Past AIA Lectures
Fall 2024
Drunken Women with Spears? Funerary Practices and Female Identity in Pre-Roman Apulia
Bice Peruzzi, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Rutgers University
Thursday, October 10th, 2024, 5:30pm.
Holden 104
The Understories of Samothrace
Christopher Witmore, Professor of Archaeology and Classics, Texas Tech University
Thursday, November 21st, 2024, 5:30pm.
MCOM 359
AIA Archaeology Hour Lectures
Throughout the semester the AIA offers on-line lectures by renown archaeologists through its Archaeology Hour series. This is open to all AIA members.
For more details see: https://www.archaeological.org/programs/public/lectures/archaeologyhour/
Spring 2024
Cultural Resource Management: What Most Archaeologists Do For a Living
Jeff Altschul
(Hosted by the AIA Lubbock Society)
Wednesday, January, 24th, 2024, 7:00pm
Dignity and social control through burial practices in ancient Rome
Dorian Borbonus, Associate Professor History, University of Dayton
Thursday, February 1st, 2024, 5:30pm
Holden Hall 104
Other Lectures TBA
Wandering the Green Hell and Sailing the Middle Sea: Lessons in Lidar-based Archaeology from the Maya Lowlands and the Mediterranean
Thomas G. Garrison and Brody W. Manquen
(Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin)
Thursday, April 25th, 2024, 5:30pm, Holden Hall 104
Fall 2023
Pottery in Ptolemaic Military Stations: Retooling Network Approaches to Early Hellenistic Maritime Trade
Melanie Godsey, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures, Texas Tech University
Thursday, September 28th, 2023, 5:30pm.
Holden Hall 104.
Warfare, Heterarchy, and Empty Hillforts: Understanding the Samnites' Non-Urban Society through Digital Archaeology Methods
Giacomo Fontana, Research Fellow in computational archaeology, UCL Institute of Archaeology, Associated researcher, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Project director of the Ancient Hillforts Survey
Thursday, October 19th, 2023, 5:30pm.
Holden Hall 104.
AIA Archaeology Hour Lectures
Throughout the semester the AIA offers on-line lectures by renowned archaeologists through its Archaeology Hour series. This is open to all AIA members. For more details see: https://www.archaeological.org/programs/public/lectures/archaeologyhour/
The AIA Lubbock society will host an Archaeology Hour in the Spring Series—details to come.
Spring 2023
Life and Death on the Nile: Diet, Origins, and Mobility in Ancient Nubia
Dr. Tosha Dupras
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Anthropology, Texas Tech University
Thursday, February 2nd at 5:30 pm
AGED 00102
Display, Dietary Practice, and Disgusting Meals: Assessing Performative Dining in
Monastic Contexts
Dr. Andrew Donnelly
Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Thursday, March 2nd at 5:30 pm
AGED 00102
Shopping for artists' materials in ancient Rome: pigment shops, pigments, and product
choice
Dr. Hilary Becker
Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, SUNY
Thursday, April 6th at 5:30 pm
AGED 00102
Fall 2022
Panathenaic Amphoras and the Cultural Economy of Athens
Dr. Catherine Pratt
Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario
Thursday, September 15th at 5:30 pm
ELECE 00101
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