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Past Events
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Lectures
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April 11, 2024
FAST Lecture:
David Stone, Passing the Salt: Investigating an Overlooked Commodity in the Roman Empire
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April 6, 2024
ASC 15th-Year Anniversary Conference:
Geoff Emberling, Decolonizing Archaeology in the Shadow of Ancient Pyramids at El-Kurru, Sudan
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April 6, 2024
ASC 15th-Year Anniversary Conference:
William Gblerkpor, Pursuing Park Museums in Ghana: Emerging Hubs for Archaeology and Heritage Initiatives
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April 5, 2024
Kelsey Flash Talk Elaine Gazda, Discarded, Discovered, Stolen, and Recovered: The Turbulent Life of a Marble Statuette from Carthage
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April 5, 2024
Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Hindu Themes in the Buddhist Art of Afghanistan
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March 29, 2024
Sara Watson, Late Pleistocene Movement of People and Ideas in the Southern Cape, South Africa
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March 26, 2024
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Wu Hung, Retelling the Story of Dunhuang Buddhist Art: A Spatial Approach
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March 25, 2024
2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Rubina Raja, Appropriating the Roman Cities of the East: The Historiography of Archaeology
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March 22, 2024
Raven Garvey, Human Consumption of Large Herbivore Digesta and Its Implication for Foraging Theory
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March 22, 2024
2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Rubina Raja, The Long Late Antiquity: From Cities to Villages and Back Again
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March 20, 2024
2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Rubina Raja, A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East
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March 18, 2024
2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Rubina Raja, Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East: Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée
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March 15, 2024
UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series: Michael Cherney and Tom Trautmann, Elephant Musth in History and Prehistory
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March 8, 2024
Kelsey Museum Flash Talk: Laura Motta, The Kelsey Museum Botanical Collections from Karanis: Challenges and Opportunities for Dating Legacy Material with Radiocarbon Analysis
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March 7, 2024
IPAMAA Lecture: Christopher Ratté, Notion Archaeological Research Project: The Biography of an Ancient Greek Urban Community
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March 6, 2024
Curatorial Webinar: Christiane Gruber, The She-Demon Killer of Pregnant Women and Infants: Puerperant Amulets at the Crossroads of Cultures
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February 23, 2024
John O'Shea, Dispatches from a Lost World: Archaeology on an Early Holocene Submerged Landscape
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February 16, 2024
Erina Baci, Re-examining the “hillfort” in Balkan Prehistory: A Case Study from Western Kosova
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February 15, 2024
MAS Lecture: Steven Dorland, Community-based Archaeology
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February 9, 2024
Henry Wright, Before Clovis: Discovering Early North Americans
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February 8, 2024
FAST Lecture: Nic Terrenato, The Possible Repatriation of the Flavian Monument Fragments at the Kelsey
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February 2, 2024
Kelsey Flash Talk: Michele Valerie Ronnick, William Sanders Scarborough
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February 2, 2024
Jeffrey R. Parsons Lecture 2024: Frances M. Hayashida, Water, Copper, Earth Beings, and Empire: Late Prehispanic Political Ecology in the High-Altitude Atacama Desert
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January 30, 2024
CSCS Seminar: Stefani Crabtree, Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity: Leveraging High Performance Computing, Network Science, and Agent-based Models to Understand Australia’s Deep Past
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January 26, 2024
Zhaneta Gjyshja, It Takes a Village: Craft Specialization at a Late Neolithic (5400-4600BC) Site in Kosova
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January 18, 2024
Albert Ammerman, The Neolithic Transition in Europe at 50 Years
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January 18, 2024
Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: James R. Paquette, The Gorto Site in Michigan’s UP
