International Archaeology Day Celebration
Saturday, October 17, 2015, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
See International Archaeology Day for details.
Mireille M. Lee, Vanderbilt University
Monday, September 28, 2015, 3:00 pm
Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America
Dr. Manuel Fernández-Götz, Chancellor’s Fellow in Archaeology, Edinburgh University, completed his binational PhD in pre- and protohistoric archaeology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universitsät Kiel (Germany) and the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) in 2011. His research focuses on the evolution of Iron Age communities in Western Europe, especially questions of social identity.
This talk will engage with two interconnected questions. First, Dr. Fischer-Bovet will argue that the successors of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Macedonian dynasty of the Ptolemies (323-30 BC), had imperial goals and actively built an empire, although scholarly tendency has been to consider their kingdom essentially an Egyptian national state. Second, she will turn to the role of the local elites in the imperial project.
Kevin Fisher, University of British Columbia
Sunday, March 6, 2016, 3:00 pm
Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America
Dr. William Brockliss, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Friday, February 27, 2015, 3:30 pm
UWM Curtin Hall 939
Heather Walder, UW-La Crosse
Sunday, January 31, 2016, 3:00 pm
Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America
Dr. Marc will be speaking on “A Great Imperial Sanctuary in Germania Superior: The Exemple of Mandeure.” His work at this site has contributed to there-evaluation of the phenomenon of “Romanization” in light of scientific advances in archaeology over the past 50 years and a more nuanced consideration of historical context in Roman province of Germania.
Dr. Potrebica will be speaking about the Kapitol site in Croatia as a nexus of Mediterranean cultures where artifacts of both Etruscan and Greek origin are found in funerary contexts during the Early Iron Age.
Dr. Duncan’s talk will be focused on the character of Creon during and after the Peloponnesian War and tyrants’ use of theater to legitimize their regimes.