Category: Lecture

Dr. Ryan KashanipourAssistant Professor of HistoryUniversity of Arizona Wednesday, April 235:00pmHaury 215 Consumed in healing rituals by elites in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, chocolate became an object of debate among an array of early modern Spanish priests, physicians, and botanists. Was it healthy? Could it heal? Was it magical? And why did native peoples love it so…Continue Reading The Food of the Gods: Magical and Medicinal Histories of Chocolate

Dr. Jerolyn MorrisonLecturer of Art HistoryBaylor University March 27, 20255:00pmHaury 215 Minoan Lentils Recipe (PDF)…Continue Reading The Art of Cooking in the Aegean Bronze Age

This talk will examine the terracotta figurines of women and mothers with babies from Neo-Babylonia (southern Iraq) and Judea (modern Israel) in the mid 1st millennium BCE. This figurines, especially the Judean Pillar Figurines, have been the subject of a huge amount of scholarly debate, particularly focused on the function of the figurines and the woman’s…Continue Reading All Happy Families are Alike: Similarity and Repetition in Female Figurines from Neo-Babylonia and Judea, mid-1st millenium BC

Dr. Grace Erny (Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, University of California at Berkeley)
216 Haury, UA Main Campus
February 20, 2025 5:00 pm…Continue Reading The Past in the Past: Traditionalism in Archaic Crete

Dr. Alison Futrell (Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona)
Zoom (visit archaeological.org/hour to register)
November 13, 2024 6:00 pm…Continue Reading The People’s Arena

(POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING) The lecture reveals the fascinating history of the largest Classical sculpture (13 feet tall and weighing 13, 000 pounds) in the USA—the Museum of Fine Arts “Juno” (2011.75).  Discovered in the garden of an estate in Brookline where she stood hidden in plain sight for over one hundred years.  Acquired by a…Continue Reading The Journey of a Colossal Roman Statue: From Rome to Boston (POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING)

The integration of video games as educational tools has opened new horizons in the teaching methodologies of history and archaeology. This co-authored talk, presented by Dr. Futrell (Associate Professor of History) and Dr. Stephan (Associate Professor of Practice, Classics), explores the innovative use of popular video games as pedagogical tools in higher education. Dr. Futrell…Continue Reading Empires and Odysseys: Teaching the Past through Video Games

The Mississippi River Delta is an expansive and dynamic coastal delta that has attracted human settlement for thousands of years. Over this time frame, hundreds of monumental complexes were constructed amidst the marshes, bayous, and river levees. These complexes fundamentally reworked the ecology of the deltaic plain, creating topography and enhancing biodiversity, whilst also creating…Continue Reading Fighting Processes of Historical Erasure in Louisiana: Climate Change, Industrial Development, and Cultural Heritage

…Continue Reading The Architecture of Tuberculosis

We often divide native North America into well-defined “culture areas” that correspond roughly to environmental/physiographic areas (the Northwest Coast, the Great Plains, etc.). The Southwest, extending from Durango (Colorado) to Durango (Mexico) and from Las Vegas (Nevada) to Las Vegas (New Mexico) is one of these. The earliest Europeans who described the region saw a…Continue Reading Where Was the American Southwest? And Why Isn’t It There Anymore?