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2008-2009 Lecture Series Finalized

Be sure to mark your calendars with upcoming 2008-2009 lectures.  All lectures will take place at Yale University's Phelps Hall, Room 407.  

• Designing Women:  The Hetaira as Model from Phintias through Praxiteles, Andrew Stewart, November 10, 2008, 4:30 P.M.
• The Unsolved Mystery of the Agora Bone Well, Susan Rotroff, February 17, 2009, 5:00 P.M. (New Time)
• New Light on the Period of the Maccabees: Excavations at Tel Kedesh, Andrea Berlin, March 24, 2009, 4:30 P.M.

Members of the AIA, the public and students are invited to attend these free lectures.  To learn more, click on the "Lectures" link to the left.

"Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens"

This new exhibition, on view from December 10, 2008 through May 9, 2009, tells the complex story of women’s roles in Classical Athens.  Bringing together 155 rare and extraordinary archaeological objects, the exhibition re-examines preconceptions about the exclusion of ancient Athenian women from public life. The story told by these objects, and experienced in the galleries, shows how women’s participation in cults and festivals contributed not only to personal fulfillment, but also to civic identity. Among the treasures being brought to New York for the exhibition are marble statues of the goddesses Artemis and Athena (National Archaeological Museum, Athens); a white-ground vase with an image of Artemis by the Pan Painter (State Hermitage Museum, Petersburg); and a red-figure vase with an image of Iphigenia, the legendary heroine worshiped as a cult figure and seen as a model for priestesses (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Ferrara). For more information, click here.

"Beyond Babylon" Opens in New York

Four thousand years ago, the great kingdoms of the Near East and Aegean were linked through a complex network of trade and diplomacy. The artistic impact of this international exchange of raw materials, luxury goods and people is examined in a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Open now through March 15, 2009, "Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C." includes over 350 objects illustrating the fusion of New Eastern, Egyptian and Aegean styles. The works on display come from royal palaces, tombs and temples, as well as a unique shipwreck found off the southern coast of Turkey. Many of the works are in this country for the first time or have only recently been excavated.

New Haven and Yale University Star in
New Indiana Jones Movie 

On May 22, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened across the nation. Featured along with star Indiana Jones (aka Harrison Ford) were New Haven and Yale University, used as backdrops for the movie’s college scenes. Movie goers will enjoy a high-speed chase down local New Haven streets with a surprise “stop” at Sterling Memorial Library. Read more about this new movie on the national AIA website (link to left). Also, read about recent controversies regarding the selection of Harrison Ford to the AIA Board of Directors on our "Current Events" page (link to left).