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AIA Student Affairs Interest Group Dissertation Lecture: “In Search of Border Sanctuaries: Religion, Landscape, and Territory in the Peloponnese”

Every year, the AIA Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG)Dissertation Lecture speaker is Shannon M. Dunn (Bryn Mawr College), who will be presenting her lecture: "In Search of Border Sanctuaries: Religion, Landscape, and Territory in the Peloponnese". Join us for her virtual lecture on Zoom on Tuesday, May 7th at 2pm Eastern. Register for the lecture […]

In search of a lost hydraulic treasure in Iraqi Kurdistan: how to virtually study abandoned subterranean qanat systems

The Embassy Public House 1435 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL, United States

Talk by Dr. Mehrnoush Soroush (Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Chicago) Throughout the Middle Ages, thousands of miles of underground water management infrastructure, known as qanats, were built to sustain thriving societies despite the arid environments of the Middle East and Central Asia. There is enormous interest in the history and functioning of qanat […]

From the Green Sahara to Kushite Pharaohs: Common origins, differentiation, and the long term entanglements of Nubians and Egyptians

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

In-person Lecture Saturday, May 11 at 3:30 pm EST Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speaker: Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith Lecture Topic: From the Green Sahara to Kushite Pharaohs: Common origins, differentiation, and the long term entanglements of Nubians and Egyptians Abstract: Egyptologists have for a long time seen Egypt as isolated along the Nile and a […]

Reports from the Field

Doe Library 308 A, UC Berkeley Campus Berkeley, California, United States

We are pleased to begin our programming this year by hearing from UC Berkeley graduate students who have spent part of the past year working on archaeological projects at various sites around the world. Leah Packard-Grams will discuss her work in Egypt over the winter at the site of Amheida, a Roman town in the […]

The Galisteo Basin as a Multicultural Landscape

Pecos Trail Café 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Lecture. Eric Blinman (former director Museum of New Mexico, Office of Archaeological Studies). Puebloan peoples are stereotyped under a single label, which is a profound injustice to their rich cultural diversity. This diversity also implies the existence of distinct histories, and the unique setting of the Galisteo Basin provides an opportunity to explore these histories. […]

The reception of ancient Egypt in the medieval Muslim world

Davidson College 315 North Main Street, Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC, United States

The Ann Santen Endowed Lecture Okasha El Daly, “The reception of ancient Egypt in the medieval Muslim world” Tuesday, September 17 7:30 - 9:00 PM Davidson College Visual Arts Center VAC-117 Semans Lecture Hall These lectures are sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, with funding from the Davidson College Public Lectures Committee and the […]