St. Louis Society - Archaeological Institute of America
Founded in 1906 - we are 116 years old, healthy and going strong!
Be sure and like our "public group" Facebook page where we post announcements and pictures of the lectures.

The St. Louis Society sent telegrams in 1918 to Clarence Bloomfield Moore and Arthur Stanley Riggs advising them not to come to St. Louis for their scheduled lectures; the city was in the grips of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic. We began holding public lectures after the Pandemic had passed. The St. Louis Society of the AIA is following the example of our ancestors; we will host two face-to-face programs during this year. The rest of our programs will be hosted using the ZOOM cloud meeting application. The lectures are given by professional archaeologists who are experts in their fields and cover a wide range of topics from new excavation data to analysis of sculpture and painting.

Our Membership includes professional, student, and avocational archaeologists with fieldwork expertise in Asia, Africa, Europe, North American, MesoAmerica, and South America. There is no better place in St. Louis to come (virtually in 2022/2023) and talk about archaeology. We are always glad to speak with middle school and high school students interested in a career in archaeology. We proudly remember our local history and especially the Mylonas years and the era of Judy Brilliant (who spearheaded our first Youth Education program and organized our lecture schedule for decades). All lectures are free and open to the public. The lectures are color powerpoint presentations. Our past lectures covered a wide variety of topics including Old World and New World archaeological discoveries.

2022 - 2023 Lecture Schedule - Funded by the Arthur and Helen Baer Foundation

5 November 2022, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM lecture "Roman/Byzantine ruins at Gadara in Jordan" by Sufyan al-Karaimeh (University of Leiden - Netherlands) Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please...

4 February 2023, Saturday at 1 PM (Central Standard Time Zone). ZOOM lecture: "Art expressions of the intimate life in Pompeii, the Lupanare Grande" by Cyril Dumas (Curator at the Musee Yves Brayer Baux de Provence). Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please...

OFFICERS
President - Brenda Thacker
Vice President - Constance Sinclair
Secretary - Kenneth R. Williams
Treasurer - R. Michael Bickel

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Stephen Hanpeter (2021)
Lawrence O. Taliana (2021)
Suzanne Sessions (2022)
Carol Stevens (2022)
Prof. Peter Warnock (2023)
Paricia McWhorter (2023)

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Updated 9 January 2023