AIA NY Society Lecture Schedule 2004-2005
For membership information contact NY Society Secretary Whitney Keen at wkeen@inksite.com
or the AIA's national office at membership@aia.bu.edu
Some but not all of these lectures are open to the public.
* Indicates lectures open to the public: Oct. 14, Nov. 1, 2004, Feb. 1 and March 2005
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Thursday, October 14 *
Ellen Sparry Brush Lecture: Patricia McAnany, Boston University "Ancient Maya Chocolate Farmers in the Sibun Valley, Belize,"
Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, 6:30 pm (annual business meeting at 6:00)
Reception following the lecture.


Monday, November 1 *
Ira Haupt, II Lecture: William Murray, University of South Florida, "The Search for the Battle of Actium,"
Alexander Onassis Foundation Cultural Center, 645 Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street, 6:30 pm
Reception following the lecture.


Saturday and Sunday, December 11 and 12:
Susanne Ebbinghaus, University of Toronto, "Exotic Gifts for a Greek Goddess,"
co-sponsored with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 11 am (Saturday) and 1 pm (Sunday)
(for AIA and MMA members with invitations)


Saturday and Sunday, January 22 and 23:
Stephen P. Harvey, The Oriental Institute, Chicago, "Royal Women at Abydos: New Evidence for the Origins of Dynasty 18,"
co-sponsored with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 11 am (Saturday) and 1 pm (Sunday)
(for AIA and MMA members with invitations)


Tuesday, February 1 *
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lecture, Lisa Fentress, University College, London, "Excavations at Volubilis and the Islamization of the Berbers,"
Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, 6:00 pm
Reception following the lecture
RSVP to 212-992-5803 or ifa.events@nyu.edu


March (date TBA) *
Louis Blumengarten Lecture in Urban Archaeology: Joan Geismar, "Is it Trash or is it Treasure?"
date and venue TBA


March -April 2005
"Jews in the Greek and Roman Worlds," a 3-part lecture series
March 31, Eric Meyers, Duke University
April 7, Doug Edwards, University of Puget Sound
April 14, Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
There will be a charge for attending this lecture.


Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15
Jeffrey Quilter, Dumbarton Oaks, "Life, Death, and Sacrifice at El Brujo: 4000 Years of Prehistory on Peru's North Coast,"
co-sponsored with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 11 am (Saturday) and 1 pm (Sunday)
(for AIA and MMA members with invitations)

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