Archived Events
AIA - Stanford Society
"Broken Pots, Sizzling Metal, and Millipedes: the Discarded Meals of the Roman Empire"
Prof. Andrew Donnelly
Texas Tech University
April 24, 2026
"Cairns to Caryatids: Sanctuaries at Territorial Borders in the Ancient Greek Peloponnese"
Dr. Shannon Dunn
Bryn Mawr College
February 27, 2026
"Making the Ice Age Virtual and Accessible: Using VR and Underwater Robotics to Teach Archaeology"
Prof. Ashley Lemke
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
February 6, 2026
Coppery Cookery: The Consumption, Maintenance, and Use of Bronze Vessels in the Pompeian Kitchen
Dr. Aaron Brown
Stanford University
December 5, 2025
Water and the City of Rome: The Tiber
Laura Linkletter Rich
Stanford AIA Society
November 7, 2025
Heirlooms, Amulets, Tools or Trash?:
Life Cycles of Objects Curated in the Ancient Mediterranean
Dr. Amanda Reiterman
University of California, Santa Cruz
October 17, 2025
Cleopatra at War: The Battle of Actium and One Woman's Impact on History
Prof. Barry Strauss
Cornell University
May 10, 2025
The Past in Peril: Documenting Vanishing Prehistoric Sites in the Caribbean Threatened Environmental Transformation
Prof. Marco Meniketti
San Jose State University
April 4, 2025
Tales From the Mediterranean Sea: Reminiscences of a Maritime Archaeologist
Prof. Robert Hohlfelder
Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado Boulder
February 28, 2025
"The Archaeology of Chocolate"
Professor Rosemary Joyce
UC Berkeley
December 13, 2024
Excavations on Lindisfarne, Northumberland, 2016-present
Dr. Christina Ward
Durham University
NOV 8, 2024
Coffee, Coconuts and Chinese Porcelain: Shipwrecked in the Red Sea
Professor Cheryl Ward
Director of the Center for Archaeology and Anthropology, and Associate Professor and Marine Archaeologist with Coastal Carolina University’s Department of History
Oct 18, 2024
Raubitschek Memorial Lecture:
Fields of Precarity and the Anthropocene Event: A Long-Term Historical Ecology of Land Use in Southern India
Professor Andrew Bauer
Interim Director, Stanford Archaeology Center
May 10, 2024
Patagonian Archaeology
Professor Emeritus James Kus
La Catolica University of Peru
April 26, 2024
Flavian Monuments of the Jewish War
Prof. Honora Chapman
Cal State Fresno
February 23, 2024
Augustus’ Family and Friends and Forgiven Foes on the Ara Pacis
Dr. Gaius Stern
retired from UC Berkeley
Jan 26, 2024
Athena Parthenos & Zeus Olympios: How Pheidias Created a World Wonder
Dr. Kenneth Lapatin
Curator of Antiquities,
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Dec 1, 2023
Horti Romani: The Ancient Gardens of Rome...A Topographical Palimpsest
Laura Linkletter Rich
VP of Outreach and Education, AIA
Nov 10, 2023
Coin Production And 'Monetary Policy' Of The Roman Imperial Period
Prof. Benjamin Hellings
Associate Curator of Numismatics at the Yale University Art Gallery
Oct 27, 2023
What Happened in History: 81 Years on from Gordon Childe
Prof. Ian Morris
Stanford University
May 19, 2023
The Life of a Tomb: the Excavation of the Mycenaean Cemetery at Ayia Sotira, Nemea, Greece
Prof. Angus Smith
Brock University
April 14, 2023
Cultural Heritage Protection in War: What is Possible”
Dr. Brian Daniels
Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
February 24, 2023
A Foot in Both Camps: The Extraordinary Assemblage of Archaeological Shoes from Vindolanda Roman Fort"
Professor Elizabeth Greene
Western University, Ontario
January 20, 2023
Lapis Lazuli: From Gods' Eyes to Empyrean Skies and Celestial Robes Through 8000 Years"
Dr. Patrick Hunt
November 4, 2022
Indiana Jones and the Missing Spanish Church"
Dr. Ben Thomas
Director of Programs, AIA
October 7, 2022
"AIA Joukowsky Distinguished Lecture: Framing Victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis, and the Agora"
Prof. John Papadopoulos
University of California, Los Angeles
May 20, 2022
"AIA Joukowsky Distinguished Lecture: The Lost Valley Of The Crescent Moon: 30 Years Of Research In Petra, Jordan"
Prof. Tom Paradise
University of Arkansas
April 29, 2022
"Sensing The Past:
Sensory Experiences In Ancient Mesopotamia (A 4-D Presentation) "
Prof. Allison Karmel Thomason
Southern Illinois University
February 25, 2022
"Where Did It Go? Understanding the Destruction of Ancient Rome"
Laura Linkletter Rich
AIA Vice President of Outreach & Education
January 28, 2022
"Gallula Roma Arelas: Arles, the little Rome of the Gauls"
Dr. Romy Wyche
Director (Directice) of the Arles Roman Museum (Musée Départemental Arles Antique)
December 3, 2021
"In Search of the Decorator: Evidence produced by the Decorative Bands found in Roman Wall Decoration"
Zoe Schofield
Director, Touchstone Archaeology Ltd
November 20, 2021
"In the footsteps of Ernesto Schiaparelli. The Museo Egizio’s current research at Deir El-Medina"
Dr. Cedric Gobeil
Curator of New Kingdom Material Collection from Deir el-Medineh, Egyptian Museum, Turin (Museo Egizio Torino)
Oct 29 , 2021
