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Lecture Schedule

Lecture Schedule

Lectures are held at 6:00 p.m. unless otherwise stated

Events are free and open to the public.

2025-2026

  1. Tuesday, September 23: “UTK Student Fieldwork Night.” McClung Museum Auditorium.
  1. Wednesday, November 5: The Frederick R. and Margaret B. Matson Lectureship for Near Eastern Archaeology and Archaeological Technology: Pearce Paul Creasman, North Carolina Wesleyan University. “Diving the Pyramids: Underwater Tombs and Excavation at the Royal Cemetery of Nuri, Sudan.” McClung Museum Auditorium.
  2. Tuesday, November 18: Classics Haines-Morris Lecture and AIA’s John L. Caskey Lecture in Aegean Archaeology, Thomas Palaima, University of Texas, Austin. “Pylos Tablet Writers and Adventures with RTI.” Law School 132.
  3. Thursday, March 19: The 19th Annual Harry C. Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Archaeology: Peter Van Dommelen, Brown University, “Negotiating Identities: Indigenous Traditions and Phoenician Expansion in the Iron Age Mediterranean,” McClung Museum Auditorium.
  4. Tuesday, March 31: Classics Haines-Morris Lecture and AIA’s John H. and Penelope Biggs Lecture, Linda Gosner, Texas Tech University, “Mining and the Making of Roman Iberia,” McClung Museum Auditorium.
  5. Tuesday, April 21: Aleydis Van de Moortel, UTK Department of Classics, “Rise of a Political Elite at Mitrou, Central Greece, in the Late Bronze Age,” 5:30 pm in the Humanities and Social Sciences Building 123.

Dinner after Lectures

All AIA members have the opportunity to meet our speakers over dinner. Dinners are typically held at Tomato Head on Market Square in Knoxville, following the lecture, for in-person events. If you want to join us, please notify me by the day before the lecture so that I can make an appropriate reservation (cell (240) 315-3671; dbloy@utk.edu).

East Tennessee Society Officers 2025-2026

President: Sam Blankenship, Dept. of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; sblank13@utk.edu

Vice-President: Lorenzo Del Monte, Dept. of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; ldelmont@utk.edu                     

Secretary-Treasurer: Dylan Bloy, Dept. of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; dbloy@utk.edu

Joining the Archaeological Institute of America

 The East Tennessee Society is our local chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America. The AIA is unique in that includes professional archaeologists as well as students and non-professionals. It is made up of members from around the world who share a passion for archaeology.

Join us! Membership is crucial for us to maintain a presence in East Tennessee and continue to fund archaeological lectures and other events. Annual membership is as little as $61 for avocational members and $36 for undergraduate students and includes a subscription to AIA’s award-winning Archaeology magazine. Graduate or undergraduate student members are also eligible for a rebate from our local society.

You can join or renew online at the Archaeological Institute of America. Contact Dylan Bloy for inquiries about membership (1101 McClung Tower, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996; email dbloy@utk.edu). If you join online, please be sure to select the East Tennessee Society as your local chapter so that you count on our membership rolls. Discount membership for student applications must include proof of status.

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