Lecture Schedule for 2018-2019
Lectures are held at 7:30 p.m. in the McClung Museum Auditorium unless indicated otherwise. They are open to the public and free of charge. A reception will follow each.
Members are invited to meet speakers over dinner at 5:30 pm before the lecture, at the Sunspot on 2200 Cumberland Ave, Knoxville; for reservations contact sce@utk.edu or phone 865-974-5404.
- Thursday September 6
University of Tennessee Student Fieldwork Night. - Thursday September 20
Morag Kersel, DePaul University
“Who Owns the Past? Competing Claims for Antiquities from the Holy Land.” AIA Joukowsky Lecture. - Tuesday October 16
Jacob Morton, Carleton College
“The Experience of Ancient Greek Sacrifice.” - Extra class lecture, CLAS 306
History of Greece II.
Mon. October 15, HSS-206, 1:25PM. - Monday November 5
Lothar von Falkenhausen, University of California at Los Angeles
“The First Emperor’s Terra-cotta Army.” UT Humaniti Center Distinguished Lecture.
Please note that this event will be held at 4 PM in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library - Tuesday January 22
Barbara Heath, Department of Anthropology, UT
“Colonial Encounters on the Chesapeake Frontier.” - Tuesday February 5
Steven Ellis, University of Cincinnati
“The Specialized Roman City: The Rise and Fall of Urban Innovation” Twelfth Harry C. Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Archaeology. - Thursday February 28
Gregory Aldrete, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
“Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome: The Eternal City Goes Under.” AIA Oliver Lecture. - Thursday April 4
Alex Bentley, Department of Anthropology, UT
“The Neolithic Spread of Farming into Eurasia and Its Legacy in Modern Genes and Cultures.”