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).
- Extra class seminar
- 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
- Extra class seminar
- 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
- Extra class seminar
- Tuesday, April 5, 2016
James J. Aimers, State University of New York, Geneseo
"Recent Research on the Maya Collapse"
Nadzia Borowski Lecturer, AIA.