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 New Haven Society (Yale) 2024-2025 AIA Lectures

We are pleased to announce that lecturers and dates have been finalized for the 2024-25 lecture series.    

UPCOMING Spring 2025 LECTURE:

The Past in the Past: Traditionalism in Archaic Crete,” Prof Grace Erny (University of California, Berkeley) 

Monday April 14 2025, 5:30-6:30 pm ET (Zoom)
Co-sponsored by the AIA and the Dept of Classics, Yale University

Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/5153886829

 

Lecture Summary:
This talk focuses on how ancient Greek communities on the island of Crete thought about their island’s past. I discuss several case studies of engagement with older landscape features and ways of life, including the construction of megalithic buildings in the countryside, the use and display of non-Greek inscriptions, and open-air ritual practice at significant locations. Material interactions with real or imagined pasts were key strategies for consolidating power during a period of demographic growth, competition for resources, and emerging forms of social inequality in the seventh through the fifth centuries BCE.

RECENT AIA LECTURES (Yale):

Self-Fashioning in a Roman Province: Gender, Dress, and Difference in the Isiac Funerary Reliefs from Athens,“ a lecture by Professor Lindsey Mazurek, Indiana University, Bloomington, January 29 2024, from 5-6 pm. 

“Rural Matters: Studying the Countrysides of Ancient Cyprus,” a lecture by Professor Catherine Kearns, University of Chicago, Nov 8 from 5-6 pm

“Block by Block: Piecing Together Athenian Democracy,” a remote ZOOM lecture by Professor Jessica Paga, The College of William & Mary, April 5, 2022, from 5-6 pm

“Feasts of Silver in the Persian Empire,” a remote ZOOM lecture by Dr. Susanne Ebbinghaus, Harvard University, March 31, 2021 at 5:30 PM. 

“Awash in Innuendo at the Baths of Caracalla,” a remote ZOOM lecture by Professor Maryl Gensheimer, University of Maryland, November 2 2021, from 5-6 pm 

“The Perikles Cup: New Archaeological Evidence for Athens’ Most Famous Politician?” a lecture (Phelps Hall) by Professor Matthew Simonton, Arizona State University, March 3 2020, from 5:30-6:30 pm

“Barge of Heaven: Cleopatra the Goddess,” a lecture (Phelps Hall 207) by Professor Alison Futrell, University of Arizona, February 26 2019, from 5:30-6:30 pm

“Roman Wall Painting: Pliny, Pigments, & Polychromy,” a lecture (Phelps 207) by Professor Hilary Becker, SUNY Binghamton, March 6 2018, 5:30-6:30 pm

“Rams in Space: The Ambracian Gulf as a Landscape of Symbols,” a lecture (Phelps 207) by Dr. Kristian Lorenzo, The Meadows School, October 24 2017, 5:30-6:30 pm


Archaeology Brown Bag Lunches

Sponsored by the Yale University Council on Archaeological Studies and the Department of Anthropology, these lectures typically take place during the academic year on Fridays at 12:00 PM, in Room 101 of 51 Hillhouse Avenue.

 

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