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List of lectures in 2006-2007

The list of lectures below does not include job candidate lectures or most lecturers invited to speak to seminars. Including these, the department sponsored over 30 public lectures during the course of academic year 2006-7 with about 1000 people in attendance.

October 12, 2006
Brian Fagan (UC Berkeley Anthropology)
Summers and Ice Ages: Climate Change and Human Societies
(Taft Lecture)

October 16, 2006
David Stone (Florida State University)
Extreme Makeover?: The Rural Landscape of North Africa under Roman Rule

October 23, 2006
Christos Dumas (Thera Excavations)
New Research at Akrotiri, Thera

October 25, 2006
Colin McDonald (British School at Athens)
The First Palace at Knossos: A Consideration of Its Inception, Function, and Assumed Destruction

November 30, 2006
Prof. Philip de Souza (University College Dublin)
Piracy and the Athenian Empire

December 7, 2006
Eberhard Zangger
The Impace of Natural Catastrophes on Prehistoric Civilizations

January 9, 2007
Alastair Blanshard (University of Sydney)
Rethinking Athenian Military Ideology in the 4th Century

February 26, 2007
Sandra Blakey (Emory University)
Samothrace: Iron, Indegines, and the Archaeology of Secrecy

March 9, 2007
Katja Müller
Modern People in Ancient Places. Tracking Changes in Settlement Size and Built-up Area in the Fayyum, Egypt

April 4, 2007
Martin Millett (Cambridge)
Surveying the Port of Imperial Rome

May 4, 2007
Daniel Richter (University of Southern California)
Striking Close to Home: Lucian of Samosata on the Ignorant (and Syrian) Book Collector

May 8, 2007
Tom Carpenter (Ohio University)
Dionysos and the Afterlife

May 15, 2007
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
Attic Red-Figure in Context

May 15, 2007
Robert Lamberton (Washington University in St. Louis)
Plutarch's Pretensions: Myth and Philosophy in the High Empire