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The Archaeological Institute of America
Western Illinois Society
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2018-2019
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Monday, September 10, 2018 through Wednesday, Octover 10, 2018
In Display Case just off Mellinger Commons on first floor of the Center
for Science and Business, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
“The Western Illinois Archaeological Research Center Collection and How
It Came to Be" (flyer)
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
“Searching for Pirates: The Rough
Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project”
Nicholas K Rauh, Professor of Classics, Purdue University
(rauhn@purdue.edu)
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
“Prostitution Ancient and
Modern, A Tell-All Confession”
Nicholas K Rauh, Professor of Classics, Purdue University
(rauhn@purdue.edu)
Saturday, October 20, 2018
https://www.archaeological.org/archaeologyday/about
1:00-4:00 P.M. Knox College
Monday, October 23, 2018, through November 30, 2018
In Display Case just off Mellinger Commons on first floor of the Center
for Science and Business, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois
Thursday, November 1, 2018
“The Significance of Images in the
Reign of Nerva, 96-98 CE” (Sienkewicz Lecture on Roman Archaeology)
Nathan Elkins, Associate Professor of Art History, Baylor University
(Nathan_Elkins@baylor.edu)
7:30 P.M., Pattee Auditorium, Center for Science and Business, Monmouth
College, Monmouth, Illinois
Thursday, January 31, 2019
“The Gender Performativity of Ptolemaic
Queens: Evidence from the Faience Oinochoai” (flyer)
7:30 PM, Pattee Auditorium, Center for Science and Business 100,
Monmouth College.
February 28, 2019
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019 Tuesday, April 23. 2019
Monday, September 10, 2018, through
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
“Highlights
of the Western Illinois Archaeological Research Center Collection”
In Display Case just off Mellinger Commons on first floor of the Center
for Science and Business, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois
This display
presents a wide variety of artifacts from the Western Illinois
Archaeological Research Center Collection, illustrating 13,000 years of
prehistoric culture in the region.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
“The
Western Illinois Archaeological Research Center Collection and How
It Came to Be”
The Western
Illinois Archaeological Research Center Collection maintained in Macomb,
Illinois, by the Upper Mississippi Valley Archaeological Research
Foundation includes a wide-ranging collection of prehistoric artifacts
from western Illinois. In this talk, the curator of the collection
discusses its history, traces the chronology of artifacts in the
collection, and provides information on their provenance. A gallery talk
will follow the lecture.
“Searching for Pirates: The Rough
Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project”
Nicholas K Rauh, Professor of Classics, Purdue University
(rauhn@purdue.edu)
Few
phenomena of the Hellenistic Mediterranean world enjoyed as much
notoriety, yet exhibit as little clarity for modern observers as the
Cilician pirates, who flourished in the eastern Mediterranean between
139 and 67 BC. For more than 70 years, the pirates waged economic war
with neighboring Hellenistic realms and most particularly with the
forces of the Roman Republic and its far-flung provincial empire. To
assess the material remains of these “pirates,” Professor Rauh conducted
the Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project, a systematic surface
survey of some 60-km. coastal strip of western Rough Cilicia. Professor
Rauh will present the results of 13 seasons of field work as well as the
emerging evidence for pirate enclaves in the region.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
“Prostitution Ancient and
Modern, A Tell-All Confession”
Nicholas K Rauh, Professor of Classics, Purdue University
(rauhn@purdue.edu)
The author
of The Sacred Bonds of Commerce: Religion, Trade, and Society at
Hellenistic-Roman Delos, and Merchants, Sailors, and Pirates in the
Roman World, Dr. Rauh is both an ancient historian and an archaeologist
whose research focuses primarily on the material culture of the Roman
Maritime World. In this presentation Rauh focuses on the available
archaeological evidence for venues of prostitution in ancient trading
ports such as Delos and the limitations of modern scholarly modes of
analysis for investigating these. He combines this material with
personal observations obtained from his own experiences in Turkish
police stations and tourist hotels in Antalya and Alanya Turkey.
Ultimately, the presentation questions whether or not standard scholarly
methods are adequate to the task of analyzing cultural behavior as
commonplace, yet, as
Saturday, October 20, 2018
https://www.archaeological.org/archaeologyday/about
1:00-4:00 P.M. Knox College
Monday, October 23, 2018, through November 30, 2018
In Display Case just off Mellinger Commons on first floor of the Center
for Science and Business, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois
This display of Imperial Roman coinage from the collection of Dr.
William L. Urban, Lee L. Morgan Professor of History and International
Studies Professor Emeritus, provides a glimpse into the political and
social goals of the emperors. Portraits were stylized—almost exclusively
profiles—and tell us little beyond the age of the emperors. The versos,
however, tell us what the emperors want the populace to know: peace,
prosperity, justice. The coins meant for the army emphasize victory,
“happy days are here again,” and pride.
Thursday, November 1, 2018
“The Significance of Images in the
Reign of Nerva, 96-98 CE” (Sienkewicz Lecture on Roman Archaeology)
Nathan Elkins, Associate Professor of Art History, Baylor University
(Nathan_Elkins@baylor.edu)
7:30 P.M., Pattee Auditorium, Center for Science and Business, Monmouth
College, Monmouth, Illinois
History
remembers Nerva, who ruled from AD 96 to 98, as the emperor who adopted
the popular general, Trajan, as his heir. Nerva’s adoption of Trajan
added stability to his own principate, as he was unpopular with the
army. Nerva’s principate left little in the way of public building and
monumental art in view of his short reign and thus there is little to
assess the “self-representation” of Nerva’s regime. The most complete
record of state-sanctioned art from Nerva’s reign is, however, the
imperial coinage. But the coinage has been studied with the biases of
later historical sources in mind and is commonly characterized as
“hopeful” or “apologetic.” State-sanctioned art did not operate this
way; it always presented the emperor in a positive light. A
reinterpretation of Nerva’s imperial coinage is thus in order and
informs our understanding of political ideals and messages disseminated
during his reign. Close study of the imagery on Nerva’s coinage suggests
that those who formulated the iconography in the mint walked in the same
circles as prominent senators and equestrians who associated with the
emperor and who participated in the culture of adulation. The study thus
illuminates issues surrounding the selection and formulation of Roman
coin iconography and its relationship to political rhetoric. Thursday,
January 31, 2019
February 27 or 28, 2019|
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Wednesday, March 27, 2019|
Thursday, April 18, 2019 Tuesday, April 23. 2019
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