Past AIA Lectures

Cavafy reimagines the Classical

Gregory Jusdanis, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University

Part of the 2026 Classics Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the AIA. 

Thursday, February 12th, 2025, 5:30pm. 
MCOM 00067

 

On the Origins of Stuff: How Humans Went from Needing Nothing to Wanting Everything

Chip Colwell, founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work 

Thursday, March 5th, 2026, 5:30pm. 
MCOM 00067

 

Memory and ritual at the Etruscan sanctuary of Poggio Colla (7th-2nd centuries BCE)

P. Gregory Warden, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Southern Methodist University. 

Thursday, April 2nd, 2026, 5:30pm
MCOM 00067

 

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 visit the Archaeological Institute of America website.  

 

Lidar and Landscape Legacies in Northwestern Belize

Brett A. Houk, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Texas Tech University. 

Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 5:30pm. 

BIOL 00101

 

Landscapes of Time and Memory: Foragers in the Mojave Desert

Barbara J. Roth, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Thursday, November 6th, 2025, 5:30pm. 

BIOL 00101

 

Cleopatra: The Myth and the Reality

Duane W. Roller, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Ohio State University. 

Thursday, November 20th, 2025, 5:30pm

BIOL 00101

 

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 visit the Archaeological Institute of America website.  

 

Alienated Ancestors: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian History of Anthropology in the Americas

Christopher Heaney, Assistant Professor of History, The Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, February 6th, 2025, 5:30pm. 
Location: MCOM 359

 

Surviving Change: The Persistence of a 3,000-Year-Old City

Gregory Zaro, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Climate Change, University of Maine
Thursday, February 27th, 2025, 5:30pm. 
Location: MCOM 359

 

Tracing megalithic heritage: Ceramic archaeometry research in the Upper Rhône Valley, Switzerland

Branimir Segvic, Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, TTU
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 5:30pm
Location: 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 visit the Archaeological Institute of America website.  

 

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/

 

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

  

 

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.