Lecture Schedule for 2017-2018

Lectures are held at 7:30 p.m. in the McClung Museum Auditorium. They are open to the public and free of charge. A reception will follow each.

• Tuesday September 26.
  Megan King, Dept. of Anthropology, UT
  “Gender, Lithics, and Perishable Technology: Searching for Evidence of Split-Cane Technology in the Archaeological Record at the Mussel Beach Site (40MI70).”
• Thursday October 19
  Andrea De Giorgi, Florida State University
  “Antioch the Great: An Elusive Metropolis?” AIA Kershaw Lecture in Near Eastern Archaeology.
  • Extra class seminar CLAS 439
    “Recent Excavations at Cosa.”
    Wed. October 18 at 12:20 - 1:10 pm in HSS 104.
• Thursday November 2
  Dylan Bloy, Dept. of Classics, UT
  “Romans, Lombards, and Antiquarians at the Roman Villa of Vacone, Italy.”
• Monday November 27
  Sahar Saleem, Cairo University
  “Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies.” Eleventh Harry C. Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Archaeology.
  • Extra class seminar, CLAS 439
    Mon. Nov. 27, HSS 104, 12:20PM.
• Thursday January 25
  Jerolyn Morrison, University of Leicester
  “Cooking up New Perspectives for Late Minoan IB Domestic Activities: An Experimental Approach to Understanding the Possibilities and Probabilities of Ancient Cooking Pot Use.”
  Dr. Morrison will also host two workshops:
  • Tuesday, Jan. 23, 9:40 AM
    Ceramics Workshop
    Dr. Morrison will lead participants in the process of making Bronze Age cooking pots.
    **Please note that this workshop will be held at Mighty Mud, 127 Jennings Ave, Knoxville.**

  • Friday, Jan. 26, 4:45 PM
    Cooking Workshop
    Dr. Morrison will be teaching a cooking class involving Cretan herbs and foods, showing what the inhabitants of Minoan Crete would have eaten in their daily lives.
    **This workshop will be held at Central Collective, 923 N Central St.**
    
    As space is limited for both of the workshops, please RSVP with Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliott (sce@utk.edu) if you wish to participate!

• Tuesday February 6
  Michaelyn Harle, Tennessee Valley Authority
  “The Shifting Role of “Motherhood” among Late Prehistoric Communities in Tennessee.”
• Thursday March 8
  Lisa C. Khan, George Mason University
  “Reconstructing and Firing a Greek Kiln: a Project in Experimental Archaeology” AIA William D.E. Coulson Memorial Lecture.
• Thursday April 5
  Bailey Young, Eastern Illinois University
  “Let’s Be Frank(s)! The Merovingians as the Pioneers of Medieval Europe.”