture)
-My 40 Year Search for the Battle of Actium (AIA)
-International Archaeology Day Lightning Talks, hosted by the Puget Sound Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
-An Archaeology of the Bronze Age Senses: the tastes, smells and colors of new finds from east Cretan excavations (AIA)
-The Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The role of wives, children and families in Roman military communities (AIA)
-Etruscan Forgeries (The 2019-20 Ridgway Lecture)
-A Romantic Past: What does a white muslin gown have to do with Pompeii?
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Assessing the Evidence for the Trojan War: Recent Excavations at Troy (AIA Puget Sound Ridgway Lecture)
-Remembering Boudica: Monuments of a Barbarian Queen (AIA Puget Sound Society, Joukowsky Lecture)
-How to Spot a Roman Emperor
-Brothels and Prostitution at Pompeii
-The Late Bronze Age Eruption of Thera
-Elite Negotiation and Consensus Building: Rewriting early Roman Imperialism
-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Creativity in the Vase-Painting of Euphronios
-De Arte Gladiatoria: Recovering Gladiatorial Tactics from Artistic Sources
-On the Trail of Ancient Greeks and Romans in Plymouth Plantation
-Warfare in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BC (2015-16 Ridgway Lecture)
-'Sex and Other Things Sell: Athenian Potters and their Foreign Consumers'
-Constructing Memory in Augustan Italy
-''The Strangeness and Beauty of Cypriot Art"
-Homer and Archaeology
-Penelope and the Origins of Greek Art
-Family Affairs: A New Interpretation of the Porticus Octavia and Its Neighbors in Augustan Rome
-The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries at the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae Near Pompeii
-A Hero's Choice: The Historical Context for the Cocks and Hens Relief from Xanthos
-The Magnificent Peutinger Map: Roman Cartography at its Most Creative
-"Truly I want to die:" Brides in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia
-Ancient Sounds of Greece
-Passage and Perception in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace
-The Archaic Style in Sculpture in the Eyes of Ancient and Modern Viewers
-The Intriguing Case of the Octagonal Gemstones from Gordion (Turkey)
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