Archaeology at Michigan

Current and Upcoming Events

Exhibitions

• July–early November, 2023 Byzantine and Islamic Gallery (BIG) Object Spotlight #1
• Kelsey in Focus: Out-of-Place Ushabtis in Roman Karanis
• August 26, 2023–January 7, 2024 Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
• October 2–27, 2023 Narrating Nubia

Lectures

• September 26, 2023 Rustam Shukurov, Actualizing Cultural Memory: Persia in the Middle and Late Byzantine Tradition
• 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
• October 6, 2023 Kelsey Flash Talk: Geoff Emberling, Archaeology, Heritage, and the Civil War in Sudan
• October 11, 2023 AIA Lecture: Nathan T. Elkins, Taxes And Tyranny: The Significance of Liberty on the Coinage of the Early Roman Empire
• October 13, 2023 Gerald F. Else Lecture in the Humanities: Claire Taylor, Who Cooked Aristotle’s Dinner? Women and the Ancient (Greek) Economy
• October 31, 2023 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series: Meng Zhao, Beholder Onstage: Gazing in Southern Song Landscapes (1127-1279)

Conferences and Workshops

• September 29, 2023 2023 Michigan Anthropology Four Field Symposium: Kinship: Humans and Beyond
• June 17–21, 2024 12th North American Paleontological Convention

Past Events

• 2022–2023
• 2021–2022
• 2020–2021
• 2019–2020
• 2018–2019
• 2017–2018
• 2016–2017
• 2015–2016
• 2014–2015
• 2013–2014

Recent Events

Lectures

• 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
• September 21, 2023 Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Laura Bossio, Investigations at the Williams #2 Site: Understanding an Emergent Upper Mississippian Village in Northwestern Ohio
• September 8, 2023 Kelsey Flash Talk: Nicola Barham, Outsiders at Intercisa? An Image of Breastfeeding on the Roman Danube Frontier
• 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
• April 7, 2023 Kelsey Flash Talk: Brendan Haug, From Qift to Karanis: Egyptian Laborers in Michigan’s Fayyum Excavations
• April 7, 2023 MA. Tesfaye Wondyifraw Tsegaye, The Buahit Serit Rock Art and other Archaeological Sites along the Blue Nile Valley of Ethiopia
• April 3, 2023 Meet the Author Series: Megan Nutzman, In this Holy Place: Ritual Healing Sites in Roman and Late Antique Palestine

Exhibitions

• January 7–May 15, 2023 Early Astronomy in the University of Michigan Collections
• November 12, 2022–May 7, 2023 Clay as Soft Power: Shigaraki Ware in Postwar America and Japan

Tours

• March 14, 2023 Natsu Oyobe and Dave Choberka, Subject Matter: Clay As Soft Power

Competitions

• Deadline: January 23, 2023 Kelsey Prize

Conferences and Workshops

• May 20, 2023 Workshop of Indigenous Philippine Arts