"History of the
Roman Forum"
Laura Linkletter Rich
AIA Vice President of Outreach & Education
March 19, 2021
"Black Sea MAP: Deep Water Archaeology and the Western Black Sea"
Dr. Dragomir Garbov
Maritime Archaeologist(BA, MA, PhD, M. ICOMOS-ICUCH, Cert IV Hyperbaric Ops SCUBA and SSBA)
February 20, 2021
"The Villa dei Papyri: The Patrician, the King, the Engineer and the Oil Tycoon"
Michael L. Boyd
VP, AIA-Stanford Society
January 22, 2021
"Fall of Civilizations: Famine & Climate Change"
Dr. Patrick Hunt
Stanford University
December 4, 2020
"My 40 Year Search for the Battle of Actium"
Professor William M. Murray
University of South Florida
November 6, 2020
"Re-Excavating Yassıada: New Light on an Early Byzantine Shipwreck"
Professor Justin Leidwanger
Stanford University
October 23, 2020
"From Kitty Litter to Granite: The Archaeology of Nuclear Waste"
Professor Rosemary Joyce
UC Berkeley Anthropology & Hearst Museum
February 2, 2020
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Alexander von Humboldt, Pioneer of Biogeography and Darwin’s Scientific Guide: Why Archaeology Followed
"
Dr. Patrick Hunt
Stanford University of Louisville
December 6, 2019
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"The Changing Face of Rome: The Rise and Fall of the City's Topography
"
Laura Linkletter Rich
AIA General Trustee
November 22, 2019
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Mysteries of the Delphic Oracle
"
Professor Claire Heckel
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
October 28, 2019
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
""Mysteries of the Delphic Oracle"
"
Professor John Hale
University of Louisville
April 26, 2019
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Mapping the Periplus Maris Erythraei: Indian Ocean Trade in the Early Common Era"
Prof. Sanjyot Mehendale
University of California, Berkeley
April 5, 2019
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Funerary Practices and Ancestor Commemoration in the Bronze Age Levant"
Dr. Melissa Cradic
University of California, Berkeley
March 8, 2019
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Digital Storytelling in Archaeology"
Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni
University of Central Florida
February 8, 2019
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Ancient Caere: Excavation
of an Etruscan City in Central Italy"
Laura Linkletter Rich
December 7, 2018
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Unpacking the Mummy-Pack: New Insights into the Field Museum of Natural History’s Archaeological Collection from Ancón, Peru"
Dr. Nicole Slovak
Santa Rosa Junior College
November 2, 2018
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"King Richard III: The Resolution of a 500 Year Old Cold Case"
Professor Turi King
University of Leicester
AIA Joukowsky Lecturer
October 12, 2018
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"New Inca Discoveries"
Professor James Kus
Cal State University Fresno
May 4, 2018
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Throne of Caesar":
a novel of Julius Caesar's assassination"
Steven Saylor, author
April 6, 2018
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Archaeological Expedition to Sinop, Turkey: Exploring the Origins of Trade at the Nexus of Eurasian Civilizations"
Owen Doonan
Cal State University Northridge
March 2, 2018
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Theran Volcanics and Minoan Culture"
Prof. Floyd McCoy,
University of Hawaii
February 9, 2018
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Julian Basilica: Imperial Presence in Ancient Corinth"
Prof. Paul Scotton,
Cal State University Long Beach
December 1, 2017
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"The Musician's Life: Interpreting the Pitsa Cave Sacrifice Painting"
Nikolaos Xanthoulis
Greek National Opera and
Academy of Athens
Greek National Opera and
Academy of Athens
November 3, 2017
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"An Egyptian Tomb, An Etruscan Inscription and the Funerary Monument of an American Civil War Hero"
Dr. Lisa Pieraccini,
University of California, Berkeley
May 12, 2017
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Viking Ships of Oseberg and Gokstad"
Dr. Patrick Hunt,
Stanford University
March 31, 2017
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Exploring the Roots of the Vine: The History and Archaeology of the Earliest Wines"
Dr. Stephen Batiuk,
University of Toronto
February 3, 2017
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Roman Aosta: Monuments and Epigraphy"
Professor Carolynn Roncaglia,
Santa Clara University
December 2, 2016
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"The Ark Before Noah"
Dr. Irving Finkel,
British Museum
AIA Norton Lecturer
November 11, 2016
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Five Thousand Years of Iranian Engineering"
Dr. Farzin Rezaeian
Co-sponsored by
