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Culture Fest! Celebrate Woman Artists and Creatives

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

This full-day festival celebrates women and femme artists from around the world, featuring art and performances from some of the region’s best female artists and creatives. Honor the power and diversity of feminine creativity with a day of activities the whole family can enjoy, like live performances, hands-on workshops, storytelling, and an artist marketplace.

Cultural Heritage and Imaginaries: The Politics and Practices of Archaeology

Abstract: The past, whether real, tangible, embellished, or imagined, can be a particularly powerful and alluring source of symbols, narratives, and ideas. Echoes from the distant past can reverberate and affect the lives of contemporary and descendant communities, and issues related to politics, cultural heritage management, tourism, and national identity can all be tied to […]

Pandemics, Plagues, and Pestilence in early Byzantine Thebes

Carleton University , Canada

Excavations in the Sanctuary of Ismenion Apollo in Thebes also revealed a later cemetery of Early and Middle Byzantine burials, which are apparently associated with an early Christian hospice or hospital. The skeletons showed that a remarkably high percentage of individuals suffered from significant pathologies with high rates of infectious diseases. Two mass graves are […]

Second Sunday Culture Films: Fugetsu-Do & Morkovcha

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

The 2022-2023 culture film series Folklife, a joyful celebration of local folkways: writing, storytelling, visual arts, handcrafts, cuisine, and other forms of expression which make places and people distinctive and create bridges to connect them with other cultures around the world. Please stay for a catered reception to celebrate the season finale. Fugetsu-Do Dir. Kaia […]

Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter

ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States

The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Branko van Oppen, […]

Rural Landscapes, Archaeological Fieldwork, and Cultural Heritage Destruction in Turkey

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sabin Hall Room G90 3413 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Dr. Ömür Harmanshah, Director, The School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Illinois at Chicago, will present the AIA’s Nancy Wilkie Lecture in Archaeological Heritage for the AIA-Milwaukee Society Archaeological remains and landscapes are witnesses to deep time histories, yet they have increasingly been victims of targeted […]