Archaeology at Michigan | Events

Current and Upcoming Events

Exhibitions

November 12, 2022–May 7, 2023 Clay as Soft Power: Shigaraki Ware in Postwar America and Japan
Kelsey in Focus: Out-of-Place Ushabtis in Roman Karanis
January 7–May 15, 2023 Early Astronomy in the University of Michigan Collections

Lectures

January 30 LRCCS Interdisciplinary Workshop Series: Christopher DeCou, Tackling Fish in the Mongol Empires: Consumption, Ecology, and Northern Exchange
January 31, 2023 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Adam Brookes, The Forbidden City at War: China's Imperial Art Collections in the Second World War, and Their Extraordinary Journey to Safety
February 3, 2023 Kelsey Flash Talk: Carrie Roberts, Investigating Color in Roman Egypt

Conferences and Workshops

February 3, 2023 EIHS Workshop: Material Culture: Objects Against the Historical Grain?

Competitions

Deadline: January 23, 2023 Kelsey Prize

Past Events

Recent Events

Lectures

January 12, 2023 Coffee with the Curators: John Steele, Francesca Schironi, Evyn Kropf, Pablo Alvarez, Early Astronomy
January 12, 2023 FAST Lecture: Josipa Mandić, Cesare Vita, Pre-Roman Funerary Archaeology
December 2, 2022 Kelsey Museum Flash Talk: Leah Bernardo-Ciddio, Investigating the Production Choices of Ancient Potters in Southeast Italy and Albania
December 2, 2022 UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series: Marco Cavalazzi, Ravenna Landscape Project: Wetlands and Coastal Archaeology around a Byzantine Capital
December 1, 2022 Farrand Memorial Lecture, Daniel C. Fisher, On the Trail of an Ice Age Mastodon
November 17, 2022 Michael Galaty, How to be a Big Person in the Balkans: Past and Present, in Life and Death
November 11, 2022 UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series, Hyoungseok Kim, An Introduction to South Korean Salvage Archaeology: An Early Silla Cemetery Site, Chadang-ri
November 10, 2022 CJS Thursday Lecture Series: Takahiro Sasaki, Pre-modern Japanese Book History
November 9, 2022 Bridget Callahan and Susan Rowley, Museum Collections: Considering Access & Transparency through Visible Storage
November 4, 2022 Kelsey Museum Flash Talk: Richard Redding, Using Animal Bones to Understand the Diet and Economy of Ancient Societies
November 4, 2022 UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series, Keri Porter, Digging Up the Digital Past: Archaeogaming and Archaeological Practice in the Sims™ Franchise
November 4, 2022 CSAS Lecture Series: Vidya Dehejia, The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes
November 1, 2022 Deirdre de la Cruz, ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan
October 28, 2022 UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series, Emily Milton, High Altitude, Low Oxygen: A Parable of an Isotopic Baseline in the Central Andes
October 21, 2022 UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series, Gazmend Elezi, Neolithic Kamnik: An Untold Story of Albanian Prehistory
October 14, 2022 UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series, Daniel Wilcox, Understanding the Shift from Soapstone to Pottery in Eastern North America During the Late Archaic and Early Woodland Period: An Experimental Approach
October 13, 2022 AIA Lecture, Pam Crabtree, Diet and Status in Roman Egypt: Evidence from Amheida in the Dakleh Oasis in the Western Desert
October 7, 2022 UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series, Emilie Green, Chronology, Climate & Resilience: Using Multi-Proxy Bayesian Chronologies to Examine Pastoralist Responses to Dynamic Steppe Environments and Landscapes in Mongolia
October 6, 2022 Peter Fibiger Bang, A League of Universal Monarchies – Recontextualising Rome in World History
September 19, 2022 Fiona Greenland, Conversations on Europe. Loot: Tomb Robbing, Art Restitution, and Italian Cultural Power in the 21st Century
September 16, 2022 UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series, UMMAA in the Field: Lightning Talks from Graduate Student Field Projects
September 15, 2022 Joseph Howley, Slavery and the Book: Toward a New Social History of Roman Literature
September 9, 2022 Kelsey Flash Talk: James Prosser, An Example of Mobility: The Epigraphic Record of Migration from Hadrumetum to Lambaesis
September 2, 2022 CSEAS Lecture Series: Miriam Stark, Living with the Mekong: Archaeological Perspectives and Alternative Futures
June 3, 2022 Kelsey Flash Talk: Terry Wilfong, In Search of Hamzeh Carr
May 6, 2022 Kelsey Flash Talk: Elaine Gazda, Portraits and Patrons: The Women of the Villa of the Mysteries in Their Social Context

Exhibitions

October 20, 2020–January 2, 2022 Randal Stegmeyer: Exposing the Past

Competitions

Deadline: January 24, 2022 Kelsey Prize

U-M Fieldwork Opportunities

June 14–July 20, 2022 Summer Field School: U-M Training Program in Archaeology (Mongolia)
June 19–July 23, 2022 Gabii Field Program (Italy)

Conferences and Workshops

December 2, 2022 EIHS Workshop: Beyond the Written Record: Exploring Past Sounds, Tastes, Smells, Vistas, and Touches
September 30–October 1, 2022 In Process: A Symposium in Honor of Ray Silverman
September 29–October 2, 2022 University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at 100: Michigan’s Mark – Past, Present, Future