Stanford's Persian Student Association
Bishop Auditorium, Lathrop Library
Stanford University
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"The Volunteer Archaeologist"
Laura Linkletter Rich
March 11, 2016
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Genetics, History and Prehistory:
What our Biological Selves can tell us about the Past"
Dr. Matthew Jobin,
Santa Clara University
February 12, 2016
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"Binchester Excavation Update 2015"
Michael Boyd
November 20, 2015
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
"The Hanging Gardens of Babylon"
Dr. Stephanie Dalley
Oxford University
October 23, 2015
Stanford University,
Packard Bldg., Room 101
The Marzamemi 'Church Wreck" in the Shrinking World of the Late Antique Mediterranean
Professor Justin Leidwanger,
Stanford University
My 8, 2015
Stanford University
The Stelida Naxos Archaeological Project: Early Humans in the Aegean
Professor Tristan Carter
McMaster University, Canada
April 17, 2015
Stanford University
The Rich,
Athenian Lady
Was Pregnant
Professor Maria Liston,
University of Waterloo, Canada
March 6, 2015
Stanford University
Mummy Portraits and Shrouds: Images of the Dead from Roman Egypt
Professor Lissette Jimenez,
University of California, Berkeley
February 13, 2015
Stanford University
Prehistory and Protohistory in Nemea and Southern Corinthia
Professor Kim Shelton,
University of California, Berkeley
December 5, 2014
Stanford University
Blood and Power:
Arena Spectacle and the Roman Empire
Professor Alison Futrell, University of Arizona
November 7, 2014
Stanford University
AIA National
Archaeology Day:
Tours at the Stanford Museum-Cantor Center
Dr. Patrick Hunt,
Stanford University
October 18, 2014
Stanford University, Cantor Museum
Egyptian & African Collection: 11am - noon
Classical Greece and Rome: 1pm-2pm
China Collection: 2pm-3pm
Hannibal in Gaul: The Story and the Evidence
Geoffroy de Galbert
Institute for Alpine Archaeology and History
May 2, 2014
Stanford University, Packard Building
Uncorking the Past:
The Quest for Wine, Beer and Extreme Fermented Beverages
Dr. Patrick McGovern,
University of Pennsylvania
April 25, 2014
Stanford University, Packard Building
Vinovium: A Roman Fort and Vicus Rediscovered in Northern
Britannia
Michael L Boyd,
Field Supervisor,
Binchester Project
Friday, March 7, 2014
Stanford University, Lane History Corner
From Wanax to Basileis: the Transformation of Greece
from 1200 to 700 BCE
Professor Irene Lemos
Oxford University,
School of Archaeology
Friday, February 28, 2014
Stanford University, Meyer Library
A Century of Stanford Archaeology
Dr. Laura Jones
Stanford Campus Archaeologist
Friday, November 15, 2013
Stanford University, Meyer Library
Roman Green: Ancient Roman Gardens and the Green Ideal
Jashemski National Lecture
Dr. Annette Giesecke
University of Delaware
Friday, October 25, 2013
Stanford University, Meyer Library
Cyrus and Pasargadae, the Cyrus Cylinder and Other Achaemenid Matters
Prof. David Stronach
Emeritus Professor of
Near Eastern Archaeology,
University of California, Berkeley
Friday, October 11, 2013
Stanford University
ORBIS: Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
Annual Antony
and Isabelle Raubitschek Memorial Lecture
Prof. Walter Scheidel
Chair of Classics, Stanford University
Friday, October 11, 2013
Stanford University, Meyer Library
Florentia: Ancient Florence and its Importance in 16th-century Antiquarian Scholarship and Cultural Politics
Dr. Andrea Galdy
Former Fellow of
Harvard's Villa I Tatti
Friday, April 12, 2013
Stanford University, Meyer Library
The Chemistry of Kinship: Daidalos and Kothar Revisited
Dr. Andrew Koh
Brandeis University
Friday, March 8, 2013
Stanford University, Meyer Library
New Directions in Alpine Archaeological Research:
Lichenometry and Relative Dating
Dr. Patrick Hunt
Director, Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project
1994-2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Stanford University, Meyer Library
What's New at Machu Picchu
Professor James Kus
Emeritus Professor of Geography with the California State University at Fresno
Friday, November 9, 2012
Stanford University, Meyer Library
The Ever Elusive Etruscan Egg
Annual Antony
and Isabelle Raubitschek Memorial Lecture
Professor Lisa Pieraccini
University of California, Berkeley
Friday, May 18, 2012
Stanford University, Meyer Library
Go Spartans: Girls' Athletics in Ancient Greece
Professor Jenifer Neils
Case Western Reserve University
Friday, April 13, 2012
Stanford University, Meyer Library
More Perfect than Rome: the Art of Appropriation in Byzantine
Venice
Professor Elizabeth Carroll Consavari
Stanford University
Friday, March 9, 2012
Stanford University, Meyer Library
Camel: Broadening the Digital Landscape of the Middle East
Dr. Joshua Trampier
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Friday, February 10, 2012
Stanford University, Meyer Library