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Penn Museum Archaeology Lecture Series Fall 2009By STAN PARCHIN
August 20, 2009
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| Roots Engulfing Ruins at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Photograph courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. |
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| Camel Caravan on the Plain of Rayy, Iran (1934). Photograph courtesy University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Archaeology. |
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia is offering five lectures on ancient art in Fall 2009. Visit its website or call (215) 898-4890 for the most current information on these programs. The first presentation requires reservations.
Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Cultural PropertyMonday, November 2, 2009 at 5:00 PM
James Cuno, President and Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, brings his popular lecture on museums and the ownership of artifacts in the 21st Century to Penn Museum. Admission: pay-what-you-like. Reservations requested.
Angkor!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Joyce C. White, Associate Curator of Penn Museum's Asian Section, discusses the fascinating art, architecture and daily life of Angkor, the ancient Cambodian kingdom long-forgotten and discovered by 19th-century European explorers. A light reception and gallery tour follows. $5 in advance; $10 at the door; free for Penn Museum members.
No Armchair Archaeologists Allowed: Travails of Travel on Early Penn Museum Expeditions
Thursday, November 11, 2009 at 6:00 PM
With period photographs and amusing anecdotes, staff archivist Alessandro Pezzati recreates Penn Museum's early field expeditions and the difficulties of travel over land and water, through jungle and across glacier. Highlights include Mesopotamia in the 1890s, the Amazon in the 1910s, by air in Iran and the Yucatan in the 1930s and underwater exploration in the 1960s. Admission: pay-what-you-like. A reception follows for members of the 1887 (10 years of consecutive giving) and Sarah Yorke Stevenson (Planned Gift) Societies.
Pompeii A.D. 79: The Treasury of Rediscovery
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Dr. C. Brian Rose, Penn Museum's Deputy Director and Curator-in-Charge of its Mediterranean Section, brings to life the thriving culture of the 1st-century A.D. Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum on the eve of Mount Vesuvius' fateful two-day volcanic eruption in August 79 A.D. President of the Archaeological Institute of America, Rose also describes the lives of the sites' 18th-century excavators. A light reception and related gallery tour follow the presentation. $5 in advance; $10 at the door; free for Penn Museum members.
Douglas G. Lovell, Jr. Annual "Reports from the Field"
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Simon Martin, Penn Museum's Associate Curator of its American Section, presents his latest research on the hieroglyphs of Calakmul, Mexico and the Classic Maya who lived there. Dr. Lauren Ristvet, Dyson Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, discusses her excavations in Azerbaijan (the first American excavations in that country) at the ancient fortress site of Oglanqala, inhabited between 1200 and 200 BCE. Ristvet's team is uncovering fortresses, cemeteries and nomadic settlements that document life on the edge of several ancient empires. Admission: pay-what-you-like. Reception follows: $35; $25 Penn Museum members.