ARCHIVES (Past Events)
Including both independent and co-sponsored events
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Fall 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
El Niño, Upwelling, Anchovies, and the Foundation of Andean Civilization
Prof. C. Fred T. Andrus
Assistant Professor of Geology
University of Alabama
Co-sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the Center for Sustainable Communities, and the Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences, Willamette University
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Building for Eternity: Investigating the Secrets of Roman Hydraulic Concrete
Prof. John Peter Oleson
Department of Greek and Roman Studies
University of Victoria, British Columbia
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
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Spring 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
The Trireme: Ancient and Modern
Prof. Gordon Kelly
Department of Classical Studies
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Thursday, February 7, 2008
The Creation of Imperial Communities in the Ancient World: The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the First Millennium B.C.
(The Renner Lecture)
Prof. Steven J. Garfinkle
Department of History
Western Washington University
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Icons in Antiquity: The Symphony of the Gods
(The Lane C. McGaughy Lectureship in Ancient Studies)
Dr. Thomas F. Mathews
John Langeloth Loeb Professor of the
History of Art Emeritus
Institute of Fine Arts
New York University
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the Mark and Janeth Hogue Sponenburgh Lectureship Fund, and the Department of Art and Art History, Willamette University
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Vikings and Death: Concepts of the Afterlife and Burial Monuments in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
Dr. Eva Thäte
University of Reading
United Kingdom
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Piranesi's Views of Rome
Ms. Marnie P. Stark
Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings
Portland Art Musuem
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Early Human Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective
(Joukowsky Lecture)
Prof. James Adovasio
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Mercyhurst College
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Grand Opening of the Centers for Academic Excellence
Professor Lane McGaughy
Director, Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology
Professor Juwen Zhang
Director, Center for Asian Studies
Professor Steve Green
Director, Center for the Study of Religion, Law and Democracy
Professor Joe Bowersox
Director, Center for Sustainable Communities
Professor Fred Thompson
Director, Public Policy and Research Center
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Fall 2008
September 18, 2008
Beer Brewing Techniques in the Ancient Near East
Kathleen Minek
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Co-Sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, Classics Program, Willamette University
October 16, 2008
Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon
Professor Rebecca Dobkins
Department of Anthropology, Willamette University
Co-Sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University
October 23, 2008
Cyrene: a World Heritage site in the 21st Century
Professor Susan Kane
Department of Art History, Oberlin College
Co-Sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, Willamette University and a grant from the Hewlett Foundation
October 30, 2008
End of an Empire: Archaeology and the Collapse of Urartu
Norton Lecture
Professor Paul Zimansky
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Co-Sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, Willamette University and the Classics Program
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Spring 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The Social Archaeology of Bronze Age China
Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen,
Departments of Art History and Archaeology,
University of California, Los Angeles
Co-sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Eastern Approaches to Ancient Greek Music
Professor John Franklin
Department of Classics
Co-sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology
and the Classics Program at Willamette University,
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Illuminating Art: The Study of Ancient Lamps
Dr. Lisa R. Brody
Associate Curator of Ancient Art
Yale University Art Gallery.
Co-sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Four Thousand Years of Andean Gold
Dr. Mark Aldenderfer
Professor of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Co-sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University
Wednesday, April 29 and Thursday, April 30
Symposium on Epic, Biography, and the Gospels
The Willamette University Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology and the Department of Religious Studies held a two-day symposium on April 29-30 on the influence of the ancient epic and biographical genres on the composition of the early Christian Gospels. Events included:
Wednesday, April 29
"What Kind of Book is a Gospel? What Kind of Question is That?"
Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald
John Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and
Dean at Clarement School of Theology
Thursday, April 30
Panel Discussion
A panel of scholars from the Northwest will respond to Dr. MacDonald’s lecture
and offer their views on the genre of the Gospels
"Framing Jesus: The Mythic Structure of Ancient Lives and its Influence on the Gospels."
Dr. Lane McGaughy
Willamette University
Director of the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology
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Fall 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
An Introduction to the Mosaic of the Greek East and Their Culture
Dr. Christine Kondoleon
George and Margo Behrakis Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Co-sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Goddesses, Aristocrats and Politics of Sex in Early Etruscan Italy
Dr. Anthony Tuck
Department of Classics and Center for Etruscan Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Director of Excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), Italy
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Is the New Testament Confused?
