Current and Upcoming Events
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Past Events
Recent Events
Lectures and Brown Bags
- April 10, 2020 Virtual UMMAA Brown Bag: Henry T. Wright, Seen One Bottle, Seen’em All: Emerging Uruk State Networks of the Late IVth Millenium BCE
- March 13, 2020 UMMAA Brown Bag: Krysta Ryzewski, An Inconvenient Past: Detroit vs. Slow Archaeology
- March 13, 2020 Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, Mastering the Music of Nature in the Ptolemaic Empire
- March 10, 2020 Margaret M. Bruchac, Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections
- February 28, 2020 Nicola Terrenato, Multifocality and State Fragility in Iron Age Central Italy
- February 27, 2020 Andrea Augenti, What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Early Medieval Cities?
- February 21, 2020 Giulia Saltini Semerari, Culture Contact Dynamics in the Iron Age Central Mediterranean: New Approaches and New Data
- February 20, 2020 CJS Noon Lecture: Morgan Pitelka, Reading Medieval Ruins: A Material History of Urban Life in 16th-Century Japan
- February 20, 2020 FAST Lecture: Laurel Fricker, Nadhira Hill, Peter Knoop, Lisa Nevett, and David Stone, The Olynthos Project: Dirt on an Ancient Greek City
- February 20, 2020 MAS Lecture: William Lovis, Bill Monaghan's Squash Seed
- February 18, 2020 Daniel Herwitz, Cultural Property and the Question of Repatriation
- February 14, 2020 Kurt Rademaker, By Land or by Sea? Investigating Early Routes and Inter-zonal Connections During the Settlement of South America
- February 7, 2020 Lauren Pratt, Stone in the Age of Clay: Lithic Use-Wear from Prehistoric Ceramic Period Sites in Chachapoyas, Peru
- February 7, 2020 The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: Sarah McClure, Historical and Environmental Impacts of Pastoralism: Examining the Timing, Tempo, and Character of Animal Herding among Europe’s First Farmers
- February 3, 2020 Yannis Hamilakis, Archaeologies of Contemporary Migration: Border Assemblages, Global Apartheid, and the Decolonial Potential
- January 30, 2020 CJS Noon Lecture Series: Michelle Damian, Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
- January 30, 2020 FAST Lecture: Natalie Abell, Assessing Mechanisms of Mobility and Exchange in the Prehistoric Cyclades
- January 24, 2020 LACS Event: Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961-2003: A Conversation with Jeffrey Parsons
- January 16, 2020 Brown Bag Lecture: Frits Henrich and Annette M. Hansen, Interdisciplinary Advances in Palaeoethnobotanical Research in Egypt and Sudan. New perspectives on diet, nutrition and agricultural strategies
- January 16, 2020 MAS Lecture: John Speth, Rotted Meat, Scurvy, and Neanderthal Foodways
- January 15, 2020 Brown Bag Lecture: Frits Henrich, Rethinking Roman Nutrition
- January 14, 2020 Diana Ng, The Roman-period Theater as Cognitive Microecology: Setting, Seating, and Costume
- December 12, 2019 FAST Lecture: Jesse Millek, Reconsidering the Role of Destruction at the End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean
- December 6, 2019 The Roy A. Rappaport Lecture | Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants: Raven Garvey, Foragers in a World of Farmers
- December 4, 2019 2019 Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture: Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Recycling, Taphonomy, and the Fossil Record: A Unifying Concept for Paleobiology
- November 21, 2019 Linda Gosner, Colonial Interaction and Resource Exploitation in the Sinis Peninsula
- November 21, 2019 MAS Lecture: John O'Shea, Prehistoric Archaeology at 120: Exploring Lake Huron’s Alpena-Amberley Ridge
- November 20, 2019 Luis Gómez Memorial Lecture: Reiko Ohnuma, Why Are Buddha Statues So Big? Space, Time, and Unusual Human Bodies in Buddhism
- November 19, 2019 Peter Pavuk, New Discoveries in Late Bronze Age Western Anatolia
