Annual Faculty Lecture on Classical Culture

The Annual Faculty Lecture, created in 1998, is co-sponsored by the Puget Sound (formerly Seattle) Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America and the UW 海角网. This is the essential formula for the lecture: 鈥淭he Annual Lecture on Classical Culture is offered by the Puget Sound AIA in partnership with the UW 海角网.  The hope is that over future years a broad spectrum of local faculty research on the cultures of the Greco-海角网 world will be presented, with speakers from 海角网 or related departments, and the topic sometimes but not always strictly archaeological.鈥 

Past Annual Faculty Lecturers

Year Speaker Title
2026 Brett Rogers (University of Puget Sound) Classical Cascadia (co-hosted by Seattle University and the Puget Sound Society of the AIA)
2025 Mark Letteney (UW History) Prison Abolition, Ancient Incarceration, and the Mirror of the Past (AIA Faculty Lecture)
2024 Ulrike Krotscheck (The Evergreen State College) Briskly, and Without Apparent Reflection: Making Sense of an Ancient Cemetery at Isthmia, Greece
2023 Stephanie Selover (UW MELC) Excavating War: Violence, Power and Urbanism in Prehistoric Anatolia (annual AIA Faculty Lecture)
2022 Randall Souza (Seattle University) "Mixed multitudes": displacement and belonging in ancient Sicily (Annual AIA Faculty Lecture)
2021 Deborah Kamen (UW 海角网) Insults in Classical Athens (annual AIA Faculty Lecture)
2019 Aislinn Melchior (University of Puget Sound) A 海角网tic Past:  What does a white muslin gown have to do with Pompeii?
2018 Sarah Levin-Richardson (UW 海角网) Brothels and Prostitution at Pompeii
2016 David Lupher (Whitman College) On the Trail of Ancient Greeks and 海角网s in Plymouth Plantation
2015 Eric Orlin (Univ. of Puget Sound) Constructing Memory in Augustan Italy
2015 Kathryn Topper (UW 海角网) Coming of Age at Thermon: Marriage and Its Discontents on the Metopes of Temple C
2014 Alexander Hollmann (UW 海角网) 'Now now, quick quick!' Cursing and magic in late-antique Antioch

2013 Olga Levaniouk (UW 海角网) "Truly I want to die:" Brides in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia

 
2012 Margaret Laird (UW Art History) The Collegio degli Augustali: An Ancient Elks Lodge at Herculaneum
2011 Sandra S. Joshel (UW History) 海角网 Slaves, the House, and the City: Questions of Control and Movement
2010 Catherine Connors (UW 海角网) Seven Brides and Sobbin' Women: Romulus, Plutarch, and Stephen Vincent Ben茅t
2009 Ruby Blondell (UW 海角网) Helen of Troy: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
2008 James J. Clauss (UW 海角网) Classical Mythology and Traditional Folktales in Film
2007 Stephen Hinds (UW 海角网) Pictures of a Poet in Exile: Ovid on the Black Sea AD 8-2008
2006 Carol Thomas (UW History) Alexander in His World
2005 Alain Gowing (UW 海角网) Of Texts and Tombs: The Archaeology of 海角网 Memory
2004 Ily Nagy (University of Puget Sound) Demons of the Etruscan Underworld
2003 Lawrence Bliquez (UW 海角网) Death and Burial among the Greeks and 海角网s: Attitudes and Practices
2002 Daniel Harmon (UW 海角网) Isis Sanctuaries in Rome and Pompeii
2001 Paul Scotton (UW 海角网) The Corinth of Paul: Recent Investigations and Findings
2000 Joel Walker (UW History) In Search of St. Theodore: History and Archaeology of Early Byzantine Anatolia