Donate
Archaeological
Institute of America

Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Filters

Changing any of the form inputs will cause the list of events to refresh with the filtered results.

International Archaeology Day Double-Header (“Merchants and Mercenaries: Greeks in Egypt in the Late Period”)

Denny Hall, Room 112 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

Please join us for a double-header of talks presented by Prof. Camille Reiko Acosta in celebration of International Archaeology Day! In this second talk, Prof. Acosta will be speaking on "Merchants and Mercenaries: Greeks in Egypt in the Late Period" on Saturday October 26th at 2:00 pm (Denny 112 and on zoom). These talks are […]

Event Series Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

Available during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 6, 2024–April 27, 2025. See blackout dates.* *Blackout dates: December 1, 2024–January 26, 2025; and March 16–23, 2025. This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition and how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around […]

AIA Talk by Dr. Kathleen Sheppard: How Winning a Woman of Study Can Be in Early American Egyptology

Swallow Hall 101, University of Missouri 101 Swallow Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States

As Amelia Edwards and Kate Bradbury finished their lecture tour of the United States in 1891, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote: “Miss Edwards’ visit will do a great deal of good in teaching the men of America how learned and how winning a woman of study can be and in teaching the women of America […]

Gods, Warriors, and Stars: A Close Relationship in Chichén Itzá

Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street,, Cambridge, MA

María Teresa Uriarte Castañeda, Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Chichén Itzá—a World Heritage Site—is the most important archaeological record of the fusion between Maya and the so-called Toltec civilizations in the Yucatan Peninsula. The site’s monuments, dating to the 10th–15th centuries, showcase both Maya and foreign architectural elements, and […]

Event Series Radical Sovereignty: Documenting Indigenous Autonomy Across Indian Country During the Boarding School Era

Radical Sovereignty: Documenting Indigenous Autonomy Across Indian Country During the Boarding School Era

Thurman J. White Forum Building 1704 Asp Ave, Norman, OK, United States

Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.S. federal government engaged in a systematic project of conquest through civilization. A key facet of this imperial endeavor by the imposition of Western forms of architecture onto Indigenous landscapes, including day and boarding schools. These concrete structures were accompanied by assimilationist policies that […]

Of Cities and Landscapes: Results from the Polatlı (Türkiye) Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project (PLAS)

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

Presented by Asst. Prof. Müge Durusu-Tanriover, Temple University Polatlı Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project (PLAS) is a regional survey covering the district of Polatlı in Ankara (the capital of Türkiye), primarily known for its first millennium BCE archaeological heritage featuring the Phrygian capital, Gordion. Since its inception in 2019, PLAS has aimed to shed light […]

Event Series Radical Sovereignty: Documenting Indigenous Autonomy Across Indian Country During the Boarding School Era

Radical Sovereignty: Documenting Indigenous Autonomy Across Indian Country During the Boarding School Era

Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.S. federal government engaged in a systematic project of conquest through civilization. A key facet of this imperial endeavor by the imposition of Western forms of architecture onto Indigenous landscapes, including day and boarding schools. These concrete structures were accompanied by assimilationist policies that […]

“When Informants Become Knowledge Producers: Rethinking Great Zimbabwe”

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Lecture by Prof. Shadreck Chirikure, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford: Using the lenses of insurgent scholarship, this paper addresses itself to a contradiction that characterised southern African archaeology from the 1980s and has residuals in the present. Archaeology in Africa’ southern third, like elsewhere, was introduced as a tool of empire. The first westerners […]

The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and World Heritage

Siegal Lifelong Learning Auditorium, Landmark Centre 25700 Science Park Dr #100, Beachwood, United States

Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are enormous earthen enclosures, many in precise geometric shapes, that were built 2,000 years ago by Native Americans known today as the Hopewell. Their creators designed the earthworks as places of ceremony, connecting them to the cosmos by aligning them with carefully observed movements of the moon and sun, including those […]

“Hercules and Holy Water” (Professor Ann Glennie)

College of the Holy Cross, Smith Labs 154 (Fauci Integrated Science Complex) College Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

While in the common imagination, Hercules might be most well known for his heroic deeds and feats of strength, across the ancient Mediterranean he was also a deity closely associated with fresh water. In one of his canonical labors in Greece, he dug canals to redirect the Alpheus and Peneus rivers to clean out the […]

Archaeological Institute of America

Back to Top

Copyright © 2024, Archaeological Institute of America. All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Policy | Yelling Mule - Boston Web Design