Lectures for 2007-2008

AIA and other lectures of interest to AIA members; all lectures listed here are free and open to the public.

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Locations:

Rainey Auditorium

University of Pennsylvania Museum

3260 South St.

Philadelphia, PA 19104

215 898 4000

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610 526 7912

AIA lecture:

Tuesday, October 9, 2007. Bryn Mawr College, Thomas Hall Room 110, 6:30 p.m.
Margaret Mook, Iowa State University
"Exploring the Ancient Greek City: Excavations at Azoria on Crete"

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'"

Having investigated the architectural fragments of the famous Archaic Temple of Artemis at Ephesos (Turkey) for more than ten years under the auspices of the Austrian Institute of Archaeology,  Dr.-Ing. Aenne Ohnesorg will present her brand-new graphic reconstruction of this much-disputed marble temple.  Her talk will survey the major features of this reconstruction as well as its significant divergences from former attempts.  Dr. Ohnesorg’s monograph  Der Kroisos-Tempel. Neue Forschungen zum archaischen Dipteros der Artemis von Ephesos (Vienna 2007) has just appeared.

AIA lecture:

Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Rainey Auditorium, 6:30 p.m.
John M. Russell, Massachusetts College of Art
"Preserving Iraq's Past: Perils and Prospects"

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"