PAST LECTURES

2006-2007

Friday, October 27, 2006, 6:30 pm * Marcello Canuto, Yale University (Brush Lecture) "The Classic Kingdoms of the Maya: New Discoveries, Novel Ideas" Co-sponsored by The Columbia University Center for Archaeology, Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall, rm. 612, no charge (Preceded by annual membership meeting 6-6:30) Thursday, November 16, 6:30 pm Christopher Lightfoot, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Latest Finds from Byzantine Amorium: A Preliminary Report on the 2006 Excavation Season” Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, (R.S.V.P. ifa.events@nyu.edu), no charge Monday January 22, 2007, 6:30 PM: The Louis Blumengarten Lecture in Urban Archaeology Nan Rothschild, Columbia University, “The Archaeology of Neighborhoods and Communities in NYC” Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, (R.S.V.P. ifa.events@nyu.edu), no charge Wednesday January 31, 2007 Adolfo Roitman, Curator, The Shrine of the Book, Jerusalem, “Qumran and The Dead Sea Scrolls” Co-sponsored by The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street, $10/$15 Members/Non-Members Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 6:30 pm * Rowan Flad, Harvard University (Quigley Lecture), “The origins of Sanxingdui - An Early Complex Society in Sichuan “ Co-sponsored by The Columbia University Center for Archaeology, Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall, rm. 612, no charge Thursday March 8, 2007, 6:30 PM Joan Connelly, New York University, “Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece." In conjunction with the exhibit “Athens/Sparta” Co-sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), Onassis Cultural Center Atrium, 645 Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street, no charge Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 7:00 pm Robert R. Stieglitz, Rutgers University, "THE PHILISTINES: Peleshet to Palestine" Cosponsored by IHARE and the JCC in Manhattan Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St., **Free at the door for members of the AIA, $10 for IHARE and JCC Mebers, $15 for non-members** Monday, April 16, 2007, 6:30 pm Paul Zimansky, SUNY Stony Brook, “End of an Empire: Archaeology and the Collapse of Urartu” Cosponsored by the National Arts Club and held in the National Arts Club Sculpture Court 15 Gramercy Park S. @ Irving Place; Reception to follow