Portland Society, Archaeological Institute of America

09/16/2016

Turns out we moved to Reed just in time: they've just changed the parking policy at Portland State so that you have to pay for parking even on nights and weekends. But parking at Reed remains free and very easy!

08/11/2016

Our 2016-2017 lecture schedule has been finalized. We have five great speakers lined up! See the full schedule at: http://blogs.reed.edu/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society/lecture-schedule/

08/11/2016

The Portland AIA is now based at Reed College! Visit our new website at: http://blogs.reed.edu/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society/

After 19 years in the capable hands of Karen Carr (Associate Professor Emerita, Department of History, Portland State University), the Archaeological Institute of America, Portland Society has a new president and a new home! My name is Tom Landvatter, Assistant Professor … finish reading The Portlan...

11/20/2015

AIA lecture tonight in Portland: November 20th, 2015 - Friday 7:30 pm
Kevin Dicus, University of Oregon
“Pompeii Beyond the “Snapshot”: Tracing the Occupational History of an Ancient Roman City”
Room 190, School of Business, PSU

09/29/2015

This year's schedule:

October 16th, 2015 - Friday 7:30 pm

Stephanie Dalley, University of Oxford
“Hanging Gardens of Babylon”
Room 190, School of Business, PSU

November 20th, 2015 - Friday 7:30 pm

Kevin Dicus, University of Oregon
“Pompeii Beyond the “Snapshot”: Tracing the Occupational History of an Ancient Roman City”
Room 190, School of Business, PSU

January 15th, 2016 - Friday 7:30 pm

Thomas Landvatter, Reed College
"Death, Burial, and the Egyptian Past at Graeco-Roman Abydos"
Room 190, School of Business, PSU

April 1st, 2016 - Friday 7:30 pm

Christine Atiyeh, Kutztown University
"Carthage Re-imagined: the archives of Father Alfred Louis Delattre and the Missionaries of Africa at Carthage (1870-1970)”
Room 190, School of Business, PSU
Nomination of 2016-17 AIA officers

April 29th, 2016 - Friday 7:30 pm
Tess Davis, University of Glasgow
“Islamic State and Palmyra”
Room 190, School of Business, PSU
Election of 2016-17 AIA officers

For ADA accommodations at lectures, or any other questions, please contact me at [email protected]. All AIA events are free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the PSU parking structures after 5 pm on Fridays; there’s a parking structure on 6th Ave right next door to the lecture hall.
We’re delighted to have all of you as members, and hope to see you often throughout the year. Please email me at [email protected] to get added to our email list. Or, you can check our website at http://www.history.pdx.edu/AIA.htm, or follow us on Facebook (Portland Society, Archaeological Institute of America).


Karen Carr, History
Portland State University

11/05/2014

Don't forget there's a talk this Friday!

Friday, November 7th, 2014 7:30 pm

School of Business Administration PSU
Ellen Millender, Reed College
"Classical Sparta and the Spectacle of Hoplite Warfare."

10/13/2014

This year's schedule: Calendar of Events, 2014 - 2015

Friday, October 24th, 2014 7:30 pm

School of Business Auditorium PSU
Thomas Howe, Southwestern University
“The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries at the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae near Pompeii”

Friday, November 7th, 2014 7:30 pm

School of Business Administration PSU
Ellen Millender, Reed College
"Classical Sparta and the Spectacle of Hoplite Warfare."

Friday, January 16th, 2014 7:30 pm

School of Business Auditorium PSU
Alexander Mazarakis Ainian, University of Thessaly (Kress Lecturer)
""Sacred Houses" in Early Iron Age Greece?"

Friday, February 27th, 2015 7:30 pm

School of Business Auditorium PSU
Noah Kaye, University of Oregon
“Recent work in the Golan Heights (Israel)”

March 20-21 (Friday and Saturday)

Classical Association of the Pacific NW Conference
Reed College (There is a registration fee to attend)
Keynote speaker: Professor Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Stanford University
“Grasping Beauty: Pleasure, Cognition, and the Ancient Viewer.”

Friday, April 17th, 2014 7:30 pm

School of Business Auditorium PSU
Karen Carr, Portland State University
“Swimming and the Silk Road”
Nomination of 2015-16 AIA officers

Friday, May 15th, 2014 7:30 pm

School of Business Auditorium PSU
Sarah Sterling, Portland State University
“Pottery from Ancient Egypt”
Election of 2015-16 AIA officers