Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America

The Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) hosts monthly illustrated lectures on diverse topics related to the study and practice of archaeology and art history including the preservation of cultural heritage, Classical and Near Eastern archaeology, and underwater archaeology. The lectures are free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend! A schedule for the 2011-2012 academic year, complete with abstracts, is listed below. The Department of Classics is pleased to be affiliated with the Niagara Peninsula Society of the AIA and to help facilitate its programming.

Lecture Schedule 2011-2012
*All lectures are held in Academic South 215 and begin at 3:00 p.m. An interactive campus map can be found at the bottom of this page (please note that Academic South is marked as "South Block" or #21 on this map).

Sunday, September 25
Prof. Morag Kersel 
Department of Anthropology, DePaul University
The Lure of the Relic: Collecting the Holy Land

Sunday, October 30
Dr. Ellen Herscher
Consulting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Cyprus Discovers the World: the Beginning of the Late Bronze Age at Maroni

Sunday, November 13 – McCann/Taggart Lecture
Prof. Dan Davis
Department of Classics, Luther College and Researcher with the Sea Research Foundation
Exploring in Jason's Wake: Deepwater Archaeology in the Black Sea

Sunday, December 4
Prof. R. Angus Smith
Department of Classics, Brock University
The Humble Dead: Mortuary Ritual in the Mycenaean Hinterland

Sunday, January 22
Prof. John Triggs
Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Winners and Losers: Cultural Interaction on the Lower Grand River in the Late 18^th and Early 19^th Century

Sunday, February 12
Prof. Tracy Prowse
Department of Anthropology, McMaster University
Working for Caesar: Life and Death on an Imperial Estate in southern Italy

Sunday, March 25 – Norton Lecture **ROOM CHANGE: Academic South 202**
Prof. Nancy de Grummond
Department of Classics, Florida State University
Etruscan Human Sacrifice in Myth and Ritual

Contact us
Elizabeth S. Greene, President

Frances Meffe, Administrative Assistant, Department of Classics
905-688-5550 ext. 3575 

Become a member
To join the Niagara Peninsula Society of the AIA, please click on the following link:
http://www.archaeological.org/membership/join


Learn more about the AIA
http://www.archaeological.org

Celebrating National Archaeology Day
In celebration of Archaeology Day, society members joined Dr. Ellen Herscher (pictured above left) in the Department of Classics' new Archaeology Lab where she offered a hands-on discussion of some of the objects in Brock's Cypriote Museum representing types similar to those discussed in her AIA talk. A reception followed the discussion. Lectures on Cypriote archaeology have become an annual tradition at Brock because of the university's long tradition of archaeology on the island and in memory of Brock professor and Cypriote archaeologist Danielle Parks, who passed away tragically in 2007.

Fred Truckenbrodt Travel Grant for Students
The Niagara Peninsula Society has established a travel grant for students to be awarded each year for three consecutive years (2012, 2013, 2014) in memory of Fred Truckenbrodt, a long-time member of our society who was passionate about archaeology and travel in the Mediterranean and deeply committed to the AIA and its activities. Helen Brown, treasurer of our society, presented the first of these awards to Stephanie Bergman (pictured above right) at the March 25 lecture; Stephanie will participate in the Brock University Archaeological Practicum this summer in Crete, led by Professor Angus Smith of the Department of Classics. Additional information about the award, including the application form, is available here.