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public lectures

 

The 18th Annual Leon Levy Lecture, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

On Celts, Celticness, and Celtology: Reconciling Ancient and Modern Identities

ISAW, New York University

November 6, 2024

 

Interview with Blues Singer Bobby Rush

Founder's Day Celebration

International House, University of Chicago

October 3, 2023

Into The Blue

Panel and Blues Performance with Katherine Davis

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

November 11, 2022

 

The Norton Lectures, Archaeological Institute of America

Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship

San Francisco (November 4, 2021); Eugene (November 10, 2021); Portland (November 11, 2021); Buffalo (March 9, 2022); New York City (March 10, 2022); Philadelphia (March 15, 2022); Ann Arbor (March 17, 2022)

 

The Munro Lecture, The University of Edinburgh 

Flows, Boundaries, and Entanglements: Unraveling Colonial Encounters in Ancient Mediterranean France

April 4, 2019

Lecture at the British Academy, London, in symposium on "Alcohol and Humans: A Long Social Affair"

Alcohol as Embodied Material Culture: Perspectives from Anthropology and Archaeology

September 14, 2018

 

Lecture to inaugurate the exhibit "Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World", Harvard Art Museum, Harvard University

Liquid Material Culture: Anthropological Explorations of Alcohol and Drinking Vessels

September 6, 2018

 

Hosting a Panel on "The Future of the Blues" at the Logan Center Bluesfest, University of Chicago

October 14, 2017

The Boshell Lecture: The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Dionysos Comes to Gaul: Wine, Culture, and Colonialism in the Ancient Mediterranean

May 21, 2017

The Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL

Archaeological Institute of America, Rockford Society

Vinum, Vidi, Vici: Wine, Culture, and Colonialism in Ancient Gaul

September 20, 2016

The Art Institute of Chicago

Dionysos Comes to Gaul: Wine, Culture, and Colonialism in the Ancient Mediterranean

February 11, 2016

 

The Pritchett Lecture, University of California, Berkeley

Scale and the Archaeology of Colonial Encounters

November 2, 2015

 

Getty Museum, Malibu, California

Vinum, Vidi, Vici: Wine, Culture, and Colonialism in Ancient Gaul

July 18, 2015

 

Buddy Guy's Legends, Chicago, Illinois

Science and Sound Program (UChicago/Argonne/Fermilab)

Chicago Blues: Sound and Social Science

June 3, 2015

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