Annual Faculty Lectures

Upcoming Events

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Prison Abolition, Ancient Incarceration, and the Mirror of the Past (AIA Faculty Lecture)

Mark Letteney (UW History)

January 25 2025, 2 - 3:30pm

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Past Events

Excavating War: Violence, Power and Urbanism in Prehistoric Anatolia (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) - Sat, Mar 4 2023
"Mixed multitudes": displacement and belonging in ancient Sicily (Annual AIA Faculty Lecture) - Fri, Jan 21 2022
Insults in Classical Athens (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) - Sat, Feb 20 2021
A Romantic Past: What does a white muslin gown have to do with Pompeii? - Sat, Mar 2 2019
Brothels and Prostitution at Pompeii - Tue, Jan 23 2018
On the Trail of Ancient Greeks and Romans in Plymouth Plantation - Sat, Oct 8 2016
Constructing Memory in Augustan Italy - Thu, Dec 3 2015
Coming of Age at Thermon: Marriage and Its Discontents on the Metopes of Temple C - Tue, May 19 2015
'Now now, quick quick!' Cursing and magic in late-antique Antioch - Tue, Apr 8 2014
"Truly I want to die:" Brides in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia - Tue, Jan 22 2013
The Collegio degli Augustali: An Ancient Elks Lodge at Herculaneum - Tue, Jan 24 2012
Roman Slaves, the House, and the City: Questions of Control and Movement - Tue, Jan 25 2011
Seven Brides and Sobbin' Women: Romulus, Plutarch, and Stephen Vincent Benét - Wed, Apr 21 2010
Helen of Troy: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful - Tue, Apr 21 2009
Classical Mythology and Traditional Folktales in Film - Tue, Mar 4 2008
Pictures of a Poet in Exile: Ovid on the Black Sea AD 8-2008 - Tue, May 15 2007
Alexander in His World - Tue, May 23 2006
Of Texts and Tombs: The Archaeology of Roman Memory - Tue, Apr 12 2005
Demons of the Etruscan Underworld - Tue, Mar 9 2004
Death and Burial among the Greeks and Romans: Attitudes and Practices - Tue, May 20 2003
Isis Sanctuaries in Rome and Pompeii - Tue, Mar 5 2002
The Corinth of Paul: Recent Investigations and Findings - Wed, Jan 10 2001
In Search of St. Theodore: History and Archaeology of Early Byzantine Anatolia - Thu, Feb 17 2000