Archaeological Institute of America - The St. Louis Society
Great lectures given in past years

2007 - 2008 Lecture Schedule - Funded by the Arthur and Helen Baer Foundation

Sept. 7 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Rescue on the Euphrates: results of the Roman frontier city of Zeugma by Prof. William Aylward, Dept. of Classics, University of Wisconsin - Madison. University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Oct. 5 - Fri.. 7 PM
Bet She'an: A Greco-Roman city of the Decapolis by Prof. Gabriel Mazor, Senior research member with the Israel Department of Antiquities and Director of the Bet Shean Archaeological Project. Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Nov. 2 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Roman Arena and Crowd Dynamics: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? by Prof. Garrett Fagan, Pennsylvania State University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Dec. 7 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Jerusalem of the Crusaders by Prof. Dan Bahat, Bar Ilan University and formerly district archaeologist of Jerusalem for the Ministry of Culture and Education. Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Dec. 9 - Sunday. 2:00 PM
New Discoveries in Jerusalem; City of David, Pool of Sholoach, the piazza at the Western Wall and More by Prof. Dan Bahat, Bar Ilan University and formerly district archaeologist of Jerusalem for the Ministry of Culture and Education. Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Jan. 20 - Sun. 3:00 PM
A monumental cargo: the Roman column wreck at Kizilburun, Turkey by Prof. Deborah Carlson, Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A & M
20th Annual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecturer
Co-Sponsored with the Dept. of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University. Lecture held at Steinberg Hall auditorium located at Skinker & Forsyth Blvd.

Feb. 1 - Friday 7:00 PM
Dead men do tell tales: the Yasmina Cemetery at Carthage by Prof. Naomi J. Norman, University of Georgia and editor of the American Journal of Archaeology. Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park.

Feb. 16 - Sat. 10:00 AM until noon
New Discoveries in the Republic of Macedonia. by Prof. Michael J. Fuller, St. Louis Community College - Meramec. and Iron Age political geography in the western Ukrainian steppes. by Nicholas Efremov-Kendall, Dept. of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Community College - Meramec. South County campus multipurpose room, 4115 Meramec Bottom Road at Lemay Ferry Road, Melville/Oakville.

March 2 - Sunday 2:00 PM
Treasures from the realm of the Queen of Sheba by Prof. Robert S. Bianchi, Independent Scholar.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

April 3 - Thursday 7:00 PM
The Koster Site (Illinois River Valley): a 21st century Perspetive. by Prof. Jane E. Buikstra, Director of the center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Community College - Meramec. South County campus multipurpose room, 4115 Meramec Bottom Road at Lemay Ferry Road, Melville/Oakville.

April 4 - Friday 7:00 PM
Tombs of the Mayan Ancestors: Adding the Bioarchaeological Dimension by Prof. Jane E. Buikstra, Director of the center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

May 2 - Friday 7:00 PM
Reunion of Body and Soul: Sexuality and Resurrection in the Egyptian Netherworld by Prof. Lanny Bell, Dept. of Egyptology at Brown University.
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

2006 - 2007 Lecture Schedule - Funded by the Arthur and Helen Baer Foundation

Oct. 25- Wed. 7:00 PM
Santorini an d Atlantis: Discoveries in the Pompeii of Greece by Prof. Christos G. Doumas, University of Athens.
Co-Sponsored by the Karakas Family Foundation for the Advancement of Hellenic Culture and the
Center for International Studies, University of Missouri at St. Louis. Lecture held at the Millennium Student Center, Century Room A.

Oct. 27 Fri. - 7:00 PM
Mirador Basin - Cradle of Maya Civilization by Prof. Richard D. Hansen, Idaho State University
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Nov. 3 Fri. - 7:00 PM
Tell Dothan's Western Cemetery: Death, Burial and Afterlife by Prof. Robert E. Cooley, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Co-Sponsored by the Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, 12330 Conway Road, St. Louis. Lecture held in the chapel.

Nov. 10 Fri. - 7:00 PM
The Great Temple of Petra in Jordan by Prof. Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Brown University
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Dec. 8 - Fri. 7:00 PM
The Next 100 years: the future of Archaeology by Professor Brian Fagan, University of California - Santa Barbara
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Jan. 28 - Sun. 3:00 PM
Cycladic Figurines by Prof. Pat Getz-Gentle, Independent Scholar
19th Annual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecturer
Co-Sponsored with the Dept. of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University
Brown Hall at Washington University, on Forsyth Blvd.

Feb. 9 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Romans and Early Christians in the Republic of Macedonia by Prof. Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College at Meramec
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Mar. 9 - Fri. 7:00 PM
The Tyrant Slayers by Prof. Sarantis Symeonoglou, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

Mar. 24 - Sat. 9 AM to 1 PM
Symposium: 100th Anniversary Symposium of the St. Louis Society of the AIA
Co-sponsored by St. Louis Art Museum and held in the Auditorium
Topics include:
History of the St. Louis Society , by Judy Brilliant
Fowke's 1906 Exploration of Missouri by Prof. Michael Fuller
Greek Papyri from Egypt by Prof. Robert Lamberton
- Break 10:45 to 11:15
Ancient Egyptian Jewelry by Dr. Robert Steven Bianchi
Ancient Coins from the Wulfing Collection by Prof. Sarantis Symeonoglou
Greek Vases in the Washington University Collection by Prof. Susan Rotroff

Mar. 30- Fri. 7:00 PM
Tell Dothan Exavation: Methods and Discoveries by Prof. John Monson, Wheaton College
Co-Sponsored by Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, 12330 Conway Road, St. Louis. Lecture held in the chapel.