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December 1, 2023
Kelsey Flash Talk: Cathy Person, DiSKO in the Kelsey Museum
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November 30, 2023
Joseph A.M. Gingerich, Reconstructing Paleoindian Workspaces
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November 30, 2023
Heidi Hilliker, Competing Interests: Examining Identity Politics in the Display of Ancient Egypt
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November 16, 2023
UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series: Annika Kirscheneder, House Inventories in Pompeii
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November 15, 2023
Museums in Practice Series: Liz Harmon, Douglas McCarthy, Heather Dunn, Access and Museums: Making Meaning through Online and Digital Connections
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November 15, 2023
Samantha Brown, Investigating the Fragmented Osseous Assemblages of the Swabian Jura using ZooMS and Zooarchaeology
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November 9, 2023
Matthew Brown, Muyumoqo: Preliminary Results from a Late Formative (600 BCE - 200 CE) Center in Cusco, Peru
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November 8, 2023
“Arts and Resistance” Webinar: Geoff Emberling and Anawar Mahajoub, Local Histories: Heritage and Resistance in a Sudanese Village
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November 3, 2023
Kelsey Flash Talk: Suzanne Davis and Caroline Roberts, Kelsey Museum Conservation Laboratory Virtual Tour
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October 31, 2023
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Meng Zhao, Beholder Onstage: Gazing in Southern Song Landscapes (1127-1279)
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October 26, 2023
Fatumah Mirembe, Exploring the Archaeological Assemblage of Butiru Iron Production Site in Eastern Uganda
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October 26, 2023
FAST Lecture: Giulia Saltini Semerari, Connectivity in the Adriatic Sea between the Late Bronze Age and the Orientalizing Period: Current Issues and Future Perspectives
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October 25, 2023
F23 MEMS Lecture: Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks, and Early Modern Identity
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October 19, 2023
John D. Speth, Putrid Meat in Human Diet and Evolution (and Other Things)
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October 19, 2023
William Carruthers, Creating Nubia: How Colonialism, Tourism, and Archaeology Made a Region, a Past, and a People
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October 13, 2023
Gerald F. Else Lecture in the Humanities: Claire Taylor, Who Cooked Aristotle’s Dinner? Women and the Ancient (Greek) Economy
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October 11, 2023
AIA Lecture: Nathan T. Elkins, Taxes And Tyranny: The Significance of Liberty on the Coinage of the Early Roman Empire
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October 6, 2023
Kelsey Flash Talk: Geoff Emberling, Archaeology, Heritage, and the Civil War in Sudan
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October 4, 2023
Thomas A. Jennings and Ashley M. Smallwood, From Peopling to Persistent Places: Tracking Cultural Change from the Pleistocene to Early Holocene in the Southeast
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September 28, 2023
Amy E. Clark, The “Home” as a Setting for Human Behavioral Evolution
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September 26, 2023
Rustam Shukurov, Actualizing Cultural Memory: Persia in the Middle and Late Byzantine Tradition
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September 21, 2023
Matthew Brown, Jhon Cruz, Soren Frykholm, Drosos Kardulias, and Kara Larson, UMMAA in the Field: Lightning Talks from Graduate Student Field Projects
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September 21, 2023
Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Laura Bossio, Investigations at the Williams #2 Site: Understanding an Emergent Upper Mississippian Village in Northwestern Ohio
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September 8, 2023
Kelsey Flash Talk: Nicola Barham, Outsiders at Intercisa? An Image of Breastfeeding on the Roman Danube Frontier
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April 14, 2023
The Jeffrey Parsons Lecture 2023: Shane Miller, Self-Destructive Zones: What Archaeology Tells Us about the Future Risks of Floods, Forest Fires, and Droughts in Southern Appalachia
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April 7, 2023
Kelsey Flash Talk: Brendan Haug, From Qift to Karanis: Egyptian Laborers in Michigan’s Fayyum Excavations
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April 7, 2023
MA. Tesfaye Wondyifraw Tsegaye, The Buahit Serit Rock Art and other Archaeological Sites along the Blue Nile Valley of Ethiopia
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April 3, 2023
Meet the Author Series: Megan Nutzman, In this Holy Place: Ritual Healing Sites in Roman and Late Antique Palestine
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