Current and Upcoming Events
Most public lectures in 2020–2021 will be conducted remotely; advance registration may be required. Please check individual event pages for details.
Exhibitions
- October 20, 2020–July 2021 Randal Stegmeyer: Exposing the Past
Virtual Lectures
- April 19, 2021 Estrella Salgado, “Centrally Located, Easily Reached”: An Evolving Museum and Department Store in the Progressive Era
- April 21, 2021 AIA Lecture: Geoff Emberling, Rediscovering Napata—Capital City of Ancient Kush
- April 23, 2021 Alicia Odewale, The Next Revolution: Developing an Anti-racist Archaeology
- May 7, 2021 Kelsey Flash Talk: Nic Terrenato, Fragmentation and Fragility at the Origins of Rome (and Other Iron Age Italian States)
- May 14, 2021 AIA Lecture: Geoff Emberling, The Rise and Fall of Napata, an Ancient City along the Nile
- September 16, 2021 AIA Lecture: Thomas Paradise, The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: Thirty Years of Research in Petra, Jordan
Past Events
Recent Events
Virtual Lectures
- April 16, 2021 Panel Discussion: William Johnson, Veronica Pasfield, Amadeaus Scott Nji Kchi-Nshinaabe’baniik Gdish-Chigemi Wi (We Do This for the Ancestors): The Basics of NAGPRA
- April 15, 2021 DISC Distinguished Lecture: Stefan Weber, Pulling the Past into the Present: Curating Islamic Art in a Changing World
- April 15, 2021 MAS Lecture: Dan Wymer, The Prehistory of Jackson County, Michigan
- April 12, 2021 Museum Studies Student Capstone Project: Albert Cavallaro, Angie Feak, Veronica Williamson, Revitalizing the RMC: Articulating a Shared, Collective Vision of the Research Museum Center to the Michigan Academic Community
- April 2, 2021 Flash Talk: Carrie Roberts and Suzanne Davis, “Be of Good Cheer”: The Colorful Grave Markers of Ancient Terenouthis
- April 2, 2021 Debora Heard, The Barbarians at the Gate: Early Black Historiographical Attempts to Redefine Nubia's Place in World History
- March 26, 2021 Museums at Noon: Christina DiFabio, Shannon Ness Interdisciplinary Partnerships and Community Collaborations in Museum Practice – Two Perspectives
- March 26, 2021 Anisa Mara Scratch the Surface: The Analysis of Prehistoric Pottery Found in the Shkodër Region, North Albania
- March 25, 2021 AIA Lecture: Julie Hruby, Who Were Ancient Greek Sculptors in Clay? Insights from Their Fingerprints
- March 19, 2021 UMMAA Brown Bag: Jennifer Larios, The Pottery of Chincha, Revisited
- March 19, 2021 UMMAA Brown Bag: Kara Larson, Rising Complexity on the Frontier: Isotopic Evidence of Administration at Iron Age Khirbet Summeily, Israel
- March 18, 2021 FAST Lecture: Vincent Morel, Engraving One’s Name in the Wadi Hammamat Quarries: From Spatial Dynamics to Visual Discourses
- March 18, 2021 MAS Lecture: Scott Beld, 50 Years of Archaeology at Chippewa Nature Center
- March 12, 2021 Terrance Weik, "Archaeologies of African Diasporan Reparations"
- March 9, 2021 LRCCS Noon Lecture: Bryan K. Miller, Cultural Mediations in the Great Wall Frontier: The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China
- March 5, 2021 Flash Talk: Irene Soto Marín, The Numismatic Collection at the Kelsey: History and Highlights
- March 5, 2021 UMMAA Brown Bag: Martin Menz, Life in the Center: Investigating Residential Contexts at Letchworth Mounds (8JE337)
- March 3, 2021 Panel Discussion: The Fire This Time: Black and Indigenous Ecologies
- February 26, 2021 Ayana Flewellen, “The Will to Adorn”: Black Women and Sartorial Practices Post-Emancipation
- February 23, 2021 Roundtable Discussion: The Role of Social Media in Archaeological Education and Outreach
- February 20, 2021 ARCE Lecture: Irene Soto Marín, Roman Egypt and Its Coinage
