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The Archaeological Institute of America - Western Carolina Chapter
Lecture Series
All lectures are free and open to the public – Informal receptions follow
Upcoming Lectures | 2008-2009 Lectures | 2007-2008 Lectures | 2006-2007 Lectures
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
We need new members in order to continue our lecture series here. Please ask a friend to join you for one of our lectures and if you haven’t renewed your membership, please consider doing so soon. You can become a member or renew your current membership online at www.aia.org. Special rates for full-time students. For More Information Or To Join The Western Carolina Chapter Of The AIA, Contact Dr. Laurel Taylor, President, ltaylor@unca.edu
Upcoming Lectures
Welcome to the spring 2009 A.I.A. season! We have two lectures scheduled this spring. The first will be presented by Professor Andrea Berlin, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in the archaeology of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East and received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Classical Art and Archaeology. Professor Berlin has taught at Georgetown University, George Washington University, and the University of Virginia before going to Minnesota in 1997. Her work has taken her to Turkey (Troy), Cyprus (Nicosia), Egypt (Coptos), and Israel, where she is currently co-director of the excavations at Tel Kedesh. Dr. Berlin’s talk, “Crafting Identity: The Case of Judea,” will focus on the archaeology of ancient Judea.
The lecture will be Wednesday, March 18th at 7:30 pm in the Whitman Room of Ramsey Library (at UNCA).
Our second lecture this spring will be given by Professor Bonnie Effros of the History Department at Binghamton University. Professor Effros received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles and has excavated at Tel Haror, Israel, at an Augustinian priory at Haverfordwest in Wales, and at the basilique of Saint-Denis in France. A specialist in the early medieval history and archaeology of France, Dr. Effros will talk about 19th century French views of archaeology and ancestry.
Her talk, “Anthropology and Ancestry in Nineteenth-Century France,” will be on Wednesday, April 15, at 7:30 pm in the Whitman Room of Ramsey Library.
For more info contact Laurel Taylor at: ltaylor@unca.edu or 251-6290. (If you have a new email address, please send it to Dr. Taylor so you can be added to our email list.)
2008-2009 Lectures Presented
2008, October 23: Dr. Anthony Tuck (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) presented “Poggio Civitate and the Urban Landscape of Italy’s Earliest Cities.” Dr. Tuck is a specialist in Early Etruscan culture and urbanization and Co-Director of Excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), Italy, the best example of an Etruscan community on the cusp of urbanism. Excavation in the past two years has revealed a great deal of information, from burials to roads, that is changing the way the site is understood by scholars. Whitman Room, Ramsey Library.
2007-2008 Lectures
2008, April 2: Dr. Salima Ikram, a well-known Egyptologist and associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, presented "Beloved Beasts: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies." Professor Ikram studied Egyptology and archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, earning an A.B. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and History. Continuing her studies at Cambridge University, she earned her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Egyptology and museum studies. Professor Ikram is the correspondent for KMT, a popular Egyptological journal, and a frequent contributor to Egypt Today. She is the co-director of the Animal Mummy Project at the Egyptian Museum and since 2001, has directed, with Corinna Rossi, the North Kharga Oasis Survey. The author of Beloved Beasts: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies (Cairo: 2005), she discussed the Egyptian practice of animal mummification, including the four different types of animal mummies (food, pets, votive offerings, and sacred creatures) and explained how and why they were made, what each type meant to the ancient Egyptians, and how they reflect the ways in which the Egyptians interacted with the animal world. Reuter Center.
2008, March 13: Kostis Kourelis, Assistant Professor in Art History at Clemson University and the 2007-2008 AIA Forsyth lecturer, presented his research from his year at Princeton, "Discovering Byzantium: American Archaeology in Greece 1920-1940." Dr. Kourelis investigates urbanism, rural settlements, and houses in the medieval Mediterranean and has worked at field projects in Greece, Sicily, Tunisia, and the Black Sea. He has published on a variety of topics including the Greek grand tour, modernism's discovery of Byzantium, medieval manifestations in film, and the archaeology of global migration. Dr. Kourelis received his Ph.D. from the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, and most recently was a 2006-2007 Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Institute for Hellenic Studies. This lecture was also part of The Legacy of Byzantium: Exploring the Divine Images of the Orthodox Faith week, March 15-21, at UNC Asheville. Click here to see the poster for the exhibit of Byzantine icons. Ramsey Library, Whitman Room.
