Past Events and Lectures

February 27, 2008
Lecture presented by Dr. Douglas J. Bolender, IEMA Post-doctoral Fellow: Unsettled Landscapes: Viking Age Settlement Patterns and the Development of Social Inequality in Northern Iceland. MFAC 355 on February 27, 6-7 p.m.

January 22, 2008
Lecture presented by Dr. Tristan Carter, Dept. of Anthropology, McMaster University: From Çatalhöyük to Knossos and from Knossos to Kaneš: Relations between Central Anatolia and Crete in the 8th and 2nd millennium BC. MFAC 355, 5.30 - 6:30 pm.

October 30, 2007
Lecture presented by the Western New York Chapter of the AIA, with IEMA co-sponorship: Dr. James Russel, former AIA president, entitled 'Chasing a Roman Soldier' in the Classics Department Goetz Library (Filmore 320). Everyone is invited to attend.

October 8, 2007
Lecture presented by Dr. Krish Seetah, McDonald Institute of Archaeology, Cambridge University: The Exploitation of Animals at the Heart of the Serenissima and Beyond: Venetian Colonial Expansion in the Medieval Mediterranean. Co-sponsored with the AGSA (Anthropology Graduate Student Association). MFAC 355, 4-5 pm.

March 29-30, 2007
Lecture and seminar with Dr. Bettina Arnold, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Arnold is Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, Co-Director of the Center for Celtic Studies and editor of the Center's on-line journal, e-Keltoi. Co-Sponsored with the AGSA (Anthropology Graduate Student Association).

February 21, 2007
The Western New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, with IEMA co-sponorship, will be hosting a lecture by Dr. William Murray of the University of South Florida on at 5:00 p.m. in MFAC 320. His presentation is entitled "The Search for the Battle of Actium". Professor Murray is an expert not only on the Battle of Actium (31 BC), and is responsible for the first major study of Augustus' victory monument there, but in the subject of naval warfare.

February 7, 2007
Tacitus (Germania 46) and the Bone Arrowheads of the Miserable Fenni IEMA-sponsored lecture by Dr. Janne Ikäheimo of the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Helsinki.