PREVIOUS LECTURE SEASONS
2022 - 2023
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Shayla Monroe, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: "Ancient Pastoralists and Ancient States: The Political Ecology of the Nubian C-Group on Ancient Egypt's Southern Frontier"
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Thursday, November 10, 2022
Pedar W. Foss, DePauw University
Title: "Fixing the Date: the AD 79 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius"
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Frédérique Duyrat, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Title: "Gold Victories: The Gold Coinage of Alexander the Great"
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
Jenifer Neils
Title: "New Views on an Old Temple: The Parthenon and Its Decoration"
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2021 - 2022
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Monday, November 8, 2021
Maria A. Liston, University of Waterloo
Title: "Death comes to the Theban Sacred Band: Skeletons from the Battle of Chaironeia (338 BC)
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
George Abungu, Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants
Title: "The Never-Ending Challenge: Illicit Trafficking and Destruction of Africa's Cultural Heritage"
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Thursday, February 24, 2022
Carrie Sulosky Weaver, University of Pittsburgh
Title: "Hidden Lives: Social Marginalization in the Ancient Greek World"
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Alba Mazza
Title: "Lost Landscapes of Sicily, Italy: Submerged Cities and Ancient Shorelines from Prehistory to the Roman Period"
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Thursday, April 28, 2022
AIA-DC Howland Lecture: Rebecca Benefiel, Washington and Lee University
Title: "Ancient graffiti and ancient voices: culture and communication across Pompeii and Herculaneum"
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2020 - 2021
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October 21, 2020
International Archaeology Day Lecture: Steve Lubkemann, George Washington University
Title: "Reflections from the Slave Wrecks Project's First Decade: Towards a Transformative and Decolonizing Maritime Archaeology"
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December 2, 2020
AIA-DC Davidson Lecture: Molly Swetnam-Burland, The College of William and Mary
Title: "After Actium: Egypt in the Roman Imagination"
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March 25, 2021
AIA National Lecture: David S. Anderson, Radford University
Title: "Serious Play: Ballgames in Preclassic Mesoamerica"
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April 21, 2021
AIA National Matson Lecture: Kristina Killgrove, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: "Death Comes to Oplontis: Victims of Mt. Vesuvius Reveal Life in 79 AD"​​
2019 - 2020
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Thursday, September 26, 2019
GWU Capital Archaeological Institute, Annual de Bragança Endowed Lecture:
Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma
Title: "Science and History: The Fall of Rome for the 21st Century"
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Sunday, October 21, 2019
AIA-DC Valerie French Memorial Lecture and a celebration of International Archaeology Day:
Christopher Rollston, George Washington University
Title: "Forged Inscriptions: The Long History and Recent Deluge of Epigraphic Fakes and Forgeries"
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019
AIA Joukowsky Lecture: Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
Title: "Palatial Palaikastro? Recent Work at a Minoan Coastal Town in East Crete"
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020
AIA National Lecture: Emily Hammer, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "U2 Spy Plane Photos and Archaeology in the Middle East"
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
AIA-DC Davidson Lecture: Annette Giesecke, Dumbarton Oaks and University of Delaware
Title: "The Mythology of Plants: Gods and Heroes in the Ancient Roman Garden"​
2018 - 2019
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
AIA Kershaw Lecture: Rubina Raja, Aarhus University (Denmark)
Title: "Portrait Habit in Roman Period Palmyra (Syria)"
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Friday, September 14, 2018
AIA-DC Special Lecture: Rubina Raja, Aarhus University (Denmark)
Title: "Gerasa and the Golden River: Life in a City of the Decapolis"
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Sunday, October 21, 2018
AIA-DC Valerie French Memorial Lecture and a celebration of International Archaeology Day:
Elise A. Friedland, George Washington University
Title: "Pompeii on the Potomac: Brumidi's Frescoes for the US Capitol"
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Monday, November 12, 2018
AIA-DC Louise Davison Lecture: Lindy Crewe, Director, CAARI
Title: "Brewing Beer in the Bronze Age"
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
AIA Joukowsky Lecture: Alison Futrell, University of Arizona
Title: "Remembering Boudica: Monuments of a Barbarian Queen"
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Thursday, February 28, 2019
AIA-DC Special Lecture: Alison Futrell, University of Arizona
Title: "Sex, Blood, and Power: Arena Spectacle and the Roman Empire"
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
AIA McDonald Lecture: Daniel Lehoux, Queen's University
Title: "The Antikythera Mechanism: Its Discovery and Interpretation"
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019
AIA-DC Howland Lecture: Jodi Magness, UNC, Chapel Hill; current AIA President
Title: "More than Just Mosaics: the Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee"
2017 - 2018
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017
AIA-DC Louise Davison Lecture: Diane Harris Cline, George Washington University
