AIA Lectures

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) - Sat, Feb 22 2025
• Merchants and Mercenaries: Greeks in Egypt in the Late Period - Sat, Oct 26 2024
• damnatio memoriae and Confederate statue destructions today - Sat, Mar 2 2024
• Excavating War: Violence, Power and Urbanism in Prehistoric Anatolia (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) - Sat, Mar 4 2023
• Petsas House, Mycenae: pottery, production, and the palatial economy of the 14th c. BCE (AIA Ridgway) - Fri, Apr 22 2022
• The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia (AIA) - Sat, Mar 5 2022
• Migrations, Marginality, and Maritime Landscapes: A New World Paleocoastal Occupation (AIA) - Fri, Oct 22 2021
• The Archaic Smile: It’s No Laughing Matter (AIA) - Fri, Apr 9 2021
• Insults in Classical Athens (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) - Sat, Feb 20 2021
• What Does the Archaeological Record Reveal About the Human Experience of Past Epidemics? (AIA) - Fri, Jan 29 2021
• Places, spaces, and memory: a landscape archaeology of the western Argolid, Greece (The 2020-21 AIA Ridgway Lecture) - Fri, Nov 20 2020
• My 40 Year Search for the Battle of Actium (AIA) - Sat, Nov 7 2020
• International Archaeology Day Lightning Talks, hosted by the Puget Sound Society of the Archaeological Institute of America - Sat, Oct 17 2020
• An Archaeology of the Bronze Age Senses: the tastes, smells and colors of new finds from east Cretan excavations (AIA) - Sat, Feb 1 2020
• The Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The role of wives, children and families in Roman military communities (AIA) - Fri, Oct 25 2019
• Etruscan Forgeries  (The 2019-20 Ridgway Lecture) - Sat, Sep 28 2019
• A Romantic Past:  What does a white muslin gown have to do with Pompeii? - Sat, Mar 2 2019
• Connecting the Dots: New Perspectives on Mobility and Gathering in Ancient Mediterranean Sanctuaries - Fri, Feb 22 2019
• Assessing the Evidence for the Trojan War: Recent Excavations at Troy (AIA Puget Sound Ridgway Lecture) - Thu, Nov 8 2018
• Remembering Boudica: Monuments of a Barbarian Queen (AIA Puget Sound Society, Joukowsky Lecture) - Fri, Oct 26 2018
• How to Spot a Roman Emperor - Sat, Mar 24 2018
• Brothels and Prostitution at Pompeii - Tue, Jan 23 2018
• The Late Bronze Age Eruption of Thera - Fri, Oct 27 2017
•  Elite Negotiation and Consensus Building: Rewriting early Roman Imperialism - Thu, Sep 28 2017
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Creativity in the Vase-Painting of Euphronios - Fri, Mar 3 2017
• De Arte Gladiatoria: Recovering Gladiatorial Tactics from Artistic Sources - Sat, Feb 11 2017
• On the Trail of Ancient Greeks and Romans in Plymouth Plantation - Sat, Oct 8 2016
• Warfare in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BC (2015-16 Ridgway Lecture) - Thu, Mar 10 2016
• 'Sex and Other Things Sell: Athenian Potters and their Foreign Consumers' - Sat, Feb 6 2016
• Constructing Memory in Augustan Italy - Thu, Dec 3 2015
• ''The Strangeness and Beauty of Cypriot Art" - Fri, Oct 23 2015
• Homer and Archaeology - Thu, Jan 15 2015
• Penelope and the Origins of Greek Art - Thu, Nov 6 2014
• Family Affairs: A New Interpretation of the Porticus Octavia and Its Neighbors in Augustan Rome - Fri, May 2 2014
• The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries at the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae Near Pompeii - Fri, Nov 8 2013
• A Hero's Choice: The Historical Context for the Cocks and Hens Relief from Xanthos - Fri, Apr 19 2013
• The Magnificent Peutinger Map: Roman Cartography at its Most Creative - Fri, Feb 8 2013
• "Truly I want to die:" Brides in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia  - Tue, Jan 22 2013
• Ancient Sounds of Greece - Fri, Nov 2 2012
• Passage and Perception in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace - Thu, Apr 12 2012
• The Archaic Style in Sculpture in the Eyes of Ancient and Modern Viewers - Fri, Feb 24 2012
• The Intriguing Case of the Octagonal Gemstones from Gordion (Turkey) - Thu, Nov 3 2011