Past Events



Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity

Jun 15, 2012 - Jun 16, 2012 at -

Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values, VII

University of Leiden

The ‘… Read More



Landscapes of Value

Jun 19, 2014 - Jun 21, 2014 at -

The Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values, VIII

University of Pennsylvania

Read More



Dramatic Reading of Euripides' Bacchae

Dec 1, 2014 at

As translated by Prof. Emily Wilson and performed by the Classics UAB (& friends) Chorus of cross-dressing maenads! Madness, mayhem, and murder! Missing it would be a tragedy! στεῖχέ νυν, ὦ παῖ!



AAMW Lunch: Julian Siggers

Nov 21, 2014 at

Dr. Siggers is the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.



AAMW LUNCH: Caroline Solazzo and Lorenz Rahmstorf

Nov 14, 2014 at

Dr. Caroline Solazzo of the University of York and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute will speak on "Proteomics in archaeology: methodologies, applications and limitations. Biomolecular analysis of… Read More



MUSUM LECTURE: Roger Bagnall, "Excavating Papyri and Ostraca at Berenike and Amheida: Occupation, Dumping, and Dumps"

Dec 6, 2014 at

Ostraka—texts written on small objects, generally potsherds—have received relatively little attention from both archaeologists and scholars who work on ancient texts. But they were found everywhere in the… Read More



BROWN BAG LECTURE: "Trafficking Culture: Researching the Global Traffic in Looted Cultural Objects"

Nov 24, 2014 at

 

 

 

This talk introduces some of the work of a research project called "Trafficking Culture," funded by the European Research Council, which aims to produce an evidence-based picture of the… Read More



BROWN BAG LECTURE: Douglas Boin, "See Something? Say Something! Archaeological Ethics and the Gray Areas of Papyrology"

Nov 13, 2014 at

Material culture studies are changing much of what is known about the ancient and late Roman Mediterranean world. But many of the ethical considerations that the archaeological community has championed for… Read More



MUSEUM LECTURE: Joanne Cutler, "The Role of Textile Technology, Textiles, and the Transmission of Craft Knowledge and the Minoanization of the Southern Aegean"

Nov 11, 2014 at

Joanne Cutler, PhD, is an expert on ancient textiles and a staff member at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen.

This lecture is free and… Read More