Title: "Social Networks in Classical Athens"
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017
AIA-DC Lecture: Josef Wegner, University of Pennyslvania
Title: "Rewriting the History of Egypt's Middle Kingdom: Recent Discoveries at South Abydos"
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Thursday, November 9, 2017
AIA Norton Lecture: Michael Nelson, Queens College, CUNY
Title: "The Roman Period Temples of Omrit"
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
AIA-DC Lecture: Daniele Maras, Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia
Title: "Greek Myths, Etruscan Women: Goddesses and Heroines in Light of Etruscan Society and Religion"
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
AIA Joukowsky Lecture and Subscription Dinner: Floyd McCoy, University of Hawaii-Windward College
Title: "Tsunami and the Late Bronze Age Eruption of Thera (Santorini)"
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
AIA-DC Lecture: Alexis Catsambis, Naval History and Heritage Command
Title: "'Under Here': Insights and Preliminary Results from the Robotic Survey of the USS San Diego"
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
AIA-DC Annual Howland Lecture: Jim Wright, Bryn Mawr College
Title: "From Emblem to Epic: Mycenaean Art and Mycenaean Society"
2016 - 2017
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
AIA Joukowsky Lecture: Neil Asher Silberman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Title: "Rebooting Antiquity: How Holy Wars, Media Hype, and Digital Technologies are Changing the Face of 21st Century Archaeology"
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
AIA-DC Annual Valerie French Memorial Lecture and Subscription Dinner: Ben Skolnik, Archaeologist for the City of Alexandria, VA
Title: "The Alexandria Ship: Maritime Discoveries from along Alexandria's Waterfront"
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
AIA-DC Annual Louise Davison Lecture: Nawa Sugiyama, George Mason University
Title: "Producing Pyramids, Linking Caves: Offering Complexes in the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan, Mexico"
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
AIA-DC Lecture: Nathan Arrington, Princeton University
Title: "Greeks in the North: The Excavation and Survey of a Trading Port in Aegean Thrace (2013-2015)
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Thursday, March 9, 2017
AIA Kress Lecture: Bjørn Loven, University of Copenhagen
Title: "The Athenian Naval Bases in the Piraeus: The Backbone of the World's First Democracy"
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
AIA-DC Annual Howland Lecture: Steven L. Tuck, Miami University
Title: "Decorating the Emperor's Dining Room: Interior Décor, Imperial Ideology and Roman Literary Culture at the Villa at Sperlong"
2015 - 2016
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Thursday, September 24, 2015
AIA-DC Lecture: Carole Mattusch, George Mason University
Title: "Introducing Power and Pathos: Hellenistic Bronzes Come to Washington"
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Saturday, October 17, 2015
International Archaeology Day Special Panel Discussion: "Cultural Heritage: Why Do We Care?"
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Tuesday, October 17, 2015
AIA-DC Annual Valerie French Memorial Lecture and Subscription Dinner: Eric Cline, George Washington University
Title: "1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed"
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
AIA Kress Lecture: Lorenzo Nigro, Sapienza University of Rome
Title: "The Phoenicians at the World's End: The Formation of Mediterranean Civilization as Seen from Motya"
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
AIA-DC Annual Louise Davison Lecture: Aslihan Yener, Koç University
Title: Appropriating Innovations: Early Bronze Age Tin Mines and Production Sites near Kültepe, Ancient Kanesh, in Turkey"
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
AIA Lecture: Andrew Goldman, Gonzaga University
Title: "From Phrygian Royal Capital to Roman Fort: Recent Excavations at Gordion (Turkey)"
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Thursday, April 14, 2016
AIA-DC Annual Howland Lecture: Bernard Frischer, Indiana University
Title: "Augustus' Light and Shadow Show: A Reconsideration of the Relationship between the Ara Pacis and the Montecitorio Obelisk in the Northern Campus Martius, Rome"
2014 - 2015
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
AIA-DC Lecture: Marjorie Venit, University of Maryland
Title: "Imagining the Afterlife: Cultural Exchange in Monumental Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt"
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
AIA-DC Annual Valerie French Memorial Lecture and Subscription Dinner: David Braun George Washington University
Title: "Trowels and Chimpanzees: Investigating the Origins of Human Technology in East Africa"
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
AIA Matson Lecture: Louise Hitchcock, University of Melbourne
Title: "Fifteen Men on a Philistine's Chest (Yo Ho Ho and a Krater of Wine)"
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
AIA Kress Lecture: Alexander Mazarakis Ainian, University of Thessaly
Title: "Apollo and Artemis on Kythnos: Findings from the Excavation of a Greek Island Sanctuary"
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
AIA-DC Lecture: Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, College Park
Title: "Cultural Heritage and Global Climate Change: What Can the Past Tell Us About the Future?"
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
AIA-DC Annual Louise Davison Lecture: Lynne Lancaster, Ohio University
Title: "Out of Africa: How Roman Olive Oil Production Created Architectural Innovation"
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
AIA-DC Annual Howland Lecture: Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia
Title: "War and Peace: A Black-Figure Column Krater at the University of Virginia"