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Drawing on History: Creating the Graphic Adaptation of 1177 BC

George Washington University, Funger Hall 103 2201 G St NW, Washington, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

How does a cartoonist adapt a scholarly work of history, specifically Eric H. Cline’s 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed? Prof. Eric H. Cline and award-winning illustrator Glynnis Fawkes describe the process of interpreting Eric’s text in comics. This meant making historical figures (such as Ramses III) speak, as well as imagining characters for whom we have no […]

Event Series Afghanistan’s Heritage: Target in War and Engine of Peace, Dr. Laura Tedesco

Afghanistan’s Heritage: Target in War and Engine of Peace, Dr. Laura Tedesco

College of Charleston, Robert Scott Small Building, Room 235 College Way, Charleston, SC, United States

This presentation will reflect on efforts to preserve and protect Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. Utilzing the tools of diplomacy through the US Department of State and the practical steps involved in restoration of neglected and destroyed heritage, Dr. Laura Tedesco will discuss a little-known aspect of United States’ engagement in Afghanistan from 2001-2021, with insights on […]

Children in Context: How Mortuary Contexts Inform our Understanding of the Past

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Lecture by Dr. Erin Bornemann, Director of Information Management for the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. The mortuary record affords archaeologists a unique snapshot in time and space, providing further information surrounding the larger social context of death and burial in archaeological contexts that are often not discernible from other non-burial settings. Studies […]

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 […]

12th International Round Table on Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture Art & Science Unite!

Getty Villa and Getty Center Los Angeles, United States
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

For the first time, the Polychromy Round Table will take place outside Europe, in the United States, where ancient polychromy studies have a long history. Building upon the encouraging experiences in Berlin (2020) and Rome (2022), this meeting will explore considerable developments, focused research projects, and a growing interest in the topic that characterize the […]

Living and Dying as an Immigrant in Classical Athens

Doe Library, Room 308A Campanile Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco Society, is thrilled to welcome Dr. Camille Acosta (UC Irvine) to the UC Berkeley campus to share her research on immigrant communities in Classical Athens and archaeological evidence for their burials. Abstract: Classical Athens is widely known for being the birthplace of democracy, a political system in which […]

Lecture: Zuni Region in the Post-Chacoan Era.

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

Lecture by Keith Kintigh (Arizona State University). The Chaco Era has received a tremendous amount of archaeological consideration over the last 45 years. Far less attention has been paid to […]

International Archaeology Day with His Excellancy Ambassador Jonathan Miller

Virtual Event Virtual Event

We are privileged that the Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations addresses the National Arts Club on the occasion of International Archaeology Day, the committee's most significant annual lecture. Ambassador Miller discusses The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, established in 1984 and located at the University of Haifa, whose installations display the […]

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