Nashville AIA

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

NASHVILLE SOCIETY

The Archaeological Institute of America is an international organization of professional archaeologists and interested lay members devoted to the advancement of archaeological work and sites worldwide. The AIA is an advocacy group for the preservation of antiquities and sponsors lectures and tours to promote interest in and enjoyment of archaeology. In addition to local lectures and international tours, the AIA publishes both Archaeology, a bimonthly magazine on archaeological work around the world and the American Journal of Archaeology, a scholarly research journal. Nashville is the location of one of more than 100 local societies which are found in North America, Greece, and the Iberian peninsula.

If you are interested in joining the Nashville AIA, please visit www.archaeological.org By becoming a member of the national AIA, you automatically become a member of the local society and enjoy free admission to the lectures. The Nashville society of the AIA in partnership with the Nashville Parthenon sponsors several lectures during the academic year. The lectures are free and open to the public, but please call 862-8431 to reserve a seat. A reception follows each lecture.  This season's schedule of lectures is as follows.

Schedule of events 2012-2013

Tuesday, October 2

Francesca Tronchin, Rhodes College

Interpreting Statuary in the Villas of Pompeii and Herculaneum

Thursday, October 25

Nikos Xanthoulis, Academy of Athens and Greek National Opera

Kress Lecture – Ancient Sounds of Greece

Monday, November 5

Norma Franklin, Director of Excavations at Jezreel, Israel

Jezreel: The View from Jezebel’s Window

Tuesday, February 5

Alexandra Carpino, Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff)

Cinelli Lecture - Etruscan Faces:  From the Symbolic to the Real

Tuesday, February 26

Tim Winters, Austin Peay University

Belle Kinney, Leopold Scholz and the Parthenon Marbles in Nashville

Tuesday, March 12

Barbara Tsakirgis, Vanderbilt University

The Athens of the South: William Bell Dinsmoor and the Design of the Nashville Parthenon

Thursday, April 4

John Pollini, University of Southern California

Joukowski Lecture - Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity