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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
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsors: AIA Salem Oregon Chapter, 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
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsors: AIA Salem Oregon Chapter
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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, Oregony
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsor: AIA Salem Oregon Chapter
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
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsor: AIA Salem Oregon Chapter
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
Lecture: The Roger P. Hull Lecture Hall
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsor: AIA Salem Oregon Chapter, 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
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsor: AIA Salem Oregon Chapter
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Piranesi's Views of Rome
Ms. Marnie P. Stark
Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings
Portland Art Musuem
Lecture: Roger P. Hull Lecture Hall
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Salem, Oregon, 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsor: AIA Salem Oregon Chapter 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
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsor: AIA Salem Oregon Chapter
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Grand Opening of the Centers for Academic Excellence
Hallie Ford Museum of Art (5:00 pm - 8:00 pm )
Please join us for an evening of celebration as President Pelton introduces Willamette University's Centers for Academic Excellence: the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology (directed by Lane McGuaghy), the Center for Asian Studies (directed by Juwen Zhang), the Center for the Study of Religion, Law and Democracy (directed by Steve Green), and the Center for Sustainable Communities (directed by Joe Bowersox). These four centers join the preexisting Public Policy and Research Center (directed by Fred Thompson). The directors will give an overview of each of the Centers and be available to answer questions. The Centers are designed to promote cross-disciplinary interaction as well as provide increased opportunities for faculty development, research and scholarship, and provide undergraduates and graduates with opportunities to develop specialized projects in a variety of academic fields. Each center also hosts conferences, colloquia and symposia as well as bring visiting scholars, speakers and practitioners to our campus community. Campus administrators and faculty feel the creation of these centers, rare for a small independent university with a liberal arts focus, will establish Willamette as a place of distinction.
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Fall 2008
Sept 18, 2008
"Beer Brewing Techniques in the Ancient Near East"
Presenter: Kathleen Mineck, University of Chicago
7:30 PM
October 16, 2008
HFMA: "Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon"
Presenter: Rebbeca Dobkins, Willamette University
7 PM
October 23, 2008
"Cyrene: a World Heritage site in the 21st century"
Presenter: Susan Kane, Oberlin College
Dinner Location: Wilson Room, Goudy Commons
Lecture Location: Tokyo International University of America, Kaneko Commons
7:30 PM
October 30, 2008
Norton Lecture: End of an Empire: "Archaeology and the Collapse of Urartu"
Paul Zimansky, State University of New York, Stony Brook
7:30 PM
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Spring 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Please note the change of date. This was previously listed as Thursday, March 5, 2009
The Social Archaeology of Bronze Age China
7:30 PM
Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen,
Departments of Art History and Archaeology,
University of California, Los Angeles
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsor:
The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University,
The Archaeological Institute of America - Salem Chapter
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Eastern Approaches to Ancient Greek Musicikings and Death: Concepts of the Afterlife and Burial Monuments in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
7:30 PM
Professor John Franklin
Department of Classics
University of Vermont
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsors:
The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology
and the Classics Program at Willamette University,
The Archaeological Institute of America - Salem Chapter
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Illuminating Art: The Study of Ancient Lamps
7:30 PM
Dr. Lisa R. Brody
Associate Curator of Ancient Art
Yale University Art Gallery
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsors:
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art,
The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University,
The Archaeological Institute of America - Salem Chapter
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Four Thousand Years of Andean Gold
7:30 PM
Please note our change of speaker.
Dr. Mark Aldenderfer
Professor of Anthropology
University of Arizona
No-Host Dinner: Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.
Lecture: Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsor:
The Archaeological Institute of America - Salem Chapter,
The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University
Symposium on Epic, Biography, and the Gospels
Wednesday April 29 & Thursday April 30
The Willamette University Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology and the Department of Religious Studies will hold 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. The symposium will open with a plenary lecture by Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald on Wednesdsay, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Paulus Lecture Hall, Room 201, in the Collins Legal Center. MacDonald’s presentation is entitled, “What Kind of Book is a Gospel? What Kind of Question is That?” On Thursday, April 30 from 9:00-11:15 AM in the Montag Den a panel of scholars from the Northwest will respond to Dr. MacDonald’s lecture and offer their views on the genre of the Gospels. The symposium will conclude with a presentation by Dr. Lane C. McGaughy at 11:30 a.m. in the Montag Den on the topic, ”Framing Jesus: The Mythic Structure of Ancient Lives and its Influence on the Gospels.”
Dr. MacDonald has an A.B. from Bob Jones University, an M.Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver from 1980-88. Since 1998 he has been the John Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Claremont School of Theology in southern California and currently serves as the Acting Dean. Dr. MacDonald has published numerous books and articles pointing out the parallels between the Gospels and the Homeric epics. His publications include Christianizing Homer: The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew (1994), The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark (2000), Mimesis and Intertextuality in Antiquity and Christianity (2001), Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? (2003), and Acts of Andrew: Early Christian Apocrypha (2005).
This symposium offers a focused assessment of Dr. MacDonald’s innovative theories about the composition of the Gospels and launches a planned series of symposia on controversial issues in ancient studies sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology. The WU Department of Religious Studies is also using this occasion to celebrate the recent retirement of Lane McGaughy, the first holder of the Atkinson Chair of Religious and Ethical Studies. Dr. McGaughy will present a synopsis of articles he has published over the years on the relationship of the Gospels to the ancient biographical tradition.
Symposium Schedule
"What Kind of Book is a Gospel? What Kind of Question is That?"
Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald
John Wesley Professor of New Testament & Christian Origins &
Dean at Clarement School of Theology
Wednesday April 29 | Paulus Lecture Hall, Room 201, Collins Legal Center | 7:30 p.m.
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.
Thursday, April 30 | 9:00-11:15 a.m. | Montag Den
"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
Thursday, April 30 | 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.| Montag Den
All the events of the symposium are free and open to the public.
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Please visit the Salem Chapter AIA website for the co-sponsored event list.