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Film Screening: Last Days of Pompeii

Conference on Ancient Roman Leisure and Luxury

Keynote Lecture for Conference on Ancient Roman Leisure and Luxury

Archaeological Institute of America Samuel H. Kress Lecture | The Political Role of Comrade Associations in Archaic Rome and Etruria

Drop-In Tour with Dr. Lynley McAlpine

The Story of a City over 8,000 Years: Pushing the Frontiers of Non-Invasive Survey

FAST Lecture: Coring Early Rome: Subsurface Survey in the Forum Boarium, 2013-2015

Drop-In Tour with Curator Elaine Gazda

Exhibition Opening Lecture: Studying the Villas of Oplontis: Archives, Excavation, 3D Modeling, and an Exhibition

Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: “Paleoindian Bifaces and Mobility: Questioning Assumptions”

From Seleucia to Delos by Way of Uruk and Kedesh: A Panel Discussion on Hellenistic Archives

Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Weaning age in late Pleistocene woolly mammoths supports hunting-induced extinction

FAST Lecture: “Water in Late Antique Ephesus” / “Object-based Learning with the Kelsey Experience and TLTC”

FAST Lecture: The So-Called "Little Baths" of Elaiussa Sebaste (Cilicia, Turkey)

Kelsey Museum Closed

Holiday Drop-in Tour

Holiday Drop-in Tour

Holiday Drop-in Tour

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

FAST Lecture: "Eruption of Memory: Commemoration as Politics in the Empire of Kush"

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Michigan Archaeological Society meeting

Saturday Sampler

FAST Lecture: "Intertextuality and Roman Visual Culture. A New Approach to Roman Ideal Sculpture”

Saturday Sampler

Film Screening: "Al Momia or The Night of Counting Years"

Saturday Sampler

A Workshop on Wendy Artin's Engagement with the Classical Past

Saturday Sampler

Michigan Archaeological Society meeting

FAST Lecture: "Bioarchaeological Approaches to Copper Age Complexity" (Thu, 15 Oct 2015)

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

AIA Lecture: "Rethinking the Mycenean World"

Seamus Heaney and the Art of Ekphrasis: Poets Read Heaney's Poems

Saturday Sampler

Exhibition Opening Event: A Conversation with Artist Wendy Artin

Exhibition Opening: "Rocks, Paper, Memory, Phase II"

FAST Lecture: "IPCAA in the Field"

Curator-led Tour of "Passionate Curiosities"

Saturday Sampler

Exhibition Opening Lecture: “People, Things, Entangled Lives. Collecting in Egypt & the Holy Land"

Michigan Archaeological Society meeting

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

"Passionate Curiosities" Exhibition Opens

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Painting with Water

30-minute Gallery Tour for Art Fair

30-minute Gallery Tour for Art Fair

30-minute Gallery Tour for Art Fair

30-minute Gallery Tour for Art Fair

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Painting with Water

Saturday Sampler

Curator-led Tour of "Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures"

Saturday Sampler

Painting with Water

A Conversation with Artist Wendy Artin

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Painting with Water

Sketching in the Galleries

Exhibition Opening: "Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "The Heavenly Archer: Graeco-Iranian Iconography in Hellenistic Bactria"

Mummy Movie Night

FAST Lecture: "The Sangro Valley Project: New Excavations at Aquachiara"

Curator-led Drop-in Tour

Family Day: Dogs and Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt

AIA Lecture: "The Politics of Public Display: Archaeology, Museums and Artifacts from the Holy Land"

"Jackal Songs": A Musical Performance

Lecture: "A New Look at the City of Armazi: Patterns of Roman Urbanization in Ancient Georgia?"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "Glass for the People! Craft Production, Elite Consumption, and Technological Innovation in the Hellenistic Period"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "The New Excavations at Gabii: At the Roots of Central Italian Urbanism"

Exhibition Opening: "Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "Cultural Choices and Exchange Networks: Cereals in Iron Age and Archaic Italy"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour: Ancient Faces

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour: The Art of the Kelsey Museum

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour: Ancient Coins and Commerce

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour: "From the Blog: The Curators' Favorite Objects"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Curator-led Drop-in Tour

Calligraphy Workshop

Ancient animals–themed Drop-in Tour

Roman food–themed Drop-in Tour

FAST Lecture: "Cultural Entanglements and Identities on Kos during the Late Bronze Age: The Results of SELAP's 2009-2014 Study Seasons and Their Implications"

Lecture: "Islamic Textiles as Political Tools: Conspicuous Display of Wealth, Power, and Authority through Textile Displays and Gift-giving"

Curator-led Drop-in Tour

FAST Lecture: "Of Marble and Mud: The Sant'Omobono Project, 2009-2014"

Homecoming Weekend Extended Hours

Kelsey Movie Night

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

AIA Lecture: "Unexpected Choices: Greek Myth in Italic Imagery in the 4th Century BCE""

FAST Lecture: "New Multi-disciplinary Investigations at an Ancient Greek City: the Olynthos Project 2014"

Exhibition Opening: "Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "IPCAA in the Field"

Parents' Weekend Extended Hours

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

New Docent Class

Rosalia Festival

Ancient/Modern Gallery Conversation

Ancient/Modern Gallery Conversation

Ancient/Modern Gallery Conversation

Art Fair Drop-in Tour

Art Fair Drop-in Tour

Art Fair Drop-in Tour

Art Fair Drop-in Tour

DATE CHANGE for Exhibition Opening Lecture: "Ancient, Modern, or Somewhere in Between?"

