2023-2024 Brought New Experts to Campus
We had a full slate of visiting speakers last year, who shared with us their exciting work in classical reception and archaeology. We are very grateful to them for enriching the lives of our students and faculty. Here is the honor roll:
Rutledge Memorial Lecture
Stephanie McCarter
University of the South, Sewanee
“Elizabeth Colomba and Classical Mythology” (Sept. 28)
Haines-Morris Lecturer
Emilia Oddo
Tulane University
“Don’t Trust That Octopus! Marine Style Pottery and Its Ominous Role in Minoan Crete” (Oct. 30)
17th Harry C. Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Archaeology
Cemal Pulak
Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University
“The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Maritime Trade” (April 18)
51st annual program of the East Tennessee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Dylan Bloy, secretary-treasurer of our local Archeological Institute of America (AIA) chapter, organized five events. In addition to Pulak’s Rutledge Archaeology Lecture and Oddo’s Haines-Morris Lecture, we were fortunate to host one lecturer sponsored by the national AIA society:
Bice Peruzzi (Rutgers University), “Creating Permanent Memories? Tomb Violation and Collective Memory in Pre-Roman Apulia” (April 2)
In addition, Alison Damick (UT Laboratory of Environmental Archaeology) presented her work on “Eastern Mediterranean Micro-Ecologies: Preliminary Discussion of Geoarchaeological Research on the Holocene of Northern Lebanon” (February 27)