- November 15, 2019 The Roy A. Rappaport Lecture | Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants: Raven Garvey, The Mysterious Middle Holocene
- November 15, 2019 CSEAS Lecture: Anthony Lovenheim Irwin, Crafting Theravada Buddhism: Touch and Material in the lives of Thai Buddhists
- November 14, 2019 FAST Lecture: Geoff Emberling, Urbanism in the Empire of Kush: New Archaeological Research around Jebel Barkal, Northern Sudan
- November 8, 2019 Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, New Face to an Old Name: Recent Fossil Discoveries from Woranso-Mille, Afar Region, Ethiopia
- November 7, 2019 2019 Parsons Lecture: Junko Habu, Current Issues in Jomon Archaeology
- November 1, 2019 Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Jennifer Birch, Dating Iroquoia: Refined Time Frames for Coalescence, Conflict, and Early European Influences in Northeastern North America
- October 24, 2019 Charlotte Marie Cable, Digging In: Continuing research at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat (Sultanate of Oman)
- October 24, 2019 AIA Lecture: Eric Poehler, The Via Pumpaiiana: a Biography
- October 17, 2019 Ruth Ann Armitage, Archaeological Chemistry at EMU: Combining Chemical Analysis and Radiocarbon Dating
- October 17, 2019 MAS Lecture: Dan Wymer, The Agate Basin Late Paleo/Early Archaic Component at the Wooster Site and the Role of the MAS Dency Terrill Memorial Dig in Locating the Primary Occupation Area
- October 11, 2019 The Roy A. Rappaport Lecture | Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants: Raven Garvey, Explorers of an Empty Landscape
- October 10, 2019 Jo Osborn, The Chincha-Inca Mortuary Traditions at Jahuay, Quebrada de Topará
- October 9, 2019 Julie Stauder-Porchet, Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in 3rd Millennium BCE Egypt
- October 9, 2019 ASP Lecture: Anoush Tamar Suni, Palimpsests of Ruins: Between Armenian and Kurdish Histories in Anatolia
- September 26, 2019 Maryl Gensheimer, Imperial Allusion for the Masses: Awash in Innuendo at the Baths of Caracalla
- September 19, 2019 Lauren Pratt, Caves of Chachapoyas, Peru:Modern Human Activities and Potential Prehistoric Analogies
- September 19, 2019 Julian E. Schultz, Shells and Shell-Rings: The Woodland Period Use of Mollusks at Mound Field
- September 13, 2019 The Roy A. Rappaport Lecture | Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants: Raven Garvey, Patagonian Giants
- September 12, 2019 FAST Lecture: Leah Bernardo-Ciddio, Amelia Eichengreen, and Craig Harvey, IPCAA in the Field
- September 5, 2019 Exhibition Opening Lecture: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis, Graffiti as Devotion Along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan
Tours
- October 27, 2019 Curator Tour: Geoff Emberling, Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan
- October 19, 2019 Public Archaeology Day (off campus)
- September 8, 2019 Curator Tour: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis, Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan
Competitions
- Deadline: January 27, 2020 2019-2020 Jackier Prize Competition
- 2018-2019 Jackier Prize Competition
Exhibitions
- August 17, 2019–January 5, 2020 Copies and Invention in East Asia
- October 8–December 6, 2019 Literature in Fragments: Lost Greek Works at Michigan
- February 8–July 28, 2019 Ancient Color
U-M Fieldwork Opportunities
Conferences and Workshops
- February 14–15, 27, 2020 Connectivity, Mobility, and Scale in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
- November 8–10, 2019 3rd Annual Great Lakes Student Paleoconference
- November 7, 2019 Smell and Tell: Sacred Scents
- October 25, 2019 Roundtable: Repatriation and Restitution of Cultural Heritage
- September 20, 2019 Symposium: Graffiti in Ancient Nubia and Beyond
Movies and Performances
- February 4, 2020 Documentary Film: From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza
- January 20, 2020Cleopatra Boy
- January 17, 18, and 19, 2020Ovid’s Metamorphoses