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The Philadelphia Society is one of a growing number of AIA Local Societies in the United States. Local Societies provide a vehicle for people interested in archaeology to meet one another, to learn about new discoveries, and to hear from scholars about their current research.
Lectures for 2007-2009AIA and other lectures of interest to AIA members; all lectures listed here are free and open to the public.
Locations: University of Pennsylvania Museum 3260 South St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 215 898 4000 Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 610 526 7912 AIA lecture: Tuesday, October 9, 2007. Bryn Mawr College, Thomas Hall Room 110, 6:30 p.m. Reception to follow. Monday, October 29, 2007. Rainey Auditorium, 6 p.m. James Packer, Northwestern University (emeritus) "Visualizing the Architecture of Imperial Rome: Seven Centuries of Imaging (A.D. 1423-2007)" Monday, November 5, 2007. Rainey Auditorium, 6 p.m. Manfred Bietak, University of Vienna "The Nature of the Relationship of the Egyptians and the Minoans in the Time of the Tuthmosides" Friends of INSTAP lecture; reception in Mosaic Gallery at 5:30. Gala dinner to follow (reservations needed: (215) 387-4911 or aegeanprehistory@aol.com) Saturday, November 17, 2007. Penn Museum, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. An international symposium on Etruscan religion: "Unveiling Etruscal Ritual" Students free; AIA members $15 More information: http://www.museum.upenn.edu/etruscanritual Wednesday, January 30, 2008. Penn Museum, 6:00 p.m. Evening lecture and curators' reception: David Gilman Romano, Senior Research Scientist, Penn Museum "The Origins of Zeus: The Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project" Lecture free; complimentary reception open to Penn Museum members at the Sustaining Level and above. Information: (215) 898-4890 Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Penn Museum, 6:00 p.m. Evening lecture Richard Hodges, Williams Director, Penn Museum "Butrint: At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean" Thursday, February 21, 2008. Penn Museum, classroom 2, 6:30 p.m. Evening lecture Maurizio Sannibale, Curator, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museum, Rome Carlo Aurisicchio, Director, Roman Branch of the Geosciences and Georesources Institute of the Italian National Research Council "Etruscan Treasures of the Vatican Museum" Register online at www.museum.upenn.edu or call 215 898 2680. Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Dept. of History of Art, Jaffe Building, room 201, University of Pennsylvania, 5:00 p.m. Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Center for Ancient Studies; the Department of the History of Art; the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (AAMW), and the Williams Chair in Roman Architecture Aenne Ohnesorg, Senior Resident Scientist, Technical University of Munich "The Artemision of Ephesos: A New Reconstruction of the 6th c. B.C. 'Kroisos Temple'"
AIA lecture: Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Rainey Auditorium, 6:30 p.m. Reception to follow. Friday, March 28, 2008. Rainey Auditorium, 5:00 p.m. University of Pennsylvania AAMW Lecture Series Donny George, Former Director of the Iraq Archaeological Museum, Baghdad "Cultural Losses of the Iraq Museum and Archaeological Sites in Iraq" AIA lecture: Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Rainey Auditorium, 6 p.m. Reception to follow. AIA Joukowsky lecture: Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Carpenter Library B21, Bryn Mawr College, 6 p.m. Donny George Youkhanna "The Discovery of the Nimrud Treasures" Reception to follow. |
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