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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 […]

Uncovering Easter Island

Hybrid Hybrid Event

Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg Director, UCLA Rock Art Archive Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA Easter Island, more correctly known as Rapa Nui, is a small, remote island in the Southeast Pacific discovered and settled by Polynesian mariners ca. AD 1000. It was rediscovered by the Dutch in 1722 and, since then, has captured the […]

AIA-Nashville Society Book Club: Pericles and Aspasia

Nashville Parthenon 2500 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, United States

Join us for a free AIA-Nashville Society Book Club meeting at the Nashville Parthenon on Monday, November 4, 2024, at 6 PM. This event is free and open to the public, with RSVP required. All are welcome. Mention “Book Club” at the Ticket Counter, receive free admission, and proceed to the Treasury on Level 2 […]

Experiencing Epiphany in the Ancient Greek Sanctuary presented by Dr. Jess Paga (William & Mary)

Eaton Humanities 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO, United States

Sensory studies of embodiment have gained traction in recent years as unparalleled tools for examining the vicissitudes of ancient lived experience. When used in conjunction with cognitive studies, it becomes possible to tease out the links between (over)stimulation, deprivation, and religious transformation. Kinesthetics, in particular, can facilitate a nuanced embodied account of approach, (in)accessibility, and […]

When Democracies Vote to Overthrow Themselves: Lessons from Classical Athens.

John Cabot University - Room F.G.4 @ Frohring Campus Lungotevere Raffaello Sanzio, Roma, Lazio, Italy

Democracy most often ends not with a violent spasm, but with a vote. Oligarchic challengers leverage their small numbers to coordinate dis-informing campaigns, hoping that enough citizens will withhold their support for democratic rule. Already in the fifth- and fourth-centuries BCE, Greek democracies experimented with strategies to overcome these problems, such as the Solonian law […]

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