A Taste of the Mediterranean

Docent Open House

Lecture: "Reviving Karanis in 3D"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "Recent Excavations at the Latin City of Gabii"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Family Day: Life in Miniature

FAST Lecture: "When Kings Ruled Lydia: From the Late Bronze Age Citadels to the Rise of Sardis"

FAST Lecture: "Disentangling Contacts between Greece and Italy at the End of the Bronze Age"

AIA Lecture: "From Palace to Polis on Crete"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "Seleucia-on-the-Tigris: From Miniature to Metropolis"

Lecture: "The Power of the Miniature: Small Things with Big Consequences"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Conservation Brown Bag: "When Fungus Attacks (Cultural Heritage)"

U-Monument 2014: Translating the Facade of Angell Hall

Exhibition Opening Lecture: “Miniatures in Life: The Role of Tiny Objects in Everyday Worlds"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

FAST Lecture: "El Kurru, Home of the 'Black Pharaohs': Challenges of Settlement Archaeology in the Nile Valley of Northern Sudan"

Meeting: Michigan Archaeological Society

FAST Lecture: "Lapis Gabinus”

AIA Lecture: "New Excavations at the Ancient City of Petra, Jordan"

FAST Lecture: "Resurrecting Refuse at Pompeii"

Lecture: "Royal Women in an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom: A Kelsey Perspective"

Publication Party for Book on the Djehutymose Coffin

Meeting: Michigan Archaeological Society

Lecture: "Fascination with the Tiny: Figurines and Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia"

FAST Lecture: "IPCAA in the Field: 2013 Summer Projects"

Panel Discussion: "Discovery! Conservation and Science in Action at Abydos, Egypt"

Exhibition Opening Lecture: "Reptilian Mysteries in the Mediterranean: The Archaeology of Biodiversity"

Meeting: Michigan Archaeological Society

Opening Reception for "Red Rock &Rust Belt" Exhibition

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "Archaeology in Afghanistan: New Perspectives, New Challenges"

Michigan Archaeological Society meeting

Ethics Bowl: Problems Facing Greek Heritage Today

FAST Lecture: "Exchange and Urbanization in Early Rome: Perspectives from S. Omobono"

Lecture: "Results of the 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais), North Jordan"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Exhibition Opening: "Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler"

FAST Lecture: "Household Archaeology in Greece: Past, Present, and Future"

Lecture: "Roman Athens: The Transformation into an Imperial City"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

FAST Lecture: "The Capitoline on Coins: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Roman Temple"

Lecture: "Recent Conservation Projects at the Detroit Institute of Arts"

Publication Party

FAST Lecture: "Traces of Roman Foodways: Methods, Processes, Results"

Lecture "Conservation at The Henry Ford: Large History Museums and Their Challenges"

Conserving Ancient Abydos: Discovery, Recovery, and Responsibility

FAST Lecture: "Urbanization in Anatolia: 450 BCE - 50 CE"

Associates' discount days at the Kelsey Museum Shop

Discount Days at the Kelsey Shop

FAST Lecture: "Negotiating the Pharaonic Past: New Research on Ptolemaic Abydos"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "The City Wall of Aphrodisias: Before, during, and after Construction"

Associates Behind-the-Scenes Tour

Associates Bus Trip to Detroit Institute of Arts

Exhibition Opening: "Conserving Antiquity"

Lecture: “Conserving Ancient Abydos: Discovery, Recovery, and Responsibility”

Exhibition Preview

Publication party: Marjorie M. Fisher's Ancient Nubia

Lecture: "The Beast in Us All: Animals and Identity in Greek and Roman Antiquity"

Hands-on Activity: Archaeology of the Ancient World

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Rackham Centennial Lecture: "On the Menu at the Graveside: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Funerary Offerings in the Cemeteries of Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia)"

FAST Lecture: "Statuary and State: Iron Age Conundrums from Tell Tayinat, Turkey"

FAST Lecture: "New Approaches to Urbanism at Leptiminus, a Roman Port Town in North Africa"

Lecture: "Napoleon in Egypt: The Beginning of Egyptology"

Michigan Archaeology Society Meeting

Lecture: "Between Ephemeral and Permanent: Architectural Forms and Their Environments"

Lecture: "Francis Kelsey: Honorary Papyrologist"

Lecture: "Moving Pictures from Karanis"

Exhibition Opening: A Man of Many Parts: The Life and Legacy of Francis Willey Kelsey

Family Day: Monsters and Myth

Theory in Greek Archaeology Conference

Lecture: "The Romance of Archaeology--NOT!: The University of Pennsylvania Museum's Theban Tomb Project"

Lecture: "A Secret in the Life of Bees: Cross craft interactions, chaînes operatoires, and the unexpected outcomes of an interdisciplinary project about food storage in prehistoric northern Greece."

Performance: "An Hour of Infinity" with artist John Kannenberg

Lecture: "Death, Mythology, and Ideology in the Arena: Sculpture from the Amphitheater at Capua"

Lecture: "Roman Transformations to the Isthmian Games and the Creation of New Corinthian Identities"

Lecture: "Patronage and Memorials. Expectations of Permanence and Architectural Benefactions in the Roman Period"

Family Day: Life in Ancient Egypt

Lecture: "Qazion: A Late Second-Early Third Century CE Cultic Structure in the Upper Galilee"

Opening Reception: Karanis Revealed Part II

Lecture: "The Pharaoh's Owls: Coin Use in Egypt before the Ptolemies"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "The Middle Strouma Valley Archaeological Survey: Settlement Patterns in the Eastern Balkan Peninsula in Late Prehistory"