Our Public Lecture Schedule is Out!
Hello everyone! We are pleased to announce our public lecture schedule for this upcoming year is officially out! Many of you have been mailed with the schedule, but here it is once more for your convinience!
SUNDAY, September 13, 2015
Predator and Prey, the Art of Chauvet
Dr. Jean-Michel Geneste, Centre National de la Préhistoire, Université de Bordeaux 1
Location: Museum of Anthropology (6393 NW Marine Drive, UBC), Time: 6:00 PM
**Please note: registration required at: https://artofchauvet.eventbrite.ca
TUESDAY, October 27, 2015
The Strangeness and Beauty of Cypriot Art
Prof. William Childs (*AIA Norton Lecturer*)
Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Location: Buchanan A203 (1866 Main Mall, UBC), Time: 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, November 10, 2015
Short Lives and Forgotten Deaths: Infant Skeletons from the ‘Baby Well’ in the Athenian Agora
Prof. Maria Liston (*AIA Lecturer*)
Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo
Location: Buchanan A203 (1866 Main Mall, UBC), Time: 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, December 1, 2015
Eating and Drinking Maize: The Olmec of Mesoamerica vs. Chavín of the Andes
Prof. Michael Blake
Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Location: Buchanan A203 (1866 Main Mall, UBC), Time: 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, January 19, 2016
Philippianus, a Late Roman Villa-owner and his Country Estate: UBC Excavations at Gerace, Sicily, 2013 and 2015
Prof. Roger Wilson
Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
Location: TBA, Time: 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, February 7, 2016
The Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Prof. Nicholas D. Cahill
Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: TBA, Time: 3:00 PM
TUESDAY, March 8, 2016
The Sixth-Century BCE Shipwreck at Pabuç Burnu, Turkey
Prof. Elizabeth S. Greene (*AIA McCann-Taggart Lecturer in Underwater Archaeology*)
Department of Classics, Brock University
Location: TBA, Time: 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, April 5, 2016
Demystifying the Mysteries of Mithras: Archaeology and Roman Religion
Prof. Matthew McCarty
Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
Location: TBA, Time: 7:30 PM
Please note that the first lecture is coming up very soon, this Sunday in fact, so remember to plan accordingly if you are interested!
We hope to see many of you throughout the year!
