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Past Lectures
SPRING 2021
February 26th 2021 – 1 pm to 3:30 pm on Zoom
GeoDa and Spatial Statistics Workshop – Dr. Rogerson and Nathan Dubinin
Co-organized with the Geography Department
Vincent Ard (CNRS- Université de Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès)
“First results of the French project MONUMEN ‘Monumentality, landscapes and social competition during the Neolithic in Atlantic Europe'”
Friday, April 2nd, 2021 – 1 pm
Western New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America lectures, 2020/2021:
Julia Hruby (Dartmouth College)
“Using Ugly Pottery to Understand Elite Mycenaean Cuisine”
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 4:30 pm.
FALL 2020
December 4th 2020 – 1 – 2 pm on Zoom
Nathan Dubinin – University at Buffalo (Department of Anthropology):
“Quantifying Spatial Association of Bronze Age Rock Carvings and Cairns in Southern Sweden”
Alexandra Heller – University at Buffalo (Department of Classics):
“Invisible Figures: Problems with the Methods of Identifying Slaves in Greek Painted and Molded Pottery”
More information about the lecture and the Zoom link can be found on this page.
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November 6th, 1 – 2 pm – Zoom
– Brent Whitford (University at Buffalo – Department of Anthropology)
“Thinking Outside the (Wheeler-Kenyon) Box: Documenting Archaeological Stratigraphy in the 21st Century.”
– Caitlin Cole-Conroy (University at Buffalo – Department of Classics)
“Restructuring the Dialogue: The Gender Perspective on Roman Law during the Transition Between 1st Century CE and 2nd Century CE”
More information about the lecture and the Zoom link can be found on this page.
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Carl Knappett (University of Toronto)
An Anthropology of Aegean Bronze Age Art
Wednesday, October 21, 2020, at 3:30 pm.
Click here for the abstract, poster, and Zoom link.
SPRING 2020:
Dr. Giulia Vollono (13th IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow)
Gender Identity in Lombard Italy: combining written sources and funerary evidence
February 14th, Academic Center 354 – 4:30 pm
FALL 2019
Dr. Seth Bernard (University of Toronto)
The View from the Sea Framing the Economy of Hellenistic Italy
November 15, 2019, 5 pm – Goetz Library
Workshop, Thursday, November 21, 3:30 – 4:30 pm, Academic Center 354
Alexis Goots (Michigan State University)
From Modern to Medieval: The Applications of Skeletal Analysis through the Ages
Brown Bag Lecture, Wednesday, December 4th, 1-2 pm Academic Center 354
Heather Rosch (University at Buffalo, Department of Anthropology)
High Peaks and Low Stability: Survival in the high elevation areas of southwestern Anatolia during the Ottoman Period
&
Tabitha Rose (University at Buffalo, Department of Classics)
Late Antique Infant Burial from a Villa-Bath Complex on the North Slope of Vesuvius
SPRING 2019
Dr. Gonca Dardeniz Arikan (University of Liverpool)
Metallurgy at the Highlands of the North-Central Anatolia, Turkey
Wednesday, February 6, 12.30-1.30, Academic Center 354
Brown Bag Lecture
Kaitlin Ahern (University at Buffalo, Department of Anthropology)
Civic-Ceremonial Plazas in the Maya Lowlands during the Middle Preclassic Period
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Nathaniel Durant (University at Buffalo, Department of Classics)
Historical Aerial Photography and Discovering Roman Forts in Romania
Wednesday, March 13, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Dr. Adrienne C. Frie (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Animals as Markers of Identity: Iconography and Representation in Iron Age Slovenia
Wednesday, March 27, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
AIA Lecture co-sponsored by IEMA and The Houghton Chapter, NYSAA
Dr. Andrea Berlin (Boston University)
A Tale of Two Peoples: Phoenicians and Jews in the Land Beyond the River
Wednesday, March 27, 5:00 p.m. Goetz Library (Academic Center 320)
Dr. Bülent Arikan (Istanbul Technical University)
Paleoclimate, Multi-proxy Based Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions, and Archaeological Settlement Patterns in Central and Southwestern Anatolia During the Early and Middle Holocene (ca. 12,000 – 2600 cal. BP)
Wednesday, April 3, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
The time of the wolves History of an endangered animal during the Middle Ages
Friday, April 12, 4:00 pm Goetz Library
FALL 2018
Dr. Kevin Garstki (IEMA Postdoc 2018-19)
Creating Knowledge as Digital Archaeologists
Wednesday, October 10 12.30-1.30, Academic Center 354
Dr. Agnė Čivilytė (Archaeology Department, Lithuanian Institute of History Vilnius)
Transformation of Value of Things: The Life Cycle of Materials in the Bronze Age
Wednesday, October 31 12.30-1.30, Academic Center 354
AIA Lecture co-sponsored by IEMA and The Houghton Chapter, NYSAA
Professor Erin Walcek Averett (Department of Art History, Creighton University)
Visualizing the Past: The Athienou-Malloura Sanctuary and New Ways of Investigating Votive Religion in Ancient Cyprus
Wednesday, October 17 2018, 5:00 p.m., Goetz Library, Academic Center 320
SPRING 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018 5:00pm in the Goetz Library
Brown Bag Lecture
Sarah Hoffman (University at Buffalo)
The Ghosts of Christmas Past: Folklore, Archaeology, and Place Abandonment at Haffjarðarey, Western Iceland
&
Jonathan White (University at Buffalo)
Trolls of the Sea: The End of the Cypriot Bronze Age and Problems with the Sea Peoples Explanation
Wednesday March 14, 2018 12:30-1:30pm in Academic Center 354
Kevin Dicus (University of Oregon, Eugene)
Pompeii and the Life History of a City
Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. in the Goetz Library (Academic Center 320)
Alessandro Sebastiani (University at Buffalo)
Between the Coast and the Hinterland. Archaeological Research along the River Ombrone (Tuscany – IT)
Wednesday April 4, 2018 12:30-1:30pm in Academic Center 354
Roderick B. Salisbury (OREA Institute of OAW)
Bringing facts to fiction: archaeological science, motherhood, and early child rearing
Wednesday April 18, 2018 12:30-1:30pm in Academic Center 354
Michelle Hobart (The Copper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City)
Sardinia and the Mediterranean: New Narratives
Friday, April 27th, 2018 5:00pm in Academic Center 320 (The Goetz Library)
Brown Bag Lecture
Christopher Troskosky (University at Buffalo)
Quaternary Geomorphology and Viewshed Analysis of Garniai I and Other nearby Late Bronze Age Hillforts (Utena County, Lithuania)
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Alice Chapman (University at Buffalo)
The Olynthos Project: A multidisciplinary approach to the Classical Greek House
Wednesday May 2, 2018 12:30-1:30 in Academic Center 354
FALL 2017
Dr. Megan Daniels (IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2018)
Resurrecting the Dying God in Archaic Greece: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of a Funerary Scene from the Sanctuary of Orthia at Sparta
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 12:30-1:30 Academic Center 354
AIA Lecture co-sponsored by IEMA and The Houghton Chapter, NYSAA
Professor Tyler Jo Smith (MacIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia – Charlottesville)
Roman Religions, Pisidian Practice: Votive ‘Rock-Art’ in Southwest Anatolia
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 5:00 p.m. in the Goetz Library
IEMA Workshop
Dr. Laura Harrison (University of South Florida)
Short-range 3D Laser Scanning in Archaeology and Museums
Saturday, December 2, 2017 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. in Park 450
SPRING 2017
AIA Lecture co-sponsored by IEMA and The Houghton Chapter, NYSAA
Dr. Lothar von Falkenhausen
Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member’s Tale
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:00pm in the Goetz Library
Dr. Sophie Moore (Brown University)
Early Christianity on the Konya Plain? Evidence from Çatalhöyük
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 12:00-1:00 Academic Center 354
Dr. Klaus Oeggl (Institute of Botany at the University of Innsbruck)
The Neolithic Glacier Mummy ‘Otzi’: His Life Circumstances and Environment
Monday, April 10, 2017 4:00-5:00 Academic Center 354
Dr. Jana Anvari (Flinders University)
New stories on old buildings: recent work on the architecture of the Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük West Mound, Turkey
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 12:00-1:00 Academic Center 354
Brown Bag Lecture
Nathaniel Durant
Scythia Minor, lost and found: Predictive modeling in a late Roman province
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Heather Rosch
Filling the gap: Attempting to Understand more about Neolithic Western Anatolia through Architecture
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 12:00-1:00 Academic Center 354
Brown Bag Lecture
Valerie Long
4,000 Years Under the Volcano: Archaeological Excavation at Stromboli, Italy
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Ashlee Hart
Establishing ‘Ceramic Identity’: preliminary Results and Future Research at Emporion Pistiros, Bulgaria
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 12:00-1:00 Academic Center 354
FALL 2016
Dr. Emily Holt (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, former IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow)
A Zooarchaeological Approach to Central Mediterranean Connectivity 1700-300 BCE
Monday, September 26, 2016 12:30-1:30 Academic Center 352
AIA Lecture co-sponsored by IEMA and The Houghton Chapter, NYSAA
Professor Gregory Aldrete (University of Wisconsin – Green Bay)
The Eternal City Goes Under: Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 5:00pm Goetz Library, Academic Center 320
Dr. Arnau Garcia (IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2017)
Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Research Strategies of Agro-Pastoralism in Upland Regions
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 12:00-1:00 Academic Center 354
Tróia Ruìnas: Coastal Fish Workshops in the Roman Era
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 12:00-1:00
SPRING 2016
Dr. Agnė Čivilytė (Lithuanian Institute for History)
Metal in non-metalliferous regions: Understanding the Bronze Age Metallurgy in the Eastern Baltic
Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
Dr. Paul Duffy (University of Toronto)
Fragments from the Fire: What sherds, cremains and spatial models tell us about social inequality in Bronze Age Hungary
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Dr. Dusan Boric (Cardiff University/University of Pittsburgh)
Deathways at Lepenski Vir: Mortuary Programs and Social Bioarchaeology among Holocene Foragers and Farmers in the Balkans
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
AIA Lecture at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Jennifer Tobin
A Hero’s Choice: The Historical Context for the Cocks and Hens Relief from Xanthos
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 6:30pm
Graduate Speaker Series, Goetz Library
Tom Carpenter (Distinguished Professor of Classics, Ohio University)
Friday, March 4th, 2016 4pm
Graduate Speaker Series, Goetz Library
Elizabeth Colantoni (University of Rochester)
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016 4:00 pm
IEMA Brown Bag Lecture
Caitlin Curtis (University at Buffalo)
Striving for community sustainability: a people-based approach to archaeological heritage management in Turkey
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Alexander Mazurek (University at Buffalo)
The Etruscan Elite Hero to a Gentilicial Tradition: A Study of Etruscan Warfare Objects within Funerary Contexts
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Dr. Ralf Vandam (Koc University)
Back to the Beginning. Reconstructing the Late Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age (3500-2400 BC) socio-economic landscape in SW Turkey in relation to early complexity
Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
IEMA Conference and Opening of the IEMA Paley Library
Saturday, April 2nd and Sunday April 3rd, 2016
Stefan Lehmann (Director Archaeology Museum of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
The current discussion on ancient bronze portraits without provenance and the forgery workshop of the ‘Spanish Master’
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016 2-3pm
Danielle Riebe (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
IEMA Workshop
Aaron N. Shugar, Ph.D. (Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Conservation Science, Art Conservation Department, Buffalo State, SUNY)
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Danielle Riebe (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Compositional Analysis in Archaeology: An Introduction to Portable X-ray Fluorescence (p-XRF)
May 1st, 2016 9am-5pm Academic Center 354
FALL 2015
Dr. Attila Gyucha (IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2016)
Population Nucleation and Urbanization in Prehistory: Settlement Strategies in Southeastern Europe
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 12:30-1:30 Academic Center 354
Laura Harrison, MA (UB) and Aycan Gürbüz, MA (Dumlupinar University, Kütahya)
Visualizing the Past: Using 3D modeling to interpret the ancient built environment of Seyitömer Höyük, Turkey
Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 12:30-1:30 Academic Center 354
IEMA Workshop
Aycan Gürbüz, MA (Dumlupinar University, Kütahya)
Digital Archaeology and 3D Modelling
Thursday, September 17th, 2015 4-7pm Crosby 40
Jed O. Kaplan (Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne,
Switzerland)
From forest to farmland and meadow to metropolis, or, when did the Anthropocene begin
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:30-1:30 Academic Center 354
AIA Lecture (co-sponsored by IEMA)
Dr. Michael Danti (American Schools of Oriental Research)
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 6.30 pm Buffalo Museum of Science
IEMA Brown Bag Lecture
Cassidy Phelps (University at Buffalo)
Putting Walls Up: A Study of Etruscan Domestic Architecture within Fortified Settlements
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Patrick Willett (University at Buffalo)
The Aftermath of the 8.2 Event: Cultural and Environmental Effects in the Anatolian Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12:30-1:30 Academic Center 354
IEMA Brown Bag Lecture
Katie Grow Allen (University at Buffalo)
Life and Death at the Edge of an Empire: the bioarchaeology of an Ottoman garrison cemetery
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Elise Poppen (University at Buffalo)
The Past Among the Present: Roman Architecture at Athens, Delphi, and Olympia
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 12:30-1:30 Academic Center 354
Dr. Elizabeth S. Green (Brock University)
Shifting Centers of Maritime Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean: A View from Burgaz or ‘Old Knidos’, Turkey
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 12:30-1:30 Academic Center 354
AIA Lecture (co-sponsored by IEMA)
