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Lectures 2017–2018

Date Lecture Type Details
September 7, 2017 An UMMA + Kelsey Dialogue

Transmissions across the Gap: ‘Cosmogonic Tattoos’ with Artist Jim Cogswell

Jim Cogswell, Terry Wilfong, and Raymond Silverman, University of Michigan

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September 19, 2017 FAST Lecture

Three Presentations by IPCAA Students

Sheira Cohen, Machal Gradoz, Tyler Johnson, and Matt Naglak, University of Michigan

October 12, 2017 FAST Lecture

Archaeology and Heritage of Ancient Kush: El Kurru, Sudan and Beyond

Geoff Emberling, Suzanne Davis, Ray Silverman, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Gregory Tucker, University of Michigan

October 18, 2017 Exhibition Opening Lecture

Guaranteed a 99.3% Survival Rate: The Archaeological Futures of U-M Museums

Susan Alcock, University of Michigan

October 26, 2017 AIA Lecture

Death Around the Palace of Nestor

Joanne M. Murphy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

November 9, 2017 FAST Lecture

Notion Archaeological Survey, 2014–2017

Christopher Ratté, University of Michigan

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November 16, 2017 MAS Lecture

Nobi-ni Tse’tse’ede (House on the Cold One), an Original Occupation

Emily Mueller Epstein

November 20, 2017 TLTC Ancient World Lecture

A Drive Center from the 6th Century AD Yassi Ada Wreck and the Turning of Open Bowls in Antiquity

Yigal Sitry

December 5, 2017 FAST Lecture

The Sarcophagi of Beth She’arim: Jewish Patrons and the Roman Stone Trade

Sean P. Burrus, University of Michigan

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December 8, 2017 Conference Keynote Lecture

Uncovering Archaeology in American Museums 

Lisa Cakmak, St. Louis Art Museum

December 12, 2017  

Museums of the Past into the Future: The Oriental Institute and the Kelsey Museum

Terry G. Wilfong, University of Michigan; Christopher Woods, University of Chicago

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January 11, 2018 FAST Lecture

Three Presentations by Anthropology Students

Lauren Pratt, Kyra Pazan, and Brendan Nash, University of Michigan

January 18, 2018 MAS Lecture

Beneath the Great Lakes

Daryl Wright, The Wright View

February 15, 2018 FAST Lecture

Analysing a Classical Greek Urban Community: The Olynthos Project

Lisa Nevett, Drew Cabaniss, Machal Gradoz, Nadhira Hill, and Michael Koletsos, University of Michigan

March 8, 2018 FAST Lecture

Halieis: City of Fishermen

Bradley Ault, University at Buffalo, SUNY

March 15, 2018 MAS Lecture

Can Late Paleo-Indian Response to Changing Resource Availability Inform Modern Political Policy?

Ethan Epstein, Commonwealth Heritage Group

March 22, 2018 AIA Lecture

West Meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia

Dr. Sethuraman Suresh

March 29, 2018 FAST Lecture

From Topography to Imaginary: Greek Landscapes of Inspiration

Dr. Betsey A. Robinson, Vanderbilt University

April 5, 2018 FAST Lecture

Between the Steppe and the Sea: Scythians, Taurians, and Greeks in Crimea

Prof. Adam Rabinowitz, University of Texas-Austin

April 13, 2018  

Materialities: Ancient and Modern

Jaś Elsner, University of Oxford; Annabel Wharton, Duke University