Reflections on the Discrepancies of the Christian Scriptures
The Lane C. McGaughy Lectureship in Ancient Studies
Dr. Bart D. Ehrman
James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Co-sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Westar Institute, and Polebridge Press
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Actors in the Audience:
Non-dramatic Performances in the Roman Theater
Dr. Diana Ng
Andrew W. Melon Postdoctoral Fellow
Classics Department, Northwestern University
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
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Spring 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Changing Perceptions:
Recent Recent and Excavation in the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' World Heritage Site
Nick Card
Senior Projects Manager
Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology, Britain
Co-Sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America,The Hogue-Sponenburgh Lectureship Fund of the Department of Art and Art History, and the Lilly Project at Willamette University
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Roman Mosaics of Tunisia
Dr. Nejib ben Lazreg
Researcher with the Institute National du Patrimone in Tunisia
Curator of the Salakta Archaeological Museum, the Lamta Museum, and the Roman sites in the Sahel region of Tunisia (Lepti Minus, Thapsus, and Sullecthum)
Co-sponsor: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Nostalgia and Pride
The Collection of Alessandro Maggiori:
European Drawings from Renaissance to Neoclassicism
Dr. Ricardo de Mambro Santos
Department of Art and Art History, Willamette University
Co-sponsor: Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Thursday, April 15, 2010
The Reunion of Body and Soul: Sacred Sexuality and Resurrection in the Netherworld
Dr. Lanny Bell
Visiting Professor, Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Studies
Brown University
Co-sponsors: The Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Fifth Annual Oregon Undergraduate Conference in Classics
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Legacies of Stone: African Stone Sculptures
Dr. Bill Dewey
Professor of Art History
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Co-sponsors: The Hallie Ford Museum of Art and the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
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Fall 2010
October 12, 2010
Is Art Worth a Life? 
Hitler, War, and the Monuments Men
Robert Edsel
Founder and President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art
7:30 pm
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Performing Arts Center
Robert Edsel, director of the Monuments Men Foundation in Dallas, Texas and an award-winning author and producer, will deliver a multi-media lecture on the work of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) section of the Allied Armies and its officers during and after World War II on Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Hudson Hall in the Mary Stuart Rogers Performing Arts Center. The MFAA (Monuments) officers were a group of men and women from 13 nations who joined the military during World War II and helped rescue Europe’s artistic and cultural patrimony from the hands of the Nazis.
Edsel’s lecture, Is Art Worth a Life? Hitler, War, and the Monuments Men, traces the Nazi looting of Europe’s art treasures in the late 1930s and 1940s and the work of the Monuments officers to recover the looted art treasures during and after the World War II. Many of these Monuments officers would go on to become important cultural leaders in post World War II America, including James Rorimer, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet; and Kenneth Lindsay, professor of art history at SUNY, Binghamton, among others.
Robert Edsel is a former Texas oilman who has devoted the past 10 years of his life to gaining recognition for the Monuments officers and the important work they did during World War II to save Europe’s artistic and cultural patrimony. He is the author of two books, Rescuing Da Vinci and The Monuments Men; was the co-producer of The Rape of Europa, the Emmy award-winning PBS documentary; was publisher of Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, by Nancy H. Yeide; and was the recipient of the President’s Call to Service Award in 2008.
Financial support for Edsel’s lecture has been provided by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the College of Law Speakers Series, the College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Office, the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, and the Hogue-Sponenburgh Lectureship Fund of the Department of Art History at Willamette University. Additional support has been provided by the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission. Admission to the lecture is complimentary, and Edsel will be available to sign copies of his book after the lecture.
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October 14, 2010
Summer Archaeology Experiences of
Willamette University Senior Archaeology Students
Jessa Fowler '11 (Archaeology major)
Tell Qarqur Archaeological Field School, Syria
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz '11 (Archaeology and Environmental Science double major)
Cultural Resource Survey of Willamette's Zena Forest, West Salem, Oregon
Andrew Korzun '11 & Lea Stratton '11 (Archaeoogy majors)
Carpathian Ancient Resource and Technology Project, Piatra Tomii, Romania
Patrick Leary '11 (Archaeology major)
Maya Archaeology at Minanha, Belize
7:30pm
Willamette University, College of Law
Paulus Lecture Hall Room 201
Join us for an evening with five extraordinary senior Willamette University Archaeology majors as they take you on a tour that explores four different archaeological projects. Beyond looking at our own backdoor, you will get a taste of Syria, Romania and Belize as our young archaeologists share their summer experiences. Funding for their participation in these programs was provided by the Student Field School Grant through the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University and the Carson Family.
Co-sponsored by the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology.
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November 11, 2010
Picture This! Words as Art in the Ancient Greek World
(Lane C. McGaughy Lectureship in Ancient Studies)
Dr. Alexandra Pappas
University of Arkansas
Classics Department
7:30pm
Willamette University, Rogers Music Center, Hudson Hall
A brief skim of a campus newspaper, a cable television news channel, or even traffic signs show how dependent we are in our daily lives on visual modes of communication. A closer look shows how many of those instances combine words and images to create meaning for the modern viewer. While this makes sense for us as members of a highly literate society, it is rather surprising that the easy exchange between text and art holds true for the ancient Greek world as well. This talk focuses on the complex relationship between word and image, two modes of expression consciously woven together by ancient Greek painters, potters, and poets. It examines the role of scratched and painted words on decorated pots from around the time of Homer; it asks why the classical tragedian Euripides described letter shapes in detail in one of his plays; it considers a chorus of women who act out the Greek alphabet in a late-5th-century comedy; and it notes the 3rd-century invention of Greek pattern poetry, where the words of a poem create a shaped image on the page. These topics will guide us chronologically through the evolving relationship between ancient Greek art and text, two media that work closely together in fascinating ways to create meaning for their audience, ancient and modern.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology and the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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November 18, 2010
Technological Innovation in Imperial Rome:
What Can Ancient Concrete Tell Us About Roman Society?
(Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture)
Dr. Lynne Lancaster
Associate Professor
Department of Classics and World Religions
Ohio University
7:30 pm
Willamette University, College of Law
Paulus Lecture Hall Room 201
Dr. Lancaster will introduce how Roman and modern concrete are
different and then trace the role that the introduction of concrete had on the development of imperial architecture in Rome, starting with the Colosseum in 80 AD and ending with the Baths of Diocletian in 305 AD. She will look at particular building methods relating to concrete vaulting that were developed to allow the builders to construct larger and more complex structures. She will then relate these techniques to the social and economic context in which they occurred and explore how this changed over time. Topics will include brick stamps and the development of the brick industry and its effect on social mobility, the eruption of Vesuvius and its effect on the availability of building materials, the marble trade and its effect on aesthetic expectations within society, and the effect of economic problems of the third century on construction in Rome. This lecture is a synopsis of some of the major themes in her recently published book, Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome: Innovations in Context.
Co-sponsored by The Archaeological Institute of America Joukowsky Lecture
and the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University
ASL sign language interpretation is available upon request thanks to an AIA Outreach Grant
by calling 503-370-6654.
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Geoarchaeology and Climate Change in Southern Egypt
Dr. Kathleen Nicoll
Assistant Professor, Geography Department
Assistant Professor, Middle East Center
University of Utah
December 2, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Willamette University, College of Law
Paulus Lecture Hall , Room 201
No-Host Dinner:
6:00 p.m.
Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons
Today, Saharan North Africa is extremely arid—but there is abundant evidence that climate conditions were once much more hospitable, supporting some vegetation and a population of hunter-gatherers. Dr. Kathleen Nicoll joins us and reviews her findings from investigations across the desert, including geoarchaeological studies at several Middle Stone Age Sites, Neolithic settlements, and ancient lake and sand dune deposits. During the lecture, Nicoll will explore when this landscape dried up; what happened to the population; and how the shift in climate relates to the rise of the pharaohs along the Nile Valley.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology and the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
ASL sign language interpretation is available upon request thanks to an AIA Outreach Grant
by calling 503-370-6654.
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A New Look at the Letters of Paul
Dr. Lane McGaughy
Chair, Religious Studies, 1989-1992, 1997-2003
Chair, Classical Studies Program, 1998-2003
George H. Atkinson Professor Emeritus of Religious and Ethical Studies, 1981-2007
Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
3:00 p.m.
Willamette University, Hatfiled Library
Hatfield Room
Join us for tea, coffee and cookies.
Books will be for sale and a book
signing will follow the lecture.
Free and open to the public.
Dr. Lane McGaughy and three Jesus Seminar colleagues, Arthur Dewey (Xavier), Roy Hoover (Whitman), and Daryl Schmidt (Texas Christian), have just published a new translation of Paul's letters with introductions, notes, and cameo essays. The book is entitled "The Authentic Letters of Paul: A New Reading of Paul's Rhetoric and Meaning" (Polebridge Press, 2010). It provides a fresh translation of Paul's letters from the original Greek, distinguishes Paul's seven authentic letters from pseudonymous ones, removes scribal interpolations, separates the composite letters into their various fragments, and arranges Paul's letters in chronological order. The aim of the Scholars Version translation is to portray the "new" Paul of recent American scholarship and to provide a fresh translation to aid in the search for the historical Paul.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, Polebridge Press and the Willamette University Bookstore.
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