Dr. Filomena Limão (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 6.30 pm Buffalo Museum of Science
IEMA Brown Bag Lecture
Alice Chapman (University at Buffalo)
Constructing Realism: Hellenistic Sculpture and Ekphrasis in Herodas IV
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Erika Ruhl (University at Buffalo)
Hearts on their Sleeves: Textiles and Children’s Burials in Pre-Modern Finland
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 12:30-1:30 Academic Center 354
SPRING 2015
Brecht Lambrechts (University of Leuvan)
New Light on Interaction in the Neolithic Island Aegean: Some preliminary results from an integrated characterization of the Neolithic from Chios
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Nathaniel Durant (University at Buffalo)
A Tale of Two Frontiers? The Saxon Shore Forts and Hadrian’s Wall in the 3rd to 5th centuries
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Ashley Cercone (University at Buffalo)
50 Sherds of Fired Clay: Ceramic Restoration at Seyitömer Höyük
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
AIA Lecture, Co-sponsored by IEMA:
Dr. Christopher Parslow (Department of Classics at Wesleyan University)
Love and Life in the Praedia (Properties) of Julia Felix in Pompeii
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 6.30pm Auditorium of the Buffalo Museum of Science
IEMA Archaeological Ceramics Workshop
Taught by Dr. Ralf Vandam (IEMA Visiting Professor) and Brecht Lambrechts (University of Leuven)
Saturday, March 28th, 2015 9.30 AM to 3.30 PM (with scheduled breaks)
Erika Ruhl (University at Buffalo)
Clothing the Dead: Textile analysis in pre-modern Finnish burials
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Alexander Mazurek (University at Buffalo)
Who is that Girl I See Staring Straight Back at Me: An Examination of Etruscan Genucilia Ware
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Manuel Fernández (University of Edinburgh)
The Sacrality of Space: Religion, Politics and Collective Identities in Celtic Europe
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Fall 2014
Dr. Jennifer Ramsay (SUNY Brockport)
Arid Agriculture: Evidence from Archaeobotanical Remains at Nabataean through Islamic Period Sites
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Linda Anderson, M.A. (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Discovering Archaeological Armenia: Visualizing Its Images
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Dr. Ralf Vandam, IEMA Visiting Scholar 2014-15 (University Leuven, Belgium)
Everybody Needs Good Neighbors: Exploring Late Prehistoric Settlement Strategies and Social-Economic Behavior in the Burdur Plain, SW Turkey
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Dr. Seth Button (Logan Simpson Design, Inc.)
When Farming Faltered: Two Regional Case Studies
Monday, November 10, 2014 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Sarah Hoffman (University at Buffalo)
Health in the Sagas of the Icelanders
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Max Huemer (University at Buffalo)
The Gsur of Tripolitania: An Analysis of a Roman Defense System in North Africa
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
AIA Lecture, Co-sponsored by IEMA:
Mark Lawall (University of Manitoba)
Big Amphora, Little Loom Weights: Archaeological Approaches to Economic Change
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:30 PM, Buffalo Museum of Science
Jacquelyn Kyle (University at Buffalo)
&
Nathaniel Durant (University at Buffalo)
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
IEMA Lecture Series: Spring 2014
Professor Nejat Bilgen (Dumlupinar University, Turkey)
The Seyitömer Project in Turkey
January 29, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Dr. Philipp Stockhammer (Heidelberg University)
The Dynamics of Transculturality in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: a Case Study from the Southern Levant
March 12, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Dr. Nathan Schlanger (INRAP/ UMR Trajectoires / Ecole du Louvre)
‘Material culture’ in the American and French research traditions
April 30, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Dr. Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading)
Landscapes of Holy War and Colonisation: The Ecological Impact of the Crusades in the Medieval Eastern Baltic
May 7, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
IEMA Lecture Series: Fall 2013
Dr. Orlando Cerasulo (IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-14)
RIGHT IN THE CENTER – Research in Etruscan and Mediterranean Archaeology from Late Bronze Age to Early Archaic Period
September 18, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Laura Harrison, MA (University at Buffalo)
Constructing a Complex Society: An analysis of social and spatial organization at Seyitömer Höyük, Turkey
&
Erin Warford (University at Buffalo)
The Multipolar Polis: Pilgrimage in the Attic Countryside
October 16, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Daniel Griswold, MA (University at Buffalo)
Tel Ifshar and Egypt during the Bronze Age
&
TBA
October 30, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
AIA Lecture (co-sponsored by IEMA)
Dr. Shannan Stewart (Depauw University)
The Dining Gaul (and his Phrygian Dishes)
October 30, 6:00 p.m., Buffalo Museum of Science
Dr. Aaron N. Shugar (Buffalo State College)
Handheld XRF in Archaeology: Issues and solutions
November 6, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Dr. Dusan Boric (Cardiff University)
Archaeological cultures, again? Modelling the Late Neolithic to Copper Age culture change in the Balkans
November 13, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Dr. Ezra Marcus (Haifa University)
On faba beans and wine: drinking and eating practices at Tel Ifshar (Israel) and their social context in the early Middle Bronze Age Levant
November 20, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
Kyle Freund (McMaster University)
East Meets West: Contrasting Exploitation Histories of Island-Based Obsidian in the Mediterranean
December 4, 12.30-1.30 Academic Center 354
March 27, 2013
IEMA Lecture
Lucy-Ann Skinner, Buffalo State College
“Magic wands, hair extensions and processions: The drama of on-site archaeological conservation and a preliminary investigation of Middle Kingdom burials at Abydos, Egypt”
Location: Academic Center 352
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
March 20, 2013
IEMA Student Brown Bag Lecture
Eugen Ruzi, Department of Anthropology
“Investigating Technological Variability among Early Neolithic Ceramics from Korça Region, Albania”
Teddy Mazurek, Department of Classics
“Light My Fire: An Overview, Typology, and Analysis of Erotic Roman Lamps”
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
March 19, 2013
IEMA Lecture
Maria Georgopolou (Director of the Gennadius Library in Athens, Greece)
“The Venetian Cities of Crete: The Cities of Crete during the Venetian Occupation, from 1204 – 1669 A.D.”
Location: Burchfield Penny Art Center Auditorium
Time: 5:00-6:00 pm
February 20, 2013
IEMA Graduate Students Brown Bag Lunch Talk
Matt Dysart, Department of Anthropology
“Ovis/Capra, It’s What’s for Dinner: Early processing and analysis of faunal material from a Minoan settlement”
Lana Radloff, Department of Classics
“In Defense of Theoretical Foundations: Phenomenology, Semiotics, and Defensive Architecture in Greek Settlements”
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
December 6, 2012
IEMA Lecture
Dr. Sarah B. McClure
Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University
“Past, present and future strategies for understanding cultural dynamics in Neolithic Dalmatia”
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
December 5, 2012
IEMA Graduate Students Brown Bag Lunch Talk
Thomas Harper, Department of Anthropology
Location: Academic Center 352
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
December 3, 2012
AIA Lecture (co-sponsored by IEMA)
Elizabeth M. Greene, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
“Families and Roman Military Communities: Evidence at Vindolanda and Beyond”
Location: The Buffalo Museum of Science
Time: 6:30 pm
November 29, 2012
IEMA Lecture
Dr. Roxana-Gabriela Curca & Dr. Marius-Tiberiu Alexianu
Faculty of History, “Al.I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania
“Understanding the Prehistoric Salt Springs: Ethnoarchaeological Investigations in the Romanian Carpathians”
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12:30 pm
November 15, 2012
IEMA Graduate Students Brown Bag Lunch Talk
Erin Warford, Department of Classics
“Placing Poseidon: Religious Connectivity Between Athens and Sounion in the Archaic Period”
Darren Poltorak, Department of Anthropology
“CARP Diem II: The Cursed Tablet”
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
October 22, 2012
AIA Lecture (co-sponsored by IEMA)
Dr. John Pollini
University of Southern California
Christian Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity
Location: The Buffalo Museum of Science
Time: 6.30 pm
November 1, 2012
IEMA Graduate Students Brown Bag Lunch Talk
Krishni Burns, Department of Classics
“The Magna Mater’s Temple, Phase Two: Locating Women in the Socio-Religious Landscape of Rome”
Jacob Brady, Department of Anthropology
“(re)Viewing Technology: New Ways to See Old Stones”
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
October 11, 2012
IEMA Lecture
Dr. William J. Meyer, Jr. (IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-13)
“Home of the Living, Land of the Dead: Dwelling with the Bronze and Iron Age Tombs of Southern Burgundy”
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
April 23, 2012
IEMA Lecture
“Livestock for sale: market-driven developments in animal husbandry in the civitas Batavorum”
Maaike Groot (VU University Amsterdam)
Location: Goetz Library Academic Center 320
Time: 4-5 pm
April 18, 2012
IEMA Brown Bag Talk
TBA (Classics)
Eugen Ruzi (Anthropology)
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
March 28, 2012
IEMA Brown Bag Talk
“The Excavation of a Prehistoric Burial Mound near Hassloch, Germany.”
Kali Grabel (Classics)
“Hazor: The Head of all those Kingdoms”
Daniel Griswold (Anthropology)
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
March 21, 2012
IEMA Lecture
“Not really Neolithisation? A Discussion of the Transformation of Third Millennium Western Scandinavia”
Christopher Prescott (IEMA Visiting Professor, Department of Archaeology, Oslo University)
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
March 7, 2012
IEMA Brown Bag Talk
Lana Radloff (UB Classics)
“City Planning in Northern Greece: The Late Classical and Early Helenistic Settlement at Kastro Kallithea.”
Thomas Harper
“Understanding Ancient Agriculture as a System: A Model of Agronomic Crop Production at the Tripol’ye Giant Settlement of Tal’yanki, Ukraine”
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
February 22, 2012
IEMA Lecture
“The Neolithization of the Human Body: Corporeality within the ‘Revolution’ in the Balkans”
By: Goce Naumov (IEMA JFPD Fellow, University of Skopje)
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
February 6, 2012
AGSA Lecture
“The Inception of Farming in Western Asia: A 2012 Review of the Excavations at Abu Hureyra in Syria”
By: Professor Andrew M.T. Moore of the Rochester Institute of Technology
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 5-6pm
November 30, 2011
IEMA Brown Bag Talk
‘This Old (Digital) House: Spatial Analysis of a Bronze Age structure in the Eastern Carpathians’
By: Ray Whitlow
‘A Local World Heritage: Community Involvement and the Role of ‘Experts’ in World Heritage Management’
By: Dominic Walker (Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK)
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1pm
November 18
AIA/IEMA Lecture
“Paupers and Peasants in Mycenean Greece”
By: Dimitri Nakasis (University of Toronto)
November 9, 2011
IEMA Brown Bag Talk
‘The North Trench at Gournia: New Light on Processes of State Formation in Bronze Age Crete’
By: Laura Harrison
‘Mapping Ancient Gabii: A Historical GIS for the City and its Hinterland’
By: Aaron Chapnick
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1pm
October 26, 2011
IEMA Brown Bag Talk
“The Ecstasy of Drama: The Theater Games of the Megelensia as a Ritual Altered State of Reality”
By: Krishni Burns
‘Preserving Cultural Heritage in Central Lydia, Western Turkey’
By: Caitlin Curtis
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1pm
October 21, 2011
AIA/IEMA Lecture
“All Roads Lead to Rome”
By: Richard Talbert (Chapel Hill University)
October 19, 2011
IEMA Lecture
“A Settlement Within Empires: Excavations at Çadir Höyük in Central Turkey”
By: Sharon R. Steadman (Department of Anthropology, SUNY Cortland)
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
October 5, 2011
IEMA Brown Bag Talks
“Mothers Above: The Matronae Cult in Roman Germany”
Erin Warford (Classics)
“CARP Field Report and Phosphate Suryey Follow-up”
Darren Poltorak (Anthropology)
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1pm
September 7, 2011
IEMA Lecture
“Excavations at the Neo-Hittite Capital City of Kunulua: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project”
Dr. James F. Osborne
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1pm
April 27, 2011
IEMA Lecture
“Settlement Systems of the West Tripol’ye Culture at the South Bug and Dnieper Interfluve: Formation Problems”
Dr. Oleksandr Diachenko (Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Ukranian Academy of Sceinces)
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 12-1 pm
April 20, 2011
IEMA Lecture
“Beyond Domus and Insula: an Index of Urban Property at Pompeii”
Dr. Scott Craver (St. Bonaventure University)
Location: Academic Center 354
Time: 4-5 pm
March 28, 2011
IEMA Lecture
“The “Northwest passage” from the Balkans to the Central Europe: The 6th Millennium BC Danubian frontier zone”
Dr. Eszter Banffy (Archaeological Institute HAS, Budapest)
Location: Academic Center 351
Time: 12-1 pm
March 23, 2011
IEMA Brown Bag Talks
“Building Roman Landscapes: Roman Economic Exploitation in Southern Etruria During the Republic”
Mike Teed (Classics)
“Exploring Albania’s Neolithic: Excavation and Archaeometry”
Eugen Ruzi (Anthropology)
Location: Academic Center 319
Time: 12-1 pm
March 9, 2011
IEMA Lecture
“Bir Madhkur, Petra, and the Incense Trade through Arabia”
Professor Andrew M. Smith II (George Washington University)
Location: Goetz Library
Time: 5-6 pm
March 2, 2011
IEMA Lecture
“The Palace of Knossos”
Professor Karl Knappett (University of Toronto)
Location: Academic Center 314
Time: 12-1 pm
February 23, 2010
IEMA Brown Bag Talks
“Questions of Greek Identity in the Iberian Peninsula”
Leslie Feldballe (Classics)
“The Place and Power of Teaching in the Archaeological Record”
Darren Poltorak
Location: Academic Center 314
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
November 17, 2010
IEMA Brown Bag Talks
“You Spin Me Right ‘Round: Attic Depictions of Women Working with Wool”
Alessia Barzetti (Department of Visual Studies, UB)
“Beyond the walls: Investigation of the area around the castrum Cumidava by intensive phosphate survey”
Darren Poltorak
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
November 16, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“Eastern Mediterranean maritime trade and coastal settlement in the southern Levant during the early Middle Bronze Age (1930-1750 BCE): the results of the University at Buffalo’s excavation at Tel Ifshar, Israel (1979-1992 CE)”
Professor Ezra S. Marcus (Haifa University, Isreal)
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
November 15, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“Two communities – two identities. New insights into the social developments at Çatalhöyük East”
Institute of Prehistory, Poznan University, Poland
Professor Arkadiusz Marciniak
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 6:00-7:00 pm
October 29-30, 2010
Classics/IEMA Graduate Student Conference
“A Sickness Unto Death: Pain, Suffering, and Despair in the Ancient World”
Location: Academic Center 320 (Goetz Library)
October 21, 2010
Classics/IEMA Lecture
“The Akrotiri-Dreamer’s Bay Ancient Port Project, Cyprus: Ancient Kourias Fount? or Once Upon an Island”
Dr. Bradley A. Ault
Location: Academic Center 320 (Goetz Library)
Time: 7:00 p.m (Reception to follow)
October 13, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“Artefacts versus Ecofacts: Questioning the Social Role of Material Culture in the Ancient World”
Dr. Carrie A. Murray IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: Academic Center 320 (Goetz Library)
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
October 6, 2010
AIA/IEMA Lecture
“Magic and Religion in Ancient Corinth”
Dr. Ronald S. Stroud (University of California Berkeley)
Location: Academic Center 320 (Goetz Library)
Time: 5-6 p.m.
September 27, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“Public spending for Cultural Heritage Conservation: an exploratory study for Italy”
Professor Ilde Rizzo (Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Catania)
Location: Academic Center 352
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
April 22, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“The Domus Aurea of Nero in Rome”
Professor Adriana la Regina (University di Roma, “La Sapienza”)
Location: Academic Center 320
Time: 5:00 pm
April 21, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“Early Medieval Archaeology in Central Europe- a ‘terra incoginita’?”
Dr. Hajnalka Herold (VIAS- Vienna Institue of Archaeological Science, University of Vienna,
Austria)
Location: Academic Center 352
Time: 12-1 pm
March 29, 2010
IEMA/DHIB Lecture
“What happens to the Past? A virtual Heritage Perspective”
Professor Maurizio Forte (University of California, Merced)
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 12-1 pm
March 25, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“Genes and Culture at the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition”
Professor Marek Zvelebil (Sheffield University)
Location: Academic Center 352
Time: 12-1 pm
March 4, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“The Archaeology of Ushki Lake”
Dr. Irina Ponkratova (North Eastern University Magadan, Russia)
Locatiion: Academic Center 352
Time:: 6-8 pm
February 10, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“Westward Expansion of the Farming Communities from Antaolia to the Balkans”
Professor Mehmet Ozdogan (Istanbul University)
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 5-6 pm
January 27, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“Reassembling the social in the early medieval eastern Alps: towards an archaeology of monsters”
Patrick Fazioli
Location: Academic Center 352
Time: 12-1 pm
January 14, 2010
IEMA Lecture
“Socio-cultural Transformations at the Turn of the 7th and 6th Millennium BC in Central Anatolia: The Early Chalcolithic
Phenomenon”
Arkadiusz Klimowicz
Location: Academic Center 352
Time: 12-1 pm
December 14, 2010
DHIB/IEMA Lecture
“An Uncoordinated Response: Interpreting Archaeological Collections in a Post-colonial World”
Dr. Robin Boast
Location: Celemens, Room 120 IS
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm
December 9, 2009
IEMA Lecture
“Reflection of Cultural Transitions of Stone Tools: A Neolithic Case Study from Turkey”
Dr. Güner Coskunsu
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 6-7pm
November 11, 2009
IEMA Lecture
“Excavating the Invisible: Recognizing Emotion in the Archeaological Record”
Andre Gonciar
Location: Academic Center 355
October 28, 2009
|IEMA Lecture
“The End of Eden: The long-term impact of metallurgical pollution at Faynan in Jordan”
Dr. Russell Adams
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 6-7 pm
October 21, 2009
AIA & IEMA Lecture
“At Home in Archaic Athens: The Archaeology of a House near the Athenian Agora”
Dr. Kathleen Lynch
Location: in Goetz Library: Fillmore 320
Time: 5-6 pm
April 20, 2009
IEMA Research Seminar
“The Bloody Meadows Project”
Dr. John Carman
Location: Academic Center 261
April 1, 2009
IEMA Lecture
“Iron Age in the Carpathian Basin”
Dr. Elisabeth Jerem
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 5-6pm
March 23, 2009
IEMA Lecture
“That Hill belongs to us: On the role of ‘prehistoric architectures’ in the making of territorial identities in the Iberian Peninsula (3rd-2nd Millennium BC)
Professor Vitor Oliveira Jorge
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 12-1pm
February 25, 2009
IEMA Lecture
“New-discovered Inscriptions from the Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
Dr. Konstantin P. Boshnakov
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 5-6pm
January 28 , 2009
IEMA Lecture
“The Seyitomer Mound Salvage Excavation Project”
Dr. Elif Genç
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 5-6pm
December 4, 2008
IEMA Lecture
“Restoring a World. The Academies of Rome AIAC at UNIONE, 1944-1948”
Frederick Whitling
Location: Goetz Library
Time:5-6pm
December 2, 2008
IEMA Lecture
“‘Beyond ‘Hunting Versus Herding’: Linking Animal Use and Social Change in the Central Balkan Neolithic”
Dr. David Orton
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 5-6pm
November 12, 2008
IEMA Lecture
“Emerging Mediterranean Economies: Reading Archaic Trade through the Shipwrecks at Kekova
Adası and Pabuç Burnu, Turkey
Dr. Elizabeth Green, Brock University
Location: Goetz Library/Filmore 320
Time: 5-6pm
September 24, 2008
IEMA Lecture
“Talking Heads: Deposition and Depiction of Skulls in Iron Age Europe”
Dr. Sarah Ralph (IEMA Postdoctoral Scholar 2008)
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 6-7 pm
September 10, 2008
WNYS, AIA & IEMA Lecture
“Old Archaeological Excavations Revisited: Limitations, Problems and Opportunities. The Assur-Project in Berlin”
Dr. Friedhelm Pedde (Pergamon Museum Berlin and Free University of Berlin)
Location: Academic Center 320
Time: 5-6 pm
April 22, 2008
Lecture presented by Professor Douglass Bailey, Department of Archaeology, University of Cardiff and
Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University: TBA.
Location: Academic Center 355
Time: 6-7 pm
April 3, 2008
IEMA Inaugural Event
University at Buffalo, Center for the Arts
Opening Ceremony including keynote lecture
by Dr. Graeme Barker, Disney Professor, University of Cambridge
Reception to follow
Time: 2-7pm
February 27, 2008
Lecture presented by Dr. Douglas J. Bolender, IEMA Post-doctoral Fellow: Unsettled Landscapes: Viking Age Settlement Patterns and the Development of Social Inequality in Northern Iceland. Academic Center 355 on February 27, 6-7 p.m.
January 22, 2008
Lecture presented by Dr. Tristan Carter, Dept. of Anthropology, McMaster University: From Çatalhöyük to Knossos and from Knossos to Kaneš: Relations between Central Anatolia and Crete in the 8th and 2nd millennium BC. Academic Center 355, 5.30 – 6:30 pm.
October 30, 2007
Lecture presented by the Western New York Chapter of the AIA, with IEMA co-sponorship: Dr. James Russel, former AIA president, entitled ‘Chasing a Roman Soldier’ in the Classics Department Goetz Library (Filmore 320). Everyone is invited to attend.
October 8, 2007
Lecture presented by Dr. Krish Seetah, McDonald Institute of Archaeology, Cambridge University: The Exploitation of Animals at the Heart of the Serenissima and Beyond: Venetian Colonial Expansion in the Medieval Mediterranean. Co-sponsored with the AGSA (Anthropology Graduate Student Association). Academic Center 355, 4-5 pm.
March 29-30, 2007
Lecture and seminar with Dr. Bettina Arnold, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Arnold is Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, Co-Director of the Center for Celtic Studies and editor of the Center’s on-line journal, e-Keltoi. Co-Sponsored with the AGSA (Anthropology Graduate Student Association).
February 21, 2007
The Western New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, with IEMA co-sponorship, will be hosting a lecture by Dr. William Murray of the University of South Florida on at 5:00 p.m. in Academic Center 320. His presentation is entitled “The Search for the Battle of Actium”. Professor Murray is an expert not only on the Battle of Actium (31 BC), and is responsible for the first major study of Augustus’ victory monument there, but in the subject of naval warfare.
February 7, 2007
Tacitus (Germania 46) and the Bone Arrowheads of the Miserable Fenni IEMA-sponsored lecture by Dr. Janne Ikäheimo of the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Helsinki.