- February 19, 2021 Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology: Panel 2: The National Museum of the Philippines and Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan
- February 19, 2021 Brittany Brown, ‘Sites of Memory’: Historic African American Cemeteries in Jacksonville, Florida
- February 18, 2021 FAST Lecture: Nicola Terrenato, At the Origins of Roman Urbanism: The Gabii Project
- February 17, 2021 Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology: Panel 1: Indigenous Epistemologies: Restorative Justice in Settler-Colonial Collections
- February 12, 2021 Jacob Bongers, Death, Mobility, and Empire in the Chincha Valley, Peru
- February 8, 2021 Bryan Miller, Beastly Badges: The Art of Adaptive Political Cultures in Nomadic Regimes"
- February 5, 2021 Flash Talk: Geoff Emberling, Ancient Africa in the Time of Black Lives Matter: Writing a New Archaeology of Kush
- February 4, 2021 AIA Lecture: Elizabeth M. Greene, The Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The Role of Wives, Children, and Families in Roman Military Communities
- February 1, 2021 Justin Dunnavant, A Historical Ecology of Slavery in the Danish West Indies: An Archaeology of Redress
- January 29, 2021 Museums at Noon: Stephanie Gandulla, Our National Marine Sanctuaries, Protecting America’s Underwater Treasures: A Survey of Michigan’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve
- January 22, 2021 The Michigan Anthropology Colloquium: Helina Woldekiros, Niche Economy: The Afar Salt Caravan Route and the Political Economy of the Aksumite State (400 BCE-CE 900), Ethiopia
- January 21, 2021 MAS Lecture: Daniel Fisher, Underwater Carcass Storage: Evidence for the Role of Proboscideans in Subsistence Practices of Pleistocene Humans
- December 4, 2020 UMMAA Brown Bag: Stacey Camp, The Archaeology of the Japanese Diaspora in the United States
- November 20, 2020 Roundtable Discussion: Nadhira Hill, Anna Antoniou, Lisa Young, Krysta Ryzewski, Geoff Emberling, The Problems and Prospects of Community-Based Archaeology
- November 19, 2020 MAS Lecture: Tim Bennett, Pioneer Farmers of Pleasant Valley
- November 12, 2020 Sarah Bond, Translating the Chaos: The Ancient History of Hate Symbols
- November 10, 2020 FAST Lecture: Christiane Gruber, "In That They Only Live by Cliques": Digging Below the Surface of Archaeological Photography at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi
- November 6, 2020 Roundtable Discussion: Amadeaus Scott, Colleen Medicine, William Johnson, Marcus Winchester, Native American Graves and Repatriation Act
- November 4, 2020 CAS Webinar: Lori Khatchadourian, Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in Armenia’s Soviet Factories
- October 29, 2020 FAST Lecture: Irene Soto Marín, Domus, Wine Cellars, and Churches at Amheida: Late Antique Ceramic Contexts in an Egyptian Oasis
- October 27, 2020 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Natsu Oyobe, Monumental Friendship: Chinese Ceramics in the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
- October 14, 2020 Amy Richlin, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic
- October 2, 2020 UMMAA Brown Bag: Elic Weitzel, The Eastern Agricultural Complex: Origins, Consequences, and Relevance for the Future
- September 24, 2020 FAST Lecture: Sheira Cohen, Alex Moskowitz, Zoe Ortiz, IPCAA at Home
Exhibitions
- August 23, 2019–March 29, 2020 Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan
Conferences and Workshops
- March 5–April 2, 2021 Virtual Early Career Scientists Symposium: Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation
- March 6, 2021 Celebrate AmSARC: US Archaeological Projects in Sudan