2008, February 28: Professor Leslie Preston Day, an expert on the Late Bronze Age/Early ‘Dark’ Age in Greece, presented a lecture on the well-known city of Karphi, a site in Crete that has been crucial to our understanding of the transition between Bronze Age and Iron Age Greece. Professor Day received her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati and currently teaches at Wabash College. She has excavated at Kavousi, Crete and was Co-director and field director at Vronda. She was the Area Supervisor at the excavations at Pella of the Decapolis in Jordan and was part of a mapping project at Mochlos, on Crete. She is currently at work on a series of books on the Vronda Settlement, the Vronda Cemetery and the Early Excavations at Kavosi. Karphi: a City of Refuge in Dark Age Crete. Whitman Room, Ramsey Library.
2007, November 12: Dr. Lynn Rainville of Sweet Briar College presented “Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamian Cities: results from micro-archaeological research.” Dr. Rainville teaches anthropology and archaeology, and is a specialist in the Ancient Near East and the Assyrian Empire. She has recently published Investigating Upper Mesopotamian Households Using Micro-Archaeological Techniques (Archaeopress 2005). Micro-archaeology includes an analysis of micro-artifacts (objects under 1 cm), soil sediments, phytoliths, and pollen. Results from micro-archaeology provide information about domestic technologies, craft specialization, and household activities. Whitman Room, Ramsey Library.
2007, September 27: Dr. George Stuart, a local Mayan archaeologist and former National Geographic Vice President for Research and Exploration, presented the opening lecture for the 2007-2008 season. After retiring from National Geographic in the early 1990’s, where he also served as Chairman of the Society's Committee for Research and Exploration and Senior Assistant Editor for the magazine, George and his wife Melinda moved to Barnardsville where they established the Center for Maya Research, a not-for profit organization which they founded to promote and direct research related to archaeology, art, and culture of the Maya. A noted Mayan archaeologist and cartographer, Dr. Stuart has published and lectured extensively on Mesoamerican and Maya archaeology, hieroglyphic writing, and the early history of the discovery of the Maya. In 1993, he published Lost Kingdoms of the Maya which was then turned into a National Geographic special. Dr. Stuart has excavated at various Maya centers in Mexico and Guatemala. Most recently, his work has focused on the famous Late Classic Mayan city of Palenque, often considered to have some of the most spectacular and beautiful ruins of the Maya. He has collaborated with his son, Mayan archaeologist Dr. David Stuart (University of Texas at Austin), on numerous projects at Palenque and his lecture will present an overview of this important Mayan center and of their recent work there. Whitman Room, Ramsey Library.
2006-2007 Lectures
2007, April 18: Prof. William Murray, University of South Florida. Whitman Room, Ramsey Library.
2007, February 22: Prof. Barbara Tsakirgis, Vanderbilt University. "Living in Luxury: The Houses of Hellenistic Sicily." Whitman Room, Ramsey Library.
2006, November 9: Prof. John McKesson Camp II, Director of the Excavations of the Agora at Athens and Professor of Classics at Randolph-Macon College, presented "The Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron." An authority on the urban heart of ancient Athens, Professor Camp has been associated with excavations in the Agora since 1966, serving as director of excavations there since 1994. Some of his recent publications include, The Athenian Agora (1992) The Archaeology of Athens (2001) and The World of the Ancient Greeks (2002). In addition to his work in the Agora at Athens, Dr. Camp has also worked on the history and architectural development of the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron. His lecture will examine not only the architectural complex at Brauron, but also the history of this enigmatic cult in Greece. Whitman Room, Ramsey Library.
2006, September 21: Prof. Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at Unc-Chapel Hill, presented "The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls." The UNC Asheville Center for Jewish Studies and the AIA were co-sponsors of this very exciting lecture. Dr. Magness is a specialist in the archaeology of Palestine during the Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods, has participated in 20 different excavations in Israel and Greece, including co-directing the 1995 excavations in the Roman siege works at Masada. From 1997-99 she co-directed excavations at Khirbet Yattir in Israel and now co-directs excavations in the late Roman fort at Yotvata, Israel. Her book, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for Best Popular Book in Archaeology in 2001-2002 and was selected as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2003 by Choice Magazine. Dr. Magness has been a member of the Governing Board of the AIA and has served as President of the North Carolina Society of the AIA. Reuter Center Lecture Hall.
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