How Greek is Greek Art? originals, mashups, and identity in the past"
- Zarbin Annual Lecture
· October 2014
Invited Talk
Department of Classics, Dartmouth College ,
Diachrony and Distributed Mind: Ancestors, Time, and Things
- DIBS Workshop: Reading the Past: Mind, Brain, and Archaeology
· April 2014
Invited Talk
Duke University,
Duke University, Durham, NC
Hybrid Vigor? Artifacts and Transcultural in Antiquity
- T.B.L. Webster Lecture
· February 2014
Invited Talk
Department of Classics, Stanford University,
Local Networks in Archaic Sicily
- in conference Tracing Networks: Communicating knowledge in antiquity and the digital age
· April 2013
Invited Talk
The British Academy,
London, England
“Local Networks in Archaic Sicily”, in conference Tracing Networks: Communicating knowledge in antiquity and the digital age, Lin Foxhall, Anthony Harding, organizers, The British Academy (London), April 2013
Who Owns the Past
· September 1, 2012
Lecture
Nasher Museum
Morgantina: An American Excavation at 50, Challenges and Opportunities
· October 1, 2011
Lecture
Boston University
“At home in the Middle Ground. Settling in Sicily”
· September 1, 2011
Lecture
Indiana University
“Feast or Famine? The potential and limits of cross-cultural analogy”
· April 1, 2010
Lecture
St. Louis
I luoghi sacri di Morgantina arcaica
- in colloquium, Gli acroliti da Morgantina
· December 2009
Invited Talk
Università Kore di Enna,
Enna, Sicily
“I luoghi sacri di Morgantina arcaica”, in colloquium, Gli acroliti da Morgantina, Università Kore di Enna, December 2009
The Argive Heraion Revisited
· November 2009
Invited Talk
Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr College
“The Argive Heraion Revisited,” Bryn Mawr College, November 2009
“Athenian Pottery, Metal Vessels, and Local Taste at Morgantina"
· January 1, 2009
Lecture
AIA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
At home in the Middle Ground. Settling in Sicily
· September 1, 2008
Lecture
17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology (AIAC), Rome
Cults and Sanctuaries at Archaic Morgantina
- in symposium, The Goddesses Return
· February 2008
Invited Talk
University of Virginia,
University of Virginia
“Cults and Sanctuaries at Archaic Morgantina”, in symposium, The Goddesses Return, University of Virginia, February 2008
Cultural Patrimony and Repatriation: can the Past be Present?
- in colloquium Past Knowing/Future Knowledge: Museums and Archaeology in the 21st Century
· October 2007
Invited Talk
Center for Twenty-‐First Century Studies, University of Wisconsin,
University of Wisconsin
“Cultural Patrimony and Repatriation: can the Past be Present?” in colloquium Past Knowing/Future Knowledge: Museums and Archaeology in the 21st Century, D. Sherman, J. Waldbaum, organizers, Center for Twenty-‐First Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-‐ Milwaukee, October 2007
Archaeology, Ethnicity, and Culture: Some Thoughts on Ancient Identity
· April 2007
Invited Talk
University of Texas, Austin,
University of Texas, Austin
The First City at Morgantina, 1955-2005
- McIntyre Department of Art Lecture Series
· November 2005
Invited Talk
University of Virginia,
University of Virginia
Archaeology, Ethnicity, and Culture: Some Thoughts on Ancient Identity
· March 2004
Invited Talk
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ethnicity, Hybridity, and Creolization in Greek Colonization
- Graduate Workshop
· March 2004
Invited Talk
Department of Classics, University of Chicago,
University of Chicago
Early Greek Hero Cult and Homer
· October 2003
Invited Talk
Archaeological Institute of America/Vanderbilt University,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Revised for:
College of William & Mary, 9/2004
Princeton University, 10/2004
Case Western Reserve University, 2/2007
Emory University, 10/2007
University of Georgia, 10/2007
University of Richmond, 11/2007
Sikels and Sikeliotes: about style in western Greek art
- in conference Art and Architecture of Sicily
· February 2003
Invited Talk
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University,
Columbia University
Religion, basileis, and heroes
- in conference From Wanax to Basileus, I. Lemos, I. Siegfried-Jalkotzy, organizers
· January 2003
Invited Talk
University of Edinburgh,
University of Edinburgh
Elite mobility in the west
- in seminar Athletics, festivals, sanctuaries, elite mobility and epinikian poetry S. Hornblower, C. Morgan, organizers,
· November 2002
Invited Talk
University College London,
University College London
From Barbarians and Mixo-Hellenes to Hybridity and Creolization: About 'ethnicity' in Greek antiquity
- Columbia University Seminar in Classical Civilization
· April 2002
Invited Talk
Columbia University,
Columbia University
The Archaeology of basileia
· March 2002
Invited Talk
Department of Classical Studies, Duke University,
Duke University, Durham, NC
“The Archaeology of basileia” Duke University, Department of Classical Studies, March 2002
Hybridity and the Cultures within Greek Culture
- in conference The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, C. Dougherty, L. Kurke, organizers
· November 2000
Invited Talk
Wellesley College,
Wellesley College
Excavating Colonization
· February 2000
Invited Talk
University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Revised for:
North Carolina Society, Archaeological Institute of America, March 2000
State University of New York at Buffalo, October 2000
University of Cambridge, Archaeology Seminar, March 2001
Stanford University graduate workshop Empires in Ancient Italy, Nov. 2001
Warriors, Traders, Ancestors: the ‘Heroes’ of Lefkandi
- in conference Images of Ancestors, L. Hannestad, J. Høtje Munk
· August 1999
Invited Talk
University of Århus,
University of Århus
Revised for University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, October 1999
Siculo-geometric and the Sikels: Identity and Material Culture in Eastern Sicily
- in conference Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean, K. Lomas, organizer
· July 1999
Invited Talk
University of Newcastle,
University of Newcastle
Revised for State University of New York at Buffalo, October 2000
Colonization and Acculturation
- in seminar Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity, I. Malkin, organizer
· August 1997
Invited Talk
Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC,
Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC
“Colonization and Acculturation” in seminar Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity, I. Malkin, organizer, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, August 1997
Votive Offerings as Sacrificial Behavior
- in Ancient Sacrifice (Sixth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult), R. Hägg, organizer
· April 1997
Invited Talk
Göteborg University,
Göteborg University
Reading between the Lines: Language at Morgantina
· October 1996
Invited Talk
Classical Association of New England,
Classical Association of New England
“Reading between the Lines: Language at Morgantina” Classical Association of New England, October 1996
Colonization and the Origins of Hero Cult
- in conference Ancient Greek Hero Cult (Fifth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult), R. Hägg, organizer
· April 1995
Invited Talk
Göteborg University,
Göteborg University
The Archaic Settlement at Morgantina, Sicily
- in conference Urbanization in the Mediterranean in the 9th to 6th Centuries, Helle Damgaard Andersen et al., organizers
· May 1994
Invited Talk
University of Copenhagen,
University of Copenhagen
Revised for:
Archaeological Institute of America, New Haven, February 1995
Princeton University, October 1995
Building Gender into Greek Houses
- in conference The Organization of Space in the Ancient Mediterranean World, M. Jameson, organizer
· March 1994
Invited Talk
Florida State University,
Florida State University
Homer and Lefkandi
- in conference Homer’s World: Fiction, Tradition and Reality, Ø. Andersen, M. Dickie, organizers
· December 1993
Invited Talk
Norwegian Institute at Athens,
Norwegian Institute at Athens
Revised for:
Aegean Seminar, Institute of Fine Arts (New York University), April 1994
Princeton University, October 1995
University of Pennsylvania, December 1995
University of Cincinnati, February 1996
University of Virginia, April 1996
Harvard University, December 1997
Sweet Briar College, March 1998
The Archaeology of Myth
· November 1993
Invited Talk
Fairfield University,
Fairfield University
Romans and Greeks at Morgantina
- Classical Association of Connecticut, Annual Meeting
· November 1992
Invited Talk
Classical Association of Connecticut - University of Connecticut, Storrs,
University of Connecticut, Storrs
“Romans and Greeks at Morgantina” Classical Association of Connecticut, Annual Meeting, University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 1992
Greeks and Sikels at Archaic Morgantina
· March 1992
Invited Talk
Archaeological Institute of America - University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
“Greeks and Sikels at Archaic Morgantina” Archaeological Institute of America, Charlottesville/University of Virginia, March 1992
The Uses of Greek Memory
· November 1990
Invited Talk
Archaeological Institute of America, Hartford,
Hartford
“The Uses of Greek Memory” Archaeological Institute of America, Hartford, November 1990
Tomb and Hero Cult in Early Greece: the Archaeology of Ancestors
- in symposium on Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece
· October 1990
Invited Talk
Wellesley College,
Wellesley College
“Tomb and Hero Cult in Early Greece: the Archaeology of Ancestors” in symposium on Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece, Wellesley College, October 1990
The Worship and Worshippers of Hera
· February 1989
Invited Talk
Wellesley College,
Wellesley College