Lectures 2024–2025

Breaking Bronze for Demeter? Identifying Indigenous Religious Practices in Archaic Greek Sicily

Alex Moskowitz, IPAMAA

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The So-Called Comitium and the Forum of Pompeii between the Late Republic and the Imperial Period

Johannes Lipps, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

The DIA’s “Art of Dining”

Katherine E. Kasdorf, Detroit Institute of Arts

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Synthesizing Religion, Politics, and the Homeric Tradition: The West Sanctuary of Ilion during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

C. Brian Rose, Penn Museum

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Reassessing Agriculture, Diet, and (Mal)Nutrition at Greco-Roman Karanis: New Insights from the AGROS Project

Frits Heinrich, Vrije Universiteit Brussels

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From the Motor City to the Mediterranean: Travels of a Truck, a Sedan, and an Inquisitive Photographer, 1924–1926

Lauren E. Talalay, Curator Emerita

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One Thread at a Time: Egyptian Weaving Communities in the Third Intermediate Period

Heidi Hilliker, Middle East Studies

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Democracy, the Jury Trial, and the Rule of Law in Ancient Athens

Sara Forsdyke, Classical Studies

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Updates from the Field

Erica Venturo, Chloe Morris, Ginny Migierina, and Hannah Edwards, IPAMAA and IPAH

The Karanis Cornucopia: Exploring the Plant Remains of the Kelsey Museum

Annette M. Hansen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Recent Research on Metal and Metallurgical Artifacts, Craft Production, and Interaction on Prehistoric Kea

Natalie Abell, IPAMAA

Dyeing to Know: Studying Colors in Karanis Textiles

Suzanne Davis, Kelsey Museum

The Archaeological Dig at Notion

Christopher Ratté, Classical Studies

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Local Ritual Practices in Rural Sanctuaries of Sardinia during the Punic and Roman Rule

Mattia Lauretti, BerGSAS

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Decolonizing Museums and the Case of the “Elgin Marbles”: Exceptionalism vs. Solidarity

Elizabeth Marlowe, Colgate University

Royal City and Colony: The Long-Term History of Pella

David Stone and Lisa Nevett, Classics

Were There Really Women Working in the Valley of the Kings?

Kathleen Sheppard, Missouri S&T

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Unraveling the Fabric of the Past: Textile Production and Consumption in Pre-Roman Italy

Margarita Gleba, University of Padua

The Klinsky Expeditions

Geoff Emberling, Bryan Miller, John O’Shea, Brian Stewart, David Stone, and William Pestle, University of Michigan

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