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Reality and Irreality: The Play of Substances in Ancient Maya Art

Stephen Houston, Depee Family Professor, Brown University
October 20, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Room 208, WHC, 53 Wall Street


Yale Babylonian Collection, Centennial Celebration

Saturday, November 14, 2009
Symposium, 1:30 PM
Film Screening, 4:00 PM
Tour of Exhibit, 5:30 PM
Concert, 8:00 PM

For Symposium Poster, click here.
For Concert Poster, click here


Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum

September 21, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA


Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.

November 18, 2008 - March 15, 2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor


“The Cult Statues Group at the Hephaisteion in Athens: On the Evidence of Interconnected Hypotheses”

Angelos Delivorrias, Director of the Benaki Museum
Tuesday, April 21,2009


“New Light from Egypt on the Thera Eruption Date”

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Dr. Karen Foster, Yale University
Norwalk Community College, 7:30 PM, Culinary Arts Dining Room, West Campus


Visual Representation and State Formation in Ancient Egypt

Friday, November 14, 2008
Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, Hasselt, Belgium
Yale University, Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 401
320 York Street, New Haven, CT


Investigating a Child Sacrifice Event from the Inca Heartland of Cuzco, Peru

Thursday, November 13, 2009
Dr. Valerie Andrushko, Southern Connecticut State University
Norwalk Community College, 7:30 PM, Culinary Arts Dining Room, West Campus


The Civilization of Elba

Thursday, October 30, 2008, 4:30 pm
Professor Giovanna Biga, University of Rome
Yale University, Room 211, Linsly-Chittenden Hall


Dynasty and Destiny in an Architectural Context: the Augustan Experiment and the Hadrianic Effect

Tuesday, October 14, 5:30 PM
John Pollini, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Southern California
Yale University, Loria, 190 York Street


Losing Mesopotamia: Glorious Past, Threatened Present and Worrisome Future for Iraq’s Cultural Heritage

Sunday, October 5, 2008
Professor McGuire Gibson
Sponsored by the University of Chicago Alumni Association
Hyatt Regency - Greenwich


Thieves of Baghdad, Colonel Matthew Bogdanos

Thursday, October 9, 2008 7:30 PM
Norwalk Community College, 188 Richards Avenue, Norwalk, CT
Pepsico Theater, East Campus