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.”