April 13 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Cahokia Mounds in the Mississippi Valley by Prof. John Kelly, Dept. of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

April 21 Saturday 12:45 PM
Evidence of the Exodus from Egypt in Archeology by Prof. Richard Freund, Director of the The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford.
Co-Sponsored by the Bais Abraham Congregation, 6910 Delmar Boulevard, University City, MO 63130. The Lecture is free. Lunch is $8.50. If you would like lunch please RSVP to Bais Abraham Tel.314-721-3030, email office@baisabe.com or to reserve by credit card on the web go to http://www.baisabe.com/

May 11 - Fri. 7:00 PM
Some Went Down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:230: Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (3000 - 1200 BC) by Prof. Shelley Wachsmann, Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A & M
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium, Forest Park

2003 - 2004 Lecture Schedule

Sept. 7 Oriental Antiquities and Cultures in 1863 by Mr. Oscanyan, Oriental Lecturer (alias Prof. Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College)
Frontier Park meeting room tent, St. Charles, MO - along the riverfront

Sept. 19 Archaeology and the Life of Christ: the Garden Tomb and Church of the Holy Sepulchre by Dr. Harold Mare. Rayburn Chapel at Covenant Theological Seminary

Oct. 11 Archaeology of Cliff Cave by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College, Fieldtrip and lecture held in Cliff Cave County Park.

Oct. 14 Putting a Roman Temple Back Together by Dr. Michael Nelson, Macalester College. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.

Oct. 25 Symposium: Archaeology of Crusader Sites and Medieval Culture
held at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley
Michael Fuller, Crusader era sites in Syria
Asa Eger, Crusader era sites near Antioch
Diane Everman, Tel Tanninim in Israel
Jack Lee, Kerak Castle in Jordan
Ali M. Khwaileh, Crusader cemetery in Jordan
Jennifer Stabler, Crusader Caeserea in Israel
Ralph Rowlett, Crusader Sela in Jordan

Nov. 11 New Insight Into Egypt's Last Royal Pyramids: Discoveries at Abydos. by Dr. Stephen P. Harvey, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

Dec 9 The Treasure of Troy and other (in)famous stories of art looting. by Prof. Michael Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri-St. Louis. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

Jan. 25 New Excavations at Ancient Troy by Prof Brian Rose, University of Cincinati
Seventeenth Annual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture
Steinberg Hall at Washington University

Feb. 20 Discoveries at Gordion, Turkey by Prof. G. Kenneth Sams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

March 9 Archaeology of Lewis and Clark by Prof. Harry Fritz, University of Montana. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

April 10 Archaeology of Cliff Cave by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College. Fieldtrip and lecture held in Cliff Cave County Park.

April 13 Athenian agora excavations from 1966 to the present day by Professor John Camp, Director of the American School of Classical Studies. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

April 24 St. Louis Historic Archaeology: 2003 report on Vulcan Site by Mr. Chip Clatto, St. Louis Public Schools. Missouri Historical Society Auditorium.

May 11 Caracol: Maya Metropolis by Professors Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase, Professor of Anthropology, University of Central Florida. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.

2002 - 2003 Lecture Schedule

Sept. 25 "Community Archaeology in Alexandria, Virginia: A forty year tradition in George Washington's Home Town" by Dr. Pamela J. Cressey, Missouri Historical Society.

Oct. 11 "Napoleon in Egypt" by Dr. Robert Briar. Long Island University.

Oct. 23"St. Louis Archaeology" by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College, Queeny Park Park.

Oct. 26 Field trip to the Crescent Chert Quarries in West Tyson Park" by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College and Dennis Hogan (636.391.0922).

Nov. 8 "The Search for Aztec Ancestors: Archaeological Investigations at Xochicalco, Mexico" by Dr. Kenneth Hirth, Pennsylvania State University. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

Dec 13 "The Archaeology of Monsters in the Greek World" by adjunct Prof. Deborah Cosmopoulos, Webster University. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

Jan. 25 "Sardis in the Lydian Empire" by Professor Crawford Greenewalt, University of California - Berkeley
Fifteenth Annual George E. Mylonas Memorial Lecture at Steinberg Hall at Washington University

Feb. 21 "Pearls - A Natural and Cultural History" by Dr. Neil Landman, curator in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

March 14 "Fakes, Frauds and Scholars" by Dr. Robert Cohon, Curator, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City.

March 26 "St. Louis Archaeology" by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College. Lecture held in Queeny Park Recreational Complex.

March 29 "Fieldtrip to Crescent Chert Quaries" by Professor Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College and Dennis Hogan (636.391-0922)

April 11 "Images on Textiles: The Weave of Fifth Century Athenaian Art and Society" by Professor Michael Vickers, Ashmolian Museum and Kress Lecturer. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

April 22 "Fourth Summer Excavation Report" by Mr. Chip Clatto, St. Louis Public Schools. Missouri Historical Society Auditorium.

May 9 "New Evidence for Understanding the Initial Peopleing of the Americas" by Professor Robson Bonnichsen, Texas A & M. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium.