Lecture Schedule for 2015-2016

All lectures are illustrated, and all are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. They are held at 7:30 pm in the auditorium of the Frank H. McClung Museum, unless otherwise noted. A reception will follow each.

• Thursday, September 24, 2015
  Eric Cline, George Washington University
  "1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed."
  Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library, UT campus.
  • Extra class seminar
    Clas/Anth 442, "Wine, Frescoes, and Feasting: the Ongoing Excavations of the Canaanite Palace at Tel Kabri."
    Thursday, Sept. 24, 12:40 - 1:55 pm
    HSS building 206 (attached to McClung tower).
    
    
• Tuesday, October 13, 2015
  W.Y. Adams, University of Kentucky
  "Nubia in Global Perspective."
  
  
• Tuesday, October 27, 2015
  Gwyn Davies, Florida International University
  "The Late Roman Fort at Yotvata, Israel."
  Linda G. Feinstone Lecturer, AIA.
  
  
• Thursday, November 12, 2015
  Anne Chapin, Brevard College
  "Dressed to Impress: Art and Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age."
  Alumni Memorial Building 32
  Please note change in date and venue.
  • Extra class seminar
    Clas/Anth 442, "The Expert's Eye: Theory, Method, and Connoisseurship in Aegean Fresco Studies."
    Thursday, Nov. 12, 12:40 - 1:55 pm,
    HSS 206
    Haines-Morris Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Classics
    
    
• Tuesday, January 19, 2016
  Tim Baumann, McClung Museum, UTK
  "Painting in the Shadows:  Prehistoric Negative Painted Pottery in Tennessee and the Eastern Woodlands."
  
  
• Tuesday, February 16, 2016
  Charles Finney, Cave Research Foundation
  "Cave of Remembered Dreams: Recording Cultural Resources in the Cumberland Gap Cave System."
  
  
• Tuesday, March 8, 2016
  John H. Oakley, College of William and Mary
  "Scenes from Daily Life on Athenian Vases."
  Ninth Harry C. Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Archaeology.
  • Extra class seminar
    Clas/Anth 443, "Athenian White-Ground Lekythoi: Masterpieces of Greek Funerary Art." Tuesday March 8, 11:10 am - 12:25 pm.
    HSS 109
    Haines-Morris Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Classics
    
    
• Tuesday, April 5, 2016
  James J. Aimers, State University of New York, Geneseo
  "Recent Research on the Maya Collapse"
  Nadzia Borowski